skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if that means we'll start seeing iPhones with carrier branding.
ISA-over-USB – STM32 – Real ISA VGA Graphics Card in a VM
Why doesn't the US have universal laws that cover price transparency in general?

There are so many industries that get into shady territory: rental cars ("facility use fees"), hotels ("resort fees"), internet access ("mandatory equipment rental fees"), even SF restaurants ("SF mandate").

I'm saying Apple is wrong, and so are many other companies, and shouldn't we have fixed this with a law by this point?
actually it is on a phone that costs $699 i.e. a 4.3% price increase
I'm explaining why teachers in some schools do this, I still think it is stupid and ridiculous.

Worth noting though: no, I don't think you can deal with it on a case-by-case basis at the level at which this occurs.

What the better teachers seemed to do is find a way to set up a system with students who would lock & unlock the classroom door for students who needed to go to the bathroom. (the door was never locked from the inside, just the outside)
There's a lot of money to be had by making sure Americans are divided and not united against corporate interests. In addition to limiting corporate lobbying (including fixing the lobbyist/regulator revolving door), campaign donations, etc, I would really like to see more research into how media and social media influence polarization, and perhaps some regulation around social media curation.
There isn't a wireless attachment for the Index.
Zoom continues to astound me. I am constantly dumbfounded when I see articles about Zoom breaking records, and even more shocked when I see their market valuation.

A market cap of $129 billion (with a B) with annual revenues of 600 million? I feel like this is a crazy gone bad joke, how in the world do they expect to justify that kind of valuation?

Can someone please explain what is their current business plan, and what is their future one? They don't have ad space to generate revenue, they don't have a viable subscription based model, they are not a real B2B product, and they are not going to keep adding users forever.
This was once in a lifetime situation where a majority of people were using it, and they still weren't able to capitalize on them in a way of monetizing them.

I feel like they hit their peak without reaping the milestones and achievements along the way (except getting out like a bandit from the stock market).

Am I taking crazy pills or?
Small typo in the second example. Trying to save the Jason object into the CSV file.
One little correction, I think: the MD/Genesis had one PCM channel so it could play samples. Hence digitized speech in some games, for example. But, yes, it had nowhere near the capability to manipulate samples (aside from involving the CPU, of course!) that the SF/SNES's chip had.

What an interesting time when there were so many valid extremely different approaches to problems like "making sound" that led to such different outcomes.
Agreed, but the self-driving one is the only place where I could differentiate between the two with reasonable confidence due to decent domain and insider knowledge.

The acquisitions of Cruise, Nutonomy and the like were so inflated for the tech they had, that you can almost call it being fleeced. It was a good idea to get these companies as acqui-hires, but for between $0.5-1.5 billion the big companies got algorithms that would be obsolete in a year and a few talent employees, who they could have obtained for faaaar cheaper. (Zoox by amazon at least made some sense)

What is hilarious, is that Waymo is still so far ahead in the data game that I doubt it is possible for them to even catch up. Self-driving has become a tech problem, and suddenly the likes of Uber, Google and Apple find themselves far better equipped to handle what is now a data science problem than any of these traditional companies.

My prediction:

The breakthrough moment for self-driving will come from Waymo or Amazon's Zoox (the ones with tons of 3d data). The 'winning' company will then licence the tech to every 3rd party car manufacturer and you will have an android like self-driving ecosystem, where they are all more or less the same.
If you want to create container images for an application you wrote yourself in a commonly used programming language (Go, Python), consider using Bazel with rules_docker:

https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_docker

rules_docker allows you to create byte-for-byte reproducible container images on your system, without even having a Docker daemon installed. So much cleaner to use than 'docker build' once you get the hang of it!
The first four models of iPhone were exclusive to Cingular/AT&T in the US until 2011. The first unlocked devices were sold in 2012.
I assume you're talking about the James Cameron Avatar, and not disparaging the beloved Last Air Bender!
On the Twitter website, clicking the link to the NY Post article also sends you to a warning page with the message:

> Warning: this link may be unsafe

> https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...

>The link you are trying to access has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe, in accordance with Twitter’s URL Policy. This link could fall into any of the below categories:

> * malicious links that could steal personal information or harm electronic devices

> * spammy links that mislead people or disrupt their experience

> * violent or misleading content that could lead to real-world harm

> * certain categories of content that, if posted directly on Twitter, are a violation of the Twitter Rules
Bernays rebranded "propaganda" due to taint from German use of the tactics, yes, but Imperial Germany under Wilhelm II in WWI, not the Nazis in WWII.

https://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american...
Twitter, Like Facebook, to Remove Posts Denying the Holocaust
Code Reviews Are Changes Too
24 hours can make it hard to coordinate times to talk (maybe they were expecting you to call back that day but not the next one), but is still great service in my field. Responding within a few hours and in person is definitely going the extra mile and will win you fans.
There are a lot of things the US should do.

Our government is down at the moment, and on-call has no idea how to resolve the issue.
Good luck paying an Iranian mail-order shoemaker... It's not hypothetical: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-iranian-shoe-store-trade-sa...

(EDIT) Sorry for my rude reply. Your point about intra-national transfers stands.
The prequel and new generation Star Wars movies are SW content and are mediocre to downright criminally awful. I’d given up on SW completely. Yet The Mandalorian delighted me and I’m craving for more. So no, clearly being content isn’t enough by a long shot.
While I doubt there's a server in each branch managing account balances, there's is some kind of branch-related weirdness involved in bank account management at some banks.

With some banks, if you open a bank account at a branch in one time zone but later move to another time zone, your transactions will still be processed according to the business hours where the account was opened.

I know someone who is in this situation and they can't make transactions for several hours towards the end of the day (after midnight in the originating branch's timezone) because their bank's online banking front end can't agree with the bank's backend system about what day it is.
Listening to U2 Album >>> Listening to Verizon talk about 5g
School times in many areas are set to please teachers' unions; this was the subject of some recent controversy in California (but the teachers won).
Would people like Mad Men if it were in today's setting?

Setting is a big draw. I don't just watch Don Draper and Pete Campbell be petty, I escape to the 1960s and experience the ups and downs (more downs honestly) of the time period.

Likewise with the Mandalorian. A bar fight is a bar fight, yet the opening scene of the Mandalorian is a bar fight in the Star Wars universe, with a different set of rules and personalities. Being immersed in that itself is fun, it's why Galaxy's Edge at Disneyworld is so great. The fact that it has enough of a plot to be interesting sort of just seals the deal.
That's all well and good if you trust other people. FWIW this guy allows you to download his app, and it's open source and a very impressive achievement. In general though, I'd much prefer having an old version of an app that works (I'm still using Max 2016 or something) than the joy of waking up one day and have things be worse than they were before. All the things you mentioned in my view are a small price to pay for peace of mind that you're not beholden to someone else's whims. (See the story about Oculus currently on the front page)
This seems like an good way to get people to contrive as many experiences as possible for this relatively arbitrary metric. To me it seems totally irrelevant, but it seems like American universities are more of a packaged 'experience' than for specialized training specifically.
Don't forget neutrons! Not as quick to measure, and not so good with very small samples, but well-suited to combinations of extreme environments beyond just pressure, such as temperature, magnetic field, voltage gradient etc. https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Pearl.aspx
According to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4635662/ the only non-specific cause of death for senility (R54) is insufficient for cause of death and must be split into predicted causes if no positively identified disease or disorder was the cause of death.

Postponing death is a matter of treating diseases and disorders and preventing accidents and violence.

Evolution has non-death mechanisms too; bacteria exchange plasmids. With genetic modifications we're beyond the need for death anyway if we want species-level improvements.
This is clearly listed on their site and the vast majority of customers buy through major carriers anyways.
Parent and grandparent and GGP are all correct. The snail game is built into all(?) of the system revisions and accessed as such, later systems had other "pack-in" games burnt into ROM. I bought my SMS 22 years ago, so I'm not 100% sure but I think mine came with a cartridge of Hang-On/Safari Hunt, rather than being built into the machine.
Like the whole AT&T "5Ge" thing that Apple gave in on? :(
How about there being nothing misleading at all? It ain’t rocket surgery.
Show HN: Library to stream updates to React components from ES6 generators
It's the corruption of "literally" in "literally sleeping with". My friend didn't realize that this meant sleeping in that person's bed with them, until I explained it.
Sounds like that would work for services that send a verification code via SMS and ask you to enter it elsewhere, but not services that demand a reply. Luckily most 2FA is the former, but I've seen the latter with things like verifying flagged credit card transactions (although they have non-SMS alternatives).
Friend at Yale was a bang-path email relay in 1987. Can't remember the structure, the actual address or how it worked.
For me, plugging it in worked flawlessly, getting it to work with Bluetooth took some fiddling.

Got it to work but it was one of those Linux things where I don't know what I did to get it to work, but it works now, and the next time I set up a new machine, it will be another few more hours of my life.

But yeah Wacom Intuos + Krita = so much fun.
Better work-life balance lies in notifications system design
That's assuming everyone buys the cheaper version with no memory upgrades. Apple's average sales price is significantly higher than that. This seems marginal.
Normally I'd agree, but in this case there is one possible justification: Verizon is the only carrier supporting the highest-speed variant of 5G, at least for now and the foreseeable future. And Apple wanted to highlight those speeds.
There's a lot to complain about for python. But I see genuine hate. People, groups and companies who literally refuse to use it.

I had an interviewer tell me that I couldn't code up the solution in python. I think it might be because python is so easy that people look down on it.
I would like to think of some of these issues deeply. I don't work in this domain but interested due to personal and family reasons.

Let's stay in touch somewhere if you want.
> So the benefits to the landlord is more money.

Here's the difference: the landlord can already choose release you from your lease if you pay a fee, there doesn't have to be a clause about that.

Adding a clause to the lease forces the landlord to let you leave if you pay the money, which in situations like this can hurt the landlord quite a bit.

So there's really no upside and only a downside. The only time you'd need to include a clause like that is to make the lease more attractive, which in SF until recently has not been necessary.
Apple is basically saying;

You will likely already have a charger and a USB-A to Lightning Cable. Use those.

If you dont, the package comes with USB-C to Lightning, now you can get a USB-C 18W Fast Charger at a reduced price of $19.
Elon Musk impersonation scammer running rampant on Twitter
I am posting this here in the faint hope a twitter employee will see this and disable the account

hacked account:

https://twitter.com/iosuaopeta55/with_replies

elon account being spammed

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1316454051693895680

this has been going on too long, tons of $ stolen

EDIT: https://twitter.com/iosuaopeta55/with_replies has been neutralized

the spammer is back with a new hacked verified account:

https://twitter.com/DDTemple/with_replies
Is it fully green? Or are they trading polluting heavy metals and chemicals and co2 from mining operations for co2 produced from internal combustion engines?

It seems like they are externalizing their environmental impact, like a traditional multi-national but with the added business model of selling credits earned from selling electrics.

Or am I wrong? Is the pollution created by these huge batteries being netted out from their credits?
It's kind of a moot point since the government already has backdoors built into operating systems, hardware chips, browsers (therefore can enable screen-sharing + other hardware settings remotely), etc.

"True" E2E encryption doesn't really exist nowadays, at least in the context of being spied on by governments.

Edit: Direct sources don't really exist for obvious reasons. Google it, and there's plenty of articles to help you read between the lines. If you think the govt isn't capable or interested in this, you're being naive.
This isn't cool, but....

Every slide that has a price has the keyword "From" right before it.
I know of many people wishing to use or own a business like spotify. The barrier to entry is very high. Agreements with record companies being the biggest hurdle.

Without competitors, giving you any customer service is unnecessary if demand for the product is high.

Spend your money on a vpn.
Do you have a link explaining that? Cement is made by baking limestone in a kiln, so the energy inputs are really high.

I thought it was up there with smelting.
Thanks for the feedback. Yep it’s definitely something to consider. Thank you
What Went Down at the Apple Event
It's a slap in the face to T-Mobile which has had nationwide 5G for a while.
We might as well assume that everyone buys the pro and then there is no markup at all.
I hate to be that guy, but you can hardly blame them when there are hardly any consequences. I really hate what they’re doing, but the worst they get is a slap on the wrist.
No I mean x minutes to midnight.
I don't know how you figure that - the article describes it as a "plugin", which fore Postgres generally means "extension". I just checked the github repo too - pg_stat_monitor is definitely an extension, not merely a view (it includes views that build on top of the standard pg_stat_statements extension).
A lot of these cancellations are due to COVID right? Basically that was a hard reset on TV production, seems odd the article doesn't mention that till the end and only as a factor re: future cancellations.
Two things from clicking around on the beginner map:

- Sometimes I get zeros with mines next to them

- Like in OG minesweeper, it would be really helpful to be able to click/two-button click/mouse wheel click (whatever you like) on a number tile (whose mines have already been flagged) to clear all the tiles around it.
The problem is I dont see anything about the Max Camera that could not be fitted into the Pro. They both share the same Camera Module size.
That's still available from many hosting providers. It's very cheap. I run Go programs that way on Dreamhost. You're not stuck in the Perl era. I compile the executables on a Linux desktop and push them to the server. Costs under US$10/month. You can probably do 10-100 transactions per second.
Agreed. "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" basically means

"Always make sure your malicious act can be adequately explained by stupidity if you get caught"
I agree. But I suppose it does have a slight benefit that if you trust the individuals at Zoom who implemented the encryption, now you no longer need to also trust the individuals at Zoom who have access to network traffic and/or server-side code but not client application code.

This slight benefit is fairly silly, because we have no reason to give greater credibility (regarding ethics) to one set over another. At least it's a smaller set, though.
Trust me, high schools outside of the US as well. There’s something about that age span that is very exciting but aggravating at the same time. I am happy for me that I passed without major injuries, physical and mental.
Adding to the industries that get into shady territory: universities. Campus fees, "activity" fees, etc. Now apparently COVID-related fees too [1].

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/20/college-students-get-hit-wit...
Dockerfile security best practices: treat is as you would treat any linux server. :)
"We" don't like regulation these days. Airlines, for example, were treated like public utilities with tariff schedules approved by some board.

Flights were more expensive, but the business was sustainable. Now you have airlines like Norwegian Airlines where you could fly from an out of the way airport in NY to London for less than long-term parking.
yup, so it looks like $6xx rather than $7xx.
>Enabling this version of Zoom’s E2EE in your meetings disables certain features, including join before host, cloud recording, streaming, live transcription, Breakout Rooms, polling, 1:1 private chat, and meeting reactions.

So, it disables all the parts of video conferencing that make it a somewhat suitable stand-in for in-person meetings?
Going as far as boycotting Rogan because he's not being critical enough of his guests seems pretty dumb to me. It's a mainstream podcast, and he has high profile guests. No wonder he's not going to grill them.

As to the paper, I think you can poke a lot of holes in it. For example, AFAICT they found that hate speech went down, measured via the frequency of words commonly used within these subreddits. Certainly much of the decline is then attributable to the subreddit's subculture getting killed, and taking with it their slang words. It might just be that other words are in fashion now. And it's not a given that this even generalizes from deplatforming subreddits to deplatforming individuals.

So I still think it's a stretch to call it substantial research, but without getting hung up in any more details, I think the fundamental effectiveness issue with deplatforming is that by taking away the platform, you don't change people's opinions. You just won't see them talk about it anymore, and that's you as in you, the one who banned them, and no one else. They'll still be out there. It's just that now, you're sticking your fingers in your ears and going lalala (this is also mentioned in the paper). See the democrats losing to Trump in 2016 even though basically the whole mainstream media demonized him and his supporters.
> 2. Lacking desire and detachment from desire is pure semantics, as the goal is not to desire the object of your desire. See how redundant that statement is?

Technically the goal is to be able to freely choose what to do when the desire arises (instead of having a knee-jerk reaction pattern), which is very different than not having the desire.

The problem I see here is that you are trying to use words to completely define something which cannot be fully expressed in words. Buddha's teaching requires practice, not intellectual or philosophical "understanding" of the words. When you start practicing and develop awareness of the things that happen within your mind and body, only then you truly get to "know" (experience) the difference between desire and detachment from desire.

> Essentially, Buddhism is about apathy. Why? Because poor people in India at the time of the rich-kid prince had no way to address suffering through action.

In a purely philosophical, sociological or historical sense, maybe you are right. But the intention and the practice of Buddha's teachings are most definitely not about apathy in any way, even if the words can be somehow thought of as meaning that. Again, the issue is that you truly need to experience these things within you to really know them.
Facebook throttles story about email link to Biden's dealings with Ukraine
They're 5-6 years old, so I guess they might've slipped under the radar. But wouldn't they do a check when you first link your Oculus or some other app?

Regardless, I just don't see any use for Facebook besides messaging. Sad that Oculus headsets require FB accounts.

I believe that with heavy handed actions like this, Facebook will alienate Oculus buyers, which aren't your typical Facebook user. I hope that will make them change their approach.

Personally, I couldn't care less about customized ads and "relevant" notifications. But getting your account banned, with all the contacts on it, and all the purchases, is just so anti-customer I don't understand who in their right mind would do it.
Are end-users even going to have a "5G experience"? The average user isn't going to really notice faster downloads or lower latency relative to good LTE.

If anything it seems like Apple is doing the wireless carriers a favor by carrying the marketing water for 5G
It's you who is being condescending. Anyway, we both seem to agree that people -- an unknown number, and certainly not the average voter -- stand in lines for hours to vote. I acknowledge that you think it's significant that they are choosing to do so.
> US GDP fell 30% during lockdown.

which was split over the second & third quarters, so not as massively different from the Scandanavian numbers as it first appears

> If not locking down is approximately as bad as locking down, plus the lifestyle benefits of not locking down,

minus the drawback of Grandpa dying
There are so many good ideas that are trapped in the past, tens hundreds or thousands of years old.
> A topic explored in plenty of SF literature, see e.g. Altered Carbon[0] for a recent take

> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon

Not sure 2002 counts as "recent"...
I have a way more simple explanation.

Verizon and AT&T offered Apple a lot of money and lower retailer margin.

There are only three cellular providers left and their networks are roughly the same.

Verizon most definitely paid for airtime on that keynote.
> COVID-related fees

That's a dark phrase.
The corporations have been running the country since it was a nation.
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