skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Family of four. 2 remote-schooled students, 2 WFH parents.

Actual data from my firewall.

month rx | tx | total | avg. rate
------------------------+-------------+-------------+---------------
Dec '19 482.56 GiB | 139.53 GiB | 622.09 GiB | 2.00 Mbit/s
Jan '20 607.55 GiB | 139.11 GiB | 746.65 GiB | 2.39 Mbit/s
Feb '20 497.22 GiB | 125.76 GiB | 622.99 GiB | 2.14 Mbit/s
Mar '20 781.27 GiB | 162.63 GiB | 943.90 GiB | 3.03 Mbit/s
Apr '20 794.96 GiB | 107.11 GiB | 902.06 GiB | 2.99 Mbit/s
May '20 923.63 GiB | 88.38 GiB | 0.99 TiB | 3.25 Mbit/s
Jun '20 907.10 GiB | 109.46 GiB | 0.99 TiB | 3.37 Mbit/s
Jul '20 727.22 GiB | 100.19 GiB | 827.41 GiB | 2.65 Mbit/s
Aug '20 649.34 GiB | 77.79 GiB | 727.13 GiB | 2.33 Mbit/s
Sep '20 700.47 GiB | 108.37 GiB | 808.84 GiB | 2.68 Mbit/s
Oct '20 1.02 TiB | 140.51 GiB | 1.15 TiB | 3.79 Mbit/s
Nov '20 779.75 GiB | 82.85 GiB | 862.60 GiB | 3.61 Mbit/s

November isn't over yet. We are clearly within spitting distance of that cap. Luckily, we aren't Comcast customers.
* Firstly, may I ask are you using Vim extension?
* Can you please follow instructions listed here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues#... to profile the renderer process when that happens (more accurately start the profile before the hang happens and stop after). Usually extension should not block the typing so it might be something bad in the core. Once you have it captured, please file an issue

Thanks in advance for the help.
Thanks for the quick reply! Like I mentioned, I would gladly pay the annual fee right now, since NotePlan looks _very_ close to what I’m looking for.

But I’m pretty invested in using GitHub for my notes, and so I only need an editor to be an editor, not managing/syncing my notes.

I’ll keep an eye on NotePlan in the future. Awesome job on the app and congrats on the launch!
Yeah, I remember at least one report coming out after the (first? Maybe the 3G?) iphone came out of people receiving thousand-page bills that had to be sent in boxes because they detailed every data connection, back when they nickel-and-dimed you, either by time spent connected or by the kB.

It definitely seems absurd now in the midst of XX GB plans! (They just found different ways of charging you in silly ways, seemingly.)
Invents interstellar travel. Travels 17,000 light years across the universe. Places art work as token of greeting. First contact with human civilization. Alien scientists begin deciphering message. "It reads, 'I am from the Bureau of Land Management...'"
Yeah. The difference between making a funny movie and just "being funny" is the difference between Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters (2016).
> There literally are no valid use-cases (other than buying heroin) in crypto today.

Even as a hyperbole, this seems odd. The various decentralized name resolution blockchains seem to be a valid use case, for instance. Sure, it's still possible for project politics to cause issues (like the hard fork), it's just significantly costlier.

Crypto has been overhyped, but I think it's a mistake to say that there are "literally no valid use-cases," especially in a world where FAANGs seem to want to exert ever-greater control over what we can do with their systems. Crypto has a horrible UX at the moment ("first, you need to set up your wallet...") and it has an underdeveloped infrastructure, resulting in awkward centralized single points of failure (e.g. crypto exchanges). On top of that, no one has developed a "killer app" that could appeal to the mainstream computer user. As a consequence, the prices of crypto vary wildly, since the "real economy" seems to be dwarfed by simple speculation. The whole space right now is filled with criminals and ideologues and scalawags. (I imagine most of the ICO fraudsters have run out of coin.)
Apologies if I've misread your ellipses, but I noticed that map and really liked it. No need to show the other 47 states; the intended information is highlighted better by leaving them off.
>> Is this opt in or opt out?

That's the frustrating part. It reads like opt-out, but when I go check the settings on the app as per the instructions it looks like it's already disabled. But it says "Coming Soon"?

So am I supposed to check the app for the next couple weeks until it's forced turned-on, and then disable it?

Definitely not what I would call "Customer Obsession". If anyone knows how to cripple the echo via firewall rules, while still keeping most of its functionality, please let me know.
Is it easy to switch from manual to automatic ..on an everyday basis...or is it like muscle memory?
How do people find bugs?
Or you could listen to the Flanders and Swann version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnbiVw_1FNs
Can anyone recommend additional analysis from a French perspective in English?
Unfortunately, people sometimes idolize the assholery because they associate it with being brilliant and successful. You can be kind and visionary!
>A “do nothing” climate change scenario will be bad for Bangladesh, but not as bad as hampering economic growth.

Citation very much needed. Everything I've read about global warming tells me the eventual GDP impact of 'business as usual' warming will dwarf everything else. It's not just the flooding. It's the rise in wet bulb temps, the droughts, the forest fires, etc. This does not magically end at 2100 just because our projections end there. This goes on for millenia.

I cannot fathom, how one could look at the facts and science and come to your conclusion.
I'm not sure why people are treating this like it's bribery.

Free wifi would be something that inures to the benefit of the city / jurisdiction, not primarily to the individual decisionmakers or their department. It may not be something legitimate that they can make planning approval dependent upon, but an elected body trying to negotiate something that sweetens the deal for their electorate is completely legitimate.

Indeed, back before California ended development controls, my city's planning department effectively ran a huge reverse auction, picking the housing developments that would make the biggest street and park improvements in excess of the statutory minimums to authorize for each year's development quota. (A bit more complicated than that: various ways that the development exceeded building code or had additional amenities also counted for points in the "competition").
> My hunch is that reflects a growing set of emoji and support for hundreds (thousands?) of alphabets. It's hard to call that bloat.

I find it incredibly easy to call emojis bloat.
As someone who has lived through hype cycles, big companies can pull the rug just as quickly on these investments as they’ve made them. While this does indicate a more serious interest, it’s not nearly the safety net you think.

To the contrary, a bunch of FAANG driven contributions tend to make projects focused too much on particular use cases. Go’s clusterfuck of package management is entirely because Google doesn’t do package management.
Python uses UCS-4.
Like the Focused in the novel "A Deepness In The Sky" by Vernor Vinge.
> installed 2015-2016 based on satellite imagery

Unless the artist practiced very good OpSec or was so disciplined that he never checked for satellite imagery of his monument, someone with the right credentials -- like the government with a subpeona or a Google insider -- could identify the artist based on his IP address.

Murderers have been identified and convicted by looking up a unique map coordinate on Google Maps, even going back as far Yahoo Maps.
> I just wanted to confirm that all Zigbee devices are interoperable.

At the RF protocol level, yes they should be. Speaking as someone who works at a company with a few Zigbee-certified products, I can say that there are a LOT of "optional" features in the Zigbee specification, and even implementations of mandatory features can have differences that lead to incompatibility.

Manufacturer-specific profiles are also a big thing. So just be aware that manufacturer A's Zigbee "hub"/coordinator may or may not be inherently compatible with manufacturer B's sensors. But I would imagine that open-source systems like HomeAssistant deal with that.
I just watched "07/27/1978" for the 5th time last night, and now I can't help but read this article in John Blyth Barrymore's voice.
"Apple’s effective U.S. federal income tax rate was just 7.3% in 2011. Apple claimed its tax rate in 2011 was 24.2%, one-third less than the official tax rate of 35%. But the Senate subcommittee found its rate was no more than 20.1%, allowing "Apple to claim credit for $3 billion of deferred taxes on overseas income that are not owed until the profits are brought back to the United States. Since Apple has said that is not likely to happen, its effective tax rate in 2011 was just 7.3% – $2.5 billion in taxes actually paid against $34.2 billion of income before taxes. [Exhibit 1a, pp. 38-39]"[0]

[0] https://americansfortaxfairness.org/issues/corporate-taxes/h...
At least some of it was filmed by Lake Powell, closer to the southwest corner of Utah. It was really weird to see a bunch of troops coming ashore where I was hanging out on the beach a year earlier, against a very recognizable backdrop. Definitely broke the suspension of disbelief.
I think FreeBSD will implement the io_uring API eventually. Maybe it will make its way into POSIX.
> > I haven't had a prime subscription for over 2 years now because every time I order something its a 50/50 that I will get a shitty ripoff from China.

> Were you ordering expensive sneakers and purses regularly? You'd think if this was the experience of even a minor fraction of their customers (beyond the HN commenters who claim this is wide spread in every Amazon topic), they wouldn't be breaking record sales every quarter.

Come on, you know as well as I that there is not necessarily a correlation there: between record quarter sales and counterfeit products. I agree that claims of 50% counterfeit products is an exaggeration but to point to their quarterly sales is as refutation is silly.

Sales could be increasing for any number of reasons unrelated to customer satisfaction. Cusatomers could be unaware they are purchasing counterfeit products, etc.
Convync is offering a free Zoom alternative to virtual Thanksgiving gatherings
How to layer sales onto a bottom-up self-serve product
Its six up top - the 7th is the one on the wrist rest...
Somehow so much leads to correlation. :-)
Which is remarkably unclear. Did someone just toss a Trump hat into the air after pulling down the flag? Was the stream stopped before morning returned, and so the only shots are in the dark?

Is it an important set of questions? No. But still a better ending than the "oh yeah they stole the flag, now here's a shot of the flag flying during the day again".
Is there any way to detect quasicrystals at a distance?
What technologies have you seen at that price? Most I know are $400-1000/ton...
Do people really believe bullshit like this, or do they just regurgitate it to feel enlightened? Like the world is made up of 27 Absolute Rules and if you know all 27 then you are the smartest person. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
The BSD parts of the macOS userland are directly copied from an old version of FreeBSD (more or less). So it's less that they're similar, and more that they are direct copies (at a point in time — they've since diverged somewhat).
Open Wi-Fi hotspots
> our opinions should be formed from a careful examination of arguments and evidence on each side of the issue, reading from only one perspective is akin to not reading at all

The elephant in the room not addressed in this essay is the widespread use of bad faith arguments, and the absence or dismissal of evidence in preference of beliefs and feelings. On some issues it can be extremely difficult to find good faith arguments and evidence on each side of the issue.

For me personally, I'm not going to waste my time attempting to ingest all of the bad faith arguments out there just for the sake of seeking varied perspectives. If you have a claim, persuade me with logic and evidence, not with fear mongoring and throwing straw men down slippery slopes.
Advice and resources on writing plugins for Flutter (2019)
It's only not clear to people who wish the second amendment said something else.
No. This was clearly installed by a mischievous person relatively recently.
This is such an outdated argument. The reality is that if the bottom line and quality of work being done, and possibly employees being available to contact during set work hours (although this is a two way street and if required then boundaries should be in place to protect employees from being disturbed during non work hours too.) is up to par, there is no reason to worry about something as trivial as time theft.

When I hear complaints like this, all I can picture is the stereotypical "Karen" middle manager who does all their work with their fists firmly planted on their hips now realizing how unimportant they really are.
This move is less about muslims and more about countering china's recent aggression in the border as pointed out in other comment. Chinese are occupying sizable Indian land since the pandemic broke and has been involved in unprovoked aggression in the border. This move is more of a soft ball approach to counter those aggression.
While it may produce the right logic tables, there's a lot of room for optimisation. I'd like to see that. For instance the two repeaters near the end of the 4th trace from bottom in the example image []: obviously they have just been placed at element boundaries to ensure signal propagation, but each one induces a 1-tick delay in that propagation. And you don't need 2 of them so close together, as it seems there's another repeater less than 16 blocks away from the first one. IMO the real art of making gates in MC is twisting them back on themselves so you get as few ticks of delay as possible.

[] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/itsFrank/MinecraftHDL/mast...
i heard a story from a friend - she wanted to walk to work for a difference (30 minute walk, a small city in california) and mid-way a sheriff pulled up to ask if everything is ok.
I think you're too subtle and are being Poe-lawed here.
It'll depend on your ISP but I believe arbitrary sharing of internet access is likely to be prohibited under some ToS. I wonder if it will be acceptable in Germany as I understand they do not allow unsecured WiFi either (whether this counts as unsecured is what I'd expect it to hinge on)
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1248321281474408450
Is this not an art installation?
I assume the article is part of the art?
And how's is the high on oil going? No consequences right?
> Any machining, metal forming, etc. would require specialized large equipmen, and would quickly drive the cost up, potentially an order of magnitude higher than material costs.

It seems unlikely that there are serious tolerances to be kept here, couldn't this just be cast messily using a sand/clay mould and then cleaned up with portable power tools?

That way you don't need any special equipment and you can use whatever Aluminium you can get your hands on. Hell, you can even recycle Aluminium cans.
Zoom.

Enhance.

There it is.
You can negotiate with them. We negotiated a month-to-month plan instead of a 3 year commitment, which is what they were trying to sell us.
Amtrak basically is 3 different types of services, especially after PRRIA 2008 changed the funding structure.

- Northeast Corridor - Makes a solid operating profit (normally), run by Amtrak.

- State-supported corridor services - The states are basically paying the subsidy required to run the service and deciding what they want. If the state wants to upgrade the line for faster service, run more trains, etc, and they want to pay for it, Amtrak will run it. In some cases, the states (WA + CA come to mind) own or part-own the equipment being run as well. This is most other "practical" services (NY Empire Service, WA/OR Cascades, etc) and where you're seeing most improvements/investments.

- Long-distance network - They run once a day or less, they're where most of the hours/days late horror stories come from, they almost all lose money, federal government pays and dictates that they run it. Mostly impractical as transportation for people who have any other option for how to get somewhere. That said, the loss isn't that big as a financial number (in part, because there's not that much service), and it's basically a matter of political calculus as well....lots of rural senators who sign off on Amtrak funding in substantial part because of their one or two trains a day.
How can HA deal with it? Is the incompatibility not at the protocol level? Does HA even see the messages at all? Or are the messages compatible, and then HA has to decode them somehow?
I hate what the workspace has become. It all started with Slack.

Productivity is now equated to busy-ness on corporate chat. You are being judged on how much "chats" and "mentions" you send. If you are offline (because you want to do actual work), people now automatically think that you are not working.
Surely it would be homage to Arthur C. Clarke, the author who invented it.
I actually use some emojis in my notes to make them a bit more visual, and doesn't require to import an image so it's dead-simple to backup.
Yeah I've read the fTPM paper that made use of SGX, but it sounded like it had some limitation (needed fuses to prevent rollbacks, etc.)

From the article it also looks like Pluton will implement the TPM API, but I guess that's just to remain compatible.
I agree those were mistakes, but the US didn’t undertake those interventions unilaterally. Both were international efforts. France was actually the first to say “Gaddafi must go.” France was also one of the leaders in the Syrian intervention: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/1...

> France’s hawkish stance towards Syria contrasts with the reluctance among many U.S. policymakers to expand American involvement in the conflict. This is the latest move in a long history of French resistance to American foreign policy decision-making.
Anyone want to take bets on the number of days until we see the first "died in the desert trying to take a selfie with the metal monolith" story?
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In my opinion it started earlier than that and began with the Five Eyes hoovering up data. This lead to the realization of 'huh, if we can do it to others, others might be able to do it to us'.
> In 1995, the Pew Research Center did just that, finding 14% of U.S. adults with internet access.4 Most were using slow, dial-up modem connections—just 2% of internet users were comparatively screaming along with an expensive 28.8 modem.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/02/27/part-1-how-t...
Ha, if only they had the guts to be so specific! They just hid behind the blanket statement of "WMD"s and deflected any questions of specifics. Could have been nerve gas, could have been a biological agent. Everyone played their role (media and government) in deflecting attention away from the core issue that we were being bullshitted.
I came here to state the same.

I am not sure when we changed the terms, but back in the day, this would happily fall into machine learning. As he mentioned, if you want a good driver you would execute thousands of experiments to pick a good set of parameters
NotTehcnicallyIlegaleWare
I think that could have worked. There were ideas to do such a thing, as well as consulting around wasm and other stuff. I'm not sure why none of them were actually tried.
I’d have been happy with some generic “shady characters”. It just feels lazy (and bigoted) in 2020 to use this sort of negative stereotype, particularly when coming from someone in the business. One cannot deal with a threat effectively if one mis-identifies the actual profile and capabilities of such threat.
The Transformational Power of Recommendation
We have "Inner Source" as a kpi now. Meaning we constantly ask projects where their code is, how others can use it and where an internal community can develop. I like this kpi.
Enthusiasts are often enthusiasts because they like things the way they are. They don't like new ideas that might rock the boat, potentially pushing their field of interest in a direction they might not like.
CloudFormation is not a language, it is a collection of cloud infrastructure
that’s super cool!
I would be happy with a clone of the Windows WSL1.0 or WSL2.0 system on MacOS. It would seem like it would be even easier to do than windows because much of the Posix stuff is there. Yes I know brew supports much of the MacOS ecosystem, but what if you didn't need brew and you could just install normal linux packages and libraries in a containerized system.
Reminds me of a bunch of "execs" in dystopian anime series, much like ghost in the shell or others where you have some super powerful cyborg executive
I always start with a fresh session and never log in. Then if I'm researching a particular topic, I always get recommendations on that topic. If something is worth saving, I bookmark it like a regular page to access it in future sessions.
It wouldn't be. Governments in such poor countries often buy fossil fuels below international market prices as they produce them, and directly giving money is problematic because a lot of people do not have bank accounts, and that fraud and embezzlement is a huge issue.

I agree that they should be made progressive and thus reduced immediately and phased out as soon as possible, but it's just not feasible the remove them completely immediately.
Very easy to switch, in my experience. It is like muscle memory. It might take a few weeks to get comfortable with manual, but once you do, it doesn't require much thought to switch gears.

It's a sequence that just happens, similar to typing. You still need to think about what you're saying, etc., but you don't have to consciously think, "now I'm typing an S."
A world peace as dictated by the US? No thanks.
Microsoft has Project Verona
Emojis are incredibly well-loved by many people and used all the time. So bloat for you, perhaps, but a critical feature for many!

No kidding, it's the reason many people update their phones.
It’s really interesting reading these comments and mentally replacing “bytes” (Internet) with any of the other public utilities units such as “watts” (power) or “gallons” (water, trash).
Not the OP, but Computer Science is a scientific discipline not an engineering discipline and is generally taught as such. Unless you take specific Software Engineering topics you're unlikely to learn things like unit testing, build and integration tools, how to use a debugger effectively beyond maybe a brief introduction at best, etc.

If you were being taught software engineering as an engineering discipline, these should be absolute bread and butter core components of the course.
My favorite is how cops in CA are allowed to buy off-roster guns[0]. Apparently a Glock 19 Gen 5 is just too dangerous for citizens (but a Gen 3 is fine), however cops are allowed to own them personally because ... reasons.

0 - CA has a roster of handguns legal for private purchase and ownership. The list includes every gun that was for sale when the roster was created, plus any gun that meets CA's microstamping law. The second list is exactly 0 guns long; both because it's not clear if it's technically possible, and because gun companies have no interest in playing along. The result is that there are all kinds of arbitrary restrictions on guns based on the date, not anything even vaguely related to public safety. Oh, and guns eventually fall off the roster after a certain grace period, so eventually there will be no handguns legally for sale in CA barring a change to the law or a court case.
what, what? any source where Microsoft said it?

That would be great though. Visual Studio then would finally get proper multi cursor support.