skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sendgrid and its cohorts have always been a source of spam. The spamassassin setup on my postfix SMTP gateway ranks all of the bulk email newsletter sending services with +2.5 points or higher.

This is like a sewage treatment plant complaining someone has come at 3am, cut the lock off their gate and dumped a tanker truck full of additional sewage.
This is true of much English writing before the 19th Century, and poetry even to a later date. No knowledge of the Bible or mythology and a lot of the writing loses its punch, even if you understand it in the literal sense.
Plutarch tells the story of a roman quaestor who, at age 31 came upon a statue of Alexander the Great and wept, for at the same age Alexander had forged an empire while he had accomplished nothing. That quaestor was Julius Caesar.
I'm curious if this is comparable to some of the other Python-based GUI frameworks out there: Tkinter, PyQT, Kivy, Toga.
How about M invests $100M in company B, he writes them a cheque, company B purchase waste from company C for $100M, by cheque. Company C loan M the money, by cheque, or give him it.

M isn't out any money. B has a lot of waste to process, batteries maybe. C has $100M extra on their balance sheet. There'd be some wastage: capital gains taxes, ancillary costs.

Does that kind of thing work?
US sees 99.9% drop in flu cases after coronavirus lockdowns
The question here is that a type inference can assign type to a hole but may get confused if user insists on an incompatible type.

int q
// q is considered a hole of int type

q <-
// but we're typing "hello" there

Practicalities ask for the situation to be considered a problem - not of incorrectly plugged hole (when into "int" place you're putting "string" value), but of incorrectly previously stated type (it's the original "int q" which is wrong, should have been "string q").
That's great, but not relevant to mathematicians doing their jobs.
Yeah, in human nature existing in the world 2k years ago.

OK, take Hyperion book for example, do you think Seneca would be meaningful with all sort of 'technological distortions' existing in such world ?
I suppose that's true if you care whether someone came up with something independently. I dont, at all. Nothing is created in a void and my experienxe is that even the most original or clever idea, large or small, has plenty of other instances in existence.
I straight up couldn't use terraform on DSL while visiting family over Christmas because of this. It would be chugging along at what appeared to me a reasonable speed, but either one of Google's services or terraform itself would decide I was taking too long and stop. I was unable to work that week.
So in Germany iphone batteries are user replaceable?
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly and we've asked you repeatedly not to. You've also posted substantive comments. That's great; please keep those and drop the others.

Then there are outright attacks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24045935, which we would have banned you for if we had seen it at the time. Please don't do those any more.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN in the intended spirit, we'd be grateful.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.468...

EROEI of 1.07 from this metastudy for Corn Ethanol.

Society needs at least an EROEI of 3:1, so corn ethanol, at least, is a boondoggle.
Yep. I deactivated Facebook and it took a week or so to get used to not having it. I feel a lot better without it that I will probably delete it. I do want to keep messenger so that’s one of the only reasons to keep it.
I wonder about if/how this will affect New York as well. It's probably good for the USA in the long run to have more remote work and/or more tech jobs spread out across smaller cities. But there might be adverse implications for the areas stand to lose their statuses as "tech hubs".
Oh, I love Dear Imgui -- it's very simple to use and has a nice... "engineering"/scientific aesthetic. Good to hear it's been ported to python.

If you're looking for an end-user product, this may not give you the control you're looking for. But if you're looking for a dead-simple way to create a quick GUI for a side project, this is perfect.
If you are so much better at solving these problem and your approach is so much superior go compete against them. If somebody is willing to dump 100M into making break-threw medical advances I'm not gone question their approach unless I am really, really sure I actually know better.
Just let Facebook put up a banner when you visit the site using Safari, “This site is not accessible using Safari due to Apple’s failure to pay 30% of it’s revenue for you to visit.”

Have fun with the wording of course, but a simple protest along these lines to eliminate Safari use would be appropriate civil disobedience and would start dramatically reducing the usefulness of iOS over time.

Consider it along the same lines as the old “IE6 No More” banners.

Ultimately, it’s the easiest way to hit back.
Serverless, Testing, and Two Thinking Hats
Unfortunately they only pushed the non-open source licensed one. It was relicensed as GPLv2 a couple years later.

https://github.com/Doom-Utils/historic-ports/tree/linuxdoom
Neat. Sounds like your experience is different than mine.

Cool that you said my experience is not true at all though.
that's assuming the only thing driving your desire for a 1 bedroom apartment is the desire to be next to an office.

the current situation is weird in that COVID has disrupted nearly all non-home spaces, not just the office. But once restaurants, theaters, museums, nightlife etc. are back in business some will still desire to be near activities they're doing all the time.

I'm personally interested in how this will really impact important working "third places" like coffee shops, libraries, and WeWork style spaces once people are allowed to go to those again.
Because it affects a third party, the consumers who gets less choice. I admit that the tax is not a legal problem by itself, companies are allowed to act selfishly.

It is a legal problem only when the Apple tax becomes anti-competitive behaviour by giving Apple products an unfair advantage (e.g. Apple Music vs Spotify). Apple driving away from the market competitors to its products is bad for everyone but Apple.

How to solve that? 3rd party app stores are workable and theoretically desirable, but that's a solution both Apple and the 3rd party stores will end up hating without fixing the problems (95% of users will still only use the official store; Apple will still hate it because they lose 5% control).

It's better to fix the current store. Perhaps banning use of private APIs by non-system Apple apps and allowing payment system choice would be enough. A more transparent app review system would also help.
yes, it has been discused already to increase the number of connections. But still, several thousands of simultaneous connections is still ok for the best performing frameworks...
This is a bit like having the "best" bag full of vomit. Who can make the case for hard drives in consumer applications?
No, according to the scientists I've heard. The increase in testing does not explain the dramatic increase in cases. There are a few hypotheses, but so far nothing concrete.
Also games think on more dimensions. I get sculpting, painting, performance, literature... and just enough magic to make it fresh. Only certain vectors can be described by other mediums and often not combinatorialy.
> People will still need to get out of the house.

I'm not sure if you're in a California city mindset, but it's easy if you move to a suburb of a city like Atlanta. You can have over an acre of wooded land and be less than an hour's commute to the city. It's super affordable too. 300k gets you 3000sqft and sometimes more.

If you're willing to pay double, you can have the same within thirty minutes of the city. And there are still spacious priorities within the city limits.
But you could differentiate one-off IAPs from subscription IAPs and from "added value/purchase" IAPs
Truly a pearl of dark and cynic humor, right up my alley! Skrreeee.
> In your original comment, you literally said pumped hydro (along with others) was an imagined technology.

I also said:

> Future imagined technologies and/or infrastructure

Sure I could have been clearer but the entire thrust of my message was to say that you can't solve todays grid problems due to intermittent renewables with future technologies (not yet invented) and/or future infrastructure (not yet built).

I certainly agree with you that pumped hydro is viable is some very specific locations. I would also insist that if you want to advocate for more renewables you better include the cost of a combined renewable + pumped hydro to save the intermittent supply problem. And if you are going to advocate for building the renewable generation in one location and the pumped hydro in another location, then you need to include the cost of the transmission lines to get the power to where it is needed and adjust your capacity calculations for the energy lost in transmission lines. Along the way you are going to have also plan for the litigation costs and delays the moment you suggest damming a valley to turn it into a reservoir.

Almost every glowing report about renewables, especially if it is about how "cheap" it now is, fails to account for the alternate generation capacity that must be maintained/built or for the effective generating capacity (i.e. not the peak capacity on the sunniest or windiest day).
Disagreeing with you or telling how it looks like when you commented on downvotes is not "eating their own".

I do tend to comment more when I disagree which is fairly normal here and pretty much everywhere.
"If computer scientists are ever able to program a kind of synthetic knitting machine, he says, it still won’t rival that of humans. "

If computer scientists are ever able to program a kind of running, he says, it still won’t rival that of humans. "

It's amazing to see an "expert" saying these things unironically.

The only thing impossible for a computer to event rival a human at are things that are judged subjectively by humans. And even in they, computers are winning. Youth today are learning their culture from computer programs and bots, ever more preferring algorithmically or mechanically generated content to real humans.
> Just because something causes fear doesn’t mean that it tells us anything about its truthiness.

Not inherently but the problem is throwing out unscientific speculation without any evidence. This is often done with Covid because fear speculation attracts attention and get clicks/views.

People are hardwired to look for fear - so this sort of irresponsible speculation is dangerous because it spreads like wildfire.
What makes you feel he is arrogant? He does not seem arrogant to me. He’s very direct and thinks from first principles (not from what authority figures say, which can come off to some people as not giving sufficient respect to those authority figures). He is very open to admitting when he’s wrong or uncertain, and I’m pretty sure he feels like he has accomplished only a tiny fraction of what he’d like to.
Not shills—fans.

Real shilling/astroturfing is a different phenomenon. It certainly exists, but from everything I've looked at, it's orders of magnitude less common than fans making up bogus accusations about shilling.
I'll print this out and frame it, to read as I listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taupuK6oND4.

And I'm not being that sarcastic here. In the sense of what Plutarch wrote, Elon Musk does make me sad. I suppose every one of us can find someone who's miles ahead in achieving the same dreams as one has.
I can't find a clear explanation of "immediate mode" GUI creation (which this library enables) but it appears to be the sort of paradigm that pre-dated object-oriented and event-driven interaction handling that became the norm in the mid 90s (especially after the popularising of dev tools from Borland and Microsoft eg. Visual Basic etc), so I guess it is a formalisation of the procedural (?) methods from the era preceding that.

https://wiki.c2.com/?ImmediateModeGui
I wish databases were more modular, I would love to be able to experiment with other models for what a database could be, backed by the rock-solid postgres write ahead log.
For people who want to store lots of stuff.

Not everyone has a photo library or media library or game collection that fits onto a reasonably priced SSD.
So what? Steel, copper, aluminum are recycled this way as well and nobody is complaining that it's not revolutionary enough.
I've been in security for a while and once received a report of a CVSS score that was egregiously high at Critical.

I modified the assumptions that were made by the reporter and came out with Low.

This is one example of why this is a nonsense metric.
> 1. Mandate that every mass produced device with a li-ion battery have a simple mechanism to remove the battery

Apple has argued that they can fit a bigger, harder to remove battery into devices, and the added capacity because it's bigger makes up for it being hard to remove. I've changed batteries on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and it's very straightforward; I'm not sure how much truth there isn't to that argument on laptops. Phones are so small that I find that explanation more plausible.
I could see a law like that having unintended consequences for less monolithic players. Sure, for the app store it would result in a disclaimer saying "30% of your fee goes to apple", but for some indie developer selling software on their website it could be "3% goes to paypal, 4% goes to shopify, 2% goes to adnetwork..." and then you've just got an information overload that nobody pays attention to.

I think a better solution would be to make these sorts of restrictions on disclosure illegal. IIRC Visa and Mastercard also have clauses in their merchant agreements forbidding you from telling people how much their fees are. If you want to tell your customers exactly how much you're paying the app store, or your payment processor, or any other cost that's part of the final payment, you should be allowed to do that. If you would prefer your customers just see one simple price, you should be able to do that too.
The great thing about a capitalist society is that you get to decide for yourself what you want to do and how you want to live. And fortunately you don’t get to decide for other people.
I'm a professional blogger.
Writing down $100M+ in battery inventory would be a big hit, especially with their profit margins being thin, but I wouldn't consider it a big shock. At $20000 per pack, $100M+ in battery inventory is 5000+ cars, which is less than a percent of total production so far. Having a significant number of defects early in the production process is common.

Ultimately, it's up to them how to value it, within reason and the law, just like it's up to them when to sell emissions credits.
I can't speak for others but I had a 2012 Volt and my assessment overall is meh. I'd say that the Volt nails average, its not great at anything and its not terrible at much. I loved driving electric, no shifting, just smooth power. The gas engine how ever would vibrate the car much more than a normal gas car does. Everything in the Volt is lightened - I think the roof might even be plastic. The rear view mirror would vibrate out of place when the gas engine was running. The gas engine is mostly used like a generator in the Volt, meaning it runs at higher RPM most of the time to charge the batteries. I can't tell you how many times I was at a stop light with someone in the crosswalk right in front of the car when the engine decided to start and run at 3500-4000 RPM. You get surprised looks when pedestrians think you are revving up for them. My advice, skip the hybrid and just go electric.
Brighteon – Video Sharing Site Like YouTube
Generate download links in your Laravel applications
A simple Laravel package for generating download links with options such as expire time, IP restrictions, etc.
Looks neat. How easy is this to setup and use? To distribute?
Putting aside what's the fair amount for such a commission, how exactly are VISA or Mstercard more entitled to charge it compared to Apple? Can I use my VISA card with the burannet network for a cheaper price? Can I just pay nothing because the cash transaction is "free"?

They all provide a service, the infrastructure, the network of "clients" and "providers". They should be allowed to charge a fee. The exact amount or conditions is a different topic.

On the other hand I'm finding it next to impossible to scrape together any sympathy for Facebook, a company who's a monopoly of its own and who's sole purpose is to covertly collect even more data to monetize from users. The whole Facebook app is a Trojan horse meant to collect as much as technically possible. I'd very much support an initiative where an app would trigger an unblockable notification every time it collected anything resembling personal data without explicit user input. Every time it piked up the location, the SSID of a network, accessed BT, etc. And it should report periodically for how much money was that data sold (under any form).

If as a user you want to know exactly how much Apple charged the developer for services, then surely you want to know exactly how much data the developer takes from you and its value.
But there's no reason to believe that his algorithm gives us all of them.

Nobody has proven, for instance, that the Goldbach conjecture is unprovable, but the collective intuition of the community of number theorists is such that nobody spends much time trying to prove it anymore.

What, aside from some coded-in GIT awareness-would lead an automated prover to do the same?
> Reality is not required to conform to our standards of scientific proof.

Yep, this comes up with quantum superdeterminism, too.
See [1]. Numbers vary, but ethanol from corn seems to be in the 0.5 to 1.5 range. Which is not very good.

[1] https://www.buildinggreen.com/news-article/energy-return-inv...
Bikes are great for able-bodied young people without babies, who live in flat cities with moderate weather.
Hydrogen infrastructure suffers from huge energy losses. Unless you are powering aircraft, heavy industry, large scale grid storage or hybrid cars there is not much point in choosing hydrogen. You get much more mileage out of a single kWh with a BEV.
The tactic is not very good at all. Respect and popularity doesn't get you much further than inside the front door in business, it certainly doesn't get you free money. It is quite sad to see this happen, because they had a great relationship at some point, Infinity Blade was an outstanding series and mutually beneficial. I also can't believe that all of us give s shit about this issue too and we're here discussing it.
Sigh. Same happened to me. A few months ago. Sendgrid account hacked, someone set up a campaign and sent a huge amount of spam mail. Big bill on my credit card. Contacted Sendgrid, they blamed it on me. I cancelled my account, never going back. Screw them
A long-lived Roman would live to their 70s just like today. Fewer of them made it that far due to war disease.

Early Rome had a celebration called a Jubilee. It was held when the last living person from the previous Jubilee died, typically about a century apart.
It's hard to say that human math is unsound when it's not even well defined. Human math sits on a substantial foundation of faith, and always will.
Your assessment seems fair to me. Computers and humans aren't in a fight to win at something, they can just reinforce the lacks of the other. What might happen is that we gradually engineer a smaller and smaller comparative gap between computers and humans by ingesting "human-stuff", and thus make it seem like humans become proportionally irrelevant in the system.

But after AlphaGo beat the best players at the game, did people entirely stop playing it? No, in fact they started analyzing the moves and trying to extract ways to improve themselves too. And people around the world don't seem to have particularly given up playing Go either. Similarly with Chess, nobody's even thinking for a second that a computer couldn't beat Magnus consistently, yet we didn't throw our hands in the air and move on from Chess altogether.

Maths is not just this abstract thing that some people do, it's something people actively enjoy. If we get computers to stump everyone by bringing something forward that "works" yet we can't grasp, it will only spark more interest in the field. Not everyone is willing to adapt to that attitude if they don't have it yet though.
It seems like people who need moderate tens of terabytes of storage would be _more_ interested in the performance and reliability of an SSD, not less. If you have demanding storage needs aren't you then more likely to be willing to pay $100/TB for storage?
Ewwwww. Please keep it family friendly. Super Tux Kart is about racing, not racism.
Replying to the quotes from the article:

>While this is easy enough to do, the user experience might not be optimal - obtaining warranty services is pretty much ruled out

AFAIK easystores are relatively easy to shuck non-destructively. If you do it right and don't destroy the enclosure, and your drive breaks, you might still be able to submit it for warranty. Regardless, I'm skeptical about the actual value of the warranty is worth the premium (double the price).

>the default TLER settings might need alteration (which is not always possible with commercial off-the-shelf NAS units)

True, although it's likely not useful unless in business-critical workloads. You're probably fine without TLER if you're just using it to store movies/games.

>the drive is going to be used in non-critical scenarios.

What's meant by "critical scenarios" here? Either you care about the data or not. If you care about it, you will keep backups and/or use parity to ensure that one drive failure won't wipe out your data. If you're only storing on one drive, you're one unexpected disk crash from losing it. This applies regardless of whether you're using the cheapest consumer drive, or the most expensive "enterprise" drive.
No, this is a misconception.

There is no real choice except Android and iOs and you can't "carry over" apps (and often content in apps, too) which you have bough.

Also Phones are not cheap and you can't switch your phone os between them.

This means that there is defacto no free marked between iOs and Android (as you have no real choice and once you choose switching is problematic and expensive). So the only choice we have is to enforce a free marked IN iOs and Android.

Or with other words there is a marked for iOs apps and a different marked for Android apps. Treating them as one marked is ignoring how the world works 2020.
I think it's both.

Even while being aware of my unrealistic work expectations, I often still find myself being disappointed when I reflect on my day.

Not being productive isn't what makes me disappointed. It's procrastinating in ways that don't even make me happy. It's too easy to be sucked into hours of binging youtube, reddit, wikipedia, or twitter.

I know I'd get way more satisfaction by going on a hike, practicing piano, learning a second language, or calling my family. But the simple distractions are too convenient and addicting.
The frameworks are downloaded by dockerfiles provided by the framework maintainers, and since there is hundreds of frameworks, this is a bit tedious to manually get all URLs...

But anyway, I'm pretty sure all framework maintainers will rush to provide all the info Techempower need to add a link to their website..
An iPhone is 3x thinner than a Nokia 3310, but has a battery with 3x the capacity of the 3310.
While i agree laws are very welcome to fight those problems i think you should let capitalism do it work and implement laws more like:
1. Define recycling cost of product
2. Apply tax on cost

Better recycling may not be equal to ease of replacement.
Any metric is nonsense if used improperly.