skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's probably installed wrong. On my toilet the mechanism is the same for both, so if you happen to flip the button or the mechanism then they will work the opposite of how they are intended.
Didn't they try to add an app store with win 8? And failed miserably for quality reasons?
Stillborn technology?

How about "good enough" technology, and by "good enough", I mean something that's better than incandescent.

Everyone has their metric, mine is how often I need to replace a bulb. I am a lazy person, I don't want to think about things if I can avoid it, see.

In my experience, CFL bulbs were bright enough, and lasted much longer than incandescent ones.

Plus, they are way less of a fire hazard, and I don't have to worry about scorching my hand on a desk lamp.

Environmentally, they are a disaster though.
Over 247K Exchange servers unpatched for actively exploited flaw
My best guess is the latest "nuclear energy is failing because it's expensive" trend on HN is to blame for this outlook. My take is that it's all poppycock. The ability to make our own little sun is, IMO, transformational for humanity.
> coronavirus

Lockdowns. Not the virus. Disney would open if the government would let them.

Let people choose.

Infection Fatality Ratios for COVID-19 Among Noninstitutionalized Persons 12 and Older: Results of a Random-Sample Prevalence Study

Sept 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-5352

People aged 40 or below have a .01% chance of dying.

People over the age of 70 have a 1.17% chance of dying.

Overall the chance of dying from the virus is 0.26%.
The list of companies:
PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Google, and more

Include many (hint - the first 3) that were taking huge chunks of game publishers' money long before the iOS App Store ever existed. There were also many app stores for palmOS, WinCE, etc. some of which collected far more than 30%.
All lives matter, in particular, is perceived as racist because it's only trotted out as a response to black lives matter (a phrase it is not at all incompatible with, so people tossing "all lives matter" out as a response to "black lives matter" are immediately casting it in a racist connotation).

As for the reason it isn't really a retort to "black lives matter", that's been explained better by Chris Straub than I ever could.

https://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2016/07/07/all-houses-matter-...

Not unlike the battle standard of northern Virginia, symbols pick up racist connotation when racists keep using them.
I bought one of these TV's without realizing it would serve ads. It was a high end model that cost enough that I had no reasonable expectation that Samsung would try to make an additional 10 bucks off of me by showing me ads, but here we are.

The good news is you can block the ads. Here are some domains I've blocked in my router. They might not all be necessary to block, but they don't seem to break anything else (except perhaps Disney+) and they do stop the ads from appearing.

(Note: The only ad I was seeing was an additional ad box that was inserted as one of the sources on the source selector. It was only an issue if you were going from display to the TV's settings because it had inserted itself in between the two, and you could accidentally click on it. Blocking the following domains got rid of This.)

samsungads.com

ads.samsung.com

www.samsungotn.net

www.samsungrm.net

gpm.samsungqbe.com

samsungacr.com

samsungcloudsolution.com

samsungcloudsolution.net

samsungotn.net

The bad news is that the Disney+ app may not function properly if you block these domains. The obvious workaround is to use Disney+ from a browser, but that produces surprising results with this TV. Certain video sources, such as Disney+ or the trailers on IMDB, cause my Samsung TV to flash the following message:

"We are adjusting the picture quality for you to experience a better uhd screen. You can change the settings in Settings > General > External Device Manager > HDMI UHD color"

The screen then goes black and the only way to restore function is to unplug the HDMI cable and plug it back in. Very annoying.

The message describes settings that exist in the TV's configuration exactly as described, so it's definitely an error message produced by the TV set. Unfortunately, the settings referenced do nothing to eliminate this bug.

I've contacted Samsung's tech support a couple of times and they're utterly clueless about this issue. (Note: Not many people may report this error message because if flashes so fast that you need to photograph the screen in order to read it, and you have to have fast reflexes to do even that!)

All in all, despite the quality of the screen, these unresolved issues mean I will probably not buy another Samsung TV and recommend that others avoid this brand as well.
Emacs. ftp. bash.

I have a computer game, copyright 1996 (IIRC). I played it last night.

Some of my dinner plates are 30 years old.

I have a pocket knife that was my grandfather's. I don't actually use it, though.
No one; I was under the impression that this was an opinion stated by the poster. The response just seemed to not understand what the poster was saying.
It sort of depends a bit on cost and a bit on how one operates it doesn't it?

Operations costs on a rescue helicopter can be $1500 - $5000/hr based on publicly available data. What is more, large helicopters can do harm with their down wash. So if you can have a suit, or two, or three sitting in the closet on standby then the cost to respond quickly to one of these events can be much lower than the cost of calling in a helicopter.

Clearly the amount of gear you can carry to the scene is minimal, but you can get an able bodied first aid technician there faster than hiking in and faster than calling in a helicopter, loading up the tech, flying to the location, and lowering them to the ground. Not to mention the challenges of wind effects in wooded terrain where the helicopter pilot and the technician in the rescue basket are essentially in two different wind regimes.

Then there are the TCO costs, what does it cost to own a helicopter versus say 5 flying suits? If the helicopter is down for maintenance you're stuck, but if a suit is down you still have 4 suits ready to go right? That lowers your risk of not having the capability when you need it. How much? Hard to say without knowing the maintenance regimen of the suits but it seems likely the suits would be more resilience against 100% loss of capability.
A great example of a 20th-century writer-diplomat is Romain Gary, of France:

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

Married to Jean Seberg, once challenged Clint Eastwood to a duel, and wrote more than excellent novel, including "La vie devant soi."
Right, so this deals with one side of the equation: it allows me to represent the fact that I don't have gender feelings. But it doesn't allow me to represent my biological maleness, in fact if anything it seems to deny it. My physiology is an important part of me (and my identity), and if I describe myself as non-binary or agender then that part of me isn't being communicated or represented. I want to be able to describe my (lack of) gender feelings and my physiology separately, and make the same distinction when talking about other people.

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> If you're interested in learning more I recommend reaching out to a local LGBTQ community organisation to be more educated about gender identity and to figure out if you might yourself be LGBTQ!

I'm pretty familiar with the LGBTQ community in general, and I have spent a great deal of time over the last year or so reading up about and thinking about gender identity. My view is that the mainstream view in the LGBTQ community where one's gender identity (which label they use - man/woman/non-binary/etc) is assumed to correspond to "a feeling of gender" is quite naive. This is certainly true for some people, but there are also other reasons why people choose to use those labels including having certain physiologies or simply the fact that you were assigned the label and never bothered to change it. It seems to me that these other kinds of gender identity are equally valid and one way or another ought to find representation in whatever system of gender we settle one, but that a "gender feelings" focussed conception of gender doesn't provide this representation.

(one such system would be a system eschews having a single gender label at all and requires that we are more specific about which aspects of sex/gender we are talking about in situations where we need to make gendered distinctions)
Not necessarily. I can vacuum my house with my Bluetooth headset and you can't hear it on the other end. Your issue is with people that use ambient microphones, more than with people that don't mute.
Standard Oil came into a market and controlled an increasing proportion of it.

On Epic's own terms, that's not what Apple did. There never was a market for iOS apps that Apple took over.

That means the best argument actually is that they became a monopoly on day one, but you dismiss that for some reason.
What's your issue with the ingredient list? It looks great.
That depends on how easy it is to do the jailbreak. If you can package a self-contained solution, or provide simple to follow instructions, the word will spread, and a lot of people will be doing it.

When I was buying my Paperwhite, I just ordered the ad-free version from amazon (.com or .co.uk, don't remember which). And then a couple co-workers (agreed, computer people, but very much not the type that's into tinkering or cracking software) looked at me with surprise, because it turns out everyone does the "standard" route - order "special offers" from amazon.de, and save money while getting an ad-free Kindle, because AFAIR initially the special offers didn't even display in Poland, and when they did, apparently everyone knew how to jump some hoops to get rid of them.
Ugh. Doing this makes the call worse for everybody else. Get a more comfortable headset instead.
Agree with almost all of this - if you buy well-grown fresh vegetables, they're delicious all by themselves if you take time to learn how to cook them - but the same is true of something like chicken. If you get chicken where the chickens are well cared-for, well-fed and not pumped full of hormones it does actually taste delicious by itself.

It reminds me of a food eureka moment a couple of decades ago when I was round for dinner with the family a friend who's a farmer. They served boiled potatoes that they'd dug up earlier that day and I suddenly remembered that potatoes could actually taste of something other than the oil / butter / salt that you cook them in or flavour them with.

Edit: I presume part of the reason for "plant-based alternatives to meat" is that it's much more difficult to commoditise simple vegetables. I can think of plenty of plant-based alternatives to meat and they're... plants. Potatoes, carrots, aubergines, courgettes, cavolo nero, broccoli...
Why you can't design a dual siphon model is a bit beyond me.
Pay to play app stores are a symptom not a cause of a broken internet. Sideswiping a pay to play distribution scheme does not a hero make.
well given that Capitalism also increasingly optimises the education sector in the way it optimises conveyor belts it arguably is.

In all of these discussions about automation, Capitalism, economic dynamics and so on a lot of people seem to try to argue that the process can be divided into the automation part, call it capitalism with a small c, and the education/political/human part, when in reality, technological process changes both in the exact same way.

I mean even the term you went with "oversupply of humans", from which vantage point does such a label come? Sounds more like a rogue AI than a humanistic consideration. That would be Capitalism with a capital C speaking, I guess.
These UBI experiments all have a flaw, they are time limited and the participants know it. Just try imagining it. Someone tells you will receive $500 per month for a year. So that's a reliable income you can make a year long plan for.

Then someone tells you that you will get it for life. Suddenly the difference in behavior is immense. You can move somewhere with cheaper rent. You can go to college. You can start making real plans depending on that income.

It's like the difference between a pension or social security and getting a fixed lump sum.
It is hard to say, because I am not sure what the impetus was exactly for corporations to leave the United States. It's not even possible to say it was a "good" or "bad" thing they left because if an American loses a job and an Indian gains one, is it good or bad? If a factory that pollutes the environment leaves for another country, is it good or bad? If a shareholder extracts value from increased cost efficiency from offshoring, is it good or bad? For me, very hard to say.

What I will say though is that the world needs to do a much better job of lowering prices for consumers. Right now much of the excess riches generated in this world is from screwing customers, not serving a large number of customers fairly. An example of this would be the American medical industry, or Chinese construction industry.
I think the explosion of GUI frameworks for the web that don't rely on inheritance, or rely on it in only the most shallow of ways, demonstrates that inheritance is not essential for creating rich GUIs.
Cucumbers being wrapped at all...
I see a lot of pseudonyms here, but this is why everyone should revert back to, or start using, pseudonyms online, and take as many privacy-enhancing precautions as reasonably possible.
What 3d printer part was it? I've been shopping mainly on aliexpress for my parts since amazon.ca has a very anemic offering (and what it has is basically dropshipped parts from aliexpress anyways). But I'm curious to know what I should be cautious of. I always thought most 3d printer parts are usually not "genuine" and made by a 3rd party anyway.
Ask HN: How do you handle Esc/backtick on a 60% or 65% mechanical keyboard?
I recently got a 65% mechanical keyboard for work, which I love, but for programming I found myself mapping the Esc key to backtick/tilde so I don't have to hold Fn for those (which I use constantly). Luckily I don't use Vim so I'm generally fine with not having Esc at all, but for those who do use an editor where Esc is central, what's the standard approach for reconciling the difference? Do you just use Fn all the time?

Edit: I just discovered that using the escape key in Vim is apparently not suggested https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
As a decided carnivore I definitely agree: With some dishes, the chicken/beef/pork sometimes just doesn't add that much. Not in texture and not in taste. In that case, why include it in the first place? I guess because of old habits.

I'm going to try to avoid including meat where it doesn't really add anything.
Some guy below you:

> I work at Amazon, we are hiring all the top ML people to work on this problem. Legions of ML PhDs.

It doesn't take legions of PhDs in machine learning to fix a basic counterfeit problem on a glorified online shopping store.
Important update, it's affecting a lot of people not just protonmail and is quite likely an accident.
You can opt in to parental control software :)

https://wellbeing.google/

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT208982

https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT210387
No, piped sewerage systems are safer and better for the environment

How much fuel alone is used checking the biotank? They have to be checked quarterly once you get the bureaucrats involved.

Expense is a good approximation for resources.

The point of the post is also simplicity over moving parts.
> ... socially useless financial transactions ...

But we don't know if that is true. The old societies that didn't have those financial transactions were objectively pretty terrible and not the sort of place any of us would choose to live. We're using the same people as back then the only changes are systems and research. Writing off the major control system is hasty!

It isn't always good, but having the smartest people choosing what does/doesn't get financed and what amount of effort to dedicate is, fundamentally, extremely socially valuable. Notwithstanding that this particular case which is a scam in anyone's books.
I am really not buying the fact that nuclear is expensive because it's nuclear. I think the fears around it, the overregulation and opposition to it make it costly. Obviously, there have been plenty of plants that were profitable.

Also, nuclear fusion is possibly the cleanest energy source we could get. If we touch this, we might have a real path forward.
I am not an epidemiologist (it took me three tries to even spell it correctly), but here's my baseless internet speculation. Maybe seasonal coronaviruses have this short-lived immunity because they've been been exposed to a lot of selective pressure for it. If our bodies produced long-term immunity to a coronavirus, it'd tend to die out, while ones that only induce short-term immunity would tend to survive by re-circulating. So maybe it's sort of obvious that common coronaviruses would have short-term immunity, but that doesn't really tell us much about a random novel coronavirus? Or is that crazy?
I do actually agree with you. It is very easy to be radical in your beliefs (in either direction) when you don't need to interact with the people that they effect. There are plenty of "ivory tower" leftists. The difference is that I do believe that those leftists are seeking to find solidarity with the oppressed, though not always successfully. Sometimes they miss the mark, and there are plenty examples of shitty behavior, but I think that they're heading in the right direction.

I also think that it's unfortunate it's so easy to mistake a critique like that as an attack of the left as a whole. Leftist policy should always have the goal of materially making peoples lives better. We should ruthlessly measure and criticize whether we are in fact succeeding in that, both by the numbers and by the lived experience of the people they effect.

The current form of discourse in America is so hyper-partisan as to make that sort of critique almost impossible to do in public, as it comes off as a show of weakness rather than an opportunity for evolution. It's painful.
Spritely Goblins looks so good I'll be pinching it at a later date!

I'd be keen to see what your thoughts are on transactional logs here- you're using snapshots so technically you could do a transaction log, which in turn can be used to help resolve distributed remote call issues eg. if you have 2 nodes and a split-brain scenario you can use the transaction log with a (vector) clock and defined types to resolve the split when connectivity is restored.

Additionally, do you have any thoughts on GC of objects? I'd have thought that Object Capability Security would factor into this.
Founder Sold His Company for $500M, Started a Different Kind of Incubator
I think I can accept that. I honestly don’t use it much. It was more for my better half, as our four year old Samsung killed itself the other day.

I’m more excited about the HDMI 2.1 and variable refresh for the new Nvidia cards.
Iceland, Land of the Vikings (1930s travelogue)
For the German speakers, this podcast is a few years old but super interesting interview with scientist working on it:
https://alternativlos.org/36/
Disney laying off 28,000
The device wouldn't live long enough for the question of legality to come up.

You don't deal with it by law. You deal with it by refusing to be treated like that - by physically destroying the device, if needed.
Seconding this. I like the Arctis line by SteelSeries.

The only exception I can think of is if your environment is exceptionally quiet -- It's probably not -- or if your mic/computer have better audio filtering then most.
...not in my experience? Herman Miller apparently sued them back in 2015 for supposedly claiming that refurbs and open-box used stuff was new, but if the complaint was founded then, it certainly isn't any more. I was never in any doubt that I was buying a refurbished chair, and for paying half what a new one would cost, the quality of the chair I got still means that as far as I'm concerned I came out ahead on the deal.
Going beyond that, even if it is superior, why should the game console model be illegal?
Literally the primary goal is optimising the technology enough to get more energy out than energy in. Without that singular goal achieved the field has no purpose at all. It's not like theres already workable systems and they're just focusing on pushing the levels a step further just because.
They actually largely came about because people protested and demanded to be heard.

Ignoring that your statements are optimistic at best. Some gay people are accepted into mainstream society. Anti-war activists absolutely have recently still been considered terrorists. Hell, anti-RACISM activists are actively being called terrorists by the government right now which goes to the next thing, which is that segregation as a legal concept has ended but turning neighbourhoods white is still absolutely a thing.
This right here. This has been my position since the beginnings of the stirrings of the discontent that social media was powering years ago.

I think that this is why there has been such a push back by each of the demographics and movements that you listed. They each have a voice and can be more powerfully organized than ever before albeit in some cases a more superficial basis hence the rise of cancel culture.

Traditionally if you wanted to get a way from push back in your locale you moved. Now that is not an option since so much of your speech is tied to a identifiable account that follows you hence the social cooling.

I think this time of change is a phase of growing pains that might last generations that will see us wrestle with these issues for a long time.
I’ve met & played games with some interesting founders on Supertribe – excited to see where it goes!
Existing browser engines (Chromium, WebKit, Gecko) definitely have a lot of cruft in them for compatibility purposes. An engine designed to be much lighter weight and modern would be a great fit for embedding into applications.

As opposed to writing a new engine from scratch (Servo), I wonder how feasible it would be to fork one of these existing engines and modularize its contents? The ability to start from (close to) zero and then pick and choose which features you want in your engine would be pretty attractive to lots of developers. The application that never expects to play any sort of media or access any peripherals could exclude the respective components from the build entirely.
This is also why I refuse to use any Samsung product if I can avoid it. I was an early adopter of 4K and their tvs at the time were very expensive. Those tvs ended up getting ads patched in - and even if you "opted out" of the yahoo agreement they still found ways to advertise by using the system notifications to push gamespot. Of course Samsung denied it which was the final straw for me. Plus all of their fridges have a known issue they refuse to fix (there's a class action lawsuit over it).

It's kinda sad that people are just now noticing how bad the ads are. They were bad back 6+ years ago - especially when they tried to sneak ads into videos played back from plex.
Hmm. I shall keep an eye on it. I run Ubnt network gear at home, so if it needs to be taught a lesson I shall be happy to do so.