skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those overly simplistic views that doesn't take the underlying laws and incentives into account.

Sure, it's bean counters. So then go a step further, and ask yourself: why are the bean counters afraid to take risks on fresh creative content? What market forces are driving them to bet solely on licensed shlock in the post-2000 world? What changed?

If the publishing industry is overwhelmed with a flood of writers--it very much is--well, please ask "why." Dig into the reasons behind the indie author gold rush.

There's a great in-depth recent history of the publishing industry here: https://www.wattpad.com/869503247-so-you-want-a-fandom-publi...

Quick and dirty summary:

Amazon opened its floodgates in 2009, when it offered 70% royalties. Traditional publishing gives authors somewhere around 5% royalties, when all is said and done. That is how the gold rush started.

As for publishers betting on tried and true best-sellers... that started earlier, when several laws in the 1980s caused a major consolidation of businesses, including publishers and booksellers. A law got changed, and Barnes & Noble became the arbiter of what got shelf space.

There is a lot to this history.
Also similar to Cloudflare One which was just announced: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-one/

I think moving away from VPN's is gaining more adoption and a good thing overall.
> I have an old SE...

So... you've already got compatible earpods? What's the problem?
You might benefit most from speaking to a counselor to work on your self-image.
It wouldn’t prove they were authentic. It would just prove they were sent through gmail’s servers. If you trusted gmail then it would prove the username, time and content was legitimate.

All it looks like to me is some Russian username. I don’t see how it ties to a real person. I haven’t read the article so maybe the post explains that bit.
To be fair I've maintained for a while now that the reason Apple uses lightning on the phones is because it's quite frankly much more durable than USB-C.
> Our EHR enables doctors to measure how patients are doing in between appointments via an integrated patient mobile app to drive personalized, improved clinical decision-making. For example, we can use data science to automatically detect symptom exacerbation or improvement (from patient-reported outcomes or functional metrics such as activity levels) and get them in for treatments at the right time.

The problem with patient-reported outcomes or other metrics, is that you are relying on the patient. This trap already exists for the vast majority of people suffering from mental health issues in the United States: in order to conquer your issues you basically need to not have them in the first place. Navigating (maybe battling) insurance, out-of-pocket bills, finding doctors who will take you seriously, and so forth, is really taxing, and when you are already struggling it can be Too Much.

I saw, second-hand, some of the surveys that Stanford sent to their disabled patient, which I would suspect would be used in the same way. The surveys are tiring, exhausting, and frustrating. It's frustrating to be asked the same questions over and over again while you tread water, and have to admit the same shitty answers, whether it's pain or depression or any other miserable symptom.

I am curious what you are doing here that is wholly different from what most institutions are already doing.
I have seen a third conjecture tracker that displayed odds of current(?) collisions as arcs plotted in real time. Do you know what this system is called? I searched for 10+ minutes and can't find it.
Efficient Evenly Distributed Sampling of Time Series Records in PostgreSQL
I don't need to; they just pulled those accessories out of boxes they've been selling for years.
Stranger Things is ironically a show that should have been just its first season.
I'm not sure that's always practical. Consider the average Rails or Symfony app - you'd have to include quite a few files (even if you add entire directories at a time).
Motorola literally sells an Android phone for £200 with 5G. I just don't buy it.
This looks wonderful. I spend a lot of time and energy trying to keep people from breaking modern infra with 1980s IP-based security models, and this could be another tool in the arsenal to help with that.
Contracting or consultancy could be a good fit.
Ask HN: Data-based real estate investing
Does anybody have good book, article, and/or data resources for a very data-driven analysis approach to real estate investing?
As the others noted, those platforms are all deprecated now. Even when they weren't, they didn't give anywhere near the experience of other headsets.

[I've had the Google cardboard, DayDream and the Samsung Gear headsets.]
Isn't there an online version of Spotify? Doesn't seem like it would be overly complex to login with the users credentials and scrape the data, much like how some of the federated banking APIs work.
Facebook at this point is a publisher. If they want to avoid controversy: go back to ONLY having a chronological timeline and only limit posts using spam prevention tools.

They are guiding the narrative. People need to stop using this platform. There are tons of other platforms. Sure your friends aren't on it. Who gives a shit! The Internet was way better back when we just had random chatrooms and you talked to more random people.

Stop using Facebook. Stop using Twitter. There's Mastodon, Pleroma, or even tons of small walled gardened sites if you prefer. There needs to be a diaspora away from these big platforms that are increasingly turning to crap.
The point of end-to-end encryption is to prevent a government from being able to access your communications afterwards. Zoom or any other private company is much more able to implement a standard technical solution like end-to-end encryption than to resist legal subpoenas for information they have but would prefer to not have.
But this new phone has different components. How do you know that the price of the phone without accessories is the same as before?
No amount of money can eliminate the second law of thermodynamics, and a finite timeline always comes to an end.
This is probably ~ 6 years old.

Before they hired the author, I worked with the Sketchfab team to deliver a version of the app that published to Sketchfab https://labs.sketchfab.com/sculptfab/
Whether E2E introduces technical barriers or difficulties, or not, wasn't my angle. If it makes things Impossible or Hard, then this should be factually stated in the documentation, right after the statement that the service is not (entirely) E2E.
This is survivorship bias. At 10 years old your friends are picking among the best serviced and cared for examples.
I mean, their previous path was "it's fine for us to profit handsomely from dishonest propaganda since we're not personally responsible for it, even if that propaganda gets implicated in the theft of an election or a genocide campaign." This turns out to have its own issues! And it's not specifically about a leftist/progressive agenda: it is plain unethical to profit off propaganda which you know to be deceitful and dangerous, regardless of what political intent.

While it is true that Twitter has cracked the whip against the right far more than the left since they started regulation of misinformation, this is reflective of Twitter being unbiased - the problem is the 21st-century Western right.
This is not true according to Apple's own website. They say the discount is instantly applied, and that the full price you'd pay is $699.

> $699.00

> Includes $30 AT&T instant discount

> One-time payment
> But it's a different phone with different components?

iPhone SE is still $399
The Lightning cable is Lightning->USB-C. So all the old USB-A chargers won't work...

Which means that people will through this cable in a drawer and use their old one (if it still works properly).

One reason I loved getting a new iPhone was getting a new cable, charger and headphones since my old one's were usually beat after 2-3 years. So this is a huge pain in the wallet, as well as inconvenient.
Oh, i definitely agree that as a private company Twitter is well within its rights to censor what it believes is "misinformation" but an important line has been crossed today by Twitter and Facebook.

A story about potential corruption of a candidate for the US president has been censored by two of the largest information brokers in the world. Also interestingly, no denial from Joe Biden about the authenticity of these emails. Wouldnt that be the first thing you'd do if this wasnt true? lol
Anything from Zal Batmanglij is out of this world. You should check his early films. I've watched "Another Earth" back in the day for instance and while maybe right now, there is more popular stuff that followed, it was very different back when it appeared.

I guess it was before things like "Melancholia" and "Interstellar".

This guys is a genius.
Yes, but there has never been differential pricing based on carrier selection in the past (at least in the US). If anything, it was more expensive to go with AT&T/Verizon because they charged you a hefty (and completely unnecessary) 'upgrade fee' — even though upgrading takes zero employee intervention on their end.
Yeah. When something is under that much pressure, the failure modes tend to be..interesting.
Does Telegram have E2EE for group discussions yet or is it still only for 1:1 ?

Honest question, I haven't checked recently.
Second code example:

fileURL = saveFile("export.csv", jsonStr);

(you should be writing csvStr to the file, not jsonStr)
On shore wind is cheaper and more durable. So use it first. North Carolina is part of PJM and would benefit from wind throughout the region. Now the transmission costs might be high enough that off shore could make sense in NC if on shore is not an option. So then you need to look at increasing transmission or building something local.
It's tempting and enticing to want to think that way, however, lockdown in corrupt South Africa was and is harsh and brutal to the extent that people aren't allowed to roam freely in nature. People and children were arrested, assaulted, handcuffed, etc. for taking a walk or going for a quick surf on a deserted beach.
The day I read the news about Oculus requiring a FB account in the future, that sucker fell right off my shopping list. It's sad because it seems like a really solid piece of hardware.
The big difference here is that Google, for now, doesn't care if you create multiple accounts while Facebook requires one and only one account that is tied to your real life identity.

If I could create a fake FB account and not be banned, this wouldn't be an issue at all.
Why should they have dropped the price on the phone?

They are clearly stating what does and does not come in the box at the price. They clearly state the price. You either think what comes is worth it in the box or you don’t. They could exclude the power adapter while simultaneously increasing the price by $200 per unit. If people do not like it, they won’t buy it.

I don’t understand why there is this expectation that something is “owed” to the consumer market. If this was a bad decision on their part, and it drives a lot of consumers away from their products, it will show up in their sales numbers and they will course correct. Sort of how they did on their Mac keyboards.

My guess is that no one will care about the missing power adapter. I certainly don’t. If it increases their margin, good for them. If it is offsetting increased build expenses elsewhere, fine.

Also I would imagine $30 on a $700-$1000 device doesn’t really move the needle for most buyers. My sales taxes on that device will add up to more than that.
The whip antenna thing is absolutely not true, at least for smartphones. I had a Palm Treo and multiple BlackBerries on Verizon, predating the iPhone, which definitely didn't have whip antennas. The Treo had a little nub, and the BlackBerries had no external antenna.
How is it not your real phone number? I currently have no cell service on a device. It only uses WiFi. I have a VoIP app on it. People use it, it rings my phone, I answer it.

People's definition of "real" is so arbitrary in a way that suits them, but it's no less correct than the answer I provide.
yes fair, was only suggesting that this controversy kind of feeds on itself and will keep growing.
Perhaps essentially the implied framework needed to model "an intelligence" as a prerequisite to encode a human general intelligence.

Of course I would expect a "chemical emulation or decoding" to be needed for that approach as a minimium requirement as physical brains aren't in a vacuum and have all sorts of hormonal influnces. And emulation is tricky even when dealing with simpler things like computers or Hawking's Voice emulator where the original worked based upon the assumption of transistor noise.

Even if we could get every last neuron modeled accurately without the hormonal issues there would be major emotional differences from things like not having any fear or dopamine and a configuration that expects them.
I don't know how I feel about it given how blatantly the current administration lies and the lengths they are willing to go to manufacture lies. Given that scenario, should we not just assume that everything they say is a lie until proven otherwise?
I just found that with Hugo it was really hard to get exactly what I wanted in terms of directory structure and theming.

E.g. just getting a simple child page listing at "domain.com/something/" to automatically list all child pages took hours and hours and I still couldn't get it to work. It literally had a blank page.

It felt over-engineered and they'd crow about speed improvements or some niche new whizz-bang feature or whatever for their new releases when I was there still just trying (and failing) to get what I feel is a totally fundamental basic feature working.

I also found creating a custom theme from scratch in Hugo quite complicated with archetypes or whatever they were called.

It felt like the project was more interested in the engineering challenge of the site generator rather than making something that is usable (which is totally 100% fine for them to choose that path) - after all directory listings seems like a basic feature to me yet it was apparently impossible without considerable fiddling around with _index files or other custom nonsense. Everything just felt a little bit more complex and laborious than it should have been to get a simple 4 or 5 layer site up and running exactly the way I wanted it.

I am sure that if I kept at it and kept trawling the support forums and posting questions and hanging out on IRC someone could have helped me ... but life is too short for that and I've got things to do so it just wasn't worth fighting with.

Jekyll on the other hand is super-simple and I was able to port entire sites - complete with a from-scratch custom theme + CSS - in under a day, and have them look and act exactly how I wanted.

I only picked Hugo over Jekyll originally as at the time I was a fan of golang, so I was not really that wedded to Hugo for another reason.
> Evolution has non-death mechanisms too

Very importantly: different reproduction rates. This is already more important in human evolution than premature death.
Did you click my snapcast link? It natively supports Spotify connect and Airplay, so you'd connect your mixer to the Pi's 3.5mm jack (or use a supported DAC).

You can also fashion a Chromecast audio out of a normal (video) Chromecast and an HDMI->audio adapter if you're looking to preserve the same experience.
I agree with your points here. Expectation setting is key.
It's different because it was written by a major American newspaper. Twitter should not be exercising editorial control over the news.
Send lol768 a free copy.
I've heard this before and so I tried it, but unfortunately it was not true in my case. They didn't seem to give a crap about that. In one case they actually told me "you should run it through insurance so you get their negotiated price. otherwise it will a lot more expensive"
How are they determining that it is a VoIP number? I don't have any insight on this, so any info would be appreciated
I see it not as escapism, but as steps to learn how to take care of a limited resource. Large-scale geoengineering will be necessary sooner or later on Earth. However, it almost certainly has failure modes that we don't know about, and won't know about until we can experiment with it. Testing the effects on Earth, with nearly 8 billion people, is wildly reckless. Testing the effects on Mars or Venus, though costlier to implement, has the advantage of not risking those 8 billion lives.
Every morning:

- 1 pint milk
- coffee
- 1/4 cup oatmeal

During the day, a big salad consisting of the following:

- kale
- romaine lettuce
- baby spinach
- butter lettuce
- arugula
- carrots
- mushrooms
- sweet potato ribbons (uncooked)
- shaved parmesan cheese
- sunflower seeds
- pumpkin seeds
- peanuts
- salt
- pepper
- unbelievable amounts of olive oil
- avocado

Snacks:

- apples (1 or 2)
- blueberries

Once a week I might have eggs & bacon, or a quest bar (low carb), or diet soda (I still have a sweet tooth)
> Also interestingly, no denial from Joe Biden about the authenticity of these emails. Wouldnt that be the first thing you'd do if this wasnt true?

I assume most politicians at the presidential candidate level have some sort of PR team that works to come up with some official response to these sorts of controversies
I never found typing rate to be the limiting factor in software development. Organizing code as a whole and making sure the code itself will be easy to follow six months from now takes more time and effort. Not to mention tricky bugs that take over a day to hunt down and slay. I wonder if "The Literate Programmer" made touch typing a priority?
IIRC their web site wasn't updated to reflect the facts, either. In my opinion this means they lied twice - one after being caught out.
Manually scraped it. I did in 2017 for learning purpose. I have recently discovered their API. Will go through it soon.
The features of the iPhone 12 family were almost certainly locked in place by the time the pandemic got started.
> The Lightning cable is Lightning->USB-C

Nonsense. I have tons of USB-A to Lightning cables. They cost dollars.

> since my old one's were usually beat after 2-3 years

What on earth are you doing to them?
Ah, thank you for clarifying! Yes, I see your point now. At the same time, the second link references the claim that it has been argued that the Zaanstreek was the first industrialized region in the world, starting a few decades before the period that we usually consider the First Industrial Revolution (which is also what I quoted in the other comment). I'm no expert though, and I doubt it's a universally accepted view.
For the record, it's not on the Pro models — just on the cheaper models. They're not "nearly a $1,000", and the fact that they're only doing it on some models shows what an artificial giveaway this is. There is no reason for it other than economics: they think they can get an extra few bucks out of these models, but they don't think they can raise the price even higher on the Pro models.
Indeed. Our recommendation with Vault now is to use the built-in storage[1] to break that dependency. If you must use Consul, we recommend separate clusters.

One way we're simplifying this a lot for people is the introduction of our managed services[2][3]. We understand not everyone can use a managed service though!

Boundary will integrate fairly deeply with Consul/Vault but these integrations will be optional.

[1]: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/configuration/storage/raft
[2]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hcp-consul-public-beta
[3]: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/vault-on-the-hashicorp-cloud-...
I am not sure what you mean by "Europeans", but Germany certainly was no stranger to buying phones together with a subscription.
I completely agree that bending over backwards for users is a competitive advantage and customers won't forget it. But that does need to somehow reconcile with your availability and life outside of work—that's the rub for small bootstrapped companies.
They had an additional fm synth chip that was not present in the us and European models from what I remember.
In a normal situation, publication would be followed by scrutiny, possibly correction, more information. Incorrect information isn’t such a big problem then.

One major problem right now is that it’s 3 weeks from an election. Scrutiny and fact checks would risking being only after the election. I’m happy to see the requirements for credibility tightened right now, for issues related to the election.
Election administrators are pretty good at projecting turnout. Historical data and all that. In the year 2020, there's exactly no reason any jurisdiction should have anything less than perfection running poll sites.

The only slack (goodwill) I'm willing to grant admins this cycle is the massive pivot to postal ballots on short notice, while fending off widespread sabotage and harrassment.

Postal balloting is very different from running poll sites. Oregon and Washington experienced a lot of growing pains. And they made the transition gradually. Even so, our admins experienced a lot of burnout.

I imagine OR and WA admins are in a lot of Zoom calls with noobs nationwide. Alas, some jurisdictions don't want to learn.

I expect 2020's election to be the biggest fubar imaginable.
Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et. al. are now in Orwell's land of "Ministry of Truth" .. they are telling the people what is reliable "news" and what is not.

It's getting pretty insane out there.
Sometimes, I spend a lot of time creating very good abstractions only to find that nothing will make use of it for next 10 years. You'd be better off duplicating some 8 lines of code. It is not ideal but you could be spending your energy elsewhere where it matters and abstractions do actually pay off.
I tried to prepare for preorder at Apple Store App like they direct, but I couldn't find a way to finish the process because it won't show the sim-free option (I'm on google fi). Anyone else had this issue?
Both of the from todays PoV somewhat mind-boggling phrases meant very much in mid 70ties.

The fourth generation bit probably refers to some combination of being real CPU with (somewhat famously) "almost parallel" ALU, requiring minimal external support circuitry and not requiring multiple power supplies with complex sequencing requirements.

And 208bits was quite relevant, because for the time it is somewhat large amount of flipflops/SRAM. For context: 16kbit DRAM chips were first introduced in the same year as Z80.
Brain-inspired computing boosted by new concept of completeness
"The current FTP implementation in Google Chrome has no support for encrypted connections (FTPS), nor proxies. Usage of FTP in the browser is sufficiently low that it is no longer viable to invest in improving the existing FTP client. In addition more capable FTP clients are available on all affected platforms."

Says it all right there
Einstein is misquoted as saying compound interest is one of the most powerful forces in the universe.

Procrastination is surely in the top five.
There is a lot of circumstantial evidence here. Why would Hunter biden be paid thousands of dollars a month to work at a random Ukrainian energy company other than to provide access to Joe Biden. Hunter Biden has no expertise running a energy utility.
Yeah, I don't even have a graphics card in this laptop and it handled it fan-less the entire time with a smooth framerate. Seems very well made.