skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm confused. What about this decision is causing you to give up control of your device? You can just opt into the tracking; which you want to do for some reason.

I'm all for bashing Apple for some of their more restrictive policies but what about THIS decision is making you uncomfortable?
Finally, some great news about Apple!
Well you just bet against an Odds which you perceive would net you a positive outcome surely? That’s all that you do with any uncertain gambling
On top of that, only a small number of mosquito species carry malaria or dengue. Granted, I'm not sure how well we've studied cross-species fertility in mosquitoes (and thus risk of genetic solutions jumping the species barrier), but if we're able to very selectively exterminate this small number of species, my understanding is that the remaining mosquito species would expand to fill any ecological gaps.
Of which there is far more than commercial software, especially if you count e.g. websites.
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In what way is Apple a competitor to Facebook or Google Ads?
> apps in loosely typed languages like Javascript/Python

> Python is strongly typed

Another of Schrodingers animals.
I started Vim when the internet went out once and, bored, I finally tried `vimtutor` on the debian command line.

It just opens vim to a txt file that incrementally explains how to make basic edits. I was instantly hooked when I realized how much time "o" and "O" alone would save me over.

I almost never use Vim these days because I was too lazy to port my .vimrc + Vundle plugins to a new laptop at some point, but I use a Vim-mode in every editor I use, even the browser.
> In this case how does real-world advertising in magazines, public transport, TV, etc manages to have such a high price despite the targeting capabilities being orders of magnitude lower than online?

Some companies are willing to pay that much more for the prestige of showing up in the "real world", just like some brands might maintain unprofitable flagship stores.

Another reason is "because they have to charge that much". Which means that if fewer companies are willing to pay that much, more classic media outlets go out of business, as they can not lower prices further.

Lastly, you can't accurately measure how inefficient these forms of advertising are, whereas online advertising makes it easy to see whether ads are a net loss or not.
I think you nailed it. The DOE SACC/CEER rating system provides more realistic numbers for comparing portables to window units, but the assumption of a small temperature differential gives single-hose units and unfair advantage over dual-hose units. A single-hose AC is like running your car AC on fresh air mode, it cools faster if the inside of the car is hotter than outside, but it can only drop the interior temperature so far below ambient.

In case anyone is interested, I did not end up returning my single-hose unit, but I did end up buying a dual-hose Whynter ARC-122DHP [0] for another room. It came with a yellow energy guide card listing a cooling capacity of 12000 BTUs and an EER of 11.1, which indicates an average power draw of just 1081 watts (EER=BTU/watt). Unfortunately no SACC or CEER rating was listed. Actually measuring power shows that it draws the full 1200 watts on startup, quickly drops to around 1100 watts, and then slowly drops to 900 watts as the room temperature falls. For comparison, my 8000 BTU (unknown EER, 6000 SACC, 6.5 CEER) single-hose Toshiba RAC-PD0812CRRU [1] also draws 1200 watts on startup, quickly drops to around 900 watts, and then slowly drops to 800 watts as the room temperature falls. So it seems like the dual-hose is around 20-30% more efficient (in a different room under arbitrary conditions) based off the BTU rating, but no better based off the SACC rating. I also noticed that it did not come with foam seals for the window bar like the single-hose unit did, so there is probably room for some efficiency gain there.

[0] https://www.whynter.com/product/whynter-elite-12000-btu-dual...

[1] https://www.toshiba-lifestyle.com/us/Room-Air-Conditioners/P...
> move somewhere else and have the significant monetary gain to compensate them for their trouble

People don’t want to leave their homes and move away from family and friends just so a city can grow.

Life isn’t just about money.

I don’t want my city to grow any larger - higher density means lower quality of life for the people who have lived here for decades - aka my actual community.
We've just circled back around. You seem to be saying that groups of protesters are never threats, and I don't agree; it seems to me that once they start breaking random things, there's a serious and unacceptable risk they'll start killing people.

Truly peaceful protests where nothing's being vandalized or set on fire - yes, the police should never respond to those by force.
I've tried using the vim plugin for VSCode many times, and every time I come back to it, it just feels... off? The actual vim keybindings work fine when you're editing the document, but I find that when you want to use some of the other features of the editor, it becomes a bit more tricky/hacky.

If MS made an official set of vim keybindings that had better editor support, or even if there was some sort of kill switch that let me turn off vim key bindings quickly, I would be 100% sold on VSCode, but until then, I'll stick to the terminal.
This is great. Would have saved me easily eight hours of research time.
The problem I have is Markor's ugly design. I prefer a UI like that of the app "Monospace" (which I don't use, because it isn't open source).

I'm more of a developer than an end user but I still cannot stand apps with odd, "ugly" UI. I get this is mostly subjective though.

Edit: I downloaded Markor just to see again. It's actually not as awful as I remember, I do dislike the primary dark purple however. Otherwise, it's quite decent, I might start using it.
As an Android dev, I'm confident this will become as popular as Kotlin did vs Java once it becomes stable.

The preview looks great, it feels like it will make a breeze out of building composable small views, which in turn will mean many small libraries will be released, and on goes the virtuous cycle.

As a fan of React and SwiftUI, I'm excited!
My home network: Ubiquiti UniFi gear, fiber gigabit Internet (2018)
You failed to address the argument.

In a market where both options exist why should one change to be like the one you prefer?
I'd still rather have to cough up cash than give in to tracking by default, though. So generally this isn't a negative for me.

Naieve as you may think me, I think Apple want to get data so they can sell me products they sell (both Apple products and third party software) - I'm ok with that because I like their products and software. I'm consciously buying into an ecosystem that is purchase driven rather than making money off data sales.

They don't have to display the modal on their own user tracking because I've already signed up and bought in.
Link: https://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/
When Facebook says "privacy" they mean "ad revenue".
This is cool! At a previous company we got a lot of mileage in debugging and ad-hoc tasks by exposing various things as filesystems. We mostly did webdav, but NFS is way better from a client transparency perspective. For many folks find, ls, and grep very much beat curl and jq.
It's one of the things that really frustrates me with the ASP.net team. They're obsessed with unit testing, have made really stupid decisions that means tons of stuff now gets injected instead of just passed, all in the name of unit testing.

But C# is a typed language and generally doesn't need reams of unit tests, so all it does is make the code unnecessarily complicated.

My big bugbear was when they idiotically made the config injected, of all the things that should be super simple to use, and definitely not injected, it's config. It only changes between environments.
The NDB team on its revolutionary nano-diamond batteries
You can (and probably should for security reasons) have any entrypoint on e.g. cloud/vps/etc. If you have changing IP where your servers is you can just connect via VPN and then it's pretty seamless even as your IP changes.

More reliable than dyndns (since you never know how long DNS servers are actually caching)
Venture capital firms to include “diversity riders” in term sheets
Facebook’s top ad business on iOS is promoting other apps. The tracking being blocked by this change is how they attribute app sales to the Facebook ad. Apple has a competing service: https://searchads.apple.com/

I think the purpose of this change is to redirect the revenue from FB to Apple.
I had a rosewill and hated it so much I replaced it with an iStarUSA case. I have the 3U because I wanted to fit it, plus a power-strip in a 4U rack, but I would recommend the 4U version to anyone who has the space, because iStar uses a removable motherboard tray that makes some "3U ready" parts not actually fit in the case. 4U is the same height as a standard tower is wide, so there should be zero issues with that in their 4U cases.
TotalCommander.
Kubernetes very easy to use, worth learning imho. One hour's worth effort yields great advantage for work.

Vim not worth learning to use as adult. Time too valuable. Takes too long to become extension of body. Best learned as child/teenager. Time worthless then. Maybe if you can learn it fast. Took me years of teenage to get unthinking proficiency.
What, exactly, would be this grounds for an anti-trust lawsuit for this change?

I mean, I can see a viable anti-trust action for the Hey.com/Epic fiascoes and the ongoing 30% app revenue fees...
Sucks, I'd like to see them stick with and develop a good show for a while. Many older shows didn't get really good until the third season. Orange ITNB survived a bad season.

Re Altered Carbon, I loved S1 because of the mystery. A minor reason was because I wasn't familiar with any of the actors, makes it easier to get immersed. Didn't like S2 as much, partially because of the new leads, who tended to be folks from other shows... the Avengers guy, the lady cop from Luke Cage, and Damian Dark. I think I let out an audible grown when he came onscreen.

I'd rather watch fewer higher quality shows than the next one, they will now produce instead. I suppose my new strategy is to not start a Netflix show until it hits its third or fourth (cough Daredevil+) season.
I hope you're not this naive.

Gang stalking is a real thing, when I was a child people used to call each other up to and gang stalk anyone who had just moved into the neighborhood just for shits and giggles.

It was just a bunch of kids who would call their next door neighbor to let them know someone we didn't know was walking around. The game was to walk outside of your house and just stare at the person as closely as possible as they walked by and then walk back in. Individually its not a big deal but when you walk through a neighborhood and hundreds of people walk out of their home one at a time just to stare at you and they never say a word it makes the person walking around hyper paranoid.

People do this sort of crap all the time for many reasons including extortion, they text message networks of people to follow an individual person around as part of targeted harassment. If the person doesn't pay up in the form of shopping at the right places they just keep following the person around. It's illegal but hard as fuck to prove.
Facebook believes that creating an open and connected world is good. Anything that contributes to Facebook's growth a small tax to pay.

This is what Mark Zuckerberg says at government hearings.
An extension built to extract email addresses and is built for "lead generation", aka "adding people to unwarranted email lists" "does not collect any personal data". Oh, the irony.
In memory of Gerald Gaus (1952-2020)
Netflix over IPv6: A Longitudinal Study
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I strongly contemplated suicide (5+ years ago, I'm good now). The thing that stopped me was not the fear of dying, or of bringing pain to myself or others, it was the fear of nothing, forever. Forever is incomprehensibly vast. Even now that I likely have many decades ahead of me, the concept of "nothing, forever" gives me anxiety if I dwell on it too long.
Consider what we tolerate in the current status quo to weigh whether a tenement is a bad thing, where 90k people live in the streets of LA without running water in a pandemic, ironically camping along surface lots that used to be low cost motels with rooms for rent all over downtown LA, razed in the 70s to make parking for office workers living in the suburbs.

Consider that tenements also haven't gone away, and sometimes several family units are packed into a single 1br apartment in LA or in other high COL places as we speak. I've seen bunks for rent that look like they came out of a prison on my local craigslist, asking for $500 a month.

Cheap and communal housing would solve so many ills that currently exist for the working class simply because we refuse to build this sort of housing anymore. Housing that used to dominate cities like LA and gave opportunity to the working poor who couldn't afford a better situation. Housing that we sorely lack, and the lack of which push people into real tenement conditions today, or even on the street, while they work part or full time trying to make ends meet.
I’m trying to be charitable here, but yes.
Parsec-cloud: open-source dropbox-like with e2e encryption
Tesla Touches $400B After Latest Boost from Street
Then why did they almost all go bankrupt?
You can get a static IP through my business provider, (Cox), for free. It comes with the business subscription. Getting a business subscription is as easy as signing up for it. I work from home and the guaranteed speed and higher line priority is worth ~$20/month premium. Also no data cap!
Surely the getters and setters of POJOs would be exercised in the tests of other classes? If not, why are they there?
I thought naming the company after its most famous externality was a brilliant idea. If you can't fix it, feature it.
It seems that both the author of Neverending story and of this game had been exposed to experience Alzheimer in their beloved ones... great children book, but with a lot of dark undertones.
> Last I checked, iOS had ~24% of global market share.

The link in my reference showed Apple at 14% of the global smartphone market for many years. Do you have a reference you think is more reliable?

Similarly, they have Apple in the US at between 40-49% the last 6 quarters:

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

While that's not 14%, it's certainly not a monopoly. Consumers don't have to worry that if they switch to one of those 51% that they're on a platform that nobody else will use. Epic and Spotify and Kindle could make tons of money selling to the other 51% of phones in the US; and if Apple's terms were actually difficult for them to make money from, they could just not make iOS apps, and be perfectly healthy companies. The fact that they do sell on iOS shows that they are making plenty of money, just not as much as they'd like.
Tesla Insider and FBI thwart Russian malware attempt
sadly, djbdns will probably support AAAA records long before the majority of the Internet.
1) asbestos wasn't really used widely for insulation in the normal sense of that word.
2) in the right climate, tar shingles are actually extremely effective as a roofing solution.
3) the US does not have large supplies of bricks, and many areas do not have easy access to stone suitable for building (which is also extremely expensive in terms of labor). Hence wooden frame construction.
4) fiber board, when properly isolated from the weather, is an extremely durable and strong material. it is unfortunate that it tends to require environmentally unfriendly resins to manufacture.
5) there is a LOT of poor construction in the USA, but picking on particular techniques isn't the way to describe the problems.
6) there are many cheap houses in the USA that have much better energy efficiency than classic old houses across Europe, specifically because they use wood frame construction and moderate levels of insulation and air sealing.
It's also cool that this is simply a web app. If I want the full desktop experience, I can write the missing components myself (lol) and make this app fullscreen. Nice!
Pralaya – The Hindu Word for a Period of Mass Destruction
My issue with this is that it causes a delay with every single j
that is entered. Only a visual delay that freezes the cursor and
then lets it jump by two characters, but irritating for me
regardless.

Otherwise it's very practical though.
Something that film critic Roger Ebert wrote a few years before his death has stuck with me:

"I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state."

Assuming that whatever comes after death will be a lot like whatever came before we were born helped me deal with my own anxiety around the inevitability of death. If one assumes these two states are equivalent, then we've already experienced death, or at least a death-like state. Whether that's something to be feared or not is up to the individual, and is a separate question.

Source- https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/go-gentle-into-that-g...
Would it be possible to add Catalan? I can give a hand.
To be clear, there have been prior studies which have discovered exoplanets with machine learning. One example (cited in this paper) was from Chris Shallue at Google and Andrew Vanderberg at CfA, who discovered the first eight planet system in 2017 by training convolutional neural networks on light curve data. [1]

The authors explain their contribution to be:

> To date these [previous studies] have all focused on identifying [false positives] or ranking candidates within a survey. We build on past work by focusing on separating true planets from [false positives], rather than just planetary candidates, and in doing so probabilistically to allow planet validation.

To translate, these previous studies focused on identifying exoplanet candidates. In the early days of exoplanet research, these candidates were then followed up with more detailed observations to confirm that the candidate was a true planet.

With the advent of Kepler, there are now way too many candidates to get follow-up observations on all of them. So now exoplanets are "validated" by calculating the probability of a false positive. I am not in this field, but it seems that the most common algorithm to do this is called VESPA [2]. The contribution these authors make is to use a machine learning system for the validation process, i.e., calculating the probability that the candidate is a false positive.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05044

[2]: https://github.com/timothydmorton/VESPA
Auditing Algorithms for Bias
According to the rules of Interpol, it should only be used for serious crimes. There should be some kind of non-exhaustive list, but it's probably not public.

Article 83 @ https://www.interpol.int/en/content/download/5694/file/24%20...
Very simple, looks great.

The kind of thing that instantly feels like it should be part of standard CSS.
I didn't sign in too far, but isn't the first line of code on their landing page a typo?

(define my-language 'English)

Looks like it's missing a closing single quote. I suppose it could be optional.
I love his simple charisma. Ever flashy, just charming. In magic there's a form of magic in between close up magic and stage magic called "parlor magic". I've always thought he had great parlor presence.

On a separate note, I find it interesting that he's making casual jokes about himself being gay/bi. I don't know what the times were like, or really even when that video was made, but do wonder if that raised a few (more, I guess) eyebrows
So what? Let them be destroyed.

I'd rather sacrifice some jobs than watch gigantic media conglomerates take over the computing industry and destroy our computing freedom with their DRM.

Honestly I've never come across a study that says piracy even has a significant impact on the media industry, in fact some studies found the opposite. People that like something they pirated, which is not many people really, will usually go buy it.
a 4U rackmount server is identical form-factor to a 19" tall tower.
I tried mapping both jk and kj to Esc for a while (so I could just mash them in any order), but the slight delay it added to the letters always threw me off my loop.
> I've heard an argument that places of work will provide charging points - but why would they?

For the same reason why they provide (in one way or another) parking spots - because otherwise people can't get to the work place, and because it'll be another way to earn some money.

But even if not, shopping centers have a strong motivation to provide charging ports - if you don't have another good option, are you going to shop at the cheap mall, or at the slightly more expensive one where you can also spend some more money to charge your car? Assuming today's top technology will be common by then, you can expect to get hundreds of kilometers of range range during a 30 minute shopping trip.

Cities could also start adding charging stations to light posts, or install dedicated chargers, in the 15 years until then.
> Their incentives to represent the consumer are rooted in the fact that the consumer can switch to another insurance company.

Two follow ups:

1) Isn't this inefficient? E.g. insurance is most efficient the larger the pool is. Doesn't this system introduce inefficiencies (and therefore risk) into the market?

2) Do you feel like there are adequate tools to choose between different insurers today, and do you expect that everyone who owns or improves property should be reasonably expected to make an informed decision about which insurance company to go with? It's hard enough now to insure my car, let alone all the individual decisions that go into building a house. (From materials to design decisions to occupancy rates to the health of the occupants, etc.)
I disagree, I learned Vim in my 40's after decades on emacs. For a month it was awful, but I have since recouped the time lost many times over. Other developers on my team went through the same.
> Revolut for business closed my account with very short warning

Could you share what was their reason for doing this? Any non-standard type of business or account activity?
Tokyo condo prices approaching 30-year high:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Property/Tokyo-prop...

"The average price of new condos in Tokyo was 71.42 million yen, or about 642,000 dollars, in 2018. This is the highest it's been since 1991"
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/406/

Housing is complex.
https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetpack
> Why should platform makers consult the advertising industry?

Any given platform succeeds or dies based on its applications.

In the case of mobile, many of those applications survive based on advertising.
haha this is funny
Gabriel Garcia's Advice for Writers
You don't need to know anything about a person to know that, at some point, they'll be hungry. So, if you're some company that happens to sell food nationally, you can just throw your ad at anybody. That's what I mean by "big generic brand".

However, if you sell, say, artisanal hot sauce, you'd pay more to target an affluent person that likes spicy food, rather than some random person that may be just be googling how to make macaroni and cheese.
I have a three year old iPhone X that works just fine. My Mom is still using my 5 year old iPhone that I gave her when I bought my new one ...
TL;DR: Apple's move will help the big guys & hurt the smaller ones.