skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this. Plus dealers don't ever stock any, either, so you have to special order as well. I'd be fine special ordering, but seems most people are not willing to wait.

I'm a diehard manual enthusiast, but nearly all of the few remaining models out there that even offer a manual transmission only offer it on the base stripped-down model. They seem to think that the manual is the "frugal jerk" option, and only offer it in the trim levels that hardly anyone even buys in the first place regardless of transmission.

My current car is a 2004 BMW 330 with a 6-speed manual, but it also has all the options. Leather, power everything, adaptive xenon lights, moonroof, heated seats, etc., etc.

Every time I get the urge to buy a new car I'd have to give up most of those nice features to get a manual transmission because you can't option it with the fully loaded packages or engine/drivetrain combos.

BMW, for the moment, continues to be the exception by offering manuals in nearly all configurations of the 2/3/4 series, but man the prices on them these days has really gotten up there, plus all the new turbo and electronic stuff likely isn't going to hold up as well as the old N/A straight sixes.
"We wanted as good as possible, but it turned out as always"
Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician

The law itself is more or less reasonable, but very poorly done and applied, like almost all recent Russian internet laws.
Some design choices for GNOME simply escape me. By default, no window buttons (i.e. active windows) on the top panel. By default, no maximize/minimize buttons for windows. Who could possibly find that user-friendly?
So you are projecting opinions of 0.0001% of Trump supporters (or trolls, who knows) to 60M+ people who voted for him? I see a bright career at WaPo or NYT for you :-)
Major housebuilders and the crisis of housing supply in the UK
Authorities suspect fowl play in the bookkeeping, but companies refuse to apollogize.
| All Christian churches (there was no single "Eastern" church) as far as I know

There is the Eastern Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Bulgarian Orthodox, Georgian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox, etc.) - This is all one Eastern church.

There is the Oriental Orthodox Church (Coptic Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox, etc.). This is all another Eastern Church.

There is also the Assyrian Church of the East, but ever since the war in Iraq and rise of ISIS, it's all but destroyed at this point.

Between those 3, those are the only "eastern" churches in existence apart from tiny schismatic groups. However, when someone refers to the Eastern Church, they are almost always referring to the first one, the Eastern Orthodox Church, since it's enormous and sat at the center of the Byzantine Empire.
I used to love the choice after being limited by Windows but it meant all the development and design efforts were split between different desktop environments so mixing apps from different desktop systems was an awkward user experience.

I preferred KDE the most but I never understood the obsession with the number of customisation options. These surely slowed down development and it felt like you had to be the UX designer yourself instead of sensible defaults behind chosen.

Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done.
> The real motivation is that the Kremlin loves to spy on its own citizens. And they already did that for a long time.

This doesn't prevent or help Russia from spying on its own citizens.

I get that you are anxious. But the traffic that travels from your computer to servers outside of Russia is just as easy to spy on for Russian intelligence services as the case where the servers are located inside the country.

It does, however, make it more difficult for the US to spy on Russian citizens, which it has been caught trying to do.
There's a difference between "disdain for sociology" and "disdain for the way sociology is drawing conclusions from the experiments it performs".

Sociology is very important to study. The tools we have for it are not great, in various ways. For example, one can study people and societies by reading Balzac's writing, but the number of people who can produce that sort of thing is fairly limited. We can try to do controlled experiments, but the way we do it in practice is not great. We really really need better tools here...
Offtopic but why not call entrepreneurs "revenue slaves" or "investor slaves" if we are going to be fair.
Good points, and an interesting addition too.
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Is this an attempt at unsupervised action decomposition or artificial curiosity?
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I get to experience the joy of not having a desktop environment; of using a bare WM, the shell, and 30-year-old Unix skills to work with my system.

It's a good feeling.
I think the lack of control is undesirable. I agree the feature itself can be very useful. The title of this post sounds way more sinister than it appears.
Interesting, because based on these statistics, IPv4 seems to be a better choice. Faster and stable. Curious, not sure if I would expect that.
Versioned != stale.

A proper standards group could have a new HTML x.Y version come out every 6-12 months. Now, who knows what is valid HTML? I don't know where to go to know when or if a <date> or <number> or <em> or <marquee> tag is valid, or what browser supports it.
Ask HN: Fellow Employees quitting in droves. What are my options?
I work at a medium sized startup, as a junior dev. I joined about 5 months ago and at that time I didn't have any other options, the company was close to my home and I didn't have my driving license. Also, we don't a lot of startups here in Australia, and the company didn't look in any sorts of trouble when I applied and got accepted. So I joined in, and at start everything looked really fine. It had like 240 employees(most of them in sales/marketing), but still a lot of tech people. They gave me good work and I was happy to be able to deliver stuff on time.

Things started to take a wrong turn since September, when our main product started failing and our Founder(who btw doesn't care about this company and is in process of building another one) started putting all the money into marketing and sales. In mid-september, Our Founder called a meeting and fired 1-2 lead guys and that started a shit storm, which is totally destroying the company.

Firing those lead 1-2 guys led every tech person to believe that they are next in the line, and so they started exploring options, quickly changing jobs. In the same time, they gave raise to design and sales team for no obvious reason. We had a sizeable(100+) tech team, but now were are left with only a few senior devs, and about a dozen juniors. We juniors have no Idea how to proceed with this. There are usually long meetings happening in secret and even our tech lead is in panic. . Every week 4-5 people are leaving the company, and no one is really talking about "this" stuff.

I actually like working at my company as they are pretty nice to me, and quite understanding. I also like walking to work and not driving, and this is probably the only company near my home.

Have you ever been in such situations, with company failing and employees quitting in droves? What should I do, try to look for other jobs right now or wait for more clues? Most fellow employees are pretty sad and don't know what to do.
Came here and read this while 115,508 packages complied. So, no.
There's also an upper bound on how bad an axis-aligned solution can be. And, on a less mathematical note, weird diagonal packings are counter-intuitive to everyone and you're not likely to get customers complaining that you packed inefficiently just because you missed an opportunity to use one.
I don't currently use K8s, but am planning to get into it soon. Could you clarify the difference or advantage between using a Kubernetes specific package manager like Helm vs using a container repository? Isn't part of the point of containers to use prebuilt immutable containers?
I've been hearing this sort of thing a lot lately and it has just reinforced, in my mind, that the Catholic Church at the time was a pretty repugnant institution (though this is not nearly the worst of its actions). All of your clarifications only reinforce the belief that Galileo was in the right and the Catholic Church was in the wrong. Abusing power to persecute someone because you were insulted doesn't exactly move someone closer to being right.

One could make the argument that at the time it was normal to persecute someone because they insulted you and I don't want to get into that whole debate about moral relativism, but that's not the defence you've brought up.

I mean, ultimately they convicted him of heresy for his claims. It's not like they were "We condemn you to house arrest for being a dick!". They were like "We condemn you to house arrest for heresy since you claimed the Earth goes around the Sun!". And on top of that they go and repudiated his ideas. So not only did they say that the claim was false, they also said that it was such a terrible claim that it qualified for one of the highest kinds of crimes (heresy).

There's no need for anti-Catholicism here.
I don't think you understand how Monero works _at all_ - let me fix one of your arguments to illustrate:

>When you spend money, you basically say "I am one of 2^256 people", where 2^256 is usually fairly small.

Disappointing/embarrassing level of insight from a crypto project leader - here's a good layman-friendly video https://youtu.be/GEVm1dMn5Ks?t=14m to bring you up to speed (the simplified example is continued at 20m).
It's also unfortunate that the police in many places have become accustomed to treating everyone like they were part of a heavily-armed gang. That's the police's problem, and they need to fix it, pronto.

I think it's a reasonable hypothesis that the ability to use lethal force with near impunity has enabled a police culture of maximum-confrontation. That culture is going to be hard to root out, and taking away the guns that enabled it (from most cops, and increasing scrutiny of who are still allowed to carry) could be a good start and do a lot of good.
At first I thought this was a sarcastic post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

Namecoin is probably the largest, and provides .bit. IPFS has IPNS, but that is just subdirectories of a user hash, there is no pretty naming there.

There is also tech like what is behind .onion, where you can generate names until you get one you like, where you can devote more resources to getting prettier names at the cost of electricity and hardware to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion
It's unfortunate that many of the modern components frequently seen in Linux environments do not appreciate/respect/promote the use of plain-text files and scripts. Thinking of systemd and its many utilities, Docker, etc.
ATF change - 30,000 miles.
Clutch service - maybe 300,000 miles if your car body lasts that long before rusting to hell.
That's if you know how to drive.
definitely, Fifth Element style. Of course there's the pesky problem of deep vein thrombosis...
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Similarly, please continue to leak as many illegal activities of the United States government as possible, it will motivate our people to change government (by force, maybe) faster.
Exactly. When you design for sloppy inputs, you're vulnerable to malicious inputs.
What.CD was probably the single greatest archive of music in existence, hopefully they'll be back up soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What.CD
Pay more attention to what, though? The road? Or the car controls?
In fact, U.S. chickens themselves have been artificially inflated for years. Yum.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/06/10/artificially-fattene...
I call bullshit. Last time I looked up the BRZ, the automatic was far better than the manual, something like 36mpg vs 30mpg (highway). Most likely, the manual has much lower gearing than the automatic.
Obviously you don't drive VWs!
I ran into this problem within days of starting to use Bash on Windows. Had several files just disappear, though I didn't need to reinstall anything (so far). They should really document this issue better, like in the docs for installing WSL.
> The main thrust of your argument was that we must either talk about jobs or trans issues. This is a false dichotomy.

This is most certainly not a false dichotomy. Everybody has a certain amount of mind share that they command. If you're talking about Subject A you're not talking about Subject B.

That goes a long way to explaining again why liberals seem so out of touch with most working class folks living in middle america.

They don't care about what rights a tiny portion of Americans have, or what bathrooms they can and cannot use. They care about getting jobs and food and making rent, which are the concerns of a much greater proportion of the populations.

When they hear about politicians ramble on about things that only affect a tiny minority of people, while ignoring things that affect much more people in a larger way, then you have an out-of-touch political party.
What is the long-term security/availability of those new tlds?

If I register a .de domain today I am pretty sure that it will last a long time. But some of the new ones have a pretty sketchy vibe to it and I am not sure if I'd trust them enough to build a business on top of a .fancy domain
5) is probably the most depressing thing I've read for some time. We should all make the effort to do exactly the opposite.
similar to healthcare and education
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Why should an application need to be aware of the file meta data in most situations anyway? Shouldn't the OS handle the metadata unless the application specifically requests otherwise?
A VPN like Private Internet Access is among the best things a consumer can do to protect their privacy.

PIA is $3.33/month. My internet bill is $50/month.

I like to think of it as a $3 upgrade from an open line to a secure line. It's a no-brainer for me. Really it should be a default option from your ISP, only they can make a hell of a lot more than $3.33/month from you if they can read all of your data.
Not being able to go over the legal speed limit can be dangerous (e.g. if the other cars on the road are, and you're not, you could actually be driving relatively slowly enough that it's unsafe, and you can even technically get a ticket for that under the right circumstances).

Similarly, in most places, speed limits are actually a little lower than they would be in the ideal world where everybody obeys them, to account for the fact that most people actually go a bit over the speed limit. And there are still highways that have absurdly slow speed limits that date back to the 1973 oil crisis (federal law set a maximum speed limit of 55mph, and not all highways have recovered from that yet).
Get out of healthcare, it's a dead-end field for software and just full of sadness and bullshit. The only place potentially worse is game development, but at least there you have the chance of becoming a great programmer.
Except the thing is, Galileo's model was not supported by science. They had neither a proper theoretical model for deriving it (Newton's and Kepler's work on gravity and celestial movement, which came after Galileo), nor did the Galileo's model agree with available observational data. From the point of view of scientists of that age, his model was more like a crackpot theory. Which turned out ok, but only much later.

So if anything, Galileo's story is about the Church being on the side of science, not against it.
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To be fair, extracting coherent requirements has pretty much always been the problem.
> But you have to admit, there's going to be riots in the streets when it's no longer economical to pay a human to drive a trunk/taxi.

Why would there be riots in the streets for self-driving cars in particular? Like when there were riots for the assembly-line or the tractor? There will be riots for education, healthcare and opportunity - and probably there should be. Technological progress of civilization should be something more meaningful than the rich getting richer.
I agree and have come to the same conclusion. I wanted a nice (manual) sports car here in the states - but for the same price I can get a nice sports bike, ADV bike, AND cruiser. As much fun as it would be to have a sports car, being able to walk out to the garage and pick which bike fits my mood for the day beats it every time. Furthermore, motorcycles are far more engaging, exhilarating, and challenging than a sports car could ever be.
I'm not sure mouse and keyboard will be unseated from the top spot until we get to the point of straight mind-machine interfaces.
Well I appreciated the puns...
> but it is not metrics (the general concept) that are at fault

I disagree, because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

The problem is that we want "quality science" (whatever that means!), but we don't know how to quantify that, or indeed really define it. So a quantitative metric will necessarily be measuring some sort of proxy or set of proxies for "quality", and then you will get people optimizing those proxies, not "quality". To the extent that those proxies miss something important, it will be underinvested in.

Unfortunately, I don't have a better proposal, perhaps short of taking the warnings in http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm to heart (the ones that are NOT about the military-industrial complex). Doing that might change the general funding climate sufficiently that the need for deciding "quality" like we do now may simply become less critical.
Then you have been "told" by clueless people.
Perhaps they don't want to prioritize a platform that Apple themselves don't even work on too much.
I think that the main reason is exactly what the author mentioned on his conclusion:

"Perhaps the way IPv6 deals with additional headers in contrast to IPv4 may be influencing this difference. This stability is observed most evidently on sucuri.net and cloudflare.com. Interesting, as both domains deal with web security."
I also find it interesting how much of a premium white meat commands at the grocery store. $10 might get me 1 lb (450 g) boneless chicken breast, or 3 lb (1400 g) boneless chicken thigh. Since one chicken produces slightly less thigh meat than breast meat, I can only assume that there is a huge disparity in demand.

I'm not complaining—I get the meat I prefer for a good price that way.

(Edit: To be clear, U.S.)

(Edit 2: I think I misremembered the prices: might have been 3 lb / 9 lb instead of 1 lb / 3 lb.)
Or, "Don't buy the Pixel through Project Fi with no intention of activating Fi service, just so you can get the phone shipped to a reseller quicker".
> if they are unarmed then they can forget about arresting people and bringing them into jail and in front of a judge. plenty of people are willing to kill to avoid that outcome.

I'm going to call bullshit on that. Proportionally few criminals are North Hollywood Shootout types that require lethal force to be subdued. I would think that a very large fraction of arrests can be accomplished with threats of extra legal penalties or physical man-handling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
I get chicken (leg quarters) for .39 a pound regularly.

Normal grocery store prices are insane.
But that often isn't enough to get people to work on boring but necessary work.
Blofeld is happy, at least.
same here, tried to modify some files in my windows IDE while using them from an apache on the linux subsystem - had to change the webserver directory to /mnt/c/...
Ruby on Rails and Django are very good at quickly building database business web applications. As long as you stick to old-school web-style development (everything done on the back end and simple forms in the browser) you can go very quickly.
I wish I could downvote this more than once. Your heart is in the right place but designers don't seem to design very good interfaces.

I'm reminded of the Bremerton Ferry Terminal.

http://www.clinkstonarchitects.com/project/1/Bremerton_Trans...

It's attractive and all but that pretty canopy is turned up in the direction where the the rain and wind normally comes from and the seats which have these neat looking glass tops with embedded fish and octipi etc sculptures are not only uncomfortable, they also have a bar in the center presumably designed to stop homeless from sleeping on them which also stops more than 2 people from sitting and the glass has a lip which causes the rain the canopy lets in collect on the seats making them utterly useless at least 1/3 of the time.
Haven't tested the product yet, but here are two things I can tell you before I do:

- Love the name, I find it clever (location, locution, pocus) and easy to remember

- Website is a 4/10: look is not very appealing, does a poor job putting your main feature forward.

Good luck!
I want to do the same but I don't know of anything that has Google-Level replacement for Drive/Docs/Sheets/Calendar. I really want one thought.

If I can get Email, Document Storage (Docs, Spreadsheets, PowerPoints, Calendars) I'd move to a personal in-home solution ASAP. If it could integrate with Android via F-Droid apps I'd be even happier.
I lost a Google account for using it to post a combative message on the State Department's youtube channel.

Google didn't tell me that, of course, but I don't use that particular account for many things and it was the only thing I used that account for in a long time.

Likely part of the push by Washington to get information companies to guide what dialogue is acceptable to post online.
What in that excerpt conveys smugness to you?
I think it's that the government[0] can repeatedly propose the bill and wear down the public's will to fight it. They[0] don't appear to lose any/much standing from continuous proposals and people become apathetic towards continued fighting.

[0]whoever that may mean
> how do you have any objectivity in allocation of funds etc. without some metric?

Our need for "objectivity" here is to a large extent driven by the centralization of the funding allocation that http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm warned about and has since come to pass. If funding were more decentralized, lack of objectivity in any particular funding source would be _much_ less of a problem.
Privacy of ZCash is not affected by the underlying cryptography; the zero knowledge proofs used enjoy perfect zero knowledge, which does not rely on any cryptographic assumptions.
When you hand over $250 and they hold it for 3 months with the promise of giving you a shot at an auction, then they cancel the auction... I still call that a "switch".

Still haven't received the refund, by the way.
I've had PIA, AirVPN, and now iVPN. Definitely a fan of iVPN. They are organizational members of the EFF (for what it's worth), and their service has been the fastest I've used thus far. A bit pricey though.
I don't know if Minority Report started the trend, but there is one thing that I have really grown tired of in movies with futuristic tech: transparent screens.

I realize that they let the director film the actor without something blocking the camera but they just seem like a lazy way to be "futuristic."
What's wrong with "Trust, but verify" ?
Recently I tried to cut corners by copying my ~/.ssh from Cygwin into my WSL-user's home directory with the Windows Explorer and wondered why the folder was not visible from within WSL. cp-ing it from within WSL's /mnt/... solved the issue but left me still wondering.
At least this post confirms that there be dragons, if I move files manually into the lxss folder.