skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

Three major newspaper stories. Zero climate mentions.
Section A, page 12 of today’s New York Times contains a big story about the unprecedented weather pummeling California. Titled “Extreme Heat Turns State Into a Furnace,” the piece contains more than 1,700 words of devastating detail about how heat, fire, and toxic air are affecting people in the state. But none of those details were about why things are getting so bad. None of those words were “climate change.”

The Associated Press’s article today is similar. Titled “Scorched earth: Record 2 million acres burned in California,” it contains 1,100 words about the weather’s unprecedented nature. It lists several different record-breaking data points, and quotes state officials saying how “unnerving” it is to have broken these records so early in the wildfire season. And yet this article—which will be re-published this morning in newspapers across the country—also does not mention the reason why these records might be happening.

The Washington Post also has an article about unprecedented climate change-fueled extreme weather on its front page this morning, but it doesn’t mention climate change’s role. It’s about how 50 hikers are trapped inside a shelter within a rapidly-growing 130,000 acre wildfire, unable to be rescued. “This is one of the largest and most dangerous fires in the history of Fresno County,” the local fire chief said. “I don’t think everyone understands that.”
Seaweed: The Food and Fuel of the Future?
Integrating Chargebee subscriptions and recurring billing with a Rails app
what is literally tortious is that when user refunds they help themselves to 30% and refund it out of your pocket, as if they are not part to publishing your product and quality checks. It is a cartel like practice needs to be stopped.
"400,000 people biking across the country" ... and periodically stopping at gas stations, restaurants, hotels...

Truly, this is upsetting. Especially when you consider how violently they shun facemasks.
Unfortunately not allowed per ICANN's contract for new gTLDs. Though even if it were, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to actually use it because support for first level globally resolving strings is quite limited across a variety of applications and OS stacks. Oftentimes you have to append the trailing canonical dot to get it to even try to make the correct globally resolving DNS request, and that's just not good/consistent UX.
>80% of anything is been willing to give it a go, the other 20% is been willing to learn from fucking it up the first time.

Them's the old rules. New rules: 45% of it is being willing to give it a go, 65% of it is knowing how to find the right YouTube video to watch so you don't fuck it up.

:)
This was happening in Georgia with people first receiving seeds but then other types of packages were also being delivered to people not requesting them. Pretty much identified as the same type of scam the article related.

* both have video stories attached

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/georgia/get-surprise-package-it-m...

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/not-just-seeds-georgians-re...
They're first-generation devices, so the focus is on getting the device experience right, not on having flagship specifications. If they get the experience right, they'll likely come out with higher-spec devices in the future.
Does anyone from Progress or Chef know how this will impact anything?

On that note, does anyone from Cinc know if this will have any impact on that project?

I’ve been speaking to a friend who works at one of these companies and they had no idea this was happening.
> If you're using a Pixel 2 or above you'll get additional features to organize and manage your phone, like app suggestions on the home screen based on your daily routines

Ads. On the homescreen of a phone you paid money for.

This is madness. A lot of folks I know are livid that Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese OEMs do this...and won't you know it, the world's largest ad-network wants a slice of the pie, too.

Edit: Looks like these are suggestions for already installed apps unlike on Xiaomi / Oppo phones.

> With additional Google Play system update modules, even more security and privacy fixes can be sent to your phone from Google Play

This is huge [0]. Even though Project Treble [1] makes it easier to run latest AOSP and other forks on Androids, this is a much needed update for billions who couldn't be bothered.

[0] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/07/accelerati...

[1] https://source.android.com/setup/build/gsi
So long as it doesn't supplant other real treatments, which it inevitably will within the framework of a recommendation to potentially very ill/desperate people.
State Senators serve in the state legislature, US Senators serve in DC.
Reciprocation, for what? For censoring their own citizen? That's like saying China should sanction the US for crimes during BLM.

Of course censorship isn't okay, but US doesn't get to play world police.

And you're supporting this attack in order to spite China, while totally ignoring practical outcomes for Chinese people, the very people you claim to support?

"We support you, we just hate your government. So we'll forcefully liberate you, even if you didn't ask for liberation."

Live and let live. Is that so hard?
That's certainly a possibility, but we have two reasons to believe it's not true.

One, even careful attempts to control confounders, still shows a substantial health benefit associated with higher sun exposure.[1] In other words, even among people with no discernible health conditions, the most sun exposed are healthier.

Two, randomized control trials show improvements in biomarkers like blood pressure[2] and lipid profile[3]. In animal experiments, intense UV exposure is directly linked to a reduction in obesity and metabolic disease.[4]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24697969/
[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140117090139.h...
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28553593/
[4] https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/63/11/3759
A lot of obvious features were missing

Now they're all there
Having used Android and iOS devices, old and new, on average my experience is that the iOS devices perform well for years longer. Although installing custom versions on XDA can sometimes get more life out of abandoned hardware (I’m not sure if the jailbreak scene for iOS is similar, because I never felt the stock OS was missing anything).
A phone with a non-existent app ecosystem is not a reasonable alternative for most people.
Chinese officials called them "reeducation camps" to western reporter. I cannot imagine that Chinese officials would be oblivious to the fact that "reeducation camps" and "concentration camps" are synonymous in Westerners' minds. If not, then it is a surprising and huge blunder. No matter what is happening there, even what officials have officially shown western media, crosses our moral boundaries. The optics of putting adults in 24/7 education centers, that are gated (and doing the same to kids), is not seen as an okay thing to do.
What's the harm though? You're stating this as if it's a priori a bad thing, but it's not. So you need to provide a reason as to why it's actually bad.

I can give you some benefits of brand TLDs, though. For starters, the entire .google TLD is HSTS preloaded, so every new site launched on that TLD is instantly HTTPS-only from its very first moments, rather than waiting for potentially many months for users to upgrade their browsers to incorporate new additions of individual domains to the list (which would be your only recourse if you launched a new domain on e.g. .com). And secondly, the .google TLD is closed, meaning no external registrations, so if you see an unfamiliar product.google domain then you immediately know that it's actually Google running it, whereas if you saw an unfamiliar googleproduct.com domain then you'd want to do some due diligence to ensure that you aren't being phished.

(I should probably at this point disclose that I run .google, but had no involvement in the larger process at ICANN that resulted in the creation of brand TLDs in the first place. But, given that brand TLDs exist, of course companies would defensively secure the TLDs for their largest brands, and once you have said TLDs, why not use them?)
Every time Haskell is discussed, lots of valid critiques show up as to why it's not more successful, and yet every single time, without fail, the conversation devolves heavily into "People aren't smart enough." The person I was responding to literally said that Haskell wouldn't catch on because most developers aren't smart enough, and then defined "smart" as those three things.

I am arguing a series of things. First, that being "smart" does not always mean those three things. Second, that being "smart" does not mean that you'd care to learn Haskell. Third, to suggest a tool isn't catching on because the members of the programming community aren't "smart" enough is so masturbatory it's actually insane. God forbid Haskell isn't catching on because of all the valid critiques that show up in every one of these threads and then gets dismissed under this same "Haskell smart" rhetoric.

Haskell will not catch on because the community thinks it is too smart to have to actually accommodate the programming community. Simple as that.
The Angel of History
He's remarkably frank about his ambitions, and people have been warning about him for years. You can rely on trump to lie about the past on almost any subject, but his dreams of the future (like those of many dictators to be) are quite clear.
In the US it's called C.O.D. - Collect on Delivery [0]

[0]https://www.ups.com/us/en/shipping/services/value-added/cod....
How to Ask When You Don’t Know What to Ask
This just confirms what I said above. The cognitive dissonance of not having a real theory is causing you to lash out at me, for no reason other than pointing out your missing theory.

It's pretty simple really, if there's a way to determine value then there must be a way to say that it's correct in one way or another. If things are always just worth whatever someone will pay for them "because of the market" then you aren't saying anything at all. Plus you can't explain a number of common observations.
Lineage has its own update mechanism, why would it need the play store?
The individual mandate was upheld by the SCOTUS in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_Indepen...

Rather, the individual mandate was zeroed out in 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017

The Cadillac tax has been delayed, seemingly indefinitely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_insurance_plan

The employer mandate was delayed.

The Independent Payment Advisory Board was canceled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Payment_Advisory_B...

The nutrition labeling requirements were delayed from 2010 to 2018.

There are many other more technical provisions that have been delayed as well. It is easy to find many relevant sources online, though it's hard to keep them up to date because many delays just continue! https://cgsnet.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ACA_Delays_at_a_...
Ugh couldn’t they figure out native data planes invoke To cloud functions instead of having to do the dance of url exposing and setting up auth identities for every single functions https endpoint.
> The researchers expected that the best programmer would outperform his average counterpart by a factor of two or three. But it turned out that the most skilled programmer far outperformed the worst. He was 20 times faster at coding, 25 times faster at debugging, and 10 times faster at program execution than the programmer with the lowest marks.

What? Okay, so how much did he outperform the average one?
It completely boggles my mind that comments like these don’t get any pushback on HN. This insinuation that every citizen should own firearms just in case the state goes rouge is militant, irresponsible, and hilariously naive. A bunch of armchair freedom fighters who have no idea of the consequences of war think that their shiny “tactical” AR15 is going to stop a tank..

Let me ask you a direct question. Are you advocating for a full on civil war in Belarus in the middle of Europe? If a Belorussian read your comment, got a gun and killed a bunch of policemen/government supporters/Russians would you be content?

Don’t take this as a personal attack. I just think comments like yours are irresponsible given that the people of Belarus themselves chose the path of nonviolent resistance and protest - maybe they don’t want their country to end up like Ukraine or Syria.

What is worse, is that if someone insinuated on this site that for example people in the US should buy guns and start shooting policemen when they think that the police are oppressing them all kinds of voices would drum up and shut that down. I guess inciting violence in one of those “shithole countries” is ok, but god forbid if that kind of stuff happens in your own country.
> Android Auto now works wirelessly for all phones running Android 11 as long as you have a compatible vehicle.

This is the feature iam looking forward to the most. But I don't think it works for my subaru crostrek 2019 even though its a compatible vehicle.
It can't, it's a direct messaging app. There is no app which has the full functionality of WeChat or Facebook that doesn't have some censorship.
Something to keep in mind is most core apps (Maps, Gmail, Messages, etc) aren't baked into the Android OS and are updated with new features regularly throughout the year. Apple often mentions core app updates as new OS features.

Even Nearby Sharing (Android's Airdrop clone) was released as a Google Play Services update and is not part of the OS: https://blog.google/products/android/nearby-share/
Hundreds of brands already have these TLDs, just most of them aren't using them (yet?).
I don’t know anyone who uses iMessage. I’m writing this on an iPhone and I don’t even know what iMessage is.
If anybody's curious about this "public beta hosting - HN bear hug" performance load test:

I just (sequentially) restarted all 4 servers behind my 2 load balancers - seems that by reaching 100 containers in each geography the provisioning threads may have died after many (unsuccessful) retries, so need to restart the thread pools.

That is one more error I need to handle (or increasing my limit in AWS).
> Perhaps energy should be directed at the actual tax code complexity rather than software built to help navigate filing.

Two years ago the paper form for standard federal 1040 was cut to about 1/4th its previous length. It's happening, just slowly.

(Yes, I still use the paper forms yearly for both federal and state. I've never seen any software as necessary for filing taxes...)
Thanks for the tip...have a application still running on 1.4.21 ;(
As the other commenter points out, Apple's hands are just as dirty as Google's in this matter. iMessage is only end-to-end encrypted if you turn off cloud backups, and most people have them on so in practice it's not so. And turning them off on your end doesn't help either if even one participant in the conversation has them on.

WhatsApp has the exact same problem with unencrypted backups.

End-to-end encryption at large scale is not really something American mega-corporations can provide, unfortunately.
They were famous–and delivered your mail with USPS
Just treat the kinds with the same level of respect you would grant an adult, and you will be fine.
Economies of scale.

If I want to buy 20 million of something the wholesale will give me a better price than if I want 2000.

The marginal cost goes down with the number produced as well.
>Everything else done beyond that is a perversion of HTML.

Here's a thread from the w3 mailing list discussing possible scripting languages for HTML back in 1995[0].

And here's Tim Berners-Lee talking about running code in HTML in 1992[1].

You're simply wrong that running code in HTML is a perversion - that was envisioned as a possibility since the beginning, it just took time to manifest.

What wasn't intended was for only one scripting language to dominate. When the script tag was released in HTML 3, the hope was browsers would support multiple languages, which is why it had a type attribute, but that never happened.

[0]https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/msg00099.html

[1]http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1992/0064.html
There was a similar scam in Italy a few years ago a couple of guys registered (legally/correctly) a travel agency calling it with a name same as of a government agency "Agenzia del Territorio sas" vs. "Agenzia del Territorio" (or something like that).

Then they started sending yellow envelopes with the name stamped in blue (i.e. very similar at first sight to the ones that the actual government agency would send for collecting a fine or similar "official" communication) to firms (names and addresses of firms are public) with a mechanism (again perfectly legal) in which you pay the postman to get the envelope.

The amount was a small one, like 20 Euros or so, i.e. what the porter or a secretary would have available or could advance without asking a manager or even if the manager was called he/she would give the OK since it was an "official" letter.

When the envelope was later opened, it contained a catalog of travels/hotels/etc. with an accompanying letter like

"Dear sirs,
following our conversation, please find enclosed the travel catalog you asked for.
Best regards."
(again perfectly legal stuff).

Almost noone bothered to report to the police the matter, as it would have been difficult to be sure that none of the employees actually ordered the catalog thinking it was free and it would have costed much more in time lost.

So the thing went on for quite a bit of time.
Reading this... my first thought was "But newer x86 can.... oh right ISA..." then I googled for USB ISA slots... and they are apparently a thing. That doesn't mean someone wouldn't need to write a new driver but at least they could still use the cards.
What are you going to do with them?

3D-gaming? Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HXQJkWjUQ.

Using an external screen? Yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3RbrwhNd8.
> Unless you're getting a car specifically for road trips

I do (a motorcycle, actually), but that's irrelevant here.

You assume that everyone has a dedicated parking space with access to an electrical connector. This is not the reality of most city dwellers.

When I travel by motorcycle, I can fuel up at any point in the trip. It's a non-event. It requires no planning. If I had to take a longer lunch in a specific town while my car is charging, I'd regret my purchase.

Let's say you want to get on the Autobahn and visit your grandma for Christmas. You might need to stop because it's cold and you're driving fast. You'll have to wait 40 minutes, not 20, to add a 300km range to your car. Those are the German numbers. The Canadian winter is probably much harsher.

You might have to deal with a bunch of red lights too, because those quick chargers are often in the city centres, not right next to the highway like gas stations. They can also be occupied.
Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when using AWS for the first time?
Hello Everyone,

I'm documenting the common mistakes beginners make when using AWS for the first time.

Here are some of the most common mistake I have noticed so far:-
- Forgetting to delete resources that are no longer needed
- Accidentally deleting wrong resources
- Misconfiguring S3 buckets
- Enabling public access to RDS

What's yours?
I think Apple was shady with the silent slowdown for old batteries, but these days they will replace an old iPhone battery for $50, which seems reasonable to me.
Apple is only end-to-end encrypted until it isn’t though.

iCloud Backups are still stored in the clear, solely to enable snooping.
The "a" series Pixels (or other phones in that same feature/performance/price bracket) are increasingly seeming like the best value for money for this reason. I too just can't find the value in buying a $1k phone that's not gonna last any longer than a $350 phone, maybe even less time.
Google's Area 120 project “Orion Wifi”
Why Contact-Tracing Apps Haven’t Slowed Covid-19 in the US
For a use case like this, I don't see the reason to upgrade. It is clearly stable and solving the need.
If the code is in GMS it's not necessarily open source. The more apps rely on GMS, the less they can run on ungoogled devices.

micro-g attempts to emulate whatever is necessary.

If Google ports changes both to that and AOSP it's not a problem
Currently I have a related task, a telescope is being operated using a set of old hardware (late 90s-early 00s) and same age software, due to current situation in case of lock-downs the observations are not performed, so the idea is to migrate everything into virtual machines with PCI forwarding, so that VNC/whatever other remote desktop software can allow remote operations. Does anyone have such an experience? What are the pitfalls? I plan use Xen or KVM.
Europeans Evolved White Skin
Cockpit: Open-source web based control panel for Linux servers
React Constate v3 is out
It's not always a matter of willingness. Many people didn't have opportunities early in life to learn these skills, and as older adults they probably don't have the free time.
Half the province is still uninhabited wilderness. The parts that are developed are rapidly expanding--certainly nowhere near what they will be 50 or 100 years from now. Compared to Europe or China there is still a lot of room for growth
It is important to understand who the poll watchers are and what their motives are. In the U.S. in the 1980's poll watching was used as a cover for voter intimidation when white males in combat boots and 10 gallon cowboy hats and even some with guns, many off-duty police officers, were recruited and sent to African American and Latino communities to stand near polling places with signs saying they are patrolling the area.
Apple seeks damages from 'Fortnite' creator in App Store dispute
Sap and corretto are mostly friendly forks that just backport bug fixes from newer versions of OpenJDK for their customers.

OpenJ9 uses a whole different JVM even though they use the OpenJDK standard library.
> They survive, in some cases, by cultivating long term relationships with the right people.

This is also a survival skill. There's no necessity to cultivate this in a middle-class urban environment when you can just call somebody.
As others have said, there are unknown but already detected cases of asymptomatic impacts. One football team doc said he thought 1/8 had some impact on heart function long term. Those who see this as no big deal for some reason are stuck on arguing the exact percentage of impact.
Amazon started this on the Fire range years ago - charging a bit more (~15% as I recall) for a variant that didn't advertise on the lock-screen.
That's a legitimate question
Nah you look for the youtube video after you've fucked it up.

Honestly though YouTube and the patient people who set out to show you how to do something is great (particulary the creators), it is an amazing resource for that.
slow down hardware to force people to upgrade hardware.

According to what I read here on HN, iOS devices have a longer usable lifespan than Android devices, and are officially supported much longer. Is that no longer the case?
Since this issue is still open (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/140786115), I guess guessing this is yet another major release of Android without mDNS support?

I've been following this issue across several filed issues now (the first one in the Chrome repo), waiting for them to fix this frustration, but still nothing.
You even see GitHub mirrors for got projects hosted privately, which is good.

If github went away, tons of projects would need to rework their workflow, but very few people would actually lose their code, which is the most expensive asset to restore.