skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kids are never going to be happy with just assembling the bricks into the Star Wars configuration outlined in the directions. Initially it's a challenge to put kits together according to the plans but once they're built any clever kid is going to mod them and eventually dismantle them and use the parts for something new entirely. That said, there are the Technics kits which have functional components that are largely useless outside of their intended configuration unless you have a massive amount of gears and spare pneumatic parts.
Planet Money had an interesting episode recently of some of the sketchier ways that drivers are exploited. Worth a listen if you're interested - https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/901110994/big-rigged
Well, don't expose it to water then. :-)
Also, Microsoft seriously messed Skype up, multiple times.

Skype used to be the standard for video calls. These days I'm using FaceTime or Messenger.

What Microsoft did to Skype's UI/UX was nothing short of brtual dismemberment, which left me teaching my grandma to use FaceTime instead.

For shame.
Why are you lumping Hey in with the rest of these folks? They are orders of magnitude smaller and have some of the most customer friendly businesses around with Hey and Basecamp.
Bingo bingo bingo. This is a major reason why the App Store’s rules are so insidious. What companies are we just not seeing because of this rule? This rule practically forces B2C software companies to have free ad-supported Apps. Pernicious and economy manipulating.
I have no particular love for Facebook, but good for them.

It's one thing to charge a 30% app tax to sign up for "Jasper's Cooking Class" on an iOS device, but it's even worse to ban disclosure of that tax. Forbidding that speech is certainly 1984-esque.
From Part 1 of the article:

> “He was selling the personal information on more than 200 million Americans and allowing anyone to buy it for pennies apiece.”

If 1% of those is used to commit $500 in credit card fraud that's $1B in hard losses without considering the cost to those 2M people cleaning up the mess.

It sounds like $1.1B is on the absolute low end.
> We had the game GranTurismo2 back when I was 12 or so.

Gameshark was the way to do that the real 'smart way,' also worth noting was that even back then you could share memorycard saved data if you had access to it with some clever devices.

This was my introduction to 'hacking' culture (soldering mod chips, ripping and burning games into ISOs followed that) and was really interesting to see so many homebrew solutions to challenges like these and kind of made the game(s) the side feature of what was taking place at the time.

The new PS5 version of GT, whatever number they're on now, looks more like GT1/2 than all of its later versions but much shinier.

I personally disliked the license(s) hurdle just using a controller, I breezed through them easily once we got a steering wheel and pedals and were actually kind of fun.
All of them?

Unless you confuse capitalism with an extremist Ann Rayndian neoliberal framework, and in that sense you can pretty much look at countries such as the Netherlands.
NY Times is trying to normalize pedophilia. This is becoming a theme as of late, I wonder why. Dude drove to a 13 year old with a pack of condoms. Pretty sure he wasn't going to use them to make water balloons with her.
Ah wow, that is interesting. I didn't know about tf.function, thank you for the correction
There are some works and even products on distributed antenna systems for WiFi. E.g. [1]. MU-MIMO can benefit from the distributed antennas due to the condition of the MIMO channel matrix.

If is should be standards-compliant, you will be limited in functionality. E.g. the timing-constraints of ACK and CSMA limit the length of the antenna cable, though that should not prevent your idea. I guess, it will be more problematic to realize compliant CSMA, as you would need to perform clear channel assessment on each individual antenna?

Anyways, distributed MU-MIMO seems to get traction. We are working on it ourselves.

[1] https://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2014/CoNEXT_papers/...
Tesla had a massive head start and with something like cars where there are so many preferences it’s impossible for one manufacturer to own the entire space.

However the article is a bit click-baity as it was really about a decrease in sales for Tesla due to the pandemic, not because someone else outsold them.
As an aside, the Chrome cookies database on Windows is protected using the Windows Data Protection API[1], which ties encryption keys to a specific user. In the case of the Chrome cookie database, each cookie's payload/value is encrypted using a cryptographic key generated by the DPAPI which is only accessible to that Windows user. Of course, (and as is the case with most situations like this), this does absolutely nothing to protect users against malicious or intrusive programs running with the permissions of that user.

So yeah, you're right. App sandboxing please.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_API
What is going on with car insurance comparison sites?
###im not entirely sure this belongs here but id argue its to do with the sites algo so is kind of tech related###

comparison sites are a wonderful thing in general but they seem to throw up some rather odd issues, i was searching for insurance for various cars i was looking at and one came up really cheap(just under £500 for the year) sadly the car sold before i got paid today

however i saw another for sale, basically the same but a year older with lower mileage, ran the insurance quote...... £938??

i was confused, the car was essentially the same just a year older, so i decided to pull up some photos of other 1300cc 2005 Ford Ka's that matched the original one i searched and run the reg plates through the comparison, surely theyll be the same right?

literally every single one came back different ranging from as low as £489 to as high as £1,150

how or why would this be? i feel like theres something slightly wiggy with the algo and somewhere out there will be a vehicle that comes back with a quote of about £10 or something

i know insurance companies are picky gits at the best of times but this seems insane, the only real possible difference i could see would be either the colours or the "trim" which usually consists of little more than body coloured bumpers which shouldnt really double the insurance cost, also cars of identical trim and colour returned different results too

For reference all searches were done on Compare The Market for comprehensive insurance against a number of various 2005 Ford Ka 1.3s found via google image search. the only change for each quote was the number plate of the vehicle
They mention wasm bindings. Are there c bindings as well?
I'm not so sure about the Cantonese/ Mandarin part, since a fair few professors I've had, had those as a native tongue. Hell, even my thesis supervisor was, with whom I communicated extensively. I can't really pinpoint where the struggles lie, but I get the general feeling that for Chinese native speakers there's a three way confusion between n, r, and l, and it's heavily dependant on the placement in the word, as well as the level of stress on the letter.

I don't think recognising phonetic differences between native speakers of different languages is racist. The language I grew up speaking didn't differentiate between w and v, so unless I'm making a conscious effort against it, they will all sound like v's. When someone points it out, I don't find it racist at all.

Re: Koreans - never realised! I haven't had many interactions with people of Korean descent, so it's an oversight on my part there.
Can Science Explain Religion?
*uninstall
> That said, there are the Technics kits which have functional components that are largely useless outside of their intended configuration unless you have a massive amount of gears and spare pneumatic parts.

This series of books is a good antidote:

https://www.amazon.com/Klutz-Lego-Gadgets/dp/1338219634
If you're interested in trucking, the podcast 'Over The Road' is worth a listen. The host Long-Haul Paul has a voice to die for, and the oncoming change to autonomous trucks plays a part in some episodes. I think there's 12 or so episodes in total

https://www.overtheroad.fm/
My theory is that the self-driving car industry, similarly to Theranos, at some point switched from a fake-it-till-you-make-it mode to full blown faking it. This was either some time around 2016 when Waymo made a video of driving a blind man around Austin [0] or maybe 2015 when Elon pronounced that self-driving is a "solved problem." [1]

[0] https://youtu.be/uHbMt6WDhQ8

[1] https://youtu.be/xQhb3C2hQoE?t=3510
That is pretty common in low level domains. Rust instead comes with complexity of borrowck and lifetimes management no matter how rustaceans say it is second nature.
The problem with highway driving is that there often isn't time to safely stop and pull over if it doesn't know what to do going at highway speeds.
Profitable business culture, poor engineering culture. Happens all the time in companies of all sizes.
While I empathize with ibs sufferers, this is nonsense. Nobody with ibs poops large quantities of blood, needs their colon removed in many cases, or surgery because their bladder and bowel are now suddenly connected.

We don’t fully understand most disease processes, even those for which we have some effective treatments.

I don’t think lumping disparates diseases together simply on the axis of “understanding of disease process” is terribly useful.
Yeah, overriding (or advising[1]) the function in init.el is probably the better thing to do if it's a long-term behavior change. In this case I knew that it would be right once I upgraded, so the dirty hack won the day haha.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Ad...
More information:

[1] Japan Times, "How Possible Successors Stack up if Abe Resigns" (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/politi...)

[2] Japan Times, "Abe to Resign due to Health Concerns, NHK Reports" (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/28/national/politi...)
I think you're going too radical. I get that LEGO gradually shifted from pure blocks to more and more specific things for aesthetics (and sales), but even up to the 90s the main focus was functional blocks. It was still geometric in spirit and very free.
Sounds like Kallax (nee Expedit)
It caught me off guard too. The company is UK-based so it's probably a British colloquialism.
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Google Meet features seem so much better suited for government and education, especially if using G Suite on top of it. It is like the same price of Zoom but includes a lot of other great features, including unlimited storage using Google Drive.
Please consider the reliability of Windows.
That is Xamarin rebranded, and there is yet to be a clear roadmap where it stands versus Uno, Blazor (also being pushed for Electron like deployments), WinUI.

Plus it doesn't help that some teams are adopting React Native, even alongside .NET.

Too much chaos going on sorting out WinRT, while most of us aren't willing to say how high when Microsoft says jump.
Yeah it’s central to the plot
What are Git Aliases and and how to use them?
Exactly. IMHO nuclear is the only way, if we go down this path. And if we do that, then we mostly don't need to bother with wind/solar/grid storage.
Less advanced, there was a few pdfs on the geometrical and arithmetical ratios used by lego pieces (including technics) that shed light on the brilliance and versatility of the product.

It's not this one but the spirit is there https://joncraton.org/media/files/UnofficialLEGOAdvancedBuil...
Babylonian Multiplication in the shower (2016)
I stumbled upon this old post from Iñigo Quilez, and this made my day. Especially because I did not know about the Babylonian multiplication, let alone its proof. The absence of explanation in the post made it into a nice puzzle, I had to figure things out by myself. Maths teaching should more often be like this kickstarted discovery...
PETG is slightly less strong than PLA - PETG has a bit of flex. I use PETG for raspberry pi cases because they get quite hot. Though having said that, PETG is fast becoming my favourite thing to print with.
I'll have to echo what has been said. ReMarkable is the best e-ink tablet hardware I've laid my hands on, but I ended up returning it because of how hard it was to push and manage content in the device.

I now have a Onyx Boox Note that has inferior hardware. But at least I can use Google Drive and easily export documents.

I'm happy they have made a Chrome plugin because when I got my device, before returning it, I had a go at making exactly that: A Firefox extension that renders a simplified version and pushes it to ReMarkable as PDF https://github.com/sergioisidoro/push-to-remarkable
While I think it is unfair to downvote someone just for offering their point of view but I do disagree with your point of view.

Trump got elected because of the working class who typically don’t see the light of increasing stock market. May be they should and may be having some kind of mandatory 401k match the administration was proposing at some point would help them but by and large they don’t.

China is one area I think he has been more consistent with. But the market largely doesn’t benefit from that. That’s why market cheered when the trade deal was signed and now Wall St is largely behind Biden camp hoping the status quo persists. If anything stock market wants to see rising China and stable relationships even though it might hurt long term bottom line and jobs here in US.
Yeah, starting every line with "Bro" was such a masterful move. Because bros are totally going to buy and read this thing. Because it says "Bro" a lot.

Why does literary fawning always come off as desperation? Like an english major that knows they wasted time and money and in spite of it want you to care really deeply about an Oxford comma?
Good points - I concede my argument is flawed.

I agree that an open source project does not owe anyone detailed tutorials in their preferred format.

I'll consider contributing to a vanilla JS D3 tutorial in future.
No, that is just the alt-right pushing an agenda stating that the left is trying to normalize and legalize pedophilia when the current President bragged about walking in the dressing room of teenage beauty pageants. if anything, it appears that people that support that behavior and his appointees that helped Epstein are the pedophile enablers.
It's getting more and more used as an embedded thing. Many times people showed ideas how to integrate legos for practical use (electronic cases, lego patterned strip to attach stuff). Quite fun
If remelting counts then fiberglass would also be included.
I appreciated your comment, thanks for writing it.
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I'm pretty sure GDPR applies to any companies with dealings in the EU, or at least to that company's dealings which occur within the EU.

Disclaimer: IAANAL
To the engineers, the fact that there is a war is irrelevant

I'm not sure this is true. In my point of view, engineers would typically outdo themselves on wartime because they know there are big immediate stakes to their work.
how long will it take chrome team to introduce manifest v3 and drop support for v2? I hope they give sufficient time to devs for migration.
Read the article, will ya?
I would typically expect

anyBlue := false
for _, c in range col {
ready, err := c.IsReady()
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("isReady failed: %v", err)
}
if !ready {
continue
}
x, err := ConvertToX(c)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("convertToX failed: %v", err)
}
color, err := x.GetColor()
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("getColor failed: %v", err)
}
if color == BLUE {
anyBlue = true
break
}
}

which badly obscures what’s going on but demands no cleverness at all (except that some might forget the “break” and still get the right answer).
I see. My mistake, I thought only salmon (from your list) migrated.
An autonomous truck could drive twice as conservatively as a regular truck driver or even just pull over in bad weather and still deliver its load faster than a human driver. A human has to stop for 10 hours every 11 hours, while an AI truck and just sail on through. Tandem drivers might be competitive on time, but now you're paying two humans!
Usually big industry payers would just use their power to negotiate a better position. I don't think FB or Epic are altruistic or even marginally honest actors themselves - but they are shining a light on a policy that hurts indy developers and might end up accidentally helping them.
I feel like this will hurt small companies developing Bing-based engines more than it will hurt Google.
Did you go yourself or use an agency? I was in Uzbekistan last year and from what I gathered, Turkmenistan isn't a place you can really do much solo travel.
[crofflr dev here] The binary used by crofflr will still work and the currently used version is already years old. Alternatively it would be easy to switch to calibre based tooling.
You can! Just not through `const fn`. Rust has macros, which at their limit are capable of running arbitrary Rust code that manipulates syntax and communicates with the compilation process, just like in a good old Lisp.

Why isn’t `const fn` like this too? One word answer: determinism.
Rust takes type/memory/access/temporal safety very seriously, and consequentially you can’t use anything in a `const fn` that isn’t fully deterministic and doesn’t depend in any way on platform-specific behavior. This includes, for example, any floating-point computation, or any random number generation, or any form of I/O, or handling file paths in an OS-specific way, or certain kinds of memory allocation. The span of things possible in `const fn`s has been expanding over time, and will in the nearish future largely overtake C++’s direct counterpart of it (`constexpr` functions) in capability. But some things will intentionally never be possible in `const fn`s, for the reasons given above.
Hmm, my general point is that there is a lot of energy in a semi running at highway speed. AI could help, but that energy doesn't just go away.
There is another Rust crate[0] from the same author that does ray casting. Also, nothing prevents this from being used in Godot[1].

[0]: https://github.com/dimforge/ncollide

[1]: https://github.com/godot-rust/godot-rust
True. But there is an option to show it by default. Though it is not easy to find. And only the manager of the host account can do it.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005666383-Show-...
Through July, food prices are up a bit, but energy is way down, over the last 12 months:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

Inflation happens when people decide to spend and the supply isn't there to support it, but there's nothing inevitable about discretionary spending. In some countries in some crises, people react by spending more (panic buying) but in the US, typical behavior in uncertain times seems to be to spend less. (After stocking up on groceries and toilet paper.)

Although, I have read articles that certain real estate markets seem to be hot?
You could say that about China as well. China's laws say that you need to censor your search results of certain things. Google and Facebook don't censor. They get banned by the GFW. Plain and simple.

The EU can do the same thing and set up their own firewall if they wish to enforce GDPR on foreign websites.

The fact that their citizens would revolt over the idea of internet censorship, is irrelevant. The point I'm trying to make is that EU saying "you can't serve X to our citizens" and China saying "you can't serve Y to our citizens" is no different and it's upto them to enforce it within their borders if they wish. The EU doesn't get to play world police any more than China's government does.

FWIW baidu.com and tencent.com are both pretty damn GDPR incompliant and the EU isn't doing anything about it. And yes there are Chinese-speaking EU nationals that use these companies' services.
What am I looking at? A 3D-Printed Raspberry Pi case?
> Do we, though?

Why, yes? Isn't it blatantly obvious? What exactly leads you to believe we don't?

> I don't know whether the answer is distributed blockchains, or the Department of the Treasury creating an API for USD, or both;

I'm dumbfounded how someone even comes close to believe that any one of these ideas comes even close to provide the service that financial institutions provide. Either you have a very specific and very niche usecase in mind, or maybe you have absolutely no idea about the services that financial institutions provide to society.

> but the current banking system seems to me like the legacy code of feudal landed aristocrats.

This comment leads me to believe that you are confusing stuff that has no relation whatsoever. Your dislike of caricatures and ideological strawmen you associated with financial services has absolutely no relation with the services provided to society by the whole banking industry. Just because you don't like Scrooge McDuck that doesn't mean most of us don't depend on loans to, say, buy a house or a car or store our savings or pay for everyday stuff.
I don't think there's any law in Texas about mortgage size.

What you may be referring to are the parameters of a "conforming" home mortgage loan.

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

Conforming loans are subsidized by the US federal government because the US federal government buys them and so funding for them is basically limitless.
I think where small nuclear might be very good chance to compete is district heating, now normally those plant run biomass or coal. https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Project-launched-to-...
”The US isn’t doing it”

Point of order: intercontinental missiles, rockets, and radio telecommunications are highly regulated industries. The US regulators have approved (and not stopped) Starlink on both fronts. I do not know if there’s any international / UN body that performs the same roles?
Fluoroquinolones due to sequelae on connective tissue and retinas are not first line treatments for UTI anymore

https://blogs.bcm.edu/2018/07/25/antibiotic-ciprofloxacin-in...

https://www.acsh.org/news/2012/04/05/keep-eyes-open-using-ci...

https://sites.google.com/site/levaquininfo/
So certainly all the non US/EU countries with less strict regulations should have electricity "too cheap to meter" through nuclear, right? since there's no technical challenges here apparently.
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It's not just software -- it's services of a wide variety of types. I.e. Apple TV+ is not software. Having your own search engine allows you to integrate with services more tightly and enhance that business.
Spotify is developing a ‘virtual events’ feature
Epic has already demonstrated that they wouldn't treat others this way if the roles were reversed; they have their own Epic Games Store, where they take a 12% cut on any third-party games sold [0]. They explicitly called out Steam, which takes a 30% cut like Apple (for the first $10 million in sales, at least; Steam operates on a tiered model) [1]. Cynically, this is because they wanted to eat Valve's lunch in a space where Valve is the dominant player. But ultimately, that's exactly Epic's point here: on PC, it is possible for someone to introduce a competing platform, while Apple prevents such an ecosystem on iOS.

[0] Side note: I do think that Epic is guilty of anticompetitive practices here, because if your game uses the Unreal Engine, they roll the 5% engine royalty into that 12%, giving a huge advantage to using their product on their store: https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/4/18125498/epic-games-store-...

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/3/18123649/valve-steam-reven...
It is still open for discussion within Chromium, and unlike Safari Chromium is open source so it can be forked to implement whatever features you want.