skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you imagine budget or mid-class 7 year old phones running a new Android release? The specs are too weak.
I am not disagreeing but I am interested to know which specific factors make it so different from things in the past. I remember growing up and the boogeyman was sexualized videos on MTV and violent video games. I didn’t believe it then and I don’t quite believe it now. Not to say I don’t believe social media has negative impacts but this is a pretty sharp rise.

It also coincided with the post-2009 financial crisis. Could be more financially unstable households. Could be a feeling if being left behind as pressure to excel academically and socially increased due to a desire to get into better schools for some financial security. I don’t know. Just throwing out other hypotheses.
The claim was about `x[6]`, which does not appear in your program. The point is that `[]` is always bounds-checked, and the bounds-checking cannot be opted out of even with `unsafe`.
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It depends on how much you drive. I have a van I use one a month. Would be dumb to replace, especially as anyone who buys it would use it more. I've actually thought of scrapping it rather than selling. So I'd say, if you aren't willing to scrap your gas burner, then only sell if you drive more than the median.
Windows home supports device encryption if you meet certain hardware requirements. (A TPM 2.0 chip, apparently) My laptop doesn't meet those requirements so I've never looked into it further.

Windows pro supports encryption with all hardware.
This would not be a classics sting operation. The seller already committed the crime(s) by offering it.
Sting operation usually are the reason someone could commit a crime by creating a bait crime opportunity.
Most apps use a foreground service. Using that the app is treated like an app running in the foreground and not like an app running in the background.

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/foreground-se...
Exactly the same with me. I have everything I need in walking distance, the car is not necessary.

I guess the problem is how do we get neighborhoods to “evolve” in this direction naturally? My neighborhood I think was essentially built in the 20s before cars were common household items. The lot sizes are small, there are no setbacks or tree mandates.

It seems hard to get a suburban area to morph into a walkable neighborhood like that unless the location is highly desirable (which, to be fair, applies to huge parts of the SF Bay Area from the Peninsula to South Bay, but not the whole country), which would incentivize wide-scale new construction enough for people to put up with the short term pains of living in something built for walkability in a larger community that is still car-based.
Years ago, I thought I'd try learning Python, I'd heard it was supposed to be easy, good for beginners and everything. I read one of those beginner Python type books and followed along with a roguelike tutorial. Everything was going pretty alright, until I started trying to split everything into different files and use imports.

I ended up just giving up. I read programming in lua, and rewrote my entire project in lua and actually finished it.

Some day I'd like to go back and maybe learn Python but I really didn't enjoy my experience with it. I even found C headers easier to figure out than Python imports.
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This is a natural, logical, and surely profitable extension of their business. Say what you will about Elon (and I'm no fan), but his charging infrastructure and the simplicity of using it are light years beyond anyone else's. VW only built ChargeAmerica because they were forced to by DieselGate. No one else has built anything. From the videos I see on YouTube, charging at anyone else's station is a joke compared to Tesla.

I hope they take over and own this market of chargers. It would be a big step toward getting electrification everywhere.
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Hopefully if there were more choices for childcare the costs would fall.

I know that childcare in many parts of America, and the UK, can eat up a whole parent's salary. Here in Finland we pay €250/month for Monday-Friday daycare 7:30-4:30. That's affordable, and means two parents can easily continue to work.

If you pay $1500/month for child-care it becomes a tougher choice to send your child/children there. I know people in the UK where lesser-earning parent has been persuaded to quit their job, because it was "cheaper" than paying for childcare.
We, the global community of software developers, are in the process of putting C out to pasture, with Rust as the de facto front runner as a successor. At this point it becomes a question of either admitting Rust into the kernel or, eventually, using another kernel written in Rust.
This is my theory too. A friend of me noted that one positive thing about lock-down is the complete lack of FOMO (fear of missing out). Which seems particularly important at that age.
What is there for us on Jupiter? Nothing.

The progress which matters always happens in some guy's brain. Imaginary journeys, not real ones.

Einstein didn't need to travel around massive objects to come up with relativity.

The cost of that theory was basically the rent, food and water for him.
reddit is a community made up of the moderators, contributors, editors, lurkers, and also the company that finances it. Without them reddit doesn't exist. so reddit did remove the link, for if such behavior wasn't tolerated it would be cancelled, just as this post is being down-voted. if you want to get more specific about it, that's great. thanks for pointing it out. it's irrelevant to my intentions.

and don't worry, github removes PRs too, https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-notice-wipes-reverse-engineere...
This is like people reading research in the 50s that smoking causes lung cancer. Even if true what are we going to do? Everybody smokes so lets just keep smoking instead of trying to quit.
I think people just like chain stores better. Plus they can take advantage of bulk buying for materials, services, advertising, etc.
As far as I know the app can just ask to run in the background and then it works. Problem is many apps don't use the native dialog box to request it, and instead ask the user to go to settings and do it manually.
I concur. Perhaps the break from schools opened their eyes to the notion that life didn’t have to be the total hell that it is for a lot of young kids and then being forced back was too much to handle, on top of all of the other stuff everyone has been struggling with this last year.
What do you consider a loss? It's not like they're setting money on fire.
They have over 140,000 points, post multiple times a day and never write any comments. They sure look like a bot.

I've seen lots of profiles made around 2012 as well that post regularly but only have a tenth the amount of points as this one has.

Also, not sure why you're so quick to defend them. Bots are very common now a days. Its not unreasonable to assume most of the profiles that produce massive amounts of content on most social media platforms are bots.
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Reading those comments, it's startling how people basically argue "but I like Ben Shapiro and so do others so he must be good right?".

No, everything the man says is biased and purposefully leaves details out in order to skew conclusions. Those unaware of the data left, out cannot possibly know that it was left out. Yet people will desire a conclusion, at the moment of listening. Desperation through poverty will do that to people. Not limited to finances.

I speak in an absolute, because why the fuck not.

This is what Plato meant when asking "do we have free will?".

How can one's will be free, if you make decisions based on incomplete facts? Not only that, but incomplete by design, the designer have done so with premeditated intent, for the express purpose of steering the reaction of those listening.

And once you've become convinced, you're unwilling to go back. It made sense once... and that feeling sticks.
I don't think it would be a good idea, given that you'd have to claim the winnings. It might work once or twice but not over and over again.

Additionally in most cases I'd think the lottery odds would be lower than the cost of traditional laundering (smurfing, through crooked banks, using cash based businesses like taxis etc.) Especially if you have to pay people to buy tickets.
Strange, Python’s import is not very difficult to use.
Would it not be inverse or negative correlation, instead?
That's kind of cool. It would also be nice if hitting ( after selecting an expression would wrap it in ()s, if it is syntactically correct to do so. That's the first thing I tried.
The tonnage that makes sails ineffective also makes drag ineffective, so you just end up with reduced acceleration, rather than reduced speed.
In Skylab mode it was pure payload.
The difference is that Cuban Americans are not advocating on behalf of a foreign government.
HtDP uses Racket and scales from graduate school to middle school children. Part of the reason they use Racket Scheme is that it is extremely easy to teach the syntax.

As for why it's not used more widely, same reasons Lisp like languages aren't used more often in industry: inertia, fear, worse-is-better syndrome.
It’s not the same. I don’t have an option of who to build my echo chamber with.

On Twitter and Facebook you get to remove anyone that challenges your thought process. That’s what makes it so dangerous and euphoric. Everyone you see is clapping for your stupid ideas and people just live in different realities now because of it.

On HN we all get the same front page, same comments, etc. You might not like what gets the upvotes, but at least you saw it.

You’re right this is social media, but it’s not the cancerous “choose your reality” style that people usually are talking about when they decry “social media”.
Meta analyses as collateralized bonds that let scientists argue whatever they want!
Don't be too dependent on useState, useRef is there for you
I mentioned that exclusion in the first comment. I re-emphasized it in the second comment. If we don't limit ourselves to PCs, I raise you my PS1 - could not even play a burned CD without hardware modifications, let alone customize anything. Predates iOS by 13 years.
Try to use functional component over class component in react
I have been off Facebook for years. I was forced to rejoin because our head of marketing departed and I had to take over our company page. OH MY F*** GOD. I could not believe the mess of user engagement triggers and dark patterns that confronted me. (I'm an ops guy, a dev and a successful entrepreneur, currently a high growth CEO) I was literally nauseated. I've actually postponed the job just to avoid the damn thing.

As someone who left for a long time and looked at it with a fresh set of non-desensitized eyes, I can tell you with absolute certainty that FB is bad for your mental health.

I think the trouble with social is that it's really hard to tell people what they don't want to hear. Anyone who lived through the 80s knows how pissed a smoker would get when you'd tell them they're killing themselves. You felt like an asshole. Same with Facebook, Insta, Twitter, etc. Tell someone who's into it (most of us) they're self harming, and it doesn't exactly improve your relationship with them.

But I think the ship has sailed. These are companies making north of 100 Billion per year (in FB's case) with massive lobbying cannons, who are now entrenched and ingrained in our culture and day to day life. It may sound overly dramatic, but I think the truth is that, this sucks for the species boys and girls.

[Sorry, had to add the boys and girls. Little Starship Troopers hat tip]
> How would you handle it if they begged, pleaded, and explained how all their friends use it and it'd be social ostracism to not use it?

I would be an adult and remind them that they are children and can fuck off.

When they completely lose their minds about this smash the shit out their phone. It’s not actually their phone. It’s mine. As the adult I pay those bills. If that creates big tears they can pay for their own damn phone.

I am a parent of teenagers and have gone through this.
How many TB is sci-hub database? Could a home server serve those papers through BitTorrent?
Not mine! That was all Scott Bell. It's forked from Lumen: https://github.com/sctb/lumen

But, I did make an interactive tutorial here: https://docs.ycombinator.lol/

If you have any questions about it, I'd be happy to answer. This stuff is pure fun mixed with a shot of professionalism.

For what it's worth, as someone with narcolepsy, I relate quite a lot to your chronic pain. (https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1392213804684038150) For me, it mostly translated into wandering aimlessly from job to job, since I thought no one would have me. I hope that you find your way -- there's nothing wrong at all with taking it slow and spending years on something that takes others a few months. Everyone is different, and it's all about the fun.
Paywall, can't read
This morning, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan informed us that Twitter has suspended the site’s official account, which had over 185k followers and operated without notable issues for nine years. Elbakyan believes that it may be directly related to the legal action in India....

The reason for the suspension is related to Twitter’s “counterfeit policy.” The social media platform doesn’t list any concrete takedown requests but simply mentions the policy violation and the fact that its decision can’t be appealed.

“Your account has been permanently suspended due to a violation of Twitter policies, in particular the Counterfeiting Policy. This decision is not subject to appeal,” Twitter writes, translated from Russian.

(January 8, 2021)

https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-founder-criticises-sudden-t...
Yes but those were developer kits not retail devices.
I'm interpreting your comment as HN is like Twitter, HN is good therefore Twitter is good but I have the opposite opinion. HN is like Twitter, Twitter is bad, HN is bad

HN for me, HN's social media feature (the POINTS) are as bad as twitter and i've banned myself from it twice because of how addicting it is for me. (blocking it in my browser, setting my noprocrast to billions, even blocking it in my DNS server).

Seeing those points go up, a stupid as it is, is that "euphoria" mentioned above. If I notice that little number jump then I immediately want to know "wow, what comment of mine did people like" and similarly if it goes down I immediately get defensive and want to go respond to whichever comment was downvoted.

This time I wrote a chrome extension to remove the points which for me as a force multiplier in it's addictiveness.

https://github.com/greggman/hn-points-exorcism
I moved into Nine a while back - it's great, and in fact the only Android app I've ever paid money for!

It works well with my self-hosted email accounts, and before I went full time on my own business, it worked well with O365 and Exchange too - and it didn't force Exchange PIN-lock policies on me.

It also seems to allow customisation of just about everything, from view density to font sizes.

Highly recommended it.
The “international” spelling is actually the English one. E.g. France and Germany respectively use “tch” and “tsch”, which correspond to the pronunciation in their languages.
> create your own list of all possible numbers on the world. Pick a number, dial and see if it exists.

Let’s say you had the ability to do that 1,000x a minute using an automated dialer. Just in the US alone that would take you over a year to complete and how many of those numbers you verified changed active/disconnected status during that time?

(PS, I didn’t downvote you, just pointing out a problem with your theory)
Actually, many of your points are good, just not your first one

> The supply of residential housing should be at a level, where buying or renting from a private sector could be considered an option, not a necessity.

That's actually good.

> Local governments should be allowed to rent houses from private investors

Nah, there's no value for the private sector to add, and huge risk of regulatory capture here.

We avoid NYCHA failures be saying public housing != low income housing. Allow the average rent to meet costs so public housing is self sufficient. Having average rent not meet costs is moronic politics, basically committing seppuku for the right.

> So that residential property is not viewed as an investment, but rather as a way of getting maintenance money for idle properties.

Also true!

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> Why this reminds me of treating workers as caged hen? Dense in the sense of building complexes of decent size family homes? That I could support, but building blocks of shoebox flats, should really be eliminated.

Saying density means less space for people is dead wrong! Less land space too, but taller buildings can mean bigger units.

Back yards don't scale. Ensure people city and natural park access (which the Bay Area has lots of), and then build the buildings as big as possible to give people humane floor space.

Ultimately it's single family homes that make people caged hens....in tents.
Quick hack for you:

socat TCP-LISTEN:4000,fork UNIX-CONNECT:/run/yoursock
At Microsoft's size it may make more sense to just hire an auditing team who works internally.
Citation needed on satellite signals being easy to jam. These satellites are moving rapidly across the sky, with directional (phased) antenna arrays tracking them. To have a good chance at jamming, your transmitter needs to remain in the path of the signal.
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> It was very reasonably priced, you were able to have physical access and is more of an enthusiast club than a business.

Sounds like it might be one of the hackerspaces there: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Amsterdam
Ask HN: Does Facebook delete everything it says it does?
Just realized facebook added an unsend feature for messenger that no longer requires a 10 minute deadline. They do say unsent messages can be reported up to 14 days after being unsent, but do they delete after this time or does it just hang around their servers until someone inadvertently hacks them. This has previously been an issue around a year ago, where Instagram was reported to not have deleted "deleted messages and photos" from their servers for over a year.

At this point the only thing keeping me from deleting my facebook is that I want to purge everything, including messages but wondering if it's just a wink wink we'll be deleting them not really, kind of deal. Are there any GDPR rights that let me check if they do?
Cuz I think the other commenters are missing it: nice pun.
It's best applied in situations where both direction A and direction B lead to significant downsides, I think.

Instead of choosing one of those and getting stuck with (and having to justify) the consequences, wait until the downsides can be reduced, or an option C becomes available.
When. When Starship works
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Get a former journal reviewer to claim the tranch of B papers contains, in sum, the same amount of good science as an AAA paper.

I like where this is going
Instagram kills, from Coddling:

> U.S. hospitals going back to 2001 and were able to estimate self-harm rates for the entire country. They found that the rate for boys held steady at roughly 200 per hundred thousand boys in the age range of fifteen to nineteen. The rate for girls in that age range was much higher, but had also been relatively steady from 2001 to 2009, at around 420 per hundred thousand girls. Beginning in 2010, however, the girls’ rate began to rise steadily, reaching 630 per hundred thousand in 2015. The rate for younger girls (ages ten to fourteen) rose even more quickly, nearly tripling from roughly 110 per hundred thousand in 2009 to 318 per hundred thousand in 2015. (The corresponding rate for boys in that age range was around 40 throughout the period studied.) The years since 2010 have been very hard on girls.
Sure, it's zero if you ignore all the development and maintenance costs.

Plus, robots aren't necessarily better at making things. Tesla, for example, rolled back its fully automated production line because it wasn't as adaptable as humans are.
I love Python, but to be fair, the dependency/import system has not aged well, and the various projects trying to fix it are proof of that.
But if it pays more to be corrupt then status quo will remain.

It seems that at least 8 of 22 senators could be on the wrong side according to the votes for the Cocaine Legalization Bill:

https://transformdrugs.org/blog/historic-win-for-coca-cocain...

If nothing is done then we will see more stories like this ad infinitum:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/costa-rica-seizes-4.3-tons-o...
It's usually "government issued photo ID." I have seen (but not for many years) cases where a store wouldn't accept out of state ID for alcohol purchases.
Using electricity power lights to grow plants should be illegal.

Growing a recreational drug using lights is beyond criminal.

We need to start charging for electricity based on type of usage.
> try to find something from 30 years ago using bittorrent

The clients are bad nowadays. Old utorrent could easily seed many thousands of torrents. With utorrent web I don't even know how to get the torrent files or magnets out. I hear some ppl with seedboxes run multiple clients and restart each periodically. Thats not how things are suppose to work.
No, bribing foreign governments is illegal, and also immoral.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Ac...
Google Gmail authentications broke K-9 mail usage with Gmail accounts a couple of years back.

Has that been addressed?

(Why I still have gmail accounts is a separate issue. Working on that.)
PV = photovoltaic

If the title read "silicon solar cells" it would be clearer to the layperson (like me).

Many of us read the comments to decide if the article is worth reading, so it helps.
> When you self-host, the government has to come to you for your data.

And better, if you catch wind they're after you, you can format your HD to zeroes, or (if you don't want even the physical drive around) throw it in a fire or something :).
Yeah I think everyone can sort of relate to this guy, I would have had more sympathy with him if he hadn’t shot at people though. Fucking up the town and some factories in a tank, and not killing anyone, yeah that’s an extreme, but kind of cathartic thing to watch, but yeah shooting at people is taking it a bit too far.

Either way, bit of a legend.