skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize this is more of an indictment on how crazy expensive data is in Canada but I would like to mention that the "redesigned" Reddit is so bloated, even my i5 Mac mini from last year struggles. And other than the bloat, they also added extra unnecessary white space to make you scroll more (and thus shove move ads in). Also the continuous popups in mobile browser to "Open in official app" is very use hostile. They basically ruined their site on purpose to make users go to their app instead as most apps can't have ad blockers unless you use PiHole or something. If I really need to, I use unofficial Apollo to view Reddit. But other than that, I have pretty much stopped visiting the site.
I just remembered the actual issue in Netherland, Germany as well as Switzerland. Normal Prepaid is generally expensive, what you want is a always cancelable contract to get the fairest (most local) price for a short time. And here is where it gets more complicated based on residence and stuff

Edit:// I spent over 200€ on prepaid internet that 2 months I was in the Netherlands. A always cancel contract would have costed I think about 20$ a month for unlimited (and way faster) internet
I've seen this as well, and yes, it freaked me out

Uninstalled Chrome/Youtube app, 5-6 months later reinstall it, it automatically logs me in-- and I was like "Is Google tracking me?" But looks like its Apple's fault.

I would have though deleting an app got rid of all its data (like iOS so clearly warns), but looks like it doesnt.
That would be an air heat pump. Water or earth-exchange heat pumps can work nearly anywhere. This article explains it well:

https://www.nordicghp.com/2017/01/heat-pump-effective-temper...
It's incredible how fast people on HN jump to false equivalencies when comparing US and China. The mere fact you can criticize the government in this forum without the fear of being brought in for questioning should give you some hints on how both systems compare.

Criticize the US as much as you want (after all, you can do it), and the US government DOES deserve a good deal of criticism, but saying that the countries are somehow equivalent in the consequences for anti-state speech is laughable.
As a non-resident of San Francisco, I have no dog in this fight, but it shows up on my Twitter feed regardless. I was amused by a recent exchange where one user was complaining about the amount of human faeces on the sidewalk, and someone retorted that they'd lived in SF for 15 years and there'd always been human faeces on the sidewalk.

I don't know whether crime in SF has gotten worse or not, but as a resident of a city where people don't defecate on the sidewalk, it boggled my mind a little to see someone apparently advocating for the city on the basis that sidewalk defecation wasn't a new problem.
It is only difficult because it is inconvenient.
A valid point for sure. But the comment itself didn't make that distinction and was a bit too broad-strokes for me..
What I like about that era is that companies were brave to think wild. Even if the car and it's workings are close to science fiction,I'm sure it generated absurd amount of press coverage + got lots of people really excited about the future. Look at Ford now: super boring company making ever bigger pickups.. Hardly any excitement could come out of it now.
https://research.swtch.com/gorace
I'm British so I'm not fully equipped to understand in terms of the state law or effects on the ground, but isn't there plausible deniability for the aggregators that sell goods from individual shop lifters? If the retribution on the individual is negligible, why would they provide evidence against the folk exchanging money for stolen goods, there seems to be no motivating factor to do so.

You could increase punishment for folk buying the goods, but I'm not sure what negative ramifications that might have, e.g. you're second in chain buying a stolen phone.

Maybe I don't understand, but it all seems a bit bonkers to me.
>Such information can be used to identify me

Good. We can make things more efficient.

>used against me

How could someone for example knowing you like Elixer use that knowledge against you? It's not a big deal.
Google Chat: Terrible as Slack clone, but good as a consumer chat app
To be fair to the OP, this probably would be on TV news so is likely to be off-topic. That said, you're right - you only need to flag it. Comments about a post being off-topic are boring and noisy, and flagging a post is sufficient.
well does it boot vms or not?
Because there are some big money interests that don't want alcohol regulated (much) or banned.

There was an interesting study released in 2010 which attempted to measure the total cost, beyond just health harm, of different drugs. https://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/News%20stories/dnutt-lanc...

The UK government did not like that study, because it showed that many illegal drugs were ultimately much less overall harm to society (the direct users as well as those around them and the healthcare system) than alcohol.
Both WPT and browser devtools will, by default, tell you the data usage that happens just by visiting a page. As you interact with a page, for example by scrolling Reddit, you will cause more network traffic, yes. Since Reddit does infinite scroll, you can get Reddit to use arbitrary amounts of traffic this way.
As someone who's done a bit of survivalism, I'd challenge you to go spend a few weeks in nature, living off the land. By the end, you'll be hoping that you can fix problems from the previous disaster before the next one strikes. Humans adapted quite a bit in order to survive, but a vast majority were killed by mother earth long before their natural deaths.
Netflix suggestions used to be amazing, but sometime after their contest they totally changed how it works and they became useless. This article maybe hints at why with a short “predicting consumption was more important than ratings anyway”

why? what does he mean? netflix had a killer advantage with the old rating system and then dumped it why?
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I believe it's been attributed to the fact that more "extremist" content gets more engagement from users in the form of comments or longer watch time.
Keep in mind the prize started before streaming did. You did not have the same data points they do today, as they were reading the thumbs up/down from DVDs shipping. Nor was the UI full of the same level of marketing as it is today, especially for all their original content, as none of that existed.
> nobody complains about needing a Github account to contribute to FOSS projects.

Of course people do, that's why there are other platforms and self-hosted solutions. Github is antithetical to the idea of free open source, especially now that it's been "acquired" by Microsoft.
Just FYI, I didn’t read any of that wall, but it did make me laugh that you wrote it. You should go tell your rest friends to check the slack and down vote.
This is ridiculous. If I am trying to advertise an Elixer IDE, then I don't want my advertisements shown to any random person on the internet. The majority of users on the internet are not even developers. I want to be able to advertise to a consumer segment which consists of people who are interested in Elixir. "Surveillance" is essential to internet advertising.

This is ridiculous. And it is your problem. Why should I allow any company to track and profile me and everyone else only so that you can save on your advertising budget?
It boggles my mind that sidewalk defecation only matters as a measure of where one should move, rather than a measure of what is wrong with our culture and society that produces iPhones with the one hand and crushes so many people with the other.
firefox with ublock origin, privacy badger and overall stuff turned off: 16.17 / 11.44 MB. Haven't scrolled anywhere yet.
> The United States had on June 30 condemned what it described as a systematic violation of human rights, fundamental freedoms and attacks on the press in Haiti, urging the government to counter a proliferation of gangs and violence.

I’m not up on what’s been happening in Haiti but this one little paragraph at the end here tells the whole story… the same playbook that’s been used again and again.
If "not even more than a handful of programmers" understand something, then it's objectively wrong to refer to all programmers - approximately all programmers - as "dilletantes".

Also, maybe you are different, but I can only keep so much in my head at a time. If I can keep something simple or abstract it away so I can focus on other details, that doesn't make me a dilletante. It makes me more effective at what I'm actually trying to do.
Tech folks didn’t invent guided meditations. There was already seminars, classes, retreat, etc where some one explained how to mediate or walked you though mediation. People just randomly start sitting.
AvE's worth a look if you like This Old Tony. The drunk uncle to Tony's sober one, if you like.
I do think the author's argument "There are one billion smartphones in China today" pretty weak. How many smartphone users publish their photos on open social media? Most people probably took pictures and shared them on WeChat with their friends and relatives.
I think it’s pretty funny that you can farm up votes by just mentioning a project in rust, with knows substantive information provided about its value or quality. I wouldn’t consider either of these things more than a toy.
If a candidate can’t give a good-quality written answer to a job-related question when given several hours or days, would you really want to rely on them to provide usable bug/feature descriptions or documentation later, when they have other time pressures?
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There is always a difference in price between a prepaid SIM and a monthly contract with some minimum period.
There's a key difference here in that these people agreed to be in the public sphere. Taken to the extreme though, I can see this affecting who wishes to go into politics
I think quite a lot of tech people really don’t have any understanding that most cities are not like this. I don’t get it because they travel for conferences. Do they never stop and think ‘huh I wonder why it’s different here…’
So there's too much tech and people should just stop? It's not that I disagree, I just don't think you're adding anything interesting to that debate. And you are shitting on someone's work.
My car was broken into 3 times in two years. This is with NOTHING left out to see. Twice inside my own apartment garage. Once in supposedly upscale Russian Hill area.

Storage unit broken into twice. Homeless guy LIVING in another storage unit. People dropping dookies in the middle of Illinois street during mid day.

Why deal with all this? Even the city has an income tax. Where does that money go? To poop tracking apps? Free shoot-up sites?

Gross mismanagement by weak, ineffective, and “progressive” anything goes ultra left politicians is ruining SF.

I left SF. Not coming back.
Cold winters force a level of realism that a Mediterranean climate does not.
> How do more efficient water heaters in any way, shape or form help solve the renewable variable rate energy to constant energy problem? I feel like I must be missing something obvious

A large portion of our world energy use is to make heat. Thus if you can make the heat you need when there is plenty of renewable energy available, and then store it for use latter that is a large win. Sure we can't turn that heat back into electricity (false, but they are not worth talking about), but since heat is the goal that doesn't matter.

This is well understood. My parents have been on a off-peak water heating program since 1988 (in all those years they only ran out of hot water 5 times, and nobody was trying to save water). Based on that experience, just the hot water a family uses in a day is in the 300-800 liters range (go high - running out of hot water for the day sucks). Heating your house is a lot more though - 40000 liters is a low end estimate I've seen.

You won't be cooking food, powering your car, or lighting your house this way, but it is still a cheap and useful way to store energy. It is also something we can do for the world using yesterday's cheap technology.
The exposition on how to interpret boxplots is odd, especially the part about the difference between the median and the mean being representative of the "variance". I want to give the benefit of the doubt and assume the author is simply using "variance" to refer to a different statistical concept (e.g. skew), but then later she writes "the variance between the Washington state average & median values is negligible - meaning there is little / no variation in the dataset" which is just wrong. The WA boxplot has the largest variance of any state on the plot. And the distinction is not just academic, because that larger variance increases the potential savings for moving from their current WA home to a cheaper home in the same state.
> let's just consider the "anarchy" in light of where SF and NYC (shining lights on the hill of liberalism) rank in the dimension of racial segregation

Sorry, is the argument that public safety can’t exist in a desegregated city?
Nah, it's presumably because they just lift and shift the US code to whatever new region they're in, without actually investing any thought into it.

This is a recurrent problem with US based services, as residents of the USA tend to forget that they are a very large country.
> He finally realized it was the hot water recirculator.

The problem is using devices that are either timed or (even worse) just runs 24/7.

Ideally you'd want one that runs on demand when triggered by a switch: hit the button, it runs for 30-60s while you undress, and then we you turn on (e.g.) the shower the water is already hot.

The hot water supply for the shower should be the same as the sink, and so when you go to shave or brush your teeth, that's then already primed as well.

Do a search for "Gary Klein", who has written a lot of designing good hot water systems over the years.

* https://www.garykleinassociates.com/videos.html
That is the problem of the ad network. If they have to deal with fraud then find a way to solve this but not at the cost of everyone.
>Not op but I've not clicked a single ad intentionally since Ads exist on the internet.

You are in the minority then. I personally have clicked on ads and have found products that I was interested in.

>I don't consider them a trusted source for recommendation and why should I?

I am not saying you should. Ads just allow people to get the word out about something.

>Ads violate my attention and that's what they're made for.

This is a poor mindset. If you go to a public place are all of the people there violating your attention because you can see and hear them?
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Every time I wind up on the site without going to old.reddit.com, I get frustrated first but then I become enthralled that the site has been completely broken for years now.

I know there are folks that defend it and possibly enjoy it, but I think they have somehow built the muscle memory to not fuck up and accidentally look the wrong way while browsing.
And of course Infiniband sends in parallel as well, with it's bundle of fibres.
"don't be different" gets enshrined in law in the name of "celebrating diversity"; is this result actually surprising?
There is fdic insurance up to $250k
The bot actually tracks time distracted, so in your bizarre hypothetical example, the attentive politician who pulls out their phone because of an emergency call and then rushes to the hospital to be at their husbands bedside would still have a positive ranking and no apology would be required.
A few years ago I completely scratched using a YouTube account and instead switched to the android app NewPipe (I was primarily watching on my Android phone).

This has completely changed and improved the experience for me. NewPipe lets you create multiple feeds of groups of channels. So for example I can have a feed podcasts, music and tech news.

This not only makes it easier to actually get to the content you want to consume at any given time without distracting yourself but also helps you get better recommendations in these grouped feeds (the recommendations still work).

NewPipe is free and open source and can be downloaded on F-Droid.
There's a subtle but valuable (for Netflix) difference between "you watched x so you'll probably like y" vs "if we can get you to start watching this show you'll probably pay another month's subscription".
i mean a lot of that is adjustable in settings if you create an account.
> plausible deniability

For buying goods from random people instead of a distributor? No of course not. Any reasonable person would be suspicious.
I would guess some of them are doing actual work on their phones while sitting around pretending to listen to something they already read and some of them are goofing off. Just being on their phone isn't enough to determine that they're not working.
Yes. Virtual (shared) hosting is still a thing
I spend time blocking/curating videos in a desktop browser so that my Apple TV YouTube app sucks less from a recommendations perspective..

It's lame that it has to be done that way, but it's the best way I've been able to do it.
You can in Rust.
Enough with the victimology tropes of "all victims are pure, helpless angels beyond reproach and responsibility."

> It's pretty simplistic to just call a victim stupid

People should be held accountable when they don't take reasonable measures to ensure their own security. You don't post your social security number, bank password, address, or birthdate online. You don't leave your car running with the keys in the ignition. You don't leave valuables in plain sight in a car. Such would be stupid vulnerabilities they created and that would be their own fault.

> It's also absurd to ask a regular person living in a country like Germany to be ready at all times to defend themselves using knives or guns.

It doesn't matter who or where you are, it's always personal responsibility. When the balloon goes up, you're on your own. The police cannot help you in the 5 to 45 seconds that it's over. So you're either prepared (internal locus-of-control), or it sucks to be you (external locus-of-control ... praying, tea leaves, wishing, utopian fantasies).

"This is this." - https://youtu.be/6J1Blggu5IU
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Yes, that's exactly what I was pointing out. I even used &gt; instead of < as my example.
Yes they do, but segmentation is practically non-existent and page tables distinguish only between rings 0 and rings 1-3. So no, they aren't very useful, but they do exist and, AFAIK, they're still checked in "far" control transfers.
I was attempting to explain the disagreement up-thread. Also that article is full of really good tips and I just felt like posting it.
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Yes, but it serves as a nice reminder of one's resolution.
SF -> Florida here. Yes. Publix is a bizarre surreal experience. I was used to buying food at CVS hoping to not step on a needle. If you asked a CVS employee where something is - they roll their eyes and mumble something. At publix, I asked an employee where the peanut butter was - they smiled, asked how my day was, walked me over to the peanut butter. When I checked out they told me the peanut butter was "bogo". I said excuse me? They proceeded to tell me I get another free peanut butter - for absolutely no reason. I fell in love.
This guy has ice storage:

https://youtu.be/N3Em64OBGqI
The problem with abuse is not special to ad networks. All sites (once they reach a certain size) have to deal with it. Surveillance is needed to handle abuse of your service.
If you are only worried about natural cooling, insulation is not the answer. You want a poor insulated house with a lot of shade, and large open windows for the wind to blow through.

Most people these days want more than natural cooling. As soon as you decide to have an AC system installed more insulation is better for the reasons you state.
How else can you monetize meditation at scale?
you read me backwards.

if anything, the upper castes rely on segregation to feel safer, thereby making things worse.
You are the one playing the victim here, I am not attacking anyone.
Ontario has a density of 14 people per square km, not square mile. Saskatchewan has a density of 1.9 people per square km yet has cheaper rates. And go look at a coverage map. The big 3 don't cover huge swaths of places including most of Nunavut, heck even Northern Ontario is not well covered. It's an excuse. Again Australia has similar low density with people mainly concentrated in a few cities yet rates are considerably cheaper. Taking a quick peek at Telstra and you can get a 40GB a month plan for 55AUD (51 CAD) while Telus/Bell/Rogers charge $80 CAD for 30 GB. And I'm pretty sure the Australia price includes taxes in the price unlike the Canada price.
I watch good movies many times. I keep them on a loop while studying, or working. In college, I always had an Oliver Stone film on. At the time the duality between good, and evil, was always on my mind.

I must have watched Wall Street, and Platoon, a few hundred times.

I won't even estimate how many times I have watched Hictchcock films.

And the number of times I have watched Giant, or Citizen Cane, is embarrassing.

I have old movies playing all the time. I don't actually watch them, but I find them comforting in a weird way, esoecially black, and white films. I think the old, good movies take a part of my brain away from reality? I listen to them while working,

Yes--how can I find Platoon comforting? At that point in my life, Charlie Sheen's character, and his father's, reminded me there are moral people still left. Maybe only in fantasy though?

I get what you are saying though. I have The Andy Griffith show on all the time.

(fun murky fact, I think true, fact about the Andy Griffith show. They didn't bother to copyright the episodes. For years people could sell copies of the show without copyright concerns. I think it's copy written now though.)
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I was confused why this matters so much in a discussion of where to retire.

The Social Security calculations clearly indicate that's the consideration, but Medicare kicks in at 65. What does the ACA matter at that point?

I'd have understood if there was mention of Medicare gap coverage options instead, but ACA costs really don't make sense to me in this context.
I guess it comes down to whether one does the cost benefit analysis for society as a whole or for individuals.

While decentralized permissionless markets can (and have) helped some individuals escape economic restrictions (capital controls, sanctions, etc.) it's not at all clear to me that they have had an overall positive effect, or ever will.

At the end of the day, the rise in the price of bitcoin, scams like AfriCrypt and OneCoin, the new Salvador laws etc are all just new means of extracting capital from the Global South. I'm of the opinion that the benefits to individuals are not balancing the overall societal harms, but I could see how someone with a more individualistic ideology would disagree.
According to Chime's website, "Chime accounts are insured up to the standard maximum deposit insurance amount of $250,000 through our partner banks, Stride Bank, N.A. or The Bancorp Bank, Members FDIC",[1] so while that doesn't help anyone who needs their money immediately it's at least a comfort I guess.

[1]: https://help.chime.com/hc/en-us/articles/224459628-Are-Chime...