skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a survey of amounts in a savings account, which is not the same as savings. Right now, typical savings accounts are higher friction than checking accounts with no meaningful interest, while high-yield savings accounts are even higher friction (because typically not offered by banks with the same broad range of consumer services people look to for checking accounts) but with barely-meaningful interest. Savings accounts almost never make sense.

If you need the lack of friction of a demand deposit account, you probably want it all in checking, and for actual savings where you don't need frictionless access, you probably want it invested somewhere with returns better than a savings account.
Almost 30k active daily users in a strategy game from 1999. That's a strong following for sure.
Huawei may challenge Google Maps’ dominance
Like many young people in IT, the idealistic part of me died when I was bullied by incompetent and self-serving management. I am no longer that person but am jaded. Not what I wanted. But this is what happens when the industry treats people as disposable and replaceable.
“ They had thought that before: 'Oh, we should make a Windows gaming platform – Windows will offer all these values...' Which is garbage, right? It's garbage, it is not true. No gamer gives a fuck about Windows features. But for the guys in Redmond, it was true. And you're not going to convince them. I mean, have you tried convincing your grandfather of something?”

Ha. It seems like every big company is like this... blind to some obvious truths because of their massive success.
No, public awareness is an explicit goal of the system, and one of the factors that must be considered in a motion to seal legal filings.
It's no match to human intuition and reasoning. Even if there is a route, it doesn't mean you're equipped to take it.
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Sites like those are always "request a demo", not 'pay $5 and we'll give you everything we have on you'. Until a site that does the latter appears, the general public will not take data collection seriously.
Totally, ezpz. Here's a study [1]. And here's Tether creator and alleged sex offender Brock Pierce saying so [2]. You may also want to review the evidence submitted in the lawsuit brought by New York and Georgia, such as the time Bitfinex' "Merlin" (CFO Giancarlo Devasini) sent $1.5 billion dollars to a money launderer, CCC [3], claiming they didn't know his real name - and in an increasingly desperate conversation with CCC while attempting to get some of that money back, he said this leaves the entire global crypto market at risk. [4]

Merlin [15.10.18 10:02]
please understand all this could be extremely dangerous for everybody, the entire crypto community
Merlin [15.10.18 10:03]
BTC could tank to below 1k if we don't act quickly

I don't know, honestly, if none of this convinces you, then I'm not sure even a direct literal admission of the scheme would anyways.

You at least smell smoke dontcha?

I guess this makes it your move! I expect that audit shortly!

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12903

[2] https://twitter.com/brockpierce/status/961044456421183489

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/hantb2/buttfinex_...

[4] https://cryptonews.com/news/how-merlin-lost-patience-trying-...
Soemthing seems to have been lost in translation here? The "Road of Bones" is indeed infamously bad, but it's also the only road between these two extremely remote locations, I don't see how else Google could route them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway

> Locally, the road is known as Trassa (Russian: Трасса – "The Route"), or Kolymskaya trassa (Russian: Колымская трасса – "The Kolyma Route"), since it is the only road in the area and therefore needs no special name to distinguish it from other roads.

Update: This image makes it clearer: they were told to go on a disused stretch of road, which is where they got stuck.

https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/481952e93a2fed32c94a09bd...
Computers have been going back and forth between desktop and central servers for 40 years. When people tire of the cloud and shift back to local control, microsoft will no longer have an advantage over alternatives.
The "random link" is on a domain that the Wayback machine has back to 2001. Whereas the marketingreportoptout subdomain doesn't appear to be there at all. I could certainly imagine a compromise where somebody who doesn't have access to the main sites still manages to sneak in a plausible-sounding subdomain.
You're free to sell software at any cost the recipient is willing to pay, at least such that it squares with your concience. However, if you don't sell the source code with it, I consider that unethical.

Land is a finite resource with intrinsic value, not the same thing. So is the meal itself. Recipes are different.

We have social obligations. That's what being a society is.
>This does not represent productivity in solving new problems, it just tells us it's worth reusing pieces for already solved problems.

That's neither here nor there.

First because most (if not all) of new problems can be solved by reusing existing parts (from languages and libs to widgets and cli tools).

Second, because we tend to re-work on the same problems over and over for the most part, anyway, so improvements on those are still greatly important (even more so than novel problems actually, which are about potential uncertain future markets, whereas solved problems are what drive existing global markets, so dozens of trillions of dollars).
You do know that's it's more than hurt feelings? People are being fired for saying something that didn't meet someone's interpretation of the Code of Conduct.
Funny you mention that, NUC is my dev machine. I've been wanting to tinker more with ARM I guess. I'm thinking there's probably a sweet spot halfway between NUC and RPi. In a small board configuration, the amount of cool embedded things you could do would be interesting.

Edit:
To add, apparently other people desire such a thing. All my searches for such a device only lead to other people asking the same question, and sometimes being told to buy a NUC just the same.
Why I know La Cello's bucatini is suspended by the FDA for being 2.1mg short...
> So the problem is...democracy?

Yes, exactly. No system of direct democracy has worked in the history of the world. Even here on HN, it is moderated, and some people have more voice than others.

> Your claim is that they are too unintelligent to understand the long term ramifications of their choices.

It's not that they aren't intelligent enough, it's that they don't have the background to make an informed decision. A politician specializes in understanding the ramifications of law (at least in theory). You as a voter do not have time to learn everything necessary to understand what you are voting for. It's a full time job and then some.

Just like you are perfectly capable of fixing your own car, but you don't have the time to spend learning how to do it properly. Politicians focus on policy and their long term affects, and you do whatever it is that you do.

> Why is one person one vote a bad rule, and how many votes should you get as opposed to mine?

One person one vote is fine for selecting representation, but we select representation specifically because we expect them to be experts in policy.
2captcha is about 0.0005/solve, give or take do to their failure rate. There are other services as well and pre-paid bulk purchases lead to lower pricing. I wouldn't want to ballot stuff the crazy number that is the combination of all Visa credit cards but for much smaller problem spaces 2captcha and others are very reasonably priced.
I found it very interesting that (unless I misread) you are applying a time-varying gain to the whole spectrum rather than using a simple filter or EQ. Have you experimented with setting a 31-band graphic EQ to the inverse of your audiogram, or multiplying the FFT bands by a frequency-dependent gain and using IFFT? If so, does the time-windowing approach work better?
As avery42 already mentioned, this is intended to be used on your own self hosted mastodon server. I have used my own off and on, and for admins, it actually has pretty powerful moderation tools.

So the author is proposing tooting a link to the blog post article, and the leveraging your server’s REST endpoints to retrieve the comments.

This actually seems quite powerful, and elegant to me. If you run your own server, this could be a very nice & simple solution.
> As far as I am aware self posts are allowed, so what makes this particular link not allowed?

Another user gave a good answer. Parts of
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html may be relevant as well: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

and

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

Basically, submit the things you find that are most interesting to you. Once in a while, that might be your own stuff, but mostly it won't be. In your situation, maybe your newsletter contains the things you found interesting; instead of submitting the newsletter, submit the most interesting thing it links to.
Agreed. How data relates to other data is as important as the data itself. It’s unfortunate the roam crowd doesn’t seem aware of semantic web. The technical work to model a knowledge graph has already been done, and the result is RDF. The semantic web community has created vast knowledge graphs and ontologies, encoded in an open standard, and also tools to explore these graphs.
In addition to the helpful comments already posted, questions about flags and such should be directed to the mods via the Contact link in the footer, as they'll have the most insight into what occurred. The guidelines ask that we direct questions like these to them directly:

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
GCP insider's ring-side view of early Cloud days
Early GCP insider's take on how Google had and then lost the Cloud opportunity
It should be illegal for this to use an opt-out approach rather than opt-in. If it's my data, you should be legally required to pay me to use it, at the price I demand, or not use it at all. Only with my consent, and not at the threat of not receiving service should I decline.
Unrelated, but is it just me, or is this website sneakily adding tracking links? If I mouse-over or right click -> copy link, I get the correct url, but if I left click on it uBlock blocks a tracking/redirect link using https://go.redirectingat.com/
To be extra clear, antigens match on the physical shape of the proteins resulting from the mRNA programming.

They have no way to access the underlying DNA.
They did a lot of the "rails to trails" stuff around here as well, but the underlying deal is that it's all technically land-banked and the railroads can claim it back at basically any time as long as it gets put to active use.
I anticipate more and more merchants to use Level 3 data (or be forced to use it):

https://tidalcommerce.com/learn/what-is-level-3-data/

I know staples.com, many hotel chains, and airlines already use this.
"Even though, in a lot of cases, it is technically voluntary, there can be serious consequences for people who refuse to work or who advocate for better working conditions because a lot of prisoners use working as a way of having their sentences reduced."

Source: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/884989263
It's not that computers prior didn't have speakers, it's that they didn't seem like a core part of the computer — always some clunky add-on that sat there occupying desk space or unattractively needing to be hooked on to the side of a monitor.

Apple had been doing built-in speakers for quite some time, especially in their Performas, but those weren't really seen in homes.

But with the iMac, not only were there speakers built-in but they had great sound, were beautiful (as far as aesthetics go in the 90s), and didn't feel like an afterthought. No used-up desk space, no ugly earmuffs on the screen, just booming sound coming from the front of this gorgeous, lickable, candy-coloured wonder.

We can talk about who did what first in the manner of a check list but that's sorely missing the point. A product isn't just what it is but how it feels — for every sense.

There's a reason why Apple uses terms like 'magic' and 'delight'. Whilst people deride it as marketing nonsense, every other company fires up their photocopiers, it's big enough of a deal.
Never overclocked any (home or work) computer. I never saw any value in doing so.

Most computers these days use virtual memory: physical RAM plus swap. If you want to speed up your machine, it's easier to just bulk up your machine's physical RAM, so that it doesn't have to depend on any (slow) swap space.
The CONJOINED triangles of success!
You can just .... build it back lol.
+1 for mentioning IDL. I’ve always thought that was the best native array based language.
Bottom line: China has forced a million Muslims into slave labor camps simply because they are Muslim... But you want to focus on how the US doesn't pay enough for voluntary prison labor.

Am I missing something here?
I suppose that depends on how all gazillion AWS instances running Linux counts.
They do publish an annual Supplier Responsibility Report. It's been a while since I read it, but they've definitely found and punished misbehaving suppliers.

I think I remember one instance where underage workers were discovered and Apple forced the supplier to finance their higher education. In another they found a false wall had been installed in a factory to conceal hazardously stored chemicals and, again if memory serves, immediately terminated the supplier's contract.

https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/

According to HN search this is the only comment in over 600 that mentions this page. Beyond the marketing text, the PDFs at the bottom cover thousands of pages of supplier guidelines, government filings, lists of suppliers, audit results, etc.

Take with as large a grain of salt as you'd like, but at least it is a primary source on the topic. Apple naturally will be tightlipped during their investigation of these incidents, but I'm curious how they will be covered in their subsequent publications.
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> YouTube & co could not have been more lucky that an entire segment of the culture came up with the perfect catch-all term to enable them to walk back their horrible business blunders.

I don't think they were lucky at all. There's always a "ism" assholes can hide behind to justify their actions, whether it's Racism, Terrorism, Communism, Nazism... etc. As well as the timeless "Think of the Children" shtick.
This has to be one of the worst titles I’ve seen on here
That makes no sense. You seem to be confusing Windows with ChromeOS.
Yea, but once you've done a thru-hike, they all look like thru-hikes.
> Presumably if a viral infection could trigger an autoimmune response in certain genetically predisposed groups, then so could a vaccine designed to mimic a virus.

This is true. Some of the extremely rare auto-immune issues that have impacted people who have been vaccinated for specific flu viruses in, IIRC, 1976 and 2009, were thought to occur at even higher rates and severity with people who contracted the virus. So, vaccination might impact you, but likely worse the the virus itself due to the greater amount of virus in your system.

I am not a scientist, but I would expect that the mRNA vaccines would have less of a chance of having an auto-immune reaction since they contain only one of the many proteins contained in the actual virus.
I never used the word 'implied'. I completely understand that you felt compelled/entitled to piggyback your 'personal experience' on a tragedy. It's a shame you don't understand what a lack of morals that is, but you be you, right?
Well, it's vocabulary grows to accommodate your writing habits. And nothing is ever erased, there is a txt file containing everything you've written. You can jump-start it with a txt collection of your particular writing style/lexicon.

For me, the speed is not an issue. I feel like the speed/responsiveness of the medium is inversely related to the length of the final text. Speed of light for the poetry, longhand for a novel. There is a reason why old prose is such a lengthy affair, and why it so often flirts with the letter writing trope. (That is probably anchored in the rhetoric schooling of the writers of old.)

N.B. I have been using only the desktop version of the Dasher. Nor did I use it to write this reply.
What kind of individual data is in that set of “flys to the Bahamas very often”? Zip codes? Closest city?
I don't think that's funny dude. The asshole with the bad ideas is in the ceo seat and he's your boss. I can't think of a less funnier employment situation. Kudos on him for having what it takes to actually bring it to life
Having a placebo which has some degree of side effects is not insane, even though it caused problems here.

The vaccines have lots of side effects. If you give something with lots of side effects and compare it to a placebo with none, people have a good guess of what group they're in and behave differently. This is often considered more reasonable than comparing to a saline injection, and it's a reason why lots of drugs now are compared to e.g. ritalin-- something relatively benign with some side effect that feels like it is "doing something".

The half-dose/full-dose regimen was a mistake in a clinic administering the trial, though. A mistake that happened to look more effective than the overall vaccine population, which is a bit troublesome and a primary reason why AstraZeneca has problems now.

Now that we have effective COVID vaccines, we can run noninferiority trials-- e.g. comparing Moderna's vaccine to a potential new vaccine-- which get around a lot of the problems here.
If we're doing second-order effects, did you account for the lives saved by less driving around due to lockdowns? The lives saved by less air pollution? The lives saved by ensuring the healthcare systems weren't overloaded?
Even a gate with just a rope latch would give most people pause.
I drove from San Francisco to Panama City. It took 1.5 years. Never, ever use Google directions in Latin America outside of the major routes and cities unless you want to get stuck, lost or worse. That was the lesson.
You're ten steps ahead :)
Then perhaps you aren't my target audience with this comment, but there are lots of people who have tried to paint Yann as some sort of victim when, I agree, he was a melodramatic ass.
And this is why no one likes Californians moving to their state.
Free trade increases the standard of living of all participants, including both the third and first world, so I’m having trouble understanding your point.

Go read up about comparative advantage to understand the true benefits of free trade.

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

Or ask yourself, if you were a lawyer billing $200 an hour for your services, and had a secretary costing you $20/hour doing your typing, would you fire them if you could type twice as fast as them? Would spending part of your work hours on less valuable work make you wealthier or poorer?
The mechanical monster and discourses of fear in early history of the computer
I loved our eMac. Big screen, clearer picture than any iMac, and that gorgeous white plastic aesthetic that reminded one of an iBook — except chunky.

Only trouble was the fans were ridiculously loud.
Sure, but to OPs point, "overall it seems ... will have appointments set up..." isn't where we should be several weeks after the vaccine started shipping.
Yeah, we can just...build back the stuff that was already there that we could have used for the cost of renovation but now have to rebuild from scratch. lolimsosmartarntI!
I used to think I would do pretty much anything I didn't find immoral for a million dollars per year. An abusive boss for 80+ hours per week changed my mind.

When I quit my third job, my boss told me "Karl, I know you hate me now, but in a couple years, you'll be making a million dollars a year and love me."

My response "Even if I believed you, I wouldn't do this job for a million dollars".
Huh... create script to fill DB with all possible Visa numbers, tomorrow's "marketing insight" will suddenly be an empty file because everything will be excluded.

Bonus, if they can't separate which exclusions were from legitimate requests and which came from this script, they can't just delete those entries from the database.

Of course, no one should do this...
Just after posting this, I found a paper that might be more acceptable to some readers: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.31.216721v1....
What's your censorship policy?
Only if you play some jedi mind tricks of your own with the definition of a "computer".
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>You're missing the point which is context. If you're the accountant, the tax code is essential. HTML is accidental. If you're the programmer, then HTML is essential. The outcome of your page is accidental. Accidental is what you have control over. Essensial is what you're forced to work with.

That's not what accidental/essential complexity mean in Computer Science.

Essential Complexity is the business logic, program structure considerations, necessary tradeoffs, and so on.

Accidental Complexity is BS you have to put up that's not essential to the program, but you need to handle. Things from manual memory management to setting up Webpack are "accidental complexity".

It's not about the language itself. Even if you're programming in bash, bash is not "essential complexity".

The complexity inherent in the task is the essential complexity (e.g. "I need to copy files from a to b, and do a processing on them, handle the case where one file is missing or when a column in the file is mangled, etc").

Bash (or whatever other tool you use) can directly help you with this essential complexity, or impose accidental complexity on top of it.

E.g.

cp /foo/a /bar/.

for copying a from /foo to /bar has pretty much no accidental complexity. It essentially captures just what you need to do.

But as the script becomes bigger and you implement more of the business logic, shit like bash messing up pipelines when a part of a pipeline fails, or dealing with its clumsy error handling, add accidental complexity.
The relationship between Apple and its suppliers is, ultimately, antagonistic. Apple wants to maximise units of work per dollar, their suppliers want to maximise dollars per unit of work. This creates an incentive for suppliers to cheat.

This makes the situation way, way more complex than “Apple needs to audit its supply chain”. While true, any such audit is going to be actively sabotaged by the suppliers. This will include actions like hiding workers, forcing them to lie, or moving them strategically between production lines to hide the truth.

I don’t mean to defend Apple here. I’m not sure what stops them creating their own businesses in China and Vietnam and elsewhere, where they directly hire the workers. Why does Apple outsource this stuff in the first place? Perhaps that’s the standard we should be holding them to.
In my opinion, you should not do that while the vaccine is in short supply.

You very likely have good enough immunity to wait. Let someone unprotected get the shot.
having been employed by an asshole in a previous life, a good enough paycheck makes it manageable.

Not saying its healthy tho; I think somepeople have simply mastered the 'embrace the suck' mentality when it comes to toxicity...they call that 'resilience'
Does this look 100% fake / CGI to anyone else?