skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that most of your blanket assertions are true.

Just taking one example, the cost of manufacturing electronics is not just the raw cost of the component. And you seem just fine to have increased costs passed along to manufacturers and not believe it would have an effect on them, but then state that such small $ differences would have a big effect on people buying the stuff.

But anyway, why should companies be required by law to build a product a certain way, for a feature that's not safety/public health/deceptive advertising related?

If your statements are true, go out there and offer such a great product, and let it take the market.

Otherwise, I don't agree with the logic of having laws intrude into the design choices of products that are voluntarily manufactured and purchased.
ChromeOS for the win, afterwards don't complain.
Wait, I was supposed to be being honest in my reviews online. Usually (if I ever leave one) my reviews are for places or products I subjectively hated. I hated the fact a jump park wouldn't let me jump with my 2 year old after buy admission for her, so I left a bad review. If they offered me money I'd be happy to take it down because then I wouldn't be pissed anymore. It has nothing to do with helping other people.
Yea, whoever wrote that never heard of a "language barrier." IT is not some universal language.
I have ~150 open.
Isn't this patented by Stratasys?
How SoftBank Made Billions Using the Biggest “Gamma Squeeze” in History
This document looks like just the API spec.
Have you looked at LSM k-v stores (RocksDB being the obvious one)?

Under the hood they are based on building immutable layers of data that are implicitly merged. Clones that share data are cheap (check out rocksdb-cloud for a rocksdb fork which adds this copy-on-write-esque snapshotting). When overwriting a key, the old value will get lazily garbage-collected, but there are ways around that.

I haven't explored it for this usecase, but seems like it might work...
You need something like HBase, but embedded. MVCC would give you the snapshot isolation (perhaps there's something with less guarantees?) and you'd need key lexicographic ordering to do efficient scanning. You'd only need the memory layout (e.g. LSM) if you'd keep a write-ahead-log from which to recover.

LevelDB / RocksDB (and related) may be close, but not sure about MVCC aspects (see https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-on-rocksd/)
Pro tip: slice and freeze fresh bread and either defrost it over a few hours or just toast it before consumption.

Refrigerated bread gets soggy fast and is not worth the space it takes in the fridge.
Sure I do, that is why I am looking forward for WebAssembly to bring it back.

https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpxflash.html
Did `undef` actually make it into 5.4? I thought it was removed during the beta period.
I can't help but notice that many of the "non ideal" examples are pretty much identical to the colors used by companies like Google: https://blog.datawrapper.de/img/full-200805_goodcolors28.png. Apple is another company that's not afraid to use extremely bold, saturated colors in their UI designs: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... - in fact the colors chosen in that UI goes against a large amount of the advice found on this article, that green to lime gradient is pretty much 100% saturated for example, with a background that is absolute #000000 black.

The main theme of this article is to try to use complementary colors that aren't overly saturated or "pure", which is decent enough advice most of the time, but I feel that in an attempt to find color schemes that are more "professional looking", the author has used colors that come across as overly staid for most applications - navy blues and olive greens that are more associated with serious banking institutions then anything else. Which I guess is fine for infographics that need to display a level of trust and seriousness, but maybe not so much for a mobile app or social network that wishes to put on a more playful, friendlier face.
I was about to add a snarky "Easy answer: Read the HN F.A.Q. level comment but after a bit of looking around the answer isn't obvious (yet somehow I sort of knew it through being a HN user) and using the Search box didn't return anything useful so instead of snark I used a bit of google-fu & here's your answer. HTH.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456602

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848762

TLDR; Green Accounts are for users who are under 5 days old. You can see all their submissions at - http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

[Edit to add, Or perhaps it is 14 days as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3848820]

Double Edit: Confirmed, 14 days (not 5). See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented for a full list
Between "Pax X" and "Pax Y", there's often a war. The war leaves X weakened to the point that they can't enforce "Pax X" any more. Pax Americana ending probably won't just be because Pax China peacefully superseded it.
> What? What could the US have done beyond what we did other than all out war? The US response to this was very harsh.

Signing the TPP could have helped _a lot_. DT gave China _a lot_ of diplomatic leverage there, for free...
In recent versions of javascript, you can use almost the same async/await concept. It's the same thing, it's just that original syntax of promise is a bit too verbose.
Doesn’t Feel Like a Recession? You Should Be Paying More in Taxes
Israel is "The West" and Turkey and Russia are close behind.
It's much easier to do battery replacements on apple products then almost any of their competitors.

Seriously - you can go in and just pay them to do it. It's something like $99 for parts and labor all included for ipads.

What other tablet provider even offers this as a service? I'm serious - can you provide some names and examples with this level of convience?

I ask because my parents used an ipad for something like 7 years, and it got updates FAR longer than ANY competitor out there, and they got the battery updated. One of the reasons apple gets to charge a premium is BECAUSE their items hold value for so long relative to the competition.

Look at used prices for tablets (or phones). Some android phones ship with a 2 year old OS and NEVER get an update. The value of these phones after 2 years is basically zero.
You know you can buy other Bluetooth headphones besides AirPods and iPhones come with lightning headphones.
Nicely packed in Chrome, then don't complain about Google taking it all.
I've seen my share if incompetent healthcare providers. Better to do your own research. Instead of Google, use PubMed.
The market is incapable of deciding such things. No one has perfect informations and everyone has a finite amount of attention span. People couldn't even be bothered to think of the long-term cost savings of different light bulbs.
Never heard of the Fairphone before. Seems like a good product, and the price is fairly reasonable for a smartphone. Anyone here have experience with one?
The only indoor environment comes close to an average BART commute as far as human density is the center of the dance floor in a nightclub at capacity. Japan is famously even worse. How is that not close contact?
I thought what people in SF do is simply not pay the fare, to the tune of probably 1/3 of the people on the bus. Just like, by the way, in Paris. It seems turnstile jumping is a professional sport there.

I'll just add by the way (since apparently I'm being downvoted for speaking a snarky comment), that fare enforcement seems almost non-existent in both SF and Paris. Something about it being too expensive or dangerous to actually make people buy tickets. But policing your rules is an important thing for having people believe in the system, as unpopular as it may be. And maybe how safe/trustworthy the system is. Which neither SF nor Paris are shining examples of.
A lot of mainlanders still prefer to trade on the HK market because the inside trader rules are much more strict and actually enforced (for now?). If you trade on the Shanghai stock market, you need to learn how to follow in the wakes of whales, it isn't for the feint of heart.
I Drove Four Hours to the Nearest Cinema to Watch Tenet
And here's a decent intro that de-mystifies things for those who feel very confused: https://youtu.be/996OiexHze0
Not sure why this is a controversial take. Personally, I support most of the goals of the so-called "Right to Repair" but it should be pretty obvious that its name is a rhetorical trick to make people say "wow this company who's products I continually choose to purchase is really trampling my rights."

Give me a break.
> Sick and tired

Sure it's annoying, but it's not worse than the flu. /s
Firefox extension to protect our email address using email alias
Native mobile apps are doing just fine, from monetary point of view.
There are plenty of ways that you can get batteries replaced. I replaced the battery in my iPhone 6s before batteryGate and my son kept it until earlier this year - 5 years.
Ask HN: How do you set up a virtual browser
When you need to do something on your computer that might be risky (like run a suspect executable) you can use a VM and feel comfortable safe in your ability to isolate it.

But how do you isolate your browser? There are so many cookies and identity bits in it that I want a bare-bones profile. It would be similar to the chrome-new command that someone posted previously, but it would let me pack in the non-identity parts of my experience:

- don't offer to save any passwords

- prompt for location on every download

- use the following ten search shortcuts

and maybe install an ad blocker (contains identiny information, but not much).

Is this possible short of using something like chrome-driver? Like can I create a temp profile, then a bash script to copy it to a new location every time I run the browser and use the blank copy?

Thanks in advance for any insight you might have.
the yellow bus system is arguably the world's largest public transit system and is something Americans don't realize other countries don't have
I swear I see an article like this on HN at least once a month (actually, according to https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., it's probably closer to about once a week) and the comments are always the same, let me save you (the person reading this) some time and summarize what these comments are going to look like:

> I've lost all faith in Amazon, now I use Walmart, where I get cheap junk but at least I know it's real cheap junk

> Amazon has so much data! How have they failed so hard to stop this?

> I swear I see this type of article posted every other week on HN

> I was recently hit by this! They even shipped it in totally real looking packing and outer shell, but the serial number wasn't valid/the company selling it had no record of my purchase/when I dropped it and the casing popped open I could see it was not authentic/etc

> This is largely because of comingling

> Check out fakespot/reviewmeta, they can analyze the comments and tell you which ones are fake

> This is Amazon's fault for making reviews so important for the seller
Meta: please, mods, edit the title to remove the chevron and domain. Thanks.
This mirrors my direct experience as well.

Teaching and computers don't mix. Certainly not before eighth grade.

Maybe give every student an iPad every year. Tell Apple to just gift them for the tax write-off and goodwill.

Maybe have computer labs, whatever curriculum units are called. Starting with logo turtles. Along side chemistry and other science units. Then maybe grant access to desktops and printers starting in ninth grade.

Never provide internet access.

I'd be okay with a computer skills class starting in middle school if there's a motivated teacher to staff it. So kids can play with Scratch, other proto programming stuff, some art stuff. Whatever's cool. Treat this like music, art, woodshop, and other electives.

I'm VERY on board with a school sponsored, hosted "hackers" club. Like math, debate, young entrepreneurs, cheerleading, etc. clubs.
You’ll reduce your risk of freaking out if you have a trip sitter or if you work your way up to that point over time.
Identity Models in the Internet
Surprised no one has mentioned Kansas City’s free transit on streetcars and busses. I think it’s the largest city with entirely no-fare transit.

At some point, free Uber /Lyft would be a better deal. But transportation-as-a-basic-service seems to be catching on.

[0] https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/17/21026425/kansas-cit...
I've been reading it for a long time. I only recently opened an account to comment/post. I think I heard about it from someone in one of my college classes.
Gift cards are nearly this. Though they lock into the merchant and laws for escheatment vary by state. (Worked in gift and loyalty for almost a decade.)

As I understand it the identity rules around gift Visa/MasterCard are because of money laundering.
And they are complaining that they can’t use them because they can’t remove the activation lock without the owner’s consent. That’s kind of the entire point. The government was actually pushing for something like an activation lock making stolen phones harder to use.
Hm okay, but then wouldn't Google get the same fingerprinting data (IP, headers, TLS params) in either scenario, whether they're serving a bundle or just a script?
I just spent 10 minutes opting out of everything my linkedin settings let me...

Short of deleting it...
This is possibly a pretty and interesting article, but the author does forget that about 4% (8% men, 0,5% women) of the human population suffer from daltonism. So yeah, we like our colours to be clearly separated.

Having linear gradients of colours leads to the impossibility of distinguishing the data categories, so nop. If you do this you MUST also provide another kind of representation, like ColorAdd http://www.coloradd.net/ .
AnCaps also support a system of law.
More opportunity for the British government to spy on its citizens and repress them. You have to understand that the UK is probably the most surveilled country that claims to be a democracy. Countries like Germany do ID cards for the benefit of citizens. The UK would do it to subjugate the population.
In Lua, nil is not a value. It's an all-encompassing void in which variables are suspended when not having some other value—simultaneously existing and non-existing: both manifest variables or fields of this reality and the infinite multitude of potential variables of other timelines. And you can't tell which reality you're in.

So it's useless for interfacing with ‘null’s of other languages.
Demonstrations and Political Violence in America: New Data for Summer 2020
Have they? My impression was that you were never able to donate to Firefox directly. You could only buy the whole package, that is: Firefox + some stuff you don't care about and some stuff you might disagree with.
As a color blind person, a lot of his "better" suggestions were absolutely impossible to discern to me, while his "worse" examples were fine.

I wish more people made visualizations based on brightness rather than a hue scale.
And a sigmoid function isn't a boolean switch but you still get more or less the same result regardless of how complex the definition is.

Ultimately employees move the company machine, whether their job is to code, sell, manage, or clean toilets.
>Actually, I’m suspecting that the “real” ideological position of the BLM organization is both an end to police-on-black violence and certain extreme economic-socio-political goals, except that its leadership tries to keep the latter aims quiet.

You're talking about a hypothetical, as-yet unrealized (and possibly unfounded) form of BLM in the future. As mentioned earlier, BLM supporters protesting on the ground likely didn't join for a Marxist agenda and aren't supporting it, and if it's the case that "extreme economic-socio-political goals" are being kept quiet (IE, not part of the common dialogue,) then it isn't correct to consider BLM currently Marxist, and labeling it as such is only useful to distract people from its legitimate grievances.

>After all, even in its overt public platform the BLM organization makes certain demands (like for trans issues) that go beyond the matter of police violence against black people which has drawn the public to BLM-led events.

Support for trans rights, LGBT issues, feminism and the like isn't that radical and it isn't Marxist per se. Reading their "what we believe" page[0], posted elsewhere in this thread, it's clear that they're trying to include other marginalized groups in the movement, but also trying to stay on message, doing so in the explicit context of the black community. That's just good PR, and apart from the overt language not much different than progressive mission statements put out by many organizations.

>So, you cannot claim that the BLM organization is tightly focused just on antiracism.

Ok. I still don't see the radical Marxist agenda. When they stop talking about racism and start talking about seizing the means of production I'll believe it.

[0]https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Zero cost compared to a raw pointer. You are comparing apple and oranges if you compare it to a regular variable.

It has a null check on destructor (and a delete of course), which is good enough for "zero cost" to me
OP here

That's very cool! Never heard of LED-Transistor logic, and after reading the article I know why :).

I'd like to implement MCPU on an FPGA next weekend, so hope to have two implementations soon.
Huawei Suddenly Strikes at Google with New ‘Fight’ to Beat Android
An earlier teardown of the equate digital pregnant test revealed that the microcontroller was not reprogrammable. This is the key tweet that shows that while this is impressive, this cannot be done out of the box. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302453246536028160?s=20
I can't talk about Japan but, having visited France and Paris extensively, living in Paris is my number 1 nightmare.

Terrible housing, terrible traffic, tons of homelessness and dodgy people harassing you in the street (trying to sell you drugs or scam you).
The situation got progressively worse over the last 10 years.

Other big cities have similar problems.

The rest of France, outside of the main cities, is actually quite nice but incredibly rural and with very little services.
And all of this for 33% corporate tax and progressive income tax 5-40%.
You'd be better off crossing the sea and staying in the UK, which is much more livable and offers some tax benefits and higher salaries.

I place the USA a bit higher than France in the chart, but not much more.
The high level of taxation and the high cost of health insurance + political craziness going on (the latest BLM riots especially) makes me happy I stayed in Europe, despite missing out on half a million salaries in big tech.

In the end I can't say I find France approach to be much different than the American one: it's the old take half of the economical output and redistribute it. The USA may not have public healthcare but they spend more than enough (13 billions per day) maintaining a public army, handing out benefits or what else. I find it ridiculous to picture the states as the land of freedom. That was more than 100 years ago.
That play isn’t about burial, it’s about the difference between the private and public. The difference between the story we tell to the public and in person.
The Germans had that delusion too.
A great part of the problem is planned obsolescence - through one of many avenues.

A lot of modern Capitalist economy is based on massive continuous consumption. So much so that if a company sell a viable, well-manufactured, robust product - it might be digging its own grave, because people won't need to buy the same or slightly-better product next year or in a couple of years. So, what does the economic incentive make manufacturers do?

* Make parts that are sensitive to the elements or to pressure, so they are likely to sustain damage faster.

* Make mechanical parts that are flimsy, thin, or just naturally wear out quickly.

* Use electric components with short lifespans: Batteries that can charge less and less (while consumption is kept high), capacitors that pop and leak, solder spots that heat up and detach etc.

* Write software or promote software that uses ever more computing resources even for the same functionality.

* Invest in advertising, "news" and cultural products which encourage repeated consumption, fashions, disdain for what's older etc.

* In extreme cases like that spoiled-princess company, Apple - they actively sabotage their own hardware with lock-ins, slow-downs on upgrades and other such goodies.

and there's more, I suppose.
Best TypeScript Books for Beginners in 2020
Link to the review:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B00XZBIJLS/RZKKKAM6FE5AI
Lua will never be more popular without a proper standard library.

Leaving everything up to the user so that you have to manually implement (or hunt the web for) even the most basic features is mega annoying. How many millions of people need to rewrite string.startswith?

The whole "sequence iteration stops at the first internal hole and therefore the # operator doesn't do what you think it should" gotcha is extremely user hostile.

Metatables are cool and all, but holy crap are they confusing for Lua newbies. Having an integrated class system would go a long way.
Did you leave the ipad plugged in 24/7? FYI, that’s known to cause battery bulging.
Yes, but I vastly prefer NextDNS.
For one, I think they should investigate actual suspects, not do blanket surveillance on everyone, only to leak that personal data later. Using cash is an example of sort of "opting out" of mass surveillance. Other comments in this thread have pointed out that there's a cost to businesses to accept cash. There's also a cost to consumers to pay with cash. But some choose to do it for privacy benefits. I think it's nice to be able to have that choice. A person may sometimes want to sell their information to the credit card companies and get "points". Other times they may not.

> If you disagree, please share how you believe detective work is compatible with strong privacy.

Detective work seemed to happen just fine before digital money when there was only cash. Blanket surveillance didn't happen because it was impossible or too costly to do. I'm not saying anything about this theoretical "strong privacy".

> Cash has its own problems though - it's much easier to use it to avoid taxes, launder money, etc. when using cash.

Why should law abiding citizens have their rights taken away because some people abuse it? We have the second amendment protecting rights that are arguably much more dangerous, despite how they're abused by criminals. In my opinion, privacy advocates are asking for something much less, and with much less potential for violence -- the ability to make a purchase when they're perfectly law abiding, without some rando recording that, and having it leaked on the Internet for god knows what to happen with it.
Small typo: “fight software” instead of “flight software” :)
I don't know about you, but I see echoes of the US view in Vietnam that we were saving the country from some unspeakable evil that was expanding dangerously year by year. When we were 8000 miles away, looking at things just as symbols and not knowing whether that meant good or bad for the people actually living it day to day.

That got us into some trouble, I seem to recall.

Is this not similar? I worry this has a certain path written on it, with our good intentions paving the way.
What? There was no descent from liberalism in Belarus. It's been a dictatorship since shortly after the fall of the USSR. This is more like if Hu Jintao just became Xi Jingping.
LSM trees are fast for writes, but not fast for reads. In fact, there’s essentially no difference in performance between an LSM tree, and a Merkle-tree whose keyspace is encoded within a B-tree.