skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We got scammed.

Well, depends on how you look at it and how comfortable you are forgetting about how it looked before you could buy online.

I pay for convenience which is a service rather than tangible good.

If I need a book for my research, I would prefer to have access to it immediately rather than wait two weeks to get it from overseas. My time is valuable and the pause on the project or inconvenience of not having the book for a week or two cost me much more than price of the book.

If I want to watch a movie with my kids I am fine renting the movie for the price of the DVD even if I know I could be watching the DVD multiple times. Most times we do not re-watch movies anyway and it is worth to me to be able to do something with my kids on a whim rather than have to plan it.

If I pay for Spotify I understand I don't own all those titles. But, for a price of half a CD per month I get access to as many titles as I can listen to. This lets me discover new music on a whim. Something, that was not possible when I was buying physical CDs in a music store. Also I paid A LOT more for CDs than I pay currently for access to much more music.

But I agree things should be called properly without creating false impression that you own something rather than pay for a time-limited service.
You are right that as of right now the M1 can't really replace a gaming PC, but I don't see Apple currently really targeting that. However the real question is if that is an issue with the M1 chip or just an issue of Mac not really having much of the gaming marketshare.

That being said, personally I believe the gaming PC market is largely a niche market for the entire PC market.

At its core I don't see any reason the M1 chip can't play games (in fact we are seeing some good numbers come out of games that have a proper migration), it is purely a software issue.

It may not be able to compete with the top of the line custom built desktops, but the reality other gaming laptops that are far more expensive can't either.
> The DOCTYPE line in the source mentioning "HTML 3.2" lets us date this to 1997 I guess, as HTML 3.2 was released in January 1997 and HTML 4 in December 1997.

Not necessarily. HTML 4 was a big change from 3.2, more complicated, and stricter about separating structure from presentation. Lots of people stayed with the more familiar 3.2 for a long time.
Oo you meant offline access, I thought serverless meant AWS lambda or something.
Take a look at this great story from Richard Stallman:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
You're right. I've returned to buying only physical media -- haven't purchased an online format for 6 months+. I agree, we got played.

About a year ago, Amazon changed the verbiage on the ui from "you own this movie" to "you purchased this movie". That was my clue and trigger to change.
"one is terribly more urgent than the other"

I completely agree. We need to get off this rock ASAP.
What Books Are For
Yeah, who thought that was a good idea? I did the right click thing a few months ago.
The judgement from TFA is available here: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/hamilton-others-v-post-of...

It pains a very bad picture of the Post Office, including:

- an expert witness from Fujitsu, who developed the system, "had been aware of at least two bugs which had affected Horizon Online[...], but had failed to say anything about them or about any Horizon issues in his statements";

- POL arranged a number of conference calls to discuss problems with the system; "instruction was then given that those emails and minutes should be, and have been, destroyed";

- "there was a culture, amongst at least some in positions of responsibility within POL, of seeking to avoid legal obligations when fulfilment of those obligations would be inconvenient and/or costly"

Further, once a number of convictions had been secured, the Post Office then used those convictions in later trials as evidence that the Horizon system was robust and reliable.

All in all, a prima facie criminal conspiracy by the Post Office.
> We, men, are not cut out like this, exchanging of goods in a peaceful manner

I'm not sure what you're doing, but I've quite literally never exchanged goods in any other way but peacefully. I'd venture to say well over 99% of transactions done by either gender are peaceful in nature.
Why this now?

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=siS8jlTcUzo&ab_c.... I did.

The VMPI's number one goal (21:13) is to "Improve equity in mathematics learning opportunities". Note that is "equity", not equality. Why that difference?

I would suggest that kids be given "equal" opportunities. Some will excel at STEM, some will excel at other things like business. Unfortunately, some will not excel.

In 2018, 13 of 39 HSs in Baltimore have not a single child proficient in Math. NOT ONE! I do not have data for Norfolk, but is it likely to be much different? You cannot tell me that not a single kid in those 13 HSs are capable. In these HSs, none excel.

Wouldn't we be better off helping these kids?

Relabeling course names...is that a solution?
I'm equal parts happy and terrified that MS announced x64 version of VS recently, because I know it will just mean VS can now scale infinitely. At least right now the core process has to stay within the 4GB limit :P
Especially excluding Pinterest results while searching for images ;)
> Someone is always going to bear responsibility.

"Powerful people demand that there is always some scapegoat who they can abuse, even if they aren't at fault and it doesn't really help make things better."

Blood for the blood god, I suppose!
What do you mean by "deep tech"?
True randomness from your Apple device with thermal entropy (2017)
As an east coast beekeeper, that was certainly the part that interested me. I've looked into other heavy metal accumulation in honey, namely lead from firing range remediation. In several studies the bees didn't seem to be bothered by collecting lead-rich honey from contaminated plants, though I don't remember the duration over which they were monitored.

One of the interesting things with lead is that there are plants more given to storing it in leaves and stalks than flower/nectar/pollen and you can effectively devise a bio-remediation strategy around a few plants, Sunflowers or mustard for instance, that pull up the lead, but don't pass much if any to the honey. The bees stimulate the growth and seed set of the plants, encouraging self-seeding. Nerd-level me would chop and dry the stalks and leaves and test for lead until it fell below the baseline in a few years. You get to fix the soil, while making a valuable product ( once you test the honey for lead as well )

I wonder if similar could be done to pull up the Cesium with Potassium-hungry plants that don't move the Cesium to their flowers. But then how would you dispose of the silage?
The misguided notion that life violates the 2nd law is easily refuted by the observation that a living being is not a closed system, but requires energy (food, sunlight). And putting a living being in an enclosed box does indeed end life fairly soon.

Not sure what the further argument about the primordial ooze is.
This laptop does Visual C++ and C# development in Web, UWP and Win32 just fine with 8 GB.

Ah, and I also do stuff in Java/Eclipse/Nebeans, D and Rust equally fine.
I reference bitcoin against 'normal' markets like Gold, shares or normal currency.

But its true its value quadrupled in the last 6 month.

I do hope though that the pressure on Bitcoin increases based on co2 consumption alone.

But also all governments and law things are slow. Like if start a lawsuit today, something like this can take years right?
How to Create a Smart Calendar
I think this is what BMW does with cars to a large extent (maybe all car manufacturers do?) - an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_B58

They combine standard parts into a number of configurations that aren't as different from each other as a consumer might imagine, then slot those engines into a whole host of different car models.

From a production stand-point, this makes sense to me. I imagine that it makes high quality at a lower price much easier to accomplish for Apple.
Since the government was in a wrong I do not understand at all why they are not ordered to compensate all legal expenses as well.
Most people have no need to compare CPUs between mobile/non mobile or generation. They just need to know if the laptop they're looking at has the high end / middle end / low end CPU. You'd be comparing a new laptop with latest(-ish) CPUs.

The i3/i5/i7 makes it plain & simple to know that.

You don't need to figure out what the "middle end" CPU is called this year. It's the i5, problem solved.
One nitpick: Royal Mail and Post Office are two separate companies with independent boards.

Though as a nitpick of your nitpick, they weren't truly independent until the relevant provisions of the Postal Services Act 2011 came into effect on 1 April 2012. What we know today as the "Post Office" and "Royal Mail" had a long history before that.
The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please."

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I’ll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you."

"I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt."

- Ubik, Philip K Dick, 1969

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444685-the-door-refused-to...
A better analogy for the M1 is EVs. The M1 has near best in class single thread performance so similar to how Tesla's have crazy acceleration. Sure we've yet to see how efficiently M1 will scale to multithreaded or GPU work loads but all signs point to a very scalable architecture given the jump from A12 to M1. Simple extrapolation indicates that a M2 or M1x will match or beat most desktops while still consuming very little power.
I'm on the Oculus Quest 2. I've had the best social experiences in Altspace, Poker Stars, Population One, Rec Room, and Walkabout Mini Golf.
There won't be an ice sheet, it will melt within the next ten thousand years due to global warming. Sea levels are expected to rise four meters during this period.

Humans need to leave Earth long before the Sun turns into a red giant. We have about 300 million years to leave the planet or it is game over.

Many distinct areas of Earth such as the Grand Canyon will have eroded away in about 2-3 million years. Mountain ranges like the Rockies will be gone in 50 million years. The Hawaiian Islands will disappear into the ocean in 80 millions years as the Pacific Plate recycles its land mass.

In 300 millions years, the Sun will change its luminosity, increasing the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth. This will increase the mean solar temperature by 5C degrees.

A little over 300 million years, give or take a few million years, all the continents are going to merge into one super continent. On the plus side, it is expected this will bring a new glacial period: increasing oxygen levels, lowering global temperatures, create new sea ice, and lowering sea levels due to global cooling.

In 500 million years the Sun's luminosity will be so great that it will disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle. The higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop once the oceans evaporate completely. Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels fall to the point where photosynthesis is no longer possible.

Good luck in the bunker.
That is certainly one area where I think Apple has no peer.
> We got scammed

Not everyone got scammed. I've exclusively purchased physical media or 'acquired' it in DRM-free ways. Piracy is one option yes, but things like GOG are a legal and DRM-free way to get media, which is why I actually buy from them. I only buy digital if I don't care about losing the media, like a movie I just want to watch at a friends place that's not available on a streaming service.

Never understood why people didn't see this earlier. Thankfully many things are available digitally thanks to the work of digital archivists (aka data hoarders) who make an effort to keep media alive
The percentage isn't the problem. The problem is of the settlement amount doesn't include damages and also legal fees, both of which should be the responsibility of the perpetrators.
Obama's speech was about hope and change, "yes we can". Yes we can elect a black man as President but yes we can change and do better. This was on the back of Bush's destruction of the economy.

The divisiveness happened when the tea party took off in 2009 after Obama was elected and the tea party dialed up the oldest trope in the book, race. It was also the only part of the republican party that could oppose the ACA. The ACA was modeled on Romney care after all who was a popular Republican. The republican party reeling from the loss to Democrats basically had to double down on the tea party to have any chance of sucess at the 2010 midterms. So it became about race, death panels and socialism.
Create your own MD5 collisions
I ran into this when Frontier bought Verizon FIOS in my area. I suppose due to differing rights between the two companies, quite a few movies I had "bought" just disappeared from the "my purchases" page after the transition.

I never did get it resolved, just ended up eating the loss and moved to a cable/docsis type provider. All I can do now is just treat movie purchases as something less than that. Long-term rentals with some chance that it gets revoked.
It's the other way as well, if a question gets asked/answered on SO, it may be a great addition to the documentation.
Unfortunately they will have to add Myanmar to the 2021 report. The junta has sentenced protesters/resistance to death.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-hands-me...
Just out of curiosity, what is your sense of humor like?
> The top US capital gains tax is 20%. The 3.8% is a separate tax

A tax on, among other things, capital gains. See:

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/questions-and-answers-on-the-ne...

"8. What is included in Net Investment Income?

In general, investment income includes, but is not limited to: interest, dividends, capital gains..."
It is logically but I know on some processors (possibly not intel) they don't connect all the address lines.
> The question is who audits it etc.

The question is whether it is auditable and improvable. This is what free software is for.
> You’re ascribing purpose where there is none. Objects are not born of the world in some particular and unique fashion, and rendered static in its place and time.

Chairs are "born" when someone makes a chair. Chairs are objects created by people for the purpose of sitting on.

Natural objects may have a purpose too. The purpose of a seed is to germinate. The purpose of a fruit is to be eaten (it evolved to be edible so it would be eaten). The purpose of a wing is to help a bird fly.

> What would you call this? [0] A tree? Yet it’s most certainly a chair, in all the ways we expect a chair to be (except perhaps immobility, but a heavy and immovable chair of stone is still a chair). And yet most certainly a living tree, in all the ways one expects a tree to be.

I would call it a tree and a chair. But it wasn't a chair until someone did a lot of work to make it one. Similarly, a rock can be a chair if someone sculpts it into a chair.

> What makes it a mistake is to assume the act of categorization is inherently valuable — I argue it is not simply futile, but even if we did succeed, we’d have gained nothing.

Categorization is inherently valuable and necessary. Words are categories. We cannot talk or think without making categories. If you believe talking and thinking are bad or futile then stop doing those things.

You can argue that we should continue making categories but we should stop questioning them, i.e. stop philosophizing. This is essentially a conservative argument because it forecloses on questioning whatever traditions and cultural attitudes we have. But it is a valid perspective and quite old.

> You’re referring to the skill-based pursuit, and sure, I agree with that. A well constructed painting is something to be admired. But this is referring to mechanical ability, and not the quality of art that I consider most important. Rather, you expect a strong piece of art to force you to think — emotionally, or about the subject (or even the meta-context in which it sits); art isn’t necessarily something to be admired and shelved, but something greater than that. The rock I linked previously is an artwork, not because of its high skill in construction, but because of the sheer terror of its existence and the dread one feels even looking at that horrific construction

I'm not talking about skill, or not only. I'm saying that it is the view of art as a mysterious, undefiniable thing that nevertheless should be pursued that results in art that lasts forever. Your view of art results in people hanging toilets on the wall.
Too late for gold.

You have to look at more than just inflation related data for the asset. Gold tends to be a inversely correlated to the economy because people use it safety asset. So right now, I think the gold prices are already inflated from people moving into it during the crash last year. Silver seems to have suffered a similar fate after the GME thing too. If you are looking at metals, it might be good to look at those positively correlated with the economy. After all, we will only see real inflation if the economy is doing well too. I like platinum, but got into that about 9 months ago. Copper would have been good too. I'm not sure if they still make sense at their current levels, but what do I know.

Crypto is not a real inflation hedge in my opinion. If you're hedging, it's not supposed to be highly speculative (on other factors). Crypto is much more likely to experience wild swings unrelated to inflation.

Real estate is an option, like raw land or maybe residential rentals. I say maybe for rentals because of all the coronavirus restrictions on collecting rent. I wouldn't be surprised if that sort of sentiment continues or expands in the future. I like raw land, but that depends on the area and other stuff. There's an increasing threat that raw land could be zoned conservation, removing it's potential future value (I won't get into the bigger conversation around that). The mortgage on your own house can be beneficial.

I plan to stay with mostly equities. There are a lot of options in there as far as sectors or industries. A materials or induatrials ETF could be good, but it would require more research to see how covid has affected supply/demand.
Sometimes searching StackOverflow is quicker than reading the documentation/manual.
More?
have at it:
https://www.google.com/advanced_search

https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/

"Google Dorking"
It's funny how this knowledge seems to get lost these days because they try to make the interface less complex. I remember these modifiers supported by the most common search engines were even discussed in magazines aimed at children here in the early 2000s! These days it's almost expert knowledge...
Mount Locker Ransomware Aggressively Changes Up Tactics
This is one part (of many) of perl that I like, that it exposes the pointer-y parts to the programmer (to abuse :))

# hash
my %a = ( 'one' => 1, 'two' => 2 );
my %b = %a;

$b{ 'two' } = 99;

# prints 2
print $a{ 'two' }, "\n";

# reference to hash
my $a = { 'one' => 1, 'two' => 2 };
my $b = $a;

$b->{ 'two' } = 99;

# prints 99
print $a->{ 'two' }, "\n";
Wouldn't you just have all the heavy stuff on a server? I don't understand the goal of running something like sql server and other server type apps on a desktop/laptop.
When I can use a major chain and execute a smart contract for <$1 (on say a $100 contract) I'll be reasonably stoked. How are people playing with these when the fees are so high?
https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/hamilton-others-v-post-of...

The judgment is blistering.
Irrelevant because I cannot (a) give the content of the vault from memory to save my life or (b) enter the vault accompanied (so there's an opportunity to alert bank personnel that I am under duress).
Well "irrelevant" to the safety of the wallet at least, not of my squishy bits.
Companies try to skirt around this by saying you're not buying the media, you're buying a license (subject to 37 pages of legalese that nobody wants to read right before they watch a movie on movie night). I really hope companies are forced to stop using the word "buy" for this type of transaction.
> Cryptocurrency is cash (with the benefit of not having to be close to someone for a transfer)

If not having to be close to the payee is the only benefit of cryptocurrency over cash, that problem has been solved for literally centuries by the concept of giro transfers.
It is, not so much so that the concept is not without precedent ("book burnings" are quite famous throughout history), but that the book burnings will be conducted by corporations that also have all the data on those who ever read them, and not to mention they are the ones who initially made money selling them in the first place.

In fact [blank] is a fantastic writing prompt for a dystopian novel, seems like a fun little game to play with friends.
Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young – Noam Chomsky
Record-breaking flare erupts from neighboring star
Onboarding a New Manager
The idea that 700 people in the same job were all committing the same crime and constantly getting caught is insane. This is a perfect example of Orwell's description of fascist Britain, where the people are made slaves of the state.
It's well worth listening to the radio show linked at the bottom of the article to understand just how heartbreaking this story is.
This is honestly brilliant and it has me thinking about trying something similar for documenting the troubleshooting process of internal tools. It's like sitting down with a knowledgeable coworker, but maybe that coworker doesn't work here anymore! Something like this can stick around.
Russia plans to launch its own space station after quitting ISS
If a registry wants high prices for it's "premium domains" (whatever it defines as such) on one of its TLDs, the registrar can't magically charge you less unless they are willing to make a loss on you. ICANN doesn't really restrict the pricing the registry chooses for this class of TLDs (afaik the contracts for older ones like .com/.org/.net have such limits, but not the new gTLDs, there the registry can do pretty much whatever if wants).
A good tip there for folks to help readibility. I also love to paste in really crazy formulas here to really see them in a well formatted mode in the cell.

https://www.excelformulabeautifier.com/
>For example, perhaps a $1000 deposit that you lose if you are ever found to not be paying attention at the wheel?

...or a $1000 fine?
Do you want to buy my 2020 Intel MacBook Pro?
Sure, if we don't care about performance per watt.

(Hint: we do)
Exactly. The sample image in TFA won't display in FF on my android phone. A new road to hoe for avif
Why though.

You need to physically buy Legos for this project. It's not like their showing how to print Legos
"The percentage isn't the problem"

I disagree. Even the ambulance chasers here in the U.S. take around 40% as their contingency fee. 80% is just...wow.

Edit: "ambulance chasers" in this context means very opportunistic lawyers that are primarily motivated by money, and not helping their clients. I don't see how that term is disparaging any victims/clients. The comparison is that even outright greedy lawyers aren't taking half+ of the settlement. In this case, using £250/hr, the lawyers spent 88 lawyer years worth of time (184k hours).