skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And if you ask why it’s often because they couldn’t find the answer to their incredibly specific one-time only question, so they decided it’s all useless and they continue to work on their own personal homegrown BI-suite in excel.

Hah this is probably me. The university I work for uses a BI tool (MicroStrategy) to track students/majors/etc. But I usually find it easier to use the BI tool primarily as a way to get a CSV or XLS export of enough source data to answer my question, and then do the actual analysis in Python+pandas. I can probably formulate my query in their weird proprietary query builder, but it seems unnecessarily complicated and I already know how to do data analysis in Python.
My first laptop bought way back in 1993, had a scheme where either or both of the two(!) removable batteries could be replaced with a plug-in module. I had one that gave me a SCSI port and another that gave me a 2400 baud(!) modem.

It was better in theory than practice. You couldn't hot-swap modules (because this was 1993, after all) and driver support was iffy. I sold that laptop a few years later and didn't own another laptop until I bought my first PowerBook in 2002. I've kept dongles in my bag from time to time for connecting to external monitors, but most of the time I never really bothered with it.
Yeah I guess I don't have a ton of experience here outside of mac laptops, but the idea of a PC laptop that only kicks in the fans when truly intensive tasks are being run sounds pretty nice.

My experience has mostly been that when any work is being done, the fans spin up. It's jarring when you're trying to focus on the problem at hand.
> I can try to stop using the TrackPoint (would hate unlearning that)...

Same here. I’m addicted to it and can’t get over the tactile feel. I guess this will go the way of the mobile phone keyboard, assuming it hasn’t already.
Wow - I had no idea that Tencent owned that much of Roblox.

Now I'm even more wary of sending my ID to a company that's owned by another company that's owned by a repressive government and can influence how anyone in the chain can do business.
Sorry, I was disappointed.

No PIO port, no high speed serial port (and before you suggest USB<>Serial that means another external interface). Also maybe it is for the future but somehow I missed seeing any Ethernet ports either.

Also, is there a base dongle that we can add our own hardware/software too? Just having a dongle with a onboard programmable Arduino which can be programmed by the user would help a lot.
What are the negative health effects of nicotine versus, for example, caffeine? I've always wondered how much "healthier" vaping really is compared to cigars and cigarettes, but I wouldn't know how to make an evidence-based argument. Googled it a few times with mixed results.
> nearly 50% of the users on our platform are over the age of 13 as of Q2 2021

Hahahaha... jeez... /wipes a tear

They are in for a surprise of their corporate lives.

We have several accounts with them for our kids and I had all of them set with the birthday set to some random year between 1960 and 1990. Because, as every parent knows, any sort of "kids" account comes with random restrictions, needing to create parent account and all sort of other bullshit that complicates everyone's life and prolongs the sign-up process.

They must be smoking crack if they think that a non-trivial amount of teens (leave alone adults) are playing Roblox games. Because 99.9% of these games is a complete and utter junk that makes your eyes bleed and gets traction because of the (way) younger kids that play them. That's it. That's the Roblox secret sauce. But, yeah, let's card them. Brilliant, brilliant move.
Or better yet, after 5-10 years of frame.work laptops being wildly successful, they will slowly start killing off the upgradeability/fixability of the laptop.
Road and highway capacity is expanded based on usage. Why would bicycle lanes be different?
It’s the pandemic likely causing the timing, but not as a statement of remote vs not remote work: it’s just cheaper now with the pandemic to buy rather then rent in the medium-long term. So if they decided they need the space for 20+ years then they certainly have the cash to buy if they want to.
It really is amazing how far you can get by just dumping everything into a single database and letting people do joins. We’re doing the same thing with Stitch replicating data from production databases and a few SaaS products into a big Postgres instance and it’s so low on maintenance hassle. The most advanced our “BI pipeline” gets is a few stored procedures run from a cron job to aggregate data in a particularly large table.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/4.0/
The example configurations I have seen around the web are not representative of what one can actually do with haproxy. Everything I know is from reading the source code and documentation.
It boggles my mind that an article like this is acceptable when it basically advocates for racism. Take a moment and think if there was an article about how there were too many black people in the NBA (74%) or NFL (67%) or too many women in nursing (91%) or Asians are making too much money (median income $78,500, top median income in the US) and as such there needed to actively be decisions made to exclude them solely on that characteristic.
I'm not surprised at all nobody calls them out for still calling this "Havana Syndrome". It looks like something that is used in multiple US diplomatic missions around the world that's specific to US missions.
Text entered into the Windows "run" dialog does not get sent to Microsoft
Science and Tech professions have much lower status in the UK basically we are a source of cheap well trained English speaking Engineers.
RISC-V Upstart Targets ML Inference Performance, Power Efficiency
My phone has tons of space, but if my entire Scuttlebutt network is stored on my phone, aren't I looking at eventually running out of storage?
The GPs is supporting that core argument with anecdotal evidence from self-assessment. Dunno how you can say that's not relevant to point out, particularly since you agree.
I was looking forward to trying it but the notification enable requirement and $30/yr price tag were too much of put offs unfortunately.
You can look at the comments on this post and the downvotes I received just for saying it. EVERYTIME I mention something about this on hackernews I'm downvoted.

The sentiment on here is obvious. How about this... prove me wrong. Post something about disagreement with COVID or Biden and see how it goes for you. You'll be lucky if you don't get flagged immediately.
Kindle Paperwhite Refreshed with Larger, Brighter Display, Longer Battery Life
Sodom, Gomorrah... there's quite a list in the ancient literature from the region of cities obliterated.
Patch raises $20M Series A from Coatue
This comment reminds me of a, thankfully small, subset of drivers who believe their driving is infallible and it must be the other drivers' fault if they're penalized.
What the driver is attempting to do is a complex task. I’m willing to give the AI here the benefit of the doubt ;)
Samba 4.15 Released with Improved CLI Experience, Modernized VFS Interface
Word, I'm pretty fed up with throw-away culture, especially with big ticket items.

I've used pretty much all the developer laptop contenders as daily drivers at some point. You get used to what you get used to, so marginally better isn't so important, I've found.

I'm going to pick one of the framework laptops because they look decent, but my secondary objective is to support a company that at least is walking some of the walk I want to see.
I run Hasura and Django. Django really excels at migrations and Django is nice to have a place to write admin views. For example a way to generate a report and manipulate the data in a way that is easy to use. No way to do that in Hasura.
You are labelling these locations as a 'shithole' without offering any real perspective. The urban regeneration, around the Google site and Kings X has changed the area considerably to shed its gritty image, even if it still lacks some soul. The transport links might be the key factor, but it is also situated in proximity to world leading universities and academic institutions (UCL/Birkbeck/SOAS/UoW/LSE), notwithstanding The British Library. You would be hard-pressed not to find exciting places, teeming with vibrant culture, within a mile radius.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/01/google-su...
UK contractor rates can rival US salaries - not equivalent but close enough to be comfortable.

That said I know of a fair few people who emigrated.
Kayak asks for ID photos, even for domestic flights.
If I was going to write a satire piece representing a typical HN post, I would 100% start it with the same opening 2 sentences.
what an innovation!
I'd like them more if they'd implement any of the UI suggestions I send them, but no response from any of the e-reader companies.

Grump grump grump :-)
Tencent owns 49% of Roblox's Chinese operations, which is a subsidiary, not the entire company.
This is a fictional story.

It should not be on Wikipedia other than perhaps people belief systems about magic meteors blowing up magic towns all stated as fact.

How Wikipedia deals with this is problematic.

It seems like a valid source. No one has had time to put out comment it's false.

Could you use to to screw up the astronomy section how contrary to all the decades of modelling they are wrong as well?
As a normal consumer, I've been able to get through on free customer service lines at Amazon, Apple and Netflix.

Google? Nope. It's impossible to get support there.

Facebook? I've never used their products, so I don't have any information.
I'd say "right-wing dystopia" is putting it too strongly. The USA is definitely further right than the UK, but the main perception I'd say is that the politics in the USA are toxic, highly polarised and all-consuming (very easy to get sucked into it and hard to get out).

But I don't think that's a surprising perception given that for the last 6 years, the news we get about the USA across the pond is almost exclusively politically-orientated.
Release notes reference March 2020: http://www.delicious-monster.com/release-notes/

Downloads reference Big Sur (Nov 2020).
Yea..I've always assumed Roblox was at best majority 7-15. I haven't set up anyone's account, but isn't the "at least 13 or older" a generic checkbox that is sort of used as a default for everything from youtube to netflix?
Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses in cave bats in 2018
if your doctor prescribes it to you and you have doubts about it, ask the doctor for clarification.

pharmacies should not be refusing to fill a prescription, unless there is a doubt around the authenticity of the prescription (and the pharmacy probably has a procedure to report it). if it's possible to file some sort of complaint, that definitely should be done. the people at the pharmacy don't know more about your health than your doctor.
>John soon found that Philip Morris were financing "anti-smoking" initiatives all over the world.

They are literally obligated to fund them according to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
I think "offline" is sort of a smell test for decentralized. The problem isn't cell coverage, it's resilience. Centralized networks can implement censorship, get hacked, lose your data, become unavailable, and have to be accessed in a particular way. With scuttlebutt, you none of those particular limitations exist, at least in the same way.
2. It's absolutely useless because someone will create a website or app that fools the system by showing fake id and a matching "likeness".

fauxblox.com is available for registration, someone more enterprising than myself is welcome :)
No, there is an inverse relationship between between interest rates and bond prices. This is an axiom in the bond market. See:

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/why-interest-rates-...
Joke's on you, the spyware was in the bootloader =]
On the web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210813113351/https://www.ycomb...

Link to the Cap Discount: https://web.archive.org/web/20210813113351mp_/https://www.yc...

For whatever reason, removed between Aug 13 and Aug 26.
Yeah, and nailing the curves does not equal more attention.

Knowing where the tires are going is also important, like in that case where a Tesla accelerated into a highway divider.
Yes, I think the current central hub has around 30GB or more of data. In my mind, this is the key limitation of Scuttlebutt, and I'm not sure it's fixable. Scuttlebutt is still worth learning from though.
Bias and objectivity are not mutually exclusive.
Sys Prefs > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... will let you switch it to a short list of alternatives.
I'm a European living in the US. It's not (yet) a right-wing dystopia, but the political system is clearly teetering at a point of collapse.

The last presidential election was barely certified. Several people were killed in the national parliament building during an insurrection stoked by a candidate. Lies about election security are being spread to undermine public trust.

Those are things that you'd expect to read about elections in some African country, not a Western democracy. Will they be able to certify the next election with only a handful of people killed? I don't know, but I'm planning to get out of here before that.
This is giving me flashbacks to the VTech scandal where they ended up leaking out photos and personal information for over 6 million kids.
It is a strange place indeed but its development is almost a blueprint for many others in the capital: previously shitty, ran down places being converted into very expensive areas,yet they aren't very livable. I mean what one is supposed to do when they leave their flats that are minutes walk from King's Cross?
Apple did one good thing, which is make every USB-C port have the same capabilities (charging, thunderbolt). Windows laptops, especially once you get down into the budget section, are absolutely atrocious at this, you have to read little lightning symbols and can only charge from a special port...
The multiple warnings and the dialogue that explicitly requires confirmation might be a good hint.

But I think we all know this problem hasn't materialized in crash data, because if it did, that's what we'd be talking about. Instead it's just more FUD about the names of features, some of which are explicitly not yet delivered.
I'm assuming this (the AGM-114R9X) is what the user was referring to: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2021/08/26/the-...
Both our teenagers play Roblox
Reminds me of same stuff you hear at a car dealership.
> you disagree on whether there is such a thing as truth, and, if there is, how it can be known

People will only believe information to be true if it comes from a source they trust. And when a source of information becomes politicized, then suddenly only half of the population will believe information from it, while the other half will be suspicious and distrusting of it.
I never understood how anyone under the age of 50 could take up smoking. It's been abundantly clear since I was a kid that smoking would kill you slowly and painfully and we had numerous presentations at my grade school in the 70s to that effect. And yet there was a crowd of teenagers at my high school in the designated smoking area in the outside space between D and F halls (the location seems ironic in retrospect).
Just wonder, why people need watch? you can see the time everywhere, on the phone, laptop whatever. I have never had a situation where I don't have the time available for me that I have to carry a specific device on my hand just to tell me the time
I think it is. Whenever I suggested I’d like to move out to the US one day to work on a start up or in the healthy tech scenes, most recoil as if I’m out of my mind.

After seeing the number of massacres/shoot outs, losing an online friend to gun crime, healthcare bankruptcy and seeing Trump get voted in after he mocked a disabled journalist, I too decided I was out of my mind.

I’m not sure if I’m welcome anyway - I’d fair better being a white male but that shouldn’t matter. It just doesn’t look good.

I guess Boris was voted in over here but still… it’s bad but not quite the same level.

I do okay on what I get, I guess.
Lol I’m the author of the comment and am telling you my intent.
Why being so negative? He seems to like how easy it is to tear down the machine and how easy it is to install ubuntu. That's it. I don't think this will change in 10 years, and I don't want to wait 10 years to hear about his experience.
Bank of America cuts China growth forecast under Evergrande shadow
Quitting smoking isn't a one-time event. Anyone with an addiction will tell you that it's a lifelong struggle.
Technically, you don't need anything. People evolved living naked outdoors, subsisting on berries.

Drawing the line of what conveniences of modern at "city apartment" but not "suburbs" is extremely arbitrary (I am also guessing you are saying that as a single city-living male, so your view is theoretical and not borne of experience - just a thought.)
Your checklist is only covering the simplest case, direct ownership of small data structures.

I'm not going to put a large array on the stack. I'm not going to pass unique_ptr (exclusive ownership) of every resource I allocate to every caller. I still need to decide between passing a copy, a unique_ptr, a reference, or a shared_ptr. When I design a data structure with interior pointers, I need to define some ownership semantics and make sure they are natural (for example, in a graph that supports cycles, there is no natural notion of ownership between graph nodes).

These are all questions that are irrelevant in a GC langauge, for memory resources.
Dumb question: If the book was harder for buyers to find, wouldn't that drive the price down, because not everyone who wanted to bid on it would be able to do so?
Lyft built a brand on being the nice gig work app clad in pink; drivers disagree
Ask HN: Is there such a thing as a conservative tech company?
Was recently looking at political donations made by major tech companies and it was evident that most divert a large share of their lobbying spending on the Democratic party. I believe this is one such indicator of "liberal" leaning. Another is adoption of woke practices and ideas. It's pretty easy i think to point out liberal or progressive tech companies. Is there the equivalent for conservative? If not, what does that say about the tech sector?
System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys
Roblox seems to be a self-correcting problem.
You can't just compare attentive Tesla drivers (where you're probably projecting your own self onto this driver) with the worst non-Tesla drivers.

You have to compare the worst Tesla drivers to the worst drivers in regular vehicles. Average Tesla drivers to average drivers of regular vehicles, etc.

And I'm not sure a simulator is the best comparison.
That's true, that's why I say pushers have a lower ceiling. But it takes an awful lot of time, practice, skill and conditioning to get to higher tiers of the game, so even modestly skilled pushers can beat up on a lot of people.
Yes but in NYC they park there even when they aren't responding to calls, including personal vehicles

https://twitter.com/jangelooff/status/1436376185039212600
Show HN: Pre-flop poker ranges
No ethernet ? WiFi is nice and all but when I get a docker-compose project that decides to pull down the internet I really love the fact that I'm on a gigabit network.
Something I think that should be mentioned: Everytime you submit an image of an id: That gets shared through out the verifying organizations communication channels.

Wither it's via database accessibility (even if it's encrypted), a web front end, email, or IMs. They'll say all they want, but ids do leak.
Why? What is special about NetSuite?
Why everybody’s hiring but nobody’s getting hired
Confessions of a Michelin Star Inspector
Learn Portuguese with ACX
I was of the impression that they bought Stash, renamed it to Bitbucket Server, and stopped development, while slowly attempting to reimplement stash code into Bitbucket cloud, one feature at a time?
I long ago aged out of these limits, but I never stopped using my fake birthday. Everywhere I thought I could get away with it, I did.

Ad networks still figured out my real birthday :/
This is a bandaid measure. Roblox spends most of its time convincing young children that they will be successful while simultaneously cheesing the 'robux' exchange rate so that these children get nothing.

Roblox is undoubtedly responding to backlash from revelations that they are exploiting children for economic growth. Here's a great summary: https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ
just want to note that windows 10 home is 139 of that package and I don't see how that can reasonably be included in the baseline here.
Those smokers that live to 85 or 90? They're the edge cases.

Most do not make it that far, like my grandfather. He smoked Chesterfields, just like the ad with Ronald Reagan in Cory's article, only the unfiltered kind.
Does reading “we take security very seriously” actually resonate with anyone here?

Feels like a contra-indicator to me when I read it, like “military grade encryption”.
to play devils advocate, they've also been trying to kill torrents for almost 20 years now, with very little to actually show for their efforts.

The most impactful thing that I've seen was the rise of netflix and the ease of getting legally paid for content making torrents not worth the effort. With the splintering of streaming content into many different services, I'm drifting back to torrents and finding it as reliable as it ever was.
After hearing all the positive reviews, I finally went and spec'd one out. The bang for the buck is pretty amazing!

Hmm. Framework vs M1 16" (if they ever get released).
It’s interesting he mentioned the iPhone 6. I have one in a drawer at home and every time I pick it up it seems a sleeker, lighter, more advanced piece of technology than my 12. I hope the trend reverses and we go back to lighter and thinner phones.
Given a fixed amount of attention, I do want to spend most of it on making sure my car is not about to crash into an obstacle, like another car, or highway divider.

Because Tesla requires people to do that, as there are no guarantees that the autopilot won't [1].

[1] https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/02/25/ntsb-teslas-a...
Dave has been working on Drummer [1], a browser-hosted outliner. I haven't used it, but I am glad he is still at it.

[1] http://drummer.scripting.com/
In Britain they proposed an anonymous system for checking age before viewing pornography. (It was cancelled.)

The idea was you could show your ID to someone qualified to check (like a shop selling alcohol), they'd give some sort of pass, and that could be used to access the website. I wouldn't mind that, so long at the shop person only looks at the ID.

(And I've never been asked to scan a passport when booking a flight.)
> sort of "kids" account comes with random restrictions, needing to create parent account and all sort of other bullshit that complicate everyone's life and prolong the sign-up process.

I set up one of these for Apple and Microsoft, and boy oh boy, has it been an absolute shit-show. There have been tons of bugs with both, it is a terrible user experience all around, and it has actually cost me more money in very real terms (e.g. IAPs needing to be re-purchased three times).

Unfortunately it seems like nobody at tech companies actually dog-foods kid/family accounts, and just does it as a butt covering exercise to avoid regulation. They do the bare minimum and then let it rot.
I wish Amazon would offer e-readers with larger screens again. Better yet, it would be nice to have a large Amazon tablet with an e-reader where I can surf the web. Soon I won't have a choice, but to buy a Boox