skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well of course! The real question is: what shouldn't impact your credit score? Any information you consume could potentially impact your ability to repay a debt - if you read the wrong book, see the wrong movie, visit the wrong person, any of these events could change your mind, and make you a less reliable credit risk. Reading the wrong web resources is a natural extension.

(Because the actually crazy people have killed satire, let me be clear: this is satire.)
I would take the analogy even further. While you may physically have the capability to do as you please with the house you own, you do not have the legal permission to do so. The exterior is heavily regulated by city landscaping regulations. The interior structure is heavily regulated by building codes. Mess with wiring and you can say goodbye to your electricity grid connection. Mess with pipes and no insurance will cover you.

Similarly, I own a car. Can I take off the seat belts? Physically, yes. But legally, a vehicle without a seat belts is no longer a car and I lose the right to enjoy driving it on public roads.

Ownership was never about physical possession. It's about gaining some rights.

Back to phones, the challenge is to demarcate what rights does an owner get when they buy a phone. To side with Epic Games, the discussion is even more complicated by Apple's (purposeful) confusion of owning a phone with having access to an ecosystem of apps for that phone. I can do whatever I am capable of with my iPhone, but I may lose access to the ecosystem of apps.
Hey all. The founder of Micro here . Micro is a public API platform that puts APIs for everyday use all in one place. One account, one api token, simple, fast and easy to use.

We surfaced on Hackernews maybe 6-8 weeks ago with some really positive feedback however one of the comments that kept coming up was around pricing. Because we're really early in our journey just trying to nail the dev UX we've decided to make the majority of our APIs free during the beta. Right now we're looking for feedback, ideas around the next APIs to offer and the optimal pricing model.

We're not looking to pull the rug out from anyone's feet. When we do announce pricing it'll be after a lot of discovery with existing users and potentially only for new APIs and new users.

Come check it out at https://m3o.com
Some multifeeds based on blogrolls:

- Marginal Revolution: https://mergefeed.net/Marginal_Revolution_Blogroll?urls=http...

- Crooked Timber: https://mergefeed.net/Crooked_Timber_Blogroll?urls=http://11...

- Naked Capitalism: https://mergefeed.net/Naked_Capitalism_Blogroll?urls=http://...
> I can't tell if this is sarcasm or just a bad example

A bad example given HN's audience - but I imagine of most normal-people, the majority of those with a VCR will have left it in the attic or basement and never bothered to connect it to their modern LCD TV. If it was a home-video camcorder vid then it's likely already converted to DVD if it's worth preserving.
Better title: "Pinterest somehow spends more than $400mm/year on infrastructure..."
> It was in good faith but I can see how it comes across as snarky, that's bad wording on my part

I didn't take it as snarky[1], so I wouldn't worry about that if I were you.

[1] I even replied in kind, with a question :-)
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Well they have to do something religion related to keep their tax exempt status.
There is no way you can convince a sane person that launching TENS OF THOUSANDS of satellites every 5 years is somehow more eco friendly than launching 3 (! yeah, three). You are completely out of touch with reality.
But you can always just to bank transfer to buy crypto instead of having to go through these payment networks
A better conversation is whether IMF/credit scores deserve to exist in the first place. Didn't these geniuses JUST add field-specific search to SWIFT, so orders for "cubanos" don't get held up because of Cuba sanctions?

Maybe these clueless old men should stick to what they know - mountains of physical paperwork and pointless policies and procedures, and stay away from anything that uses electricity or internet.

Bitcon/DeFi will render them obsolete in a few years' time anyway.
I’m a bit lost as you were talking about character encoding with phonetics originally and I couldn’t picture how that would work.

With kids yes in would agree sounding out (and pointing out exceptions to the rule) works well enough. But I’m no teacher!
Many so called "shitcoins" generate more revenue, get more transactions and offer more utility (loans, market makers etc) than your beloved bitcoin, so let's be humble.

https://cryptofees.info/
"We take security and privacy seriously, and we encourage our customers to use best practices when configuring products in ways that best meet their privacy needs."

A serious security practice is not to be open by default and rights to be granted only when and where they are needed.
My solution: I don't have a global username and email set up. I have user.useConfigOnly set to true, this causes a hard failure if i try to commit without my identity configured. And when i configure my identity, its on a per-repo basis only.
Dang it! I knew this existed but I couldn't find it for some reason. Thank you!!! This has been a wonderful journey...my poor kids have been getting spammed with my latest incantations for the past week lol.

I keep trying to think of ways to make this more consumable for the less technically inclined, but GPUs are just not cheap. I was on a V100 for probably 36 hours through Colab via my $9 monthly subscription, that'd run $100 on AWS for the same amount of time on a p3. So then I'd need to figure out a tip jar or something to keep the gas tank full.
Using Supervisors to Organize Your Elixir Application
Maybe abolish credit scores, because they're only used for evil.

They help nobody but the bankers.
Interview with 7 year old Terence Tao (1984) [pdf]
We (US) do in that national law allows a surcharge for smokers.

States may (and some do) override and decrease this, but it's allowed as the default. Notably, that and age are some of the few factors allowed to influence insurance pricing.

Regarding transplant, my understanding is people are transplanted on (1) current health state (worse = higher priority) & (2) ability to comply with post-transplant protocols.

So someone who burned their liver out with alcolism and is very sick, but makes a good case that they'll be able to stay sober post-transplant, gets an organ over a less-ill, sober victim of circumstance (e.g. dehydration/heat injury or something).

One of the key features I've heard that allow other countries to drive down health care costs is a regulatory requirement that approved treatments (pharmaceutical, surgical, etc) demonstrate greater efficacy and/or lower cost. In the US, the FDA approves on efficacy only.

End result being that in the US you can reformulate a medicine, try your best to sell it for $1,000 a pill, even when a cheaper alternative that produces the same results is available.
That was in the prior paragraph, no need to restate.
Proffeshionals can't distinguish vulnerabilities in their own fucking software, so we have no right to blame the users.
DOS Haven: 21st century DOS games
As a European founder you can do exactly the same. You can hire contractors in Europe and won't have to pay employer taxes, mandatory PTO...

I don't think there is any difference if your company is in the US or Europe. In both cases however you have to be careful that your contractors don't get reclassified as permanent employees if you hire them for too long (more than 2 years in a row and 40 hours a week is risky).
This is just a copy-paste of the creator's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28286869
O365 alleviates this.

I do not send spreadsheets anymore and just send a onedrive view only link to whoever needs to see it.

On the chance they need to manipulate I share the edit link (which has version control) and my stress levels are minimal.
Reminds me of the PA judge that was getting kickbacks to send juveniles to a private run facility. He's in jail for life now.
Needs a (2019) tag.

Restoration of the wild buffalo population is actually going surprisingly well, but it's just getting started.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/135ade9a64a243eaa8e4647...

https://www.nwf.org/Our-Work/Wildlife-Conservation/Bison

https://www.nwf.org/Our-Work/Wildlife-Conservation/Bison/Tri...
I’d prefer a libre phone that barely works than any of the other bullets.
Yes. Developer tools (and consumer software generally) were quite expensive. A typical compiler from Microsoft was hundreds of dollars. (Borland drove pricing down somewhat.) I forget what an MSDN subscription cost but it wasn't cheap.
Isn't the distinctive teaching of Calvinism that those who are saved and those who are not are known to The Boss at birth? That there's nothing you can do to redeem yourself?

I've met quite a few people who's attitude is that "bad" people are irredeemable. Not all of these people were from the USA; but it seems to be an attitude that is particularly prevalent in the USA. This is a bit odd, because most USAians aren't Calvinists. It's as if there's a thread of Calvinism running through evangelicalism - but most evangelical traditions don't inherit from Calvinism, or so I thought.
This is just yet another push by financial companies to impose on your freedom of speech. Why on earth do people keep pushing for private companies to become political activists?

They have already come for individual bank accounts, in the UK for example an activist named 'Tommy Robinson' [1] is not allowed to open a bank account due to his politics [*].

"What business of mine is it

So long they don’t take the yam

From my savouring mouth?"

Then they came for Trump, the former president of the United States [3]. Irrespective of your politics, do you believe that he should not be allowed to have money or do business?

"What business of mine is it

So long they don’t take the yam

From my savouring mouth?"

Now they come after sex workers on websites like OnlyFans [4], threatening the livelihoods of people doing perfectly legal business. Sure, OnlyFans did need to clean up their act - but we're talking here about the fringe, not the majority. I really also suspect PornHub were also targetted by payment processors not so long ago, but they kept more quiet about it.

"What business of mine is it

So long they don’t take the yam

From my savouring mouth?"

"And then one evening

As I sat down to eat my yam

A knock on the door froze my hungry hand.

The jeep was waiting on my bewildered lawn

Waiting, waiting in its usual silence."

- (Interlaced poem by Niyi Osundare [5])

[*] I would suggest to hear his speech at the Oxford Union address [2], rather than a heavily biased Wikipedia entry. The first two references in the Wikipedia article are simply links to news articles calling him far-right - not evidence in the slightest of him having far-right opinions. If you even have the slightest doubt in the news media, please watch the video before casting judgement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_%28activist%29

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQ94jFg_4A

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/more-of-t...

[4] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/21/tech/onlyfans-creators-re...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_My_Business
Nope, will never understand how this Y Combinator thing is more than HN. Nor how it's even remotely interesting.
Disclaimer: I'm talking here about the Disney World FastPass system; if the system is different at other parks, I'm not familiar with it.

FastPass is a very interesting example, because for decades, it was not a "pay-to-win" system. Everyone had the same access to it.

For a long time, it was designed such that those who understood the system better, and were willing to purposefully structure their time at a park, could take better advantage of it: as soon as you enter the park (at opening, ideally), get a FastPass for a ride you know will be highly congested, then go and ride one of the other most-popular rides; by the time you're out, your FastPass time will be pretty close. Use your FastPass, and immediately go back and get another one for another ride. Rinse and repeat.

About ten years ago, Disney shifted the system to a limited number of FastPasses per ticket, which you could pre-book online. This was definitely fairer than the previous system, because it made sure everyone was getting the same number of FastPasses. The only people losing out were those who could previously work the system. Worth noting that this was also around the time the crowds in the parks were getting to be excessive—maximum wait times for rides increasing from the 1-1.5 hour range during the mid-2000s into the 3+ hour range in the 2010s.

Now, very recently, they've changed it to be an explicit "pay-to-win" system, where you pay extra for each FastPass.
> Not at all. This analysis is possible on any kind of language, although much easier on static languages.

I don't think so. Hovering over an untyped variable like "var foo = bar;" might show you a list of possible methods available on the object "bar" but only if the context of this line contains a constructor call like "bar = new Baz()" making it possible to apply a heuristic guess by the IDE. If it is passed as an argument to a function with untyped signature, on the other hand, there is no way an IDE can reliably autocomplete possible actions on this piece of code because the variable is bound to an object only at runtime.

This is what I meant with IDEs' refactoring tools would require static analysis. The "Language Server Protocol" might make it much easier to support different languages in an editor but it does not avoid the problem of being able to know what object a variable is bound to.

AFAIK even modern, popular statically typed languages like Golang support "interfaces" revealing the true identity of a variable only at runtime.

EDIT:

Just to make myself clearer: "Automatic refactoring" meaning renaming a method in a class and making the IDE to walk over the entire code base and to rename every invocation accordingly, can only work reliably if the IDE knows a variable will always be bound to a value of a certain type or class at compile time. This is impossible for dynamically typed languages, at least in general, for the reason I tried to explain above.

That's why I believe fans of IDEs and automatic refactoring tools are almost exclusively users of languages like Java or C#. They are also the ones who love static typing. Developers working in dynamic languages usually prefer basic editors and avoid IDEs and never quite get why the other groups have so much love for static typing.
Wasn't that paradox already apparent during the cold war, when the US tried to block Communism by propping up right- wing dictators?
The very first link I got for "EU GDP", conveniently listing EU, US, and China, agrees: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...
I’ve got nothing to add except that sounds both insane and challenging. It’s hard to read all these stories and to not see these religious facilities, all of them, as fundamentally flawed. Thanks for sharing.
After Apple's incredible reversal on privacy/spyware inclusion in iOS 15 I've chosen to cancel all future purchases with them and buy this. Hoping my american-made one comes soon.

I will likely continue to carry my 12 pro max 512GB for a while as my primary camera/use old school apps, but my linux phone will be how people reach me/where I store my media and files.

I purchase ~5 iPhones/year for my family (soon to be 6) and upgrade them every year (selling the old hardware). I refuse to participate in their closed ecosystem if they insist on shipping malware.
> Honda does not give me an SDK and API to run arbitrary software on the computers in my Civic either. But obviously I own it.

Cars and their infotaiment systems aren't marketed as general-purpose computing devices in the first place. iOS devices very much are.
If we've learned anything from Afghanistan and Iraq, the will of the people will eventually win out. So western liberal values should always support democracy because they still haven't been able to show a unicorn self-sustaining, liberal authoritarian.
...help the bankers not lose all their money to deadbeats, which means they can keep loaning the rest of us money at a lesser rate?
> The reason they work so hard, endure the horrific conditions and do so without pay is because they still feel that it is better than jail.

There may be sunk cost issue involved here as well: as I understand the article, whether you drop out of the "rehab" program in the first month or last month of your planned stay, you're going to prison for the full time. So the longer you stay in the program, the stronger your incentive to stay until the end.
Not that bizarre, some consumer "routers" (router+switch+AP devices) do that by default.
I think so, but note that the NPR piece you linked to is based on obsolete pre-Delta data in the United States and by all accounts hospitals are seeing more sick kids than they did last year (some combination of known greater virulence and what the CDC classes as probable greater severity).

The best argument for treating COVID more seriously is that we have a better understanding of influenza’s long-term effects. In both cases, however, I’d argue that it makes sense to require vaccination simply to reduce the impact on childcare and education: even if dying from the flu is relatively low-risk, it’s stressful and disruptive when it rips through a class and vaccination is quite cheap in comparison.
Don't worry, Western world is catching up to the same system. It's called a vaccine passport. The so-called pandemic may end someday, but the mechanisms will stay and you will have to show your individual QR code to go into the restaurant, store, leave the house, stray away from your house for a longer period of time. Sure, at first it will be about preventing the disease, then they will expand it to "keeping criminals away from our communities", then they can expand it to people who "foment dissent in our safe communities".
> the kind of person who is willing to relocate to a new country for a job opportunity

I think herein lies the crux of difference in our opinions. Most immigrants I know don't immigrate just for mere job opportunity, they go in with the intention of changing their lives and settle forever. They are not treating this like a Working Holiday Visa

> And because H-1B workers are not US residents from immigration perspective, most of them are currently banned from entering the country if they have visited places like the UK, Schengen area, or India in the past two weeks.

F1 visa is technically a non-immigrant visa and yet they are allowed entry. The entry ban has nothing to do with whether your visa is immigrant or not
The vacuum chamber is likely aluminum. Tin melts at 232 C, aluminum at 660 C. Vaporizing the tin could require enough power in the laser to melt the aluminum. It seems feasible to me, anyway, and is certainly sounds like the kind of thing that happens in equipment development.
Some multifeeds based on topics:

- Cyber Security: https://mergefeed.net/Cyber_Security_Blogs?urls=http://krebs...

- Economics: https://mergefeed.net/Economics_Blogs?urls=http://econbrowse...
lynx -dump -nolist $URL | flite -voice slt -o file.wav && opusenc --bitrate 12 file.wav file.opus && mplayer file.opus
Yeah, but you'd be shirking your social responsibility to create value ... if everyone was to do the same, how would the parasites survive? /s
there is the facebook watch application on smart tv
How old are we talking? I've worked with versions of VS since VS 2005 and don't recall ever having issues with project structuring.
Current offers are 50mpbs on a working infrastructure, for 50$ per month. Starlink now, is a 120mpbs in ideal conditions, for 100$ per month, 500$ upfront and thousands of spacejunk to be replaced every 5 years. Sorry but I dont see how is that game changer.
You won't (I hope) play online shooters with satellite link, latency is a meager consolation
> No one wants to deal with this shit.

YMMV but I do. That kind of hassle is the tax that I’m perfectly willing to pay for having FOSS stuff.

Let’s celebrate that we have options.
What counts as a "user" in this case?
The Polish term for such characters in Polish is "krzaczki" (little bushes), presumably because of the visual resemblance between those and the misencoded diacritics. It still shows up occasionally.
>That's funny, he believes he owns an Apple device. Sorry, no.

It sounds remarkably like a video game console or a stereo receiver.

That makes sense really since the main purpose of a consumer computer at this point is to, well, 'consume'.

It's funny to think back on an era when the average privately-owned computer was bought to actually do something useful.
It varies. There's not a lot of top-down mandate on how any particular meeting/group is run.
We should outlaw all slavery and refuse to trade with countries who allow it.
I think what you meant to say is I'll be curious to see what happens to "America". We're behind the ball on crypto companies due to the regulatory environment. Here's hoping that changes but lots of crypto people are offshore at the moment.

Yes, there are shitcoins but there are real things being built as well.
You seem unaware that there are many opinion or whatever sections within organizations that are designed to publish things they consider provocative and of sufficient quality (and possibly by people in sufficient power to make their opinions into fact). And excellent example is the NYT regularly publishes opinion pieces from politicians all around the political spectrum. In other cases (CNN's Crossfire was a very bad example of this idea) the same organization tries to publish both Y and !Y often side by side to present a fuller view.
All reasons why I would personally drop it and chalk it up to an annoyance of flying, but I still don't think it's fair. Your hygiene habits or body size have to be someone's problem, and I don't think it's fair to make them someone else's. I miss out on all kinds of things because I'm 5'2". If you can't reasonably fit in one airplane seat, you ought to miss out on cheap(er) air travel and pay for the extra space instead of dumping your problems into my lap.
Is it still going to be ~$3B by 2029 if they use (a lot) more?

I mean I can't see it happening; I can't see Pinterest growing much larger than it currently is, and as hard- and software improves, AWS will lower prices and Pinterest will be able to use resources more efficiently.
the only and correct answer is: you let them to do whatever they want as a collectivity, and you stop your imperialist project.

You can use all the softpower you want, and i see no problem with this, but it's up to the majority of the people to decide what to do.
Satellite Broadband Firm OneWeb UK Reveal Leo User Terminal
iTunes does this routinely. I never went to back up to iCloud, but somehow that switch keeps getting flipped to backup to iCloud.
Apple has the market cap of entire countries. If they really wanted this fix they can throw almost infinite amounts of money at it.
The Search for a FLOSS Mobile OS
Yes, I don't think the kind of people living in poverty in red states can get a job with an interview over zoom with the company that will pay relocation fees.
That buried cable has decades of service life and doesn't require tons of rocket fuel to put it where it is useful.
>A better conversation is whether IMF/credit scores deserve to exist in the first place

>Bitcon/DeFi will render them obsolete in a few years' time anyway.

Credit scores exist because banks want to know how likely they're going to get their money back. I'm not sure how that'd be replaced with "bitcoin/difi". Most of the "loans" I see are difi are either flash loans or overcolateralized loans, which have limited application to typical consumer loans (eg. car loan or mortgage).