skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone living in hurricane country, the joke around here is that FEMA stands for "Futilely Expecting Meaningful Aid". But really, their job is coordination, and usually will only contribute relief supplies if the state or county/parish is overwhelmed. They have a problem with people expecting too much from them - they are not going to show up in a convoy of trucks with food & water the very next day. But Wal-Mart, HEB, and Waffle House do a fantastic job of post-storm logistics, once the roads & bridges are open.

Anyone who has lived here more than a few years knows that they should prepare for the season and have important papers ready to carry with you, 2 weeks of water & food on hand, etc. but human nature being what it is, many don't. A good site that can help you prepare is https://www.ready.gov/ Check with your relatives and neighbors to make sure they've got the supplies they need or a way to evacuate ahead of the storm.
I love this question. It’s plausible enough to imagine Apple charging for ads. But the implications are huge. Imagine every hardware platform charging for transactions made on that platform. It would be like landlords getting a flat percentage of your income on top of an annual fee.
I do wonder if physical hardware keys still make sense (at least under a threat model where my hardware is almost always in my home or, if not, under my control) if every device I use has a secure enclave that could conceivably used to fulfill the same role.
They should be focussing on their capacity to quickly move in mobile hospitals, potable water, emergency accomodation, etc and have adequate stockpiles of essentials ready to go.

How quickly and effectively you can help those impacted will reduce total fatalities regardless of whether a terrorist attack, natural disaster or something like the Beirut explosion.
last I checked pgp keys were limited to rsa2048. While the recommendation for the last two years have been rsa4096 (or ed-512 depending who you ask)

Is this still the case? their site only have pgp support as a binary option on the models, no extra info anywhere to be found on their search.
As funny as it sounds I think Tesla has enough brand recognition and tech chops to pull something like this off.
I think iOS users could always use FB in the browser.

I can't imagine any ad supported business ignoring iOS users. The demographic is too lucrative.
A Brief History of the Goldback
The reason why they pull the "what about the elderly?" card is simple. Most of us can figure it out, even if it's stupid. My parents however have a much, much harder time trying to figure out how to do something that is counter-intuitive. It's more about problem solving and experience with existing user interfaces than anything else. Designers nowadays definitely design things in a manner that suggests they assume some pre-existing knowledge of UI patterns.
Modeling the production of belly button lint
Preventing some new(ish) logging bypasses with PowerShell Protect
> or a project with 20-30 files and around 8 dependencies, it took 10-20 seconds to compile

Something is very wrong here. If you use `tsc -w`, you should get incremental compilation. Small changes should compile almost instantly.

For me, even without using `-w` on pretty large projects, my compile time is never more than 5s.

I have to wonder if you have bottlenecks elsewhere.

Regardless, TypeScript's type system is much, much more expressive than Go's, so compile time will theoretically be slower. For me, it's worth it because compile time is an inexpensive way to save lots of maintenance time in the future.

(Note that I would never use TypeScript and Go for the same type of project, but that's my mindset in theory.)
What do you count as subsidies to nuclear power?

Wind and solar have been heavily subsidized in France through buying it at an above market rate. [0]

0: http://www.bsi-economics.org/1016-evolution-prix-electricite...
Oculus is now gambling VR’s entire future as a consumer product
When a test fails, your understanding is informed by the nature of the code change that is responsible.

If you keep code changes small, and keep tests working, you're good.
Regulatory capture is about a lot more than lobbying.

Then again, I don't know that thinking of prosecutors are regulators is a good framing.
i use ipad pro with some sort of 'paperlike' screen protector. Feels like writing on paper to me.

So other than supposedly reducing eyestrain( is this a proven claim?). What is the benefit?
Basic things that I feel like should be trivial for Siri to handle. The biggest issue by far is how bad the voice dictation is for sending messages. It almost never gets it right.

I'm not opposed to an Apple search engine if it works. Would happily use it. But the way Siri has stagnated doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence for me.
Just to give you another POV, might be useless - my main pain point would be how to know I am speaking well, that I’m interesting and clear, that people are getting something out of watching. I’ve not done much YouTube (1 or 2 private videos for product explainer ever) but it’s something that interests me, but only if I can create good content. Sorry I’m not directly answering your editing question as I have nothing to edit, but it’s a point of view that may be of interest
Often, when the market doesn't provide an essential gateway service to a law-abiding subpopulation, some sort of 'public option' is proposed.

Not enough market housing, offer public/subsidized options. Not enough low- or no-cost private education, offer public schools. Too little affordable healthcare/insurance, offer Medicaid, a 'public option', single-payer. Public transport.

Should the government offer a 'public option' payment-processor of last resort, with guaranteed service for all legal but unpopular businesses? A service that couldn't reject camgirls, weed-sellers, Alex Jones, gun shops, etc?
What’s frustrating about discovering Substack content is I would have no idea Simon Owens wrote about why Patreon’s business model is under threat if I didn’t see this post on HN. I’m unable to come for the topic, and then stay for the author.

If I search “Patreon” on Substack I get a bunch of people who moved there from Patreon:

https://imgur.com/a/L0qYrUQ

What gives? How do I search by topic?
> C does not and cannot do this the same way as Zig does

Regarding the PR you just sent, I'd like to hear why you think it cannot be applied to C?

> So you make Zig safe, test it, and then remove the guardrails from the performance-critical bits after you're satisfied with their correctness.

This isn't safety… This is “we didn't find any memory issue while fuzzing the software” and you'd get the same guarantee: if your fuzzer didn't cause the memory issue, then it remains in your code in production, waiting to explode one day with some hard to debug Heisenbug that only occurs once in a million…
I just saw some Quip toothbrushes at Target recently. The box clearly has a starburst advertising $5 brush heads online, while Target sells them for $10.

Many developers would love to not "intentionally benefit" from Apple's distribution channel. The issue is Apple forces them to use the App Store for distribution.
Siri often fails even switching lights on and off, it can be very idiosyncratic in how it does and interprets stuff
TSMC's 5nm 'N5' process -the highest density process currently shipping- has a raw transistor density of 173 million per millimeter^2. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nm_process)

If the transistors were laid out on a square grid (they aren't - it's rectangular), each square would be 76nm on a side. This area includes the transistor itself, the contact area (to connect the transistor to wires) and the required spacing to prevent the transistors from interfering with each other.
I read a lot of pdfs. But there doesn't seem to be any quick way to scroll through pages except by hand, zoom in or out a single page or search within a pdf. Basic functionalities actually.
what's your opinion of Scuttlebutt and if poor, do you see any progress towards alternatives on the horizon?
The grind will always be there, but can be offloaded to ghost writers. The focus then lies on building the theme of each issue. Which itself is another grind.

People dont realize that running a newsltetter is akin to publishing a magazine. They tend to see it more as publishing a blog, but are super wrong. Blogs are suspended in time. Newsletters expire (most do).
“Why Trust Science?” – book review
So you have to sit there and type your credit card into your phone at the checkout? You can't enter it in advance?
I hear you. :-) I never cease to be amazed at how seasoned maintainers like you handle the sheer volume of public email, while continuing to stay effective over the years, healthy disconnection, and setting an example to emulate on how to conduct oneself in public.

(On the problem you refer to, some of us here will recognise that well-meaning FOSS developer who starts getting anxious to take a two-week vacation with the family because "there's no one else who is able to process the core pull requests" for their project.)
I don't see how I'm confusing the terms. Republican and Libertarian politicians will tell you that the carbon tax (and other forms of taxing externalities) is antithetical to the "free market", and my point was you can't, in good faith, claim "straw man" when someone uses the term that most non-economists in America use.

I also never claimed that subsidies were a component of the free market nor did I claim any politicians think so. I believe that's an actual straw man :)
I ask my google assistant random questions. "How long does Orange Juice last in the fridge?", "What is ____". I'm pretty sure it just uses Google Search's featured snippets, but it's usually correct and understands me. Like the other poster, I wouldn't bother asking Siri the same questions.
Wouldn’t the same logic apply to bing today?
It's hard, look at microsoft/windows phone.
You can. Feel free to deploy it to your device. You just can't distribute it.
Mutant: Balancing Storage Cost and Latency in LSM-Tree Data Stores (2018) [pdf]
US could stop putting mexican kids in cages and treat them like garbage. That would be a start towards rehabilitation.
The Marshall Memo [1] is one I happily subscribed to for a while. Kim Marshall went through the journals and gave a summary of the research and news most important to educators, weekly.

[1] https://marshallmemo.com/
> In total there were 5 million masked tiles across Xinjiang. They seemed to cover any area of even the slightest strategic importance — military bases and training grounds, prisons, power plants, but also mines and some commercial and industrial facilities. There were far too many locations for us to sort through, so we narrowed it down by focusing on the areas around cities and towns and major roads.

Translation: we looked at satellite photos of random buildings and determined that they were "camps" because of unspecified "hallmarks".

This is literally a Buzzfeed article. One of the people they cite once tried to do something similar by claiming an 800 year old mosque was demolished when it was actually the building next door built in the 90s(by his own admission[0]). In fact it seems they seemed to have been expanding/renovating the mosque[1][2].

[0] https://medium.com/@shawnwzhang/clarification-of-keriya-etik...

[1] https://miro.medium.com/max/1106/1*_OL9z1ndMVuqZQ7_XxwYLQ.pn...

[2] https://geopoliticsalert.com/keriya-aitika-mosque
There's a long-standing concern that stealth aircraft appear as a void against background radiation: https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2020/07/10/russia-received-tec...

More info: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30100/no-passive-radar...
My bet is that the market is now ripe for another mobile platform. The problem is you don't spawn something like out of thin air, and many big names have failed in the past (amazon, intel with tizen, firefox, ubuntu, microsoft, etc..)

Still, now that mobile hardware comes close to being commoditized i think there's hope, maybe from an unexpected place (like the open source community ? one can dream..)
I used to use GA to set reminders, then Google killed that for paid users for some reason.
To be fair DRM is a waste of opportunity. If I buy a book, movie, or album I want to use it however I choose as long as it doesn't breach copyright laws.

I've been burned too many times by DRM'd content that stops working after a service/app update, is useless when the company goes out of business, or when it works on one of my devices but not another.
What where the first steps. The first 30 hours interests me the most. I’m sure you had other ideas to work on, why this one?
I think the thrust of the article is: the author tried to follow standard KDP practices, using the recommended format and got burned because: 1) That format isn't support by (imo) the most important devices in the Kindle line. 2) There was no recourse to change the format after publication 3) There was no recourse to provided those that bought the book a refund

I'm not claiming serious malfeasance on Amazon's part, just bad documentation and publisher/customer experience
What are examples of the biggest Substack newsletters? I don't think I've ever encountered one, although I keep hearing more and more about Substack.
With HVDC, would you be able to take advantage of the occasional solar storm?
There is an exemption for another rule - only streaming apps are allowed to offer no functionality until you pay outside the app.

If you install the Netflix app, you'll be hit with a login screen and no way to proceed until you go online, create an account, and pay.

However, if you were to make a game that had the same UI, it would be refused access to the store - apps must have some level of functionality without requiring a purchase outside the app, except if they are in the 'reader' category.
China's social media army is out in force on that Twitter thread. Deflect, Deny, Discredit.
Why have a federal body?

Prosecutors on the State level should be able to handle this without conflicts of interest.
The Kala Ukulele app is a chords only version of this. It also includes videos showing how to play each section, and it plays accompaniment into your headphones as you play along.

I found it super helpful, and I believe it's based on technology originally developed for teaching guitar.

Not sure if it's open for programming your own songs in or not, and much of the library is behind a paywall.
I am so happy for your daughter. Such great memories she will have of her father. Thanks for sharing, this gave me an idea...
How to illustrate when you can’t draw to save your life
I think this is only true for OOP-style "widget-based" UI toolkits. I've had a very good time writing console UIs using a reactive style; obviously console UIs are simpler, but I think when people want inheritance in UIs, it's for things like 2D layout (in typical OOP toolkits, every widget type is derived from some base Widget class that does layout things) which are also present in console UIs.

I would be interested to hear rebuttals or other thoughts.
Then check the Rocketbook:

https://youtu.be/-h_rZHWmke8

It feels like paper because you actually write over it with a real pen.
You've lost sight of your own argument in the weeds of specific numbers here.

The broader point I'm making is this: hurricanes in the SE US and the Caribbean are, to a large degree "expected" disasters. As such they can be planned for, and damage can be minimized. And, I believe what you want to say is that they aren't all that "bad" anymore because of proper disaster preparation.

I would agree that hurricanes shouldn't be all that devastating in effect. But the data shows, quite convincingly IMHO, that we aren't doing as good as we could be doing in actually preparing for them.
> Oh god. My phone has one of those - there's some sort of swipe gesture which puts it into a split-screen mode, which I have only ever invoked accidentally

Somehow my 1 year old son can invoke it repeatably every time he gets his grubby little hands on my phone...
I love go but the OP is completely right. Lack of basic collection functions is incredibly aggravating and slows down productivity substantially. At least it's not as bad as Java.
There is also a smaller, cheaper, and less slick device at Crowd Supply made from recycled Kindles.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6

15cm, 800x600, 8M RAM, 4M flash, wifi/btle, usb/sdio/i2c, 3 capacitive-touch buttons, battery charger, microSD slot, GPIO pins, and is programmable in microPython. Three-bit greyscale pixels.

(I don't have one.)
Why would you assign malign intention to it? The facts are that there is scarcity and that where there is scarcity and demand then the monetary value will rise above zero. Just because someone can make something unlimited doesn't mean they should, especially to satisfy your desires - that's the job of you and your hard work or your wallet.

The same goes for the "it won't deprive you of anything" argument. There are plenty of things we all own that if someone borrowed it wouldn't necessarily negatively affect us, but that doesn't mean that we should lend them while we're not using them, especially not for free simply because it would satisfy someone else's desires and pocket if it were free.

There should be better delivery of items given the tech we have (it's better than it was but could be much better); there should be copyright laws that benefit the actual creator more, not just huge corporations (these appear to be getting worse); the price of media is often too high (though again, it's a lot better than it was); none of these are solved by pretending we could or should live in a communist utopia.
How would apple monetize this search engine?

I don’t completely trust Apple with doing ads as they already do plenty of self-dealing with their own ad system.

If anything, they should jedison their ad product altogether.
Yep. Also way more convenient to connect to modern android smartphones.
This isn't talking about the store. No you probably shouldn't be allowed to say "Go here to buy this app for cheaper" in your App Store description. But inside your app, you most certainly should.

Physical goods are not the same as digital goods, but even if you do want to go with your analogy, brands will often times include coupons and refill offers and other promotional material with items they sell and push the consumer to buy directly from them and retail stores still carry their products.
What I'm curious about is whether or not OnlyFans has bribed off Wells Fargo -- I mean it could be in a legal way for financial services that are non existent.

In other words, Stripe allows OnlyFans because Wells Fargo has been bought off on the side. Ergo, Wells Fargo doesn't complain anymore.

How much would that need to be with Wells Fargo? 10 million per year? 50 million? Does OnlyFans make enough to afford 100 million per year?
So are Instagram ads not 'digital content'?
Sure! I don't have the GergoPlex keymap on Github yet (still a WIP, that one...) but I used the modal chords concept in my Faunchpad keymap as well. Here's the .def file with "modal chords" in it (the first parameter is the layer aka mode, then the rest are the usual ones.)

https://github.com/luketurner/qmk_firmware/blob/master/keybo...

The forked engine (with very minimal changes) that's used in that keymap is here:

https://github.com/luketurner/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keybo...

The only change is that all the chording macros (PRES, KEYS, etc.) accept a QMK layer number as the first parameter, and will only activate when that layer is active. The end result is similar to the "sticky bits" functionality, but without the side-effect of masking the signal of those bits.

This is my first foray into embedded programming stuff, so I can't promise I didn't do anything dumb in there. It seems to work for me, though!
You can't just buy more wind farms -- the wind in an area is correlated. That means if one wind farm isn't producing power, the wind farms nearby aren't likely to be producing power either.

But nuclear power plants? Completely uncorrelated. If each one produces power 85% of the time, then you need two, and you'll almost always have power.
TypeScript has way more advanced type system so there is a price you pay for that.
Why do your friends rave about Whoop when it produces inaccurate data? Were they fooled by the marketing or have they not compared it against a higher quality fitness tracker?

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/05/whoop-3-platform-review....
I can't imagine Apple is getting a cut of any FB ad revenue (or not anything meaningful).

To take the thought a bit further though, FB also has an ads manager app [1] which ad buyers can purchase ads through (pretty much no one uses this app to be fair). No payment ever goes through Apple so I can't imagine they get a cut from sales there either.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/news/ads-manager-app
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=21289116011

You sign in by holding your phone with the Amazon app (QR code) up to a camera. Then scan every item as you place it in the cart. It has some load sensors so that it can weigh items that are sold by weight.
Dams burst and kill lots of people. Not often in the scheme of things, but by comparison they make nuclear look like a saint.

Incident Location Fatalities

Banqiao China 171000
Machchu India 5000
South Fork USA 2208

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure

The environmental impact of flooding entire basins is also pretty rough, and basins don't exist everywhere you might want one.
Freedom of movement, as a human right, implies the freedom to change residency. When I wrote "move freely", this is what I was referring to. My point was that it's easy to not have slums when you can simply keep out the poor peasants away from the cities by law.

This is exactly what happened in the Soviet Union, the system prevented people from the countryside to move into the city on their own accord, unless they happened to fit within some quota for laborers.

None of this is propaganda, it is historical fact that you seem to conveniently choose to ignore.
You can't buy Kindle books through the Kindle app.
The Navy. It was used to insulate pipes and stop fires from spreading. Ships are basically one giant confined space full of pipes and fire barriers.
You could make the same argument about different subject areas in a newspaper; saying that the different editors are antagonistic towards each other, and have varying levels of competence. In the cases of both newspapers and governments, there is a similar oversight and management structure across the organization, as well as unity in source of funding.

Perhaps we should expect different parts of the government to act with varying motives, but similar competence.

I think the government organizations attempting to ensure backdoors in encryption are acting deceitfully, malevolently, and incompetently, with the stated motive of easing investigations. Thus, I think the privacy regulators will act deceitfully, malevolently, and incompetently, with the stated motive of protecting consumers.
They correlated areas with known camps first.
Wikipedia needs a section of their website where people like grid engineers can bash out original sources like that that dont want to maintain their own personal page. Call it wikisource and instead of deleting just move it to there.
I wish they would make something that felt more durable. I bought the U2F key and the combination of plastic and not quite being sure where to press left me with a very flimsy feeling.

I like everything they say they stand for, but compared to my Yubikey the quality is night and day. Something that important that lacks durability is a problem.