skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you at all involved with software development? How do you feel about people breaking the GPL?
Right, but it's not the 1920s any more. We live in this highly connected, information rich, rapidly changing world, that is fundamentally different than the 1920s in many ways. The general public is far more savvy about investments, risks, and bubbles in general than they were in the past. Today, private equity tends to capture almost all of the value before a company goes public. The crazy thing is that a foreign citizen can invest in an American start up without any of these credentials, yet a US citizen cannot.
I just saw an interesting video on "How Jackson Pollock became so overrated."[1] Summary: It was due to the enormous influence of a single critic who was a Pollock fan.

As an artist, I find it incredibly sad that critics and other gatekeepers (such as museum curators and gallery owners) have any influence at all.

Fortunately, these days the need for such gatekeepers is diminishing, as artists can get their art (at least in digital form) directly in front of their audience, though at the same time new gatekeepers like search engines and platform owners are arising.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOGDDh1thaQ
Someone living in America should care a lot more about their government spying on them, than some country half-way around the world. Their own government has the power of pit and gallows over them, after all.

The government, in the meantime, sets a dangerous precedent, by blocking a foreign social app. It gives a great justification for other countries to block American social apps for similar reasons.
There are different types of electric blanket.

eg this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Morphy-Richards-Washable-Underblank...

All night use

NOTE: Blankets are perfectly safe to be used all night. However we recommend using the heat setting below.

•Move the heat setting on the control switch to heat level 1or 2.

These settings will provide safe and comfortable heat to sleep on all night.

These settings can be used to air the bed.

WARNING: Always ensure that the slider switch is moved to the OFF position when you get up the next day, or after airing the bed.
Yes, and it has been true since even 2015: https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/11/Cl...

There are embedded emissions in manufacturing, and yes, embedded emissions are higher for EV's because of battery manufacturing complexity.

But, most of a car's lifetime emissions are in the operation, not the manufacturing. And that's where EV's shine. Plus, this has only been getting more true as the grid has been getting greener -- in the last two years, most new generating capacity that has come online has been renewable.
It's a bit different with pre-sale/aquisition than mountaineering, with enough money and therefore ability to hire talent it's not impossible to refactor/split the project or even rewrite as needed once the business value is established. Reddit did it, going from lisp to Python, as did Twitter with microservices, Facebook rewriting a PHP VM, etc.

Startups in your analogy are more akin to: "get to the mountain top and succeed and have the cash to hire a helicopter out of there, or you die (the company)".
I believe GP is asking about manufacturing and production, not operation.
In Windows the old method was installing exe files, and it remains the most popular - but otherwise the only app store worth mentioning is the MS one (on Steam in a moment). In Linux, package managers can and do include other apps (not all of course), and just about everything that can be installed from them gets priority from users - and alternative repos get the scraps.

The option isn't hidden on android at all, it's dead simple. There's a warning dialog, but I can live with that.

* Steam is a very specialized case: Not quite an app store [Apple credits itself with inventing the App Store, despite Steam existing since 2003, so Apple agrees with me on this], but they all but created the Linux game market, and got in before the Windows Store was created. Yea, if you create the market or get in in advance or on stuff the official store doesn't include, you can survive, but the general rule is that the official App Store wins.

People are upset with Google, but it's not so much about the Play Store. And Apple doesn't need to be as lax as Google - If they had let go of the anti-competitive behaviour and had a slightly less explotitive fee structure people could live with the App Store being only store allowed. It's Apple being very greedy that led to the calls to, well, reduce Apple's permissions (I couldn't resist).
In modern Hebrew Lulim means "chicken coops" :)
Awesome news.
> We believe that industry consultation is critical for changes to platform policies, as these updates have a far-reaching impact on the developer ecosystem.

Why should platform makers consult the advertising industry? It's not like the advertising industry consulted anybody before they started collecting every bit of data they could.
Well, I think bikers have a lot more incentive not to hit people from a personal damage point of view. I mean they’re about as vulnerable as a pedestrian in a collision. So I think you’re thinking right about the risks.
>>If you start making private markets open to everyone, then there's no reason to differentiate between public and private markets anymore.

Couple this with 401Ks now giving retail investors (likely high-fee) choices to invest in private equity[1], and the picture looks much more volatile as the next generation draws closer to retirement.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-06-19/private-eq...
Some Boundaries Are Worth Preserving
Ability to reproduce - or imitate - has very little relation to the cultural 'value' or 'goodness' of art. Viewing art as simply technical skill alone is meaningless when you have a photograph, a printer, or a robot.

Think about the introduction of photography. Like you said, the ability to imitate something (in this case 100%) with no skill or practice. That's photography. And it changed everything. Impressionism came from this period.

And I think it's interesting when placing Pollock on this timeline, he only did the drip paintings for a couple years of his career. But a lot of people would place these paintings towards the start of AbEx. Which some define as an opposing reaction to encroaching government, McCarthyism, lack of individuality and conformity, communism, etc. It's not just one technique or style. It's a way of expressing individuality and emotion.

Pollock's drip paintings and that type of 'action painting' directly tears apart that narrow view of art you expressed. These pieces purposely make the individual 'building blocks' visible. the brush strokes, paint etc.

What art was before is now being broken down, the parts put on display. One has to view it in the context of the time. Think about the Hollywood blacklist, USSR, control and conformity built from fear.

And Pollock goes and does that.

It was a protest of individuality and expression and is about SO much much more than reproducibility.
Congratulations, you've fallen for ancient propaganda. Educate yourself [0][1][2] and don't have weird links in your profile.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypteia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helots
Agile is a religion.

Well-meaning, smart people wrote some good, general guidelines. Somehow it got turned into an industry of people who want money to tell me how I'm living my life wrong.
Because many of the people developing apps for their platform rely on advertising revenue to pay the bills?
Right, but I'm saying I've heard some claim that the environmental impact of efficiency gains are largely offset by the waste produced in the production and disposal of EVs and batteries. I haven't seen a great analysis supporting or refuting this claim. However, I also think that if true, perhaps this is part of the "growing pains" of the EV market. Certainly as the scale of the market grows, we can expect more efficient manufacturing processes and longer lasting technology.
Thanks for the true Scotsman perspective.
Auditing code that you don't have the source to is like an order of magnitude harder. Not the same, but not way impossible.
The wording here is subtly different from the text they reportedly emailed out - https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1298662658934222848

Notably, it omits the line saying they won't use the prompt in their own apps (which they'd be required to do whether or not they used IDFA) and omits the advice that implies their customers should figure out other ways to gather identifying information
> And those estimates are almost always severe overestimates.

Based on my own experiences with house-hunting, there is a severe lack of supply of houses rather than the opposite.
What you describe requires the elimination of residential zoning completely to allow for small businesses to mix in with the homes. You can't eliminate cars until you eliminate the need for driving to stores and you can't eliminate that without mixed zoning.
I don´t know about you, but in my country it became a chore to flight after US 9/11 thing...
The way the tests were written in that case, it was hard coded to how the work was being done and not the result produced. Both the code and the tests were bad.

Normally, I’d agree with you though.
Makes sense. Agree with what you're saying, that surveys can have value and customer interviews can be valuable even if not face to face.

Would love to hear more of your thoughts sometime after you vacation.
I didn't say it is impossible. It's just relatively rare. The point of the SEC is not prevent anyone from doing something stupid and losing a lot of money. The point is to keep lots of people from doing something stupid. And in particular, to keep lots of people from doing the same stupid thing at the same time! (1929, 2008.. )
Yes, unless they are invisible in the sky. Put a barrier in place to force innovation.
The Linux kernel is under constant security analysis, review, and auditing. True, that is not the entire thing all at once but it is actively audited.
This just penalises the little guy who can't setup alternative infrastructure.

Digital stores above a certain size (eg. above $1b in annual global sales) simply need to be regulated by Governments, with a maximum % commission for developers registered in that country. 15% seems reasonable.
My comment no longer seems to have any relevance to the parent, which was edited. I do like to point out this (in)famous case though:

Nate Lewis was denied the prize in Chemistry by being the most junior in a group of four (the prize can be shared at most three ways).
Not exactly comparable, if the electricity comes from burning fuel then those losses are at the power plant + transmission losses + losses in the car and drivetrain.

power plants are generally more efficient than small combustion engines but all other things in chain must apply. Mix in nuclear and solar and things change of course.

However comparing the efficiency of the controller / motor to engine / transmission is apple to oranges, the battery / controller / motor in a EV is just the last part of a long transmission stretching from the engine in the power plant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe
Visualization of the Process Behind NYT_first_said
Some of this simply isn’t up to humans. The West coast is pretty brutal nature wise. I do think it makes sense in major metros, rural areas (that are burning right now) probably not. A lot of water and resources the city gets still come from those rural areas. If the Hetch-Hetchy burned last week it could have had a significant impact on SFs water supply.

We also haven’t had a massive earthquake in awhile. Lots of unreinforced masonry structures in SF still, entire neighborhoods will be wiped out when it happens. New buildings will need to be much safer than existing ones.

Density sounds good and I’m all for it, we need to scale up our infrastructure though.

Also in SF pro-density movements are painted as pro-gentrification, getting the voters on board is hard.

This all costs money and convincing the locals to spend money now to support outsiders usually doesn’t work. The money will be spent on affordable housing for existing residents. This continues the cycle of new well off residents buying expensive homes and pushing more locals out of state or into affordable housing.

Honestly a big earthquake might be the only thing that forces the city to rebuild with safer higher density buildings.
Mozilla REALLY needs to focus on firefox.
Stop Using U.S. Dollar for Pricing Bitcoin, Use Gold Instead for More Accuracy
Parsers, Inc. became general partner in new project of iTech Capital partners
I don't think they're going to be a commercial success, but I don't really have a reason to doubt the possibility of new supersonic aircraft being quieter than older ones. Is there some particular reason to doubt this aspect of Boom's proposal?
learning python well would be helpful for you
emacs users check org-roam its quite nice
Wilding of America by Charles Derber is one text on this subject. It's an interesting theory. In another interpretation, the end of the frontier has also meant that the barbarism and roguery once relegated to the periphery of the country is now omnipresent.
How does it make sense to pay taxes to another state when your business doesn't even operate from there? I would assume your home state doesn't like that very much.
The difference is that, unless they have been scammed by traffickers, every one of these workers chose that fate over a worse fate.

If you're buying a phone, or some produce, or pick something out of a shelf, you don't have blood on your hands, you have contributed to someone's life being a little better than it would otherwise have been.
depends on the move operation.
1 file you would not notice it. Thousands it would add up. Across 2 physical drives you may also notice it if the file is big enough.
Good. What's good for homeowners and landlords is not necessarily good for society. Indeed, the main reason housing is so unaffordable is that we have privileged the equity of homeowners/landlords above all other considerations. It's long past time for these two classes to have a much softer voice at the table.
Sticking Hawking and Tesla in with Bose and Poincare is .... eccentric. It's not a popularity contest.

Fun fact: one of Bose's grandsons worked as a bartender at Triple Rock in Berkeley for a while.
Fully agree - though I bet it doesn't help that much TBH.
Korean Natural Farming
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/cloud_sync lists a bunch of other backend service providers in addition to Amazon Drive. From my experience, Backblaze is dirt cheap; I moved all my personal backups via Arq from S3 to B2 a number of years ago.
No one accuses me of being insane for going to a park bench and watching cranes and ducks skim across the river and just think. Why is it controversial for someone to like Pollock’s paintings which give the same type of space?

Maybe they don’t have intrinsic meaning, but a lot of the world doesn’t. Maybe they have meaning from their context, maybe the world does as well. At the end of the day, to me they are provocative and inspirational and help me think and I value thinking so I value Pollock’s paintings. Especially insofar as the paintings aren’t encumbered by the heavy realist Americana that Pollock reacts against from his studies with Thomas Benton (Though I do like Benton’s paintings as well).
- why just 60 feet / 20m below the surface?

- what will be possible that now is not?
The response to that is to just not allow them to update their app until they comply.
It’s also a conflict of interest: when they’re interacting with that industry and advocating for things are they doing so on behalf of selling ads for Facebook or for the publishers on their platform?
Yes, but those ETFs are professionally managed high leverage accounts. It's not your uncle day trading at 10:1 margin.

And I know your uncle can probably find a way to make a crazy risky investment. The idea is just to try and cut down on that to avoid systemic risk.
It doesn't seem like amazon cloud drive is banning encrypted data based on this.

It sounds like Synology will no longer be able to back up to Amazon Cloud Drive and so they are suggesting Amazon Photos as an alternative for photo/video data, but Amazon Photos won't work for encrypted data.

Edit: Based on your followup comment it looks like this isn't the case, but maybe they're actually talking about encryption performed using the existing synology software?
> famously untrue

"""This suggests that consumption leads production during neighbourhood gentrification, and that developers are reactive, not proactive, in their investment decisions."""

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/004209802094059...
The commenter you are replying to was probably referring to the Messenians, which were Spartan helots for a long time, but not forever.

I don't really like your "one successful slave revolt" statement, because it depends on the meaning of "successful" and "slave", so it seems interesting at first, but it is not really possible to think or argue about it without restating it in a clarified form first (even though there is some truth in the statement). I suppose you were thinking about the Haitian Revolution?
Average US home is twice as big as European. Only Australian homes are bigger:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/average-h...
Oh come on, you jinxed it. Now, 2020 will never finish!
A trivial example would be getters and setters for plain old classes.
"Preparing our partners"? More like notifying them that their businesses may go out of business.
This idea doesn't make sense to me. Mind elaborating?
First. Don't do this!

Second. You've done this/someone else has done this and now you need to maintain it (we've all been there!). In this case my original post holds. Your test suite mocks the databases for unit tests anyway right? So write some test(s) checking that when the various databases are down appropriate responses are given by your service.
Salesforce Notifies Some Staff of Job Cuts
This doesn't solve the problem of "what if Apple says you shouldn't be on the App Store at all".
The world is quite a different place in 2020 than in 1933. We have access to unlimited digital forms of risk to speculate on as it is. It used to be seen as necessary to have taxi licenses in order to have trusted drivers who wouldn't scam out-of-towners. It turns out you can replace all that regulation with an online review system plus mobile GPS and payment app (Uber / Lyft). Similar innovations are being held back in securities because of red tape.
That the USA doesn’t do undemocratic things is a bit of primary-school brainwashing if you look our international policy, interventionism, and decidedly undemocratic laws that have been created and enforced in this country since its very inception. (Voting rights, regulations, asset forfeiture, racist zoning laws, etc)
It is easy to look at this list and say gender and ethnicity played a role (which wouldn't be surprising particularly in that era). But five people on the list are white men. Physicists were more likely to be white men (at least in those times). So no matter what list you make of physicists, they will end up on that list. My point is, it is not possible to deduce any bias from such a list. For any coveted prize there are many well deserving people that don't get it simply because there's only one prize to be awarded per year and there's no sure and objective way to know if one who got it was indeed more deserving than the others who didn't.
“Viaweb sold for a lot of money. It was bad code.”

I think the ultimate test of code is whether it generates money. That is the sole reason the world cares so much about code.

It’s an unpopular definition, and I don’t like it, but it seems correct.
did you even read the SEC announcement? it is literally the first bullet point:

* add a new category to the definition that permits natural persons to qualify as accredited investors based on certain professional certifications, designations or credentials or other credentials issued by an accredited educational institution, which the Commission may designate from time to time by order. In conjunction with the adoption of the amendments, the Commission designated by order holders in good standing of the Series 7, Series 65, and Series 82 licenses as qualifying natural persons.
How do you test your mocks?
I agree, but Apple will never go for this unless forced to for obvious reasons.

As a cross-platform developer, the degree to which Apple has scrutinized our app and made sure there's not so much as a hint of the fact that you can buy the product on the web is totally nuts.
[edit - put quote back in context; they repeated the part I copied verbatim for Amazon Photos and for Amazon Cloud Drive]

> For other files:

> 1. If you haven’t already, download the Amazon Cloud Drive app. Or, you can use the web version by visiting: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive.
Check to see if your content includes encrypted files or special file formats. If your files are encrypted, you’ll need to save the content in a different format. ...

> 2. Upload your unencrypted content to Amazon Drive...
The usual is to count "finished" space. So if an attic has been converted to a bedroom like the house I grew up in, that would normally be counted as part of the house space. Same with basements. My current house has both an attic and a basement but they're very unfinished. My basement can get wet so I don't store much down there but there's a lot up in the attic. Having storage space outside of the living quarters makes a big difference.
That’s the point, in macOS it never runs by just clicking ok. The selected button is “Move to Trash” and the second button is “Cancel”

To run those apps, you have to open System Preferences or right-click them (which I don’t remember if it’s still allowed)
I suppose there is a reason they call software’s thinking artificial intelligence if we’re getting into the details
If it has a photo where people aren't wearing masks and/or social distancing, it doesn't feel new to me.
The key thing is that the absolute pressure rise through the shock wave isn't very high - it's just perceived as a loud boom when it is reached in a very short time.

The pressure wave is ultimately caused by displacement because of the volume of the aircraft, lift, and engines. We cannot really get rid of any of these. Given enough time, a strong enough pressure pulse will steepen into the double-shock 'N-wave' (because the pressure signal is N-shaped) the sonic boom.

Sonic boom mitigation then means to prevent the pressure waves from steepening into a boom before it hits the ground, e.g. by a long nose, lift distribution over a large part of the aircraft length, putting the engines on top so that their pressure wave radiates upwards, etc.