skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early versions of Excel perfectly scaled the axes of scatter plots, even going so far as to use round numbers on the gridlines. The same versions had an auto-record macro language that was easy to learn and implement. Both have been lost for two decades now, replaced by the complicated garbage we have now.
What sort of tasks were you using GA for?

I use mine to turn a smart plug on or off, and set a timer when cooking.

Nothing else I've ever wanted to do via my Pixel 2 is reliable enough to waste time trying.

Sending a WhatsApp while driving is the one thing I keep wanting to do, but it's hopeless.
Priced at 399 in USD, EUR and GBP. As usual, most expensive in the UK.
Neat reference. I agree with you on CTs. The original poster suggested two things: solar is not responsive to demand and that coal plants are responsive. My response is intended to be narrow to those points: coal plants don’t really produce on an instantaneous demand signal any more than solar or wind. Coal produces at some amount and then ramp up or down based on a longer-horizon demand signal (e.g., a 5-min Grid solution). Wind and solar can’t ramp up but they can dispatch down on the same signals.

My other point is that solar generally matches peak demand pretty well so you don’t need a ton of demand responsiveness (given that electricity demand is already inelastic).
Buzludzha VR – Interactive virtual reality experience
My concern isn’t with the local decisions - I agree, if your local sacrifice meets your moral expectations for yourself, and that involves abstaining from reproducing, then have at it.

The danger I see is that, with most movements, once a “critical mass” of support is reached, there tends to be a sentiment of “us vs them”.

Then it’s less about accepting other people’s different beliefs (having x children vs having y or 0 children), and more of shaming/“forcing”/coercing non-believers to your side.

We see this with cancel culture today, and various other movements in recent times.
People believe the company will be worth more in the future.
Usually, I don’t even know how did I trigger it. It takes me a few seconds to get out of it..
Here is the data if you want to judge for yourself:

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/polls/pundit
TBF, they've priced it at $70/year due to Apple's "tax", and Netflix has economies of scale Muse can only dream of.

If you find value in their product, and use it frequently, is $100/yr that much? I haven't tried it yet, but superficially it seems much less trivial than Fantastical, which is a great product, but not worth $40/year.

I personally hate subscriptions as currently implemented. I'd like to see pricing amortized over two years, and after that a reduced subscription price since you are primarily funding maintenance in many cases.
That seems plausible, though not quite as cool.
I believe Apple's rules prohibit even mentioning external digital stores to bypass IAP (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
This is an incredibly frustrating read. I know, I know there are far worse things in the world but fucking Wells Fargo dictating to people when they evict homeowners who have no relationship with Wells Fargo, commit wholesale wire fraud, destroy people's credit and then turn around and lecture a honest business.

This is why banking is a rent-seeking and though we need the financial industry they are ghoulish vampires sucking the lifeblood out of everything they touch.

/rant
OnlyFans is hip, edgy, and if you squint hard enough, a vehicle for feminist liberation. Hip waifs from SOMA are on OnlyFans, while BangBros has to slum it with Eastern Europeans. One is "cool", one is sleazy. That is the real answer.
As far as I know - there will be those frameworks to select:

>net5.0

>net5.0-windows

>net5.0_something

So you can use "pure" "net5.0" on Linux and generally cross-platform software meanwhile still be able to use old .NET FrameworkX winforms/wpf on "net5.0-windows".
I’d argue it does mean it is less effective at achieving correctness but the trade-off made is the whole point of Zig. Simple language that is really a better C.
My understanding is that it's only bad if disturbed and in the air. That's why popcorn ceilings, roof tiles, and insulation with asbestos is all "fine" and not mandated to be removed.

But yes, the long-term effects are the real problem.
No, there's no sweetheart deals. The 30% is applied very consistently to alls apps, big or small. YouTube Red, Spotify, Netflix, Epic are examples of large apps that are/were affected by the 30% cut.
You are completely unable to purchase digital goods through the Amazon app.

No buying a kindle book, you'll be forced to open a web browser and do it that way. No purchasing movies, or music.

Physical goods that are delivered to your home, all good. Not an issue.
This is certainly true. After reading about this controversy, I wanted to get a feel for the level of mutual intelligibility between Scots and English. To do this, I tried to search for a translation of The Lord’s Prayer in Scots to compare to the English version but up came this Wikipedia page (https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laird%27s_Prayer), which might be fine but I can’t be sure. And then I realized I couldn’t really trust any of the other top results not to be copied from Wikipedia either.
I love how Wells Fargo, which was nabbed for a massive wide ranging scam / fraud, gets to be all sanctimonious about ethics or standards.
The last two times I heard about states rights were:

- Trump wanted to run the Covid response. The states told him to get lost. (Was that good or bad? True, the Covid response has been disjointed, even incoherent. Would it have been more coherent if Trump ran it? Or less?)

- Trump wanted to send federal law enforcement into cities to control rioting. The cities told him no. (There were some federal agents in Portland against the will of the city; the legal scope of their activity was protecting federal property.)

The deal is that we have a limited federal government. They don't get all the power. They get the power the constitution says they get. The states (or the people) get the rest. And they're pretty touchy about protecting that power.

Is it useful? It is if you want to keep having a limited federal government. Arguably, we need (and needed) far more than we have had.
Plus that one time when you need two apps next to each other, once a year, you forget WTF the gesture was. It certainly isn't something logical.
Now try setting up OCaml tooling on Windows. That alone would be responsible for a lot of missing users.
> I much prefer have two orthogonal systems which do their own business than having a single more powerful tool than do both (like having slices + references instead of the all powerful pointer)

OK, but that's not quite the situation. Here we're talking about languages that have, or will have, the single "more powerful" construct, and also the more specific, special case one, as two separate constructs, even though one of them would have sufficed.

Again, Zig has parameterized types, and very elegant and powerful ones -- they're functions that take some types as argument and return a type. It just doesn't have generics as a separate construct. Rather, it is a special case of a more general one (that Rust and C++ will also have).
Netflix stopped offering subscription through the app (last year IIRC) for this reason, though they grandfathered existing iOS-mediated subscriptions for the obvious customer retention reasons.

Also I don’t think you can subscribe to amazon prime via the iOS app — you certainly can’t buy video via the prime video app!
Strangely enough, many years ago I read the following webcomic about something similar:

http://www.rhjunior.com/tales-of-the-questor-0587/

The story was about a racoon farmer trying to leech bauxite from the soil and created a plant to do it.
I have heard quite a lot of skepticism about this. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIhCuzxNvv0
Well I just got absolutely pipelined by this website. Went from never hearing about it "hmm, what's this link on the top of HN?" to spending $700 on it in about 3 minutes. Good product, great marketing, excellent website, I guess.
Your comment just made me buy it. I didn't realize it was an open device running linux. That sold me. There are probably some marketing lessons to be learned from these comments.
One example that complicates things is the Floatplane [1] application, where each channel costs a certain fee per month. The app doesn't do anything other than play videos from the subscribed videos. Because they wouldn't increase their price 30% to reflect the additional Apple fees, every single feature that even mentions the presence of a website that you can pay for a subscription at (including help pages!) have so far had to be removed [2].

The "core app experience" of Floatplane is "you get to watch videos in high quality" and "you get to chat during live streams". Their app is an amalgamation of Patreon and the Youtube video player, both of which are on the App Store already.

I don't know why buying video access would be so different from making ads show up. Both are purely digital services. There's probably some vague notion of "consumption" that determines if the fee is mandatory or not, but the rules are as vague as they are arbitrary when you get down to that level.

It's clear that the actual rule is "we can make a deal if you're big enough". Apps like Uber have gotten warnings for pulling stunts that smaller developers would get their dev account banned for. Adding 30% on top of Facebook would kill the feature on iOS and subsequently kill iPhone presence among marketeers.

[1]: https://www.floatplane.com/
[2]: https://youtu.be/Rs4hTm6B9QQ?t=368
> The concepts of Europe and Asia as distinct continents date back to antiquity, and their borders are geologically arbitrary.

Either you call Hindi, Persian and Bengali European or you call German English and French Asian. But saying one is European/Asian while the other is not is simply a racist view.
I hadn't heard of this, but something similar has been attested with Thai:

"Two of the consonants, ฃ (kho khuat) and ฅ (kho khon), are no longer used in written Thai, but still appear on many keyboards and in character sets. When the first Thai typewriter was developed by Edwin Hunter McFarland in 1892, there was simply no space for all characters, thus two had to be left out."
(source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_script , pointing to https://web.archive.org/web/20101219214315/http://www.t-h-a-... )

I originally heard about this in this fantastic book, which I read earlier this year: https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Typewriter-Thomas-S-Mullaney-... . Its focus is mostly the Chinese keyboard, and it does a great job detailing this, but there's a section about Edwin Mcfarland and his theories: https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/GuV1DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gb...
Yes. Breathing it's fibers can cause serious disease and cancer. Asbestos was used as a common building material in New Zealand for insulation, roof tiles, ceiling tiles and texturing and more in the 1950-1990 period. If you do any renovation or changes that interact with asbestos, it basically has to be handled by a hazmat team.

https://ehs.oregonstate.edu/asb-when
> When is Asbestos Dangerous?
Read _Never Home Alone_, ch 10 "Look What the Cat Dragged in (https://magazine.scienceconnected.org/2020/05/book-review-ne...) to learn about Toxoplasmosis gondii to blow your mind.

The whole book is excellent and there is supporting evidence therein about our personal biota impacting our health, especially around allergies.
I hope they do – Google is far, far, far too dominant in this space, and small-ish incumbents don't really stand a chance. If they keep up their privacy-friendly stance, this could really become something neat. I'd like for at least a little bit of competition in the gatekeeper-for-human-knowledge space.
I think it was particularly lethal to miners and factory workers. One of my great grandfathers died years after working in a factory that made mittens out of asbestos. Any process that disturbs the asbestos is going to be risky.
Never Home Alone by Robb Dunn
This is why it's referred to as "the dismal science".
I'm pretty pissed billionaires and their stupid toy internet projects have ruined my chances of taking a clear picture of the asteroid in my name (won at an Intel ISEF science & engineering olympiad in high school) for the foreseeable future :( .

It only transits the earth into a position where the sun lights it up every three years - I'm still working on finding a university to aim a spectrometer / laser at it so I can identify it's mineral composition and decide how much to charge asteroid miners for it ;)
I suspect Onlyfans (like Patreon) has social pressure going for it such that fewer people issue chargebacks because it'd be like yanking back money directly from a person and not a faceless company; like the social pressure against leaving a shitty tip at a restaurant.
Im trying to find a source that the battery pack Tesla installed is used to buy cheap renewable when the price is low and sell when it is high, but the linked article does not state this and the article it link as source for the 13.1M AUD is behind a paywall.

Pumped Hydro like Bath County Pumped Storage Station does exist but do not seem to buy cheap renewable when the price is low and resell it when it is high, but rather operate as a balancer for PJM Interconnection which get almost all its power from fossil fuels.

So do you have a link for a profitable battery that buys energy from renewables when there is an overproduction from renewable sources and then later sold when the prices has risen? That would be a solar / wind and storage combination. Using energy from fossil fuels to pump water is just not the same, even if doing so creates a profit for the company.

Every time I have read about a new storage facility they usually start with first describing capacity, then go on to say that this can enable a future use with renewables, but that right now it operate to balance the grid of existing (mostly fossil fuel based) power plants. I would very much like to be proven wrong and that there exist a viable commercial operation where we can see X amount of green energy produced by wind and solar going into the storage, and X (minus a conversion cost) of that energy going out, with one table showing how much the green energy costed when going in and an other table showing how much they got in profit when it went out.
I'd settle for comprehensions. It already has generic for/range so why not. That would cover a lot of boilerplate annoyances.
Offer toys in all black perhaps? :)
Preview comes preinstalled, and isn't Adobe code...
why can't you build your own browser? Why can't you build your own online game shop?
Yeah, I figured they were probably in there somewhere. It's possible I read the book before they were added, or that I skipped them (I glossed over some of the final chapters), or it's possible I just didn't fully grasp how important they were until I followed the linked-list tutorial.

What I like about the latter is how closely it steps through the problem-solving process within the context of a very familiar task, teaching you at each stage 1) why the borrow-checker is upset and 2) what tool you need to apply in order to satisfy it. If the Book taught me "what is Rust and what are its features?", this taught me "how do I use Rust in practice?".
> the key is simplicity

Simplicity (in language features) can lead to complexity (in code) that is hard to maintain.
Censorship in New Zealand
You can already mirror a repo easily to/from GitHub, and moving is pretty easy unless you are deeply invested in GitHub proprietary features.

People use GitHub because people use GitHub. It’s a classic network effect.
This is how my WM (dwm) works (except I patched it to use Super instead of Alt), and it’s a better way of resizing (not requiring such finicky mouse placement). But that is really weird to hear XFCE doesn’t allow both methods like JWM (and I would have assumed, any WM not aimed at relatively extreme minimalists and power users), I wonder if it’s a bug.
At least we think about it. The miracle material, graphene, has properties that could potentially cause problems when breathed in [0]. So at least we know what to look for and can mitigate.

That said, who knows what other material might come about that causes problems 40 years later in a different way. We will learn when it comes but at least we’re starting to be more aware of potential problems.

[0] https://www.materialstoday.com/carbon/articles/s136970211270...
I have no skin in this game, but I have to wonder who is making these decisions and what their thought process is.

What is the threat model, exactly? What eventuality is the bank seeking to avoid?

Are there edge-case regulatory issues at play? Are there moral-consumer groups out there that run public pressure campaigns against banks that transact on adult toys that look too realistic? Is a corporate lawyer somewhere worried about photos of a realistic-looking appendage used explicitly being tied back to the bank -- but if it's painted green they can plausibly argue "hey it's definitely not real, look it's green!"?

This just feels like such a spectacularly arbitrary line that I'm fascinated by the thought process.
I lived in a house with an asbestos facade. As long as you don't need to change anything it is even better than bricks. Easier to clean. Fire safe. Doesn't age much in 50 years. They used it everywhere: facade, insulation, floor glue.

If it breaks however, the fibers go everywhere, especially to your lungs where they stay. People working with it died of all kinds of problems, but mostly cancer in the lungs iirc.
The crazy thing is that Pliny and Strabo were writing about the effects asbestos had on the slaves that processed it, ~2000 years ago.
You CAN buy video using the Amazon Prime Video app, it is in the category where Apple gets a 15% cut of the sale.
I believe the standard solution is to send a sequence of signals with durations being consecutive prime numbers (multiplied by some unit of time, but that's irrelevant).

The canonical answer ("Yes, I am very smart too") is to reply with a continuation of the sequence where the transmission stopped.
boox max 3 or note 2, are way better than what remarkable can offer
Anything that has to do with UI in my opinion. Go's lack of classes (factories, inheritance, etc) and verbosity make graphical layouts very, very tedious.
I think that an organization's bad behavior in one area can undermine its credibility in others, particularly when the subjects are closely related (by privacy in this case).
> Wouldn't it be possible to define all police misconduct a federal crime?

IANAL. Maybe.

> Local police departments don't have much resources to lobby government agencies.

The problem isn't just police departments. I think the problem is more the police unions. Could they work together to have enough resources? I suspect so.
IpadOS cut pencil latency to 9ms.
Cambridge University live Bitcoin power consumption estimator
This should apply for a ebook purchased through the app (Audible). Following this logic Amazon should pay Apple 30%?
Correctness isn't about fun, although fun is definitely a side effect. I agree Go is easier to read if you're primarily familiar with C style imperative programming, but once you've strayed from that a bit, a PR in Typescript is no more difficult to review than one in Go. The big benefit of languages with more expressive type systems is the confidence you get that your code will work as expected if it compiles - I felt this in Swift more than in TS, and very little in Go.
>Russian, Italian, Dutch, English, Hindi and Gaelic languages do all belong to the Indo-European family, yet they diverged so much

This is plainly wrong. Go on compare words in those languages and it will strike you how similar the words are whether it's German and Urdu, French and Persian or Hindi and Italian. Names are a different thing since names are rather based on religious and ethnic identity rather than actual language.
Makes you think, why aren't more players trying to get in the phone space just to disrupt that shit. Google did with Android, I think Mozilla and Facebook had a mozillephone and facebookphone at some point as well no?
Google Translate produces mediocre results with European languages and absolute gibberish with Chinese or Japanese.

Personally, Google Translate is my litmus test for "is ML actually any good". If we ever reach the point of fluent translation of German or coherent translation of Japanese, I will be extremely impressed.
It seems what is being called “hard work” here really is “expert work” which often can be no work at all, in that it rests on the shoulders of likely thousands of previous hours of long work, and can sometimes feel effortless. One seminal example of this Paula Scher’s 5 minute design of the Citigroup logo. https://link.medium.com/KuxBw6rJi9
Also for asbestos roof - if it has been maintained and properly sealed once a decade or so, and is in good state, there is no reason to be worried. In that case it's actually much worse to remove it, and it is a great roofing material. However keep an eye on it if it shows signs of brittleness.
> That doesn’t change the fact that neither wind nor solar can produce electricity on demand.

That’s true of baseload generators like coal and nuke. Power generation is complex and multifaceted (hence calculation is always done on LCOE). Gas peaked plants are a critical part of the legacy generation systems, and permit more intermittent zero input sources like wind and solar to reduce the amount of baseload capacity.

I don’t know about renewable “proponents” but actual providers (of renewable or not) understand these issues well. Source: I used to be in this business.
that makes no sense though, people would most likely migrate to Android. You know why? Because their friends would have the app that they can't use without an Android phone. This pretty much killed Windows phones.
No, Zig is not in the realm of C. Zig gives you full memory safety that you can then selectively turn off. Why is it useful? For the same reason tests are useful even if they don't give you sound guarantees, and are still the primary way of achieving correctness, even in Haskell or Rust. C does not and cannot do this the same way as Zig does, because C cannot be made safe (well, it can, but that's a whole other can of worms) while Zig can. So you make Zig safe, test it, and then remove the guardrails from the performance-critical bits after you're satisfied with their correctness.

Does it provide safety in the same manner Rust does? Absolutely not. Does it provide less correctness overall? Maybe, and maybe it provides more correctness, and maybe the same. It's hard to say without an empirical study. The problem is that sound guarantees often come at a cost -- for example, to language complexity and compilation speed -- that can have a negative effect on correctness.
That should be changing soon.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-multi-...
Fast search over huge data sets in distributed networks of unreliable and possibly untrustworthy nodes is really really hard. Nobody has all the data in one place and the indices are huge and cross cut the data.

It can be done, but making it perform like GitHub search with sub-second returns on most queries and with full coverage of the entire data set would be an amazing achievement. The CAP theorem means you can’t do it without making some sacrifices.

There is a reason nobody has even seriously attempted a decentralized web search engine despite the obvious motivations.