skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As one of those people who said up-and-down that they wanted an iPhone Mini, but also was one of the few who bought one, the key thing I saw that turned people off was the battery life compromises for active screen-on usage. People have become used to 8 hours screen-on time, and the iPhone 12 Mini's 5 hours just isn't enough for a tech-y crowd, I think.

I still adore mine. I'll use it and repair it until I can no longer.
> Canada literally had to suspend the charter and due process by enacting the emergency measures act, which is unprecedented amongst western countries

This is not totally true.

[1] https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-pr...

And of course there are others. The US has quiet a bit of history around suspending rights.

This is the issue I have with these kinds of statements of, the sky is falling, this hasn't happened before. A co-worker did the same with masks. Masks mandate are the most egregious thing the US government has ever done. But apparently putting people born and raised in the US with Japanese ancestry in camps was less egregious than masks? States banned the use of the German language? The house unamerican activities committee ruined the lives of people by dragging them infront of congress for character assassination?
That’s mid range. Budget phones can be less than 10000 Rs ($130), which is still about 1/3 the median monthly salary.
2015-04-24: Apple Watch release

2015-05-24: Pebble 2.0 (Pebble Time) release

One month to the day. That's some truly unfortunate timing.
Thank you for making the Pebble Time Round. It's still the single best smartwatch I have ever used. I miss it every day.
> Not a single person I know, directly or not, bought an iPhone mini.

I assume these people either bought another Apple phone in the lineup, or choose to delay purchase until the next phone announcement or their current phone breaking ?

If they switched to android altogether I'd see it as a clear change in what they wanted, but if they stayed with Apple, the onus was on Apple to make the mini attractive enough to have these people buy it. Blaming the customer for not buying what they expected to be a better proposition feels weird.

It doesn't help that wether Apple fails or succeeds to make that pitch, users will probably buy another Apple device anyway.
> Booking in advance, just as you would for a flight, can also save travelers a lot of money, Mr. Smith said, adding that he advises people to reserve their long-distance train travel one to three months ahead to avoid last-minute price hikes.

This is stupid. It's wasteful to fly an empty plain, but it should be cheaper to run an empty chain than mess with the schedule.

There's no economic reason to shake down unplanned travel like this.
So many $10m-100m companies kill themselves in the quest to become a $1b company.
It’s a bit of a chicken vs the egg problem. Charge stations in parks and at access point would really change the range requirements. There’s some parts of van island that kinda have this covered already. It’s pretty neat.
The bill opens up the possibility for being sued for acknowledging in any way that gay people exist, e.g. acknowledging that somebody has two same-gender parents - even as a corollary fact on a topic that is unrelated to sex education.
> Is it normal to have sex education at 8 years old in the US??

Pedagogical material that references gender identities and sexual pair bonds is very common (and is not “sex education”); this law is not principally in response to sex education but to pedagogical material mentioning non-cisgender gender identities and non-heterosexual relationships and family structures.
Wouldn't it be easier if we all jumped into the vat of jelly with the matrix connection jacked into the back of our necks!? We wouldn't have to eat or poop or sleep. We could just trust the powerful to make every decision for us. It would be soooo much easier.

Forgive me, but when it comes to my healthcare I want the most choice and control as I can have. I don't want to be stuck with whatever some bureaucrat decides is worth it.

Lastly, people make stupid decisions and they get hurt. They go rock climbing or skydiving, they ride their bikes on busy streets. Why should I shoulder the responsibility for people's poor life choices.
`panic` is not equivalent to `return err`. It expresses a much more fundamental problem than an error return, and subverts the ability of the reader to model execution control flow. `panic` should essentially never be used in application code, and when it is used it should almost always immediately terminate the program.
There is no “tax break.” It’s unlawful for me not to buy health Insurance for my employees (more than 50) and you aren’t allowed to shop the open market if you work for me. Average cost per employee is $1150 this year (up about 11% over last year). Thanks Obama.
My favourites:

99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org

The Art of Manliness: https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/
Except acceleration due to gravity. Freefall is acceleration without feeling any apparent force.
I don’t know how viable this is but there is something both visceral, simple, and super futuristic about this whole idea.

I don’t know why but I’m excited about this idea.
That's not unusually expensive for this type of hardware. My RetroTINK 2X was around 130
>now i'm typing random shortcuts (like reassigning tickets, changing status or whatever).

This happens to me often and it's absolutely infuriating. I'd prefer a blocking spinning wheel of death over that nonsense. It's all but ensured that I'll be looking elsewhere when choosing project tracking software in the future.
Considering Sweden being completely surrounded by Nazi-held territory and that of a potentially hostile Nazi ally (Finland), what was it supposed to do exactly? Be "brave" while it gets dismembered just like Poland? They made a pragmatic accommodation towards what they considered the lesser evil for their territory, and on the balance, it at least let that country harbor hundreds of thousands of refugees in relative safety during the course of the war.
That's aspects of two of the three things you listed, not only one.
The measure of fuel you need to carry is not weight, but energy content. It takes a much smaller weight of LH2 to match the energy content of diesel. So, correspondingly less than 10x volume. It is this better "gravimetric energy density" that makes LH2 an attractive fuel in many cases. You end up needing only about 2-3x tankage space, including the insulation.

Better gravimetric energy density doesn't make so much difference for a train, so its other advantages -- production on-site, zero emissions, carbon-neutral -- are more important.

At the trainyard, the LH2 would be banked in an underground tank where insulation is easy. It is not necessary to refrigerate it after it is liquified. It will gradually boil off, so you just make more anytime the level goes down, whether from boil-off or pumping out to a locomotive tank.
It is interesting how few modern features Ada has... Author talks about strict types, and this is an improvement, but other than that, it is still unsafe C:

if Wq = K.Null_Wq then -- Ada equal
Wq := K.Create_Singlethread_Wq ("flash_led_wq");
end if;

if Wq /= K.Null_Wq then -- Ada not equal
K.Queue_Delayed_Work(Wq,

What if programmer forgets this "Wq = K.Null_Wq" check? Then we get a memory leak. What if they omit the next check? Then we get null pointer dereference if allocation fails.

For all that fancy types Ada has, it is still plain pointers underneath. There are no destructors to release resources, no fancy error handling to avoid types.

Extra "unsafety" points in these series: "printk" security vulnerabilities, and standard headers re-implementation that'll likely break in subtle ways in future kernel versions.
> Ah, the POSIX short/long help options

The long arguments are not in POSIX. They were invented by RMS having seen them in TOPS-20. (The short options come from Multics).

The other case ignored by the author is to print out a diagnostic plus help when there is a syntax error in the invocation. This works when the command arguments are few and simple, else the case cited (explain how to ask for help) is the right thing to do.

Single-dash long arguments are indeed generally bad.
It's interesting - I use all three major OS's (MacOS, Windows, various Linux distros) and I seem to have no problem switching between them at all. I don't even get bothered with the nonsensical UI problems such as some of finders limitations (with cutting and pasting folders I just never do that on MacOS, it makes you use a different flow or else you're fighting it).

The only thing I dislike in a UI sense is alt-tab on Mac - I still think it sometimes arbitrarily reorders my windows.

On reflection there is one other (not quite UI?) fundamental part of the OS I actually do really dislike - the mouse acceleration curve. How could I forget that - I find I can use it but geez is it inferior to Windows/Linux in this respect.
Again some better tires and a lift. The gambler 500 is a good indication of what a small shit box can do with better tires. I lifted my small old Subaru, and some at tires. was a nicer ride than most trucks, and snaked into more places they couldn’t
If I overlay that spending graph with quality of life during the same timespan, I might conclude government spending is a miracle. A greater success within 200 years can hardly be imagined.
pkg/errors.Wrap is already accomplished in the stdlib via fmt.Errorf("annotation: %w", err).

Programs which use `panic` as ersatz error mechanisms are fundamentally broken. `panic` expresses an invariant violation that's much different than normal errors.
> So then just don't respond to me...?

This comes across as an admission that your earlier comment was not genuine, but I can't believe you actually mean that. It's also gross behavior, because you've encouraged me to enter into a conversation with you and then blamed me for doing it and walked away.

There is nothing weird about anything I've said in this conversation about proper forum interaction. I've gone to great pains to explain my perfectly normal forum behavior to you, which you raised a nit pick objection about. You are the one who casually thousands of people of hypocrisy without appearing to be aware of it. Accusing me of weird behavior is completely missing the mark.

No, this conversation doesn't explain the disclaimer on my profile. The disclaimer is there because I'm often outside the Overton window of much of the Silicon Valley crowd. I don't think that's the case in this particular conversation.
Illinois Will Fine Gas Stations That Don't Advertise Delayed Gas Tax Hike
More like "my computer's CPU is pinned so high that I can't do the screenshare I promised you earlier, because I made the mistake of trying to rebase 15 minutes before I was scheduled to appear"
Trains are a very, very natural monopoly. Competition doesn't make sense, especially if your service frequency is any good.
> People are already paying for those externalities in extreme weather events caused by CO2,

And others are benefitting from positive externalities of warmer weather, reducing need for heating, increases yields due to increased CO2 concentration etc. Thing is, it’s incredibly hard to put a number on net costs on climate change. The most serious recent attempt to do that had its author, William Nordhaus, a Nobel Prize in Economics. The estimated figure, by the way, is very low compared to the zeal of the activists.

Now, of course, the carbon tax proponents are not really interested in the actual costs. They either ideologically hate emissions, and their desire to institute carbon tax is vindictive in its nature, and all talk about “externalities” is for them just a distraction, or they are politicians who use carbon tax as an excuse to increase their political power and tax revenues. Nobody is motivated by actual economic efficiency, and calling them Pigouvian taxes is a distraction.
> we have to deal with misinformation campaigns by overseas operatives

Don’t forget the misinformation campaigns by our own intelligence agencies! They’ve been practicing for like 60-70 years so they’re pretty good at it.
> This is a deranged and nonsensical response. We all knew what boys and girls where until yesterday.

It is, in fact, a fundamental disagreement on this point (and a desire to impose one view on it by state power with the pretense of neutrality) that is (a major part of) the fundamental motivation for the bill.
U.S.-Led Coalition Has Used White Phosphorus In Fight For Mosul, General Says (June 13, 2017)

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/06/13/532809626/...

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/06/14/iraq/syria-danger-us-whi...
What is it that you are looking for with this comment? If you already know texts.com is there a degree of comparison you cannot glean from reading beeper.com?
> So, they're doing exactly the same thing as Debian is doing on the default merged configuration ?

No.

* https://gobolinux.org/doc/articles/clueless.html

* https://gobolinux.org/at_a_glance.html

I'll just copy & paste from earlier posts I made on a gobolinux-related thread some time ago (can't be bothered to rewrite the same arguments in different words)

"Anyone who wants to try out gobolinux for real would at least do some basic reading first. Its that distinct a distro that you kind of have to, and no problems with that. Not everything innovative can be expected to be digested without a modicum of work up front.

...

Sometimes the simplest alternative implementations require the most up-front understanding, because their simplicity challenges long-held preconceptions about how things should be.

Thats Gobo in a nutshell.

At its heart, its actually a very simple distro. Which uses simple tools, and the filesystem, to lay everything bare in front of the user.

Funnily enough, Gobo is one of the few distros where you can refer to /bin/<any-linux-executable>, and as long as actually have that pkg installed (yes, under /Programs), then /bin/xyz WILL be found. Guaranteed.

Thats by design."

And:

"The kernel module that hides the standard dirs under / is entirely optional, and is only there for aesthetic purposes.
If you don't want it, don't load it. Absolutely nothing in gobolinux requires that kernel module to be running. Again, its just purely for aesthetic purposes."
I thought to myself "Those folks have got more money than brains."

Speaking of which. How are they funded?
It is without precedent to have to show a vaccine pass to enter cafes in human history. I'm confident that we actually have set an entirely new precedent with them, and it's not a good one.
What about teenage engineering. Though it's kind of niche?
Two California Lawmakers Want to Mandate 32-Hour Workweeks
I pulled mine out of storage a few weeks ago to resurrect it as a display for my EUC, and was surprised by it yet again. The fast refresh and good visibility is just so pleasant to use. Rebble was much easier to set up than I had assumed it would be, and isn't missing anything as far as I can tell.
>A modern airship could make the transatlantic trip in about 24-36 hours, so it doesn't really matter for casual vacation travel

How many vacation days do you guys get per year?!? Only retired people would find it acceptable to turn an entire day wasted on travel to Europe into a 3 days waste (times two if you plan on coming back).

Unlike cruise ship, they can't fill the airship with fun activities. That travel will be just as boring as a car or train ride.
Is it an electron app? The 150 MB macOS download certainly suggests so, and that's unfortunate.
Beeper looks pretty awesome!

Sorry to hijack the thread, but from the above link:

> Yes, iMessage works even on Android, Windows and Linux!

How could this be sustainable long-term? I've hacked together tools to forward iMessage content before and it's very unappealing.

I suspect they must be using a makeshift solution. I hope it works (and would sign up if there was a way on the landing page), but this seems like building on sand.
Data center in Hokkaido uses server-cooling snow to raise eels
There is a pretty decent amount of information out there as to why Russia wants Crimea (and Ukraine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE

There is a lot of propaganda out there, but a hard and fast truth is that no country, not Russia nor the US nor China nor India nor anyone actually cares at all about normal citizens.

People can care about other people, but countries do not and cannot. Its why Putin's claims of protecting Russians are BS. (US Claims of protecting Ukrainians too, its in the US/Europe interest to do so, its not to protect Tibetans or Afghans for example, so it does not)
Bill.com may be in trouble, quietly remove your funds before the word spreads
Your fear of Dart is unfounded. Carry on.
If your workflow is dependant on many files, and with that naming convention because of it - there’s a good chance the workflow could be cleaned / simplified greatly. Wether it’s worth the effort or not, I don’t know - but lots of tools / freedoms / restrictions make certain processes possible and it’s always worth revisiting.
> Python developers moving to Elixir.

was this your path? I am heavily considering it, as I have been thinking about the BEAM for a couple years now but haven't dove in yet (coding is mostly hobby for me, though it does benefit my work sometimes)
You mean Tag Cloud? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud)
Do you own Rocket Lab?
Well, you've moved the goalposts a couple of times so I'm not sure where I'm even getting the straw from. I'm not sure what to tell you if you think all of these are the same category of transaction:

- selling someone "virtual land" that doesn't exist yet, and won't until and unless they obtain sufficient investment to build it (my understanding of the original thing),

- someone commissioning you to build a dresser for them (what you initially said -- this is not a security, I agree, hence...),

- you selling someone a promise of a dresser that will increase in value if they pay you to build it (my proposed change to your scenario to align it more closely to the original thing -- this is indeed, deliberately, a strawman intended to align your argument with the thing we're actually talking about),

- buying gold that already exists, whatever form it's in, assuming the person you're buying it from already has it and doesn't have to mine it (the strawman to again align this with the original thing would be that they have to mine it -- I'm pretty sure this would be considered an investment into a mining operation),

- buying an expensive car that is, bar some minor customizations, like every other car of the same model in existence and that the company has already invested in building,

- real estate (just completely different from all of these, but my point was just that it's not a standard purchase and has its own structure around it. That said, there are real estate-related securities so...)

Anyways, Animats seems more familiar with the specific legalities of this so I'll leave that to them. I never claimed to have a perfect understanding of US securities law, I just found your counter-example disingenuous.
Gas tax holidays being incredibly stupid is one of a few things I will happily agree with Reason magezine with.

Carbon tax, Carbon dividend.
Yes. If I recall, it goes back to the Great Depression when there were cash shortages (and other issues).

It incentivized employers to compensate with benefits, not cash.

Around the same time, unionization became much more popular, and with it negotiated compensation (more benefits).

These were big issues in the North. In the South, the economy has was still largely rural, and many states provided publicly funded hospitals - so the dynamics were different.

There was a move for employers in to provide health insurance pre Great Depression. That was because larger employers could use their size to negotiate deals with hospitals. So health coverage was worth $individualPrice to an employer, but $negotiatedPrice to the employer.

In general, insurance providers preferred going through employers because employed people are healthier and file fewer claims.

Geico was an acronym for “Government Employees Insurance Corporation” which was a thing because government employees were a pretty safe bunch to insure.

So even back then, many of the dynamics we see now existed: negotiated prices, grouping, etc.
I had the pleasure of meeting the CRO of Bento[1] last year, and one thing she said has really stuck with me. She said that guilt is an attribute she looks for in team members. It shows that you care, learn from your mistakes, and want to do better. As I've grown as a manager, I have a lot of guilt over how I (mis)managed teams in the early days, but I had never thought of the guilt itself as a positive thing before.
Anyway, good on Eric for fully owning what went wrong here, and vowing to do better.

[1] https://www.trybento.co/
I think you’ve got this backwards. Social and cultural issues—different people’s conception of how to preserve freedom, when life begins, how to socialize their children, God, etc.—are always important to people and always have been. What precipitated the independence war that created my country was a language movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language_movement

It’s the insistence on ideological uniformity on these fundamental issues that creates the “wedge” between people who might otherwise cooperate on relatively mundane economic issues.
Not sure about the latter but you would have to be hiding under a rock to not notice the massive upswing in homicides in the U.S.

See https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-murder-rate-violence-big-citie...
If it was a parable from Greek mythology, would it be less amusing? I don't think you need to be Christian (I am not) to find it an apt metaphor.
Emily Oster on all that data parents collect about their babies
I had Pebble and then Pebble Time. So many great memories. To this day there are things I could do in my Pebble that I can't find how to do in modern watches. Amazing community, SDK, development environment, watch faces, apps. Revolutionary product.

But then Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2, Pebble Core (!?). Why Pebble Core?
It's possible to explain what it means without getting into the mechanics of sex. Just like Bobby has a daddy, who is a boy, and a mommy, who is a girl, and they love each other; so does Timmy have two mommies, who are both girls, and who also love each other.
If there's one thing that seems the be much more forgiving in the US, it's car insurance. How has his premium and excess not become unmanageably expensive? Or not to have been denied insurance?

UK car insurance feels more like US health insurance. High premiums, and heaven forbid if you get into an accident.
Microsoft has zero respect for my privacy.

They regularly show ads when I am searching for files and doing routine file management stuff

I don’t care how good Windows is. If they can’t keep ads off a product that I purchased they don’t deserve to get my dollars.
Amazon Astro Review: Why My Family Loves and Hates This Home Robot
I typically use my MBP on a dock with the lid closed too, because:

1. I like Linux and Mac is essentially Linix/BSD that "just works." After years of putting up with annoying bugs in Ubuntu and Manjaro, Mac has been a breath of fresh air.

2. I sometimes need Mac only tooling like XCode.

3. I don't like the glare on the MBP monitor.

I have a Mac keyboard, so the command key isn't an issue.
Yes, that is true if you have insurance, but if you don't have insurance most providers will require that you prepay in full.
Gopro is the default pop-name for what I can only describe as a Gopro form factor camera (tiny, hi res, easy to mount). While their company might not be successful, their brand very much is.
Deception, exploited workers, and free cash: How Worldcoin recruited its first
I remember my first $900 phone bill because I had never heard of thing call "local long distance" until I moved to California.