jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think your right on the money there. Tha appeal of Aplle to Le has always been the integration of hardware and software and there's just no one else doing it at the same level. They don't get an unconditional pass from me when the screw up (mice!?) but they really seem to be playing to their competitive advantage with the new iPhone. The hardware is just bar none it seems. (not talking about spec sheets) Or they can certainly sell it as such.
A 50¢ padded envelope makes a great iPad case.
I used to use an old laptop that got very hot. I took a wire "inbox" basket, turned it over, and used that as a stand. Great airflow, and I was able to use twist-ties to tie cables, USB ports, etc. to the underside of the wire basket, to keep the desk more organized.
Maybe it's just me, but this feels like a poorly-constructed test.

My own approach was to simply ignore anything blue; since my browser window is blue-framed, the Times background is black and white, and the UI elements are all blue, I simply blurred my vision and made note of the items that visually jumped out at me. I certainly didn't keep any of the blue items "in memory"; I only noted and remembered the two visually-distinctive ones.

I'm sure there's some kind of science behind this, but I feel like I just participated in a cheap parlor game.

Edit: Just to clarify, I scored 2/2, so this isn't just sour grapes about not getting a good score. ;)
Fish can autocomplete Git commands; no configuration is necessary. It generally has friendy defaults unlike Bash.
If anyone is looking for alternatives, try fd

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
Wow. That was a trip. People want some terrible apps. Why are so many people obsessed with how many people follow them on Twitter? Or how many people follow the people who follow them? Or who is unfollowing them?

A couple of these had me thinking "such-and-such can already do that... oh wait, Other Company bought them and we don't have that anymore..."
I look at this and think about hours I generally do this work in Jupyter.
This whole "our existing i/o bandwidth is too limited" story started by Musk and co is not very well thought out.

Most people cannot think faster than they type or speak, at least coherently. The rapid information transfer with a computer via "thoughts" ignores the fact that a concept of a "car", for example, exists as different neural activity patterns, distributed over different parts of the brain for different people and changes with time. So that would imply the BCI would need to catalog how different all possible concepts are cataloged within an individual, to achieve such "direct thought communication", which would require whole-brain scale recording, something definitely NOT achievable with ephys (as a thought experiment, you'd have to introduce wires whose total volume become significant compare to brain volume).

Further, the act of speaking and typing is also a way to articulate and organize your (abstract) thoughts. If one skips that stage, would the output be meaningful at all?

The limiting communication bandwidth idea is a very fancy marketing message easy for people to hype up on, in typical Elon fashion.
I bought the Chinese food so why can't I put chocolate sauce on the rice if I want? Because the owner of the restaurant says no?
It would be interesting to compare the results here between people with a product design or manufacturing background vs. someone with different backgrounds.

I work in the mechanical design space and definitely solve problems with additive and subtractive solutions all the time, and it depends a lot on the context of the solution. This thinking almost certainly continues to other problems that I encounter in everyday lift.

Machining, for example, is subtractive by nature, so initial solutions to a problem are usually additive since it costs money to subtract more, but something already made tends to be subtractive as you can't easily add material back.

Conversely, for molded/cast parts, your design is initially subtractive as you want to use as little material as possible, but after the part is tooled, it becomes significantly more difficult to remove material, where adding material through modifications to the tool are relatively simple. Designing in a "steel safe" condition is a very common tactic for these types of parts.
Same with ffmpeg
I'm chasing something like this right now that started very recently. We have a handful of telematic devices out in the field that will just randomly stop sending information; no power disconnect events, no losing network connectivity events, nothing to indicate there are any issues. One day a device is fine, then the next it isn't. What makes it even more aggravating is that some of them randomly come back online and shoot over all of the missing date from when they went dark, but apparently still functioned as intended during the interim.

At the moment I have no idea how to reproduce the issue but I have a few theories as to why it might happen: lithium ion backup batteries finally going bad, cold weather affecting the batteries, or an incompatibility with the device configuration code and its current firmware revision.
This is done by http://platform.qbix.com as well. You may wish to look at http://platform.qbix.com/guide/models
"What prevents them from learning both ways?"

Nothing at all, in fact they are actually required to learn both ways. The idea that Common Core is replacing borrowing with left-to-right is just part of a reactionary misinformation campaign.
golang + vue.js
>Almost all of them have been derisive of what they have seen as a "cash grab" for Common Core textbooks that are riddled with errors and also somewhat awful.

This would be more convincing if there were some examples of good textbooks that were scrapped, or good textbooks period. The textbook procurement process in the US has been appalling for longer than most readers of this forum have been alive.[ http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm ] Never mind that the best evidence available suggests that unsccooling, i.e. providing no systematic instruction to children whatsoever leads to a delay of one year in educational outcomes. Primary school hardly seems worth it unless the point is not education but teaching children to sit down, shut up and do as they're told. [ http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232544669_The_impact... ]
Agreed: why would they drop them now, unless they were just startlingly worse? They aren't interested in Android's success outside of their devices, they want to differentiate themselves.
Not to butt in, but I think he is alluding to the value of things are inherent in you placing importance on them. That you possibly value a species more than 1 single human life is your personal values, but they exist nonetheless. Also, without the "death" part of it on one end: do you value a species enough to spend a full year of your time on helping that species continue to exist? A month? A day? An hour?

We inherently place importance on things by a) spending time on those things, or b) spending money we earned by working on those things.
Ok, how about one warning (with 0 credit for that assignment) then expulsion? Come on, college is supposed to be work, not just a frigging party. I get the feeling people just don't care because they figure who gives a fuck, when I get a job I'll just surf the net and cut & paste my way to a paycheck anyway.

Meanwhile, we are losing ground every year in the worldwide competition to produce an educated workforce. You can't just assume every asscrack should get a degree regardless of talent or even the willingness to try, just a little.

I still say the situation is pathetic, and we are right on track to become another deposed colonial power like France or Britain.
Have you tried using the Live Trace feature in Illustrator? That will do it's best to convert your graphics to vector. You can tweak the threshold to optimize the quality. Quality will depend a lot on the resolution of your graphics, and you'll still probably have to go in and clean up a lot of the shapes.
Depending on how many you have, it seems like Live Trace in Illustrator is your best bet.
That's pretty cool.

I went and immediately tried it on my iPad. Unfortunately, the links don't show up when I pull up the page there. (The text does autosave though.)
Why introduce an arbitrary limitation that does no good and save you nothing?

http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
Apple acknowledged them in Safari, and the Readability guy is happy about it ( http://twitter.com/arc90/status/15670524396 ).

Drama averted.
Look, the rpoblem is this, hollywood isn't about art, ideas or socialism. Its all about hard cash.

The problem here is that the movies that people watch in any great number are sequels. This means that they generate cash. As alluded to above, that's all that hollywood cares about.

There are people that are prepared to take risks, like the wienstien company. However, a failure like the grindhouse (which is a terrible film) meant that they almost disappeared.

Why is that so? think about it in bandwidth terms. Studios release 5 or 6 movies every three months. Each one of those costs up to $100 million each. When a movie is released you have to pay for advertising, promotion, tedious talking head stuff. Then the movie is in theaters for 4-10 weeks. Then later on its punted to rental, and then DVD/blueray.

If a movie doesn't do well in that time, its sunk. gone along with 1/5th of the studios earnings for that quarter. most movies barely break even. Which means a studios business model has to build in a lot of loss.

A TV channel has subscribers. This means that they can take a risk. Even if a show is shit it wont hurt earnings immediately. Plus they have 3-5 blockbusters shows on a week. which means a much faster turn around. However the shit/hit ratio in TV is ironically much higher. (American TV is horrifically bad.) But because its all based on subscribers risks can be taken as one show is such a tiny fraction of the total output.
I commented below, and I would be happy to collaborate and can provide the theory as well as development. I'd love to get in contact, you can reach me at davep dot goliath @ gmail dot com
Let's talk foreign political interference:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/19/turnb...

There's still some power in the dinosaurs. This also indicates to me that this kind of thing has been going on for decades, and it's just the advent of the Internet (somewhat ironically) that's allowed for this kind of information to leak out to a larger percentage of the population (but not a large enough percentage to affect the election result, as it turns out).
These units seem to be priced at $1,000 for anyone else who was curious.

Source: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-09/thousand-do...
Or maybe programming languages aren't like saws at all and your analogy is fundamentally compromised by this. They are tools, but they are there own tools. Good at what they are good at and people are apt to use what feels right. More power to them.
These remind me of an architecture project to produce semi livable spaces for Tokyo homeless. The blue tarpaulin structures. I think there was a German movie cherry something or other in which a terminally ill man who travels to Japan to gets to know a girl who lives in one such structure in one of the parks there. This is bigger and perhaps more durable. But too big for a homeless person to move to a new spot, if necessary, in a hurry.

If they could marry the modularity of this with the size and portability of the blue tarp structures, this could be an option to homeless communities who prefer not to go to official shelters.

In other words, I wonder if they could take this but build a version for individual homeless people.
i'm convinced this style is the next big thing in web UI - at least for startups/simple web tools/anything more dekstop-oriented than mobile-oriented.

it's such great a rejection of all the stale, boring, "clean" UI convention that we're drowning in today.

it's not just nostalgia - it's fun, it's rebellious, it has real character. it shouts "I'm having fun, why shouldn't you?"
That was an unusually roundabout and over-flourished way of explaining the name origin of "Elliptic Curves".
Exactly. I love Python for many other reasons, but how they still haven't managed to fix local vs user vs system libraries, when pretty much every other language has, and think virtualenv is an acceptable solution, is beyond me.

Of course, since they have many geniuses working on their codebase, I assume the problem must actually be pretty fundamental and tricky.... right?
Every single one of our laptops gets sent out with an accompanying Ethernet dongle. Every one.

Still very much useful in corporate environments.
Makes me laugh every time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITP93pqtdQ
How about an option for actual damn buttons on my touchpad so I can tell where right click is?
Opioid overdose?
A universe where he invested in BTC rather than funding Coinbase may not have BTC at 50k. We can't compare outcomes without taking into account the probability distribution at the time of the investment.
Does anyone actually believe this?

It's like, I don't know, a thousand times more likely that someone not in prison was scamming the system and one of the easiest ways to identify that some claims were fraudulent after the fact is to check them against databases of very ineligible people that might not have been checked in the approval filter. "Currently imprisoned people" sounds like one of the most likely lists, since long dead people are probably somewhat more likely to be filtered out on the first try.

"People currently in prison" is probably also a fairly easy list to hit since there are public records indicating who has been sentenced and the people in question are way, way less likely to be tipped off that a fraudulent claim has been made in their name since they are largely cut off from the world.

Fraud happened, and surely some people in prison were able to hear about the increased UI benefits and apply, but I have a very hard time believing the headline.
It would also help if the NSA put a priority on helping vendors close security holes, over exploiting those holes.
Not really. But you can, for example, guess at it.

Lets say I have a struct I'm looking for, and I know it has a UTF-8 string and a length, presumably an unsigned int.

Using a hex editor alone to visualize blocks of those structs is painful. Enough that it's not pleasant to do. I can do it but, man in 2021, I really want a tool to help visualize that for me.

I can provide the app hints at what I'm looking for so it doesn't have to attempt to coalesce bytes into various data types. Some apps actually do this! But none of them very well or in an attractive way.
In a memo to employees Musk said, "The risk of death from C19 is vastly less than the risk of death from driving your car home":

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-space...

Italy's deaths from coronavirus have already exceeded their annual deaths from car accidents:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

Without the work that hospitals are doing and without the measures to limit exposure the death rate would be even higher.

Musk's perspective on COVID-19 is ignorant and frankly stupid.
Well, he did say "weekend project" ;)
I've been dying (figuratively) for something to replace my folded-up piece of printer paper and sticky notes, with SMS reminders.

A couple of observations:

The use of the goal title as a top-level URI seems a bit odd (i.e. https://mrgoal.net/goal-name/). Obviously you can use the session info to disambiguate, but when you implement public goals, won't there be a lot of name collisions?

A little more detail on the Settings page about exactly how often "sometimes" or "often" is would be helpful, particularly for knowing how much of my weekly SMS budget will be used for each goal and in aggregate.
Thanks, but this doesn't render the HTML, it just shows the plaintext. The HTML generated by Django for error messages is not very readable, which is why I have to copy what Chrome gives me in that XHR tab into a new file to view as rendered HTML.

I just end up using Firebug Lite instead when I need to do this, but it's really clunky.
PayPal can now do the pre-authorization thing under their Adaptive Payments API (see https://www.x.com/docs/DOC-1419). We did exactly what you're talking about (one-time preapproval, and then either charge or cancel after a few days) for a project earlier this year. You do have to explicitly apply to PayPal for access to these advanced APIs, but we found that process to be quick and painless. The API is relatively clean.

When we were working with it earlier this year, the end user had to have a PayPal account, which might be a barrier. However, my understanding is that this is no longer required (https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/06/it%E2%80%99s-official-...).
I am using Opera GX with built-in privacy protection and no additional extensions (well, I do use Youtube Subscription Manager but that does nothing for Ad blocking). So far its effectively working for YouTube ads.
Here's a good piece about why it didn't work at Etsy: http://danwin.com/2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/

A presentation that goes into some of these results is here: http://mcfunley.com/design-for-continuous-experimentation
It seems like a lot, but if they are only paid when they win, the price has to take into account the risk they are taking by going up against a company like Uber that has a huge vested interest in not losing cases like this. If their chance of success going in is 25%, expenses are $100k, 2-3 lawyers contributed etc. it doesn’t seem like such a case of highway robbery (no idea if these numbers are realistic)
>Can you copyright generated things? You probably could copyright the way you're generating it, but I doubt you have a legal standing about the generated text or melody itself.

What would be the difference between a "generated text or melody" you present to copyright, to one you've written yourself?

What would be the mark of "automatic generation" that would be used to identify them as such and disqualify them?
Are you saying that the drivers didn't know what they were doing to this woman was wrong?

Or are you claiming Uber told the drivers to mistreat her?
Support and maintenance. We are already seeing electric cars equipped with unwanted sensors doing unwanted recording and being used to lock down potential opportunities for user service while integrating vehicle function with financing and billing status. Lots of people have been locked out of their hybrids when the batteries failed or were drained. Selling electric vehicles that have limited tracking and the fullest possible user empowerment including niceties like opening the doors without needing the batteries will bring a premium.
You can’t reject work for reasons that are illegal.
BB's last phone was the Priv in 2015. All phones after that were built and sold by TCL, who licensed the Blackberry name. They weren't bad phones and the 2018 Key2 is actually something of a a cult favorite. But it's Blackberry in name only at this point.
So if I really need the cash, I need to risk my life and the customer's life in the name of ADA compliance ...
IIRC, IBM are still reasonably big on R&D, aren't they?

Also, investor-wise people were happy with what he did. A thriving company doing i-have-no-idea-what is a better investment than a sinking mainframe company.
That was not a protest. It was a planned and coordinated terrorist mob attack on the US Capitol, and successfully breached it. The first such successful attack since 1814.

Trump and allies have been communicating the date and requesting this behavior for weeks. Anybody surprised at the result should be deemed mentally incompetent.
Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon have all the resources needed to quickly fling out a gamified bike that appeals to more segments than peloton. Lost opportunity.
This is oversimplification, and is unhelpful.

Public and local priorities determine budgets. Departmental budgets and priorities determine what equipment is purchased and equipped, and the degree to which their usage is trained. Training and official departmental policy determine the degree to which de-escalation is a priority, and whether the officers are obligated to follow an escalation policy in which tools they employ, or if they're permitted a toolkit approach.

... and all of these things differ per locality.
Can someone explain what Simple was so I might understand the significance of their closure?
Have you read Lathe of Heaven? I don't love all of the Hainish Cycle books (they're all good, just not peak Le Guin good), but that book I would consider in my top 5 books of all time easily.
Yea I know how it played out. I think you may be projecting the viewpoints of crazy trump supporters onto me.

My problem is before it was certified, the media “called” it and ridiculed anyone who doubted them.

It’s totally reasonable for people to want to know why is it that dead people voted, (and more importantly, how many), why strange laws were passed right before the election that made signatures un-important, or why observers were being given a hard time during counting. Instead of being treated as reasonable people, we are lumped in with the crazies who shout that all of this is fraud before there is evidence of it. However, it is equally crazy to shout that “there is no fraud!” before all of this is actually ironed out, and that is where mainstream media failed and destroys any existing trust I had.

I have never watched Fox News. I’ve laughed at stupid NY Post stories my whole life with my likeminded liberal friends. But I am not so blind with rage towards Trump that I can’t see when the media will do anything within their (soft) power to make sure he doesn’t win, even at the cost of their journalistic integrity.
A good friend of mine had the experience of nearly dying after a mobile ventilator in an ambulance failed after he was involved in a serious car accident. It was later found that the ambulance operator was using devices that hadn't been cleared by the FDA yet. Although they came from a Turkish "medical device" company, they were not cleared for use in the US and left my friend with brain damage and PTSD.

I don't care that the hardware involved in your project was "made be a medical company", it's not hardened tech. Also, rust is by no means hardened - look into "provably complete" languages if you want to see what a true "hardened" lang is. There's a reason why medical devices and serious "hardened" tech (military or otherwise) is validated and cost tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's because teams of engineers spent weeks or years coming up with every possible problem or failure pattern.

To be frank, I'd rather pay a nurse $50k in cash to pump a vent bag next to me than rely on your "project".
No you can't, you can only hide your last seen status.