skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if that's a correct conclusion.
Some individuals or groups can promote an expansion of "offensiveness", which under certain circumstances becomes the new default for everyone who is part of a cultural/social sphere, no matter the individual's subjective position in the matter.

This is similar to what Nassim Taleb described in his essay "The Dictatorship of the small Minority". Essentially, the most easily offended person will win, as everyone is expected to adhere to his/her requirements (as most people would, despite disagreeing with the claim, still feel morally forced to oblige, as they don't like to hurt someone else's feelings - so all power is concentrated on the person with the offended "feelings" - the more sensible he/she is, the more everyone else needs to comply. If this person cannot handle any kind of different point of viewpoint or idea, everyone else would have to avoid expressing viewpoints and ideas. This is the extreme scenario of course, but what's stopping us to end up there?)
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
> Could you imagine the point-of-view of someone who did find this helpful?

Who would this "bank details" comment help, and how, and why does someone's point of view affect whether it's helpful?

> To me, the commentary helps call out how insincere and non-genuine the quoted text is.

There's plenty to discuss on the branding, commercial model, and social implications without attempting to smear them with vague implications of either technical incompetence/negligence or some kind of fraud/ethical risk.

Perhaps I've misunderstood it and there's an interpretation of this "bank details" line that's grounded in some evidence rather than being an unnecessary smear.
Hydrogen combustion using outside air as the oxygen source will produce NOx so those engines will produce more than just water vapor.
A new fascinating HTML5 puzzle game
A strong reminder that as humans, in all our complexity and nuance, each of us have basic needs and a desire for empathy and connection. The need to be heard, and the ability to offer simple acknowledgement of someone else, is so underrated in modern life.
Yeah, I was thinking of Firefox specifically. I just can't go back to living without that kind of containment.
It's alarmist criticism of politics, and not of actual fact. It'd be difficult to find a single study supporting the headline with facts.
Don't forget that sometimes too much realism is a problem. The "soap opera" effect with high frame rate source material or displays that interpolate frames is commonly regarded as looking awful. However - it is more realistic but less appealing to our current aesthetic sensibilities.

Photorealism is a great tool to have in your box but it's not the end goal in any creative medium.
From the article:

> People who shop at the same Bay Area corner stores that Bodega wants to eliminate, like me, aren't worried about any problem the startup wants to solve.

You said:

> the linked FastCompany article?

Did the link change? Right now it's to an inflammatory engadget article that slurs tech workers as subhuman "things":

> "It's almost like someone said "Siri, show me why everyone hates and fears the things wearing human suits known as techies."
If growth is mostly currently debt fueled, that growth can easily stop and reverse when the debt is pulled back. Recession at best, depression at worst, definitely there will be a few crashes along the way.

Do you think real estate can really be sustained at it's current levels? Much of it has been bought as a speculative asset (no property taxes makes that easy) with the idea that it can only keep going up because of urbanization. However, farmers are generally poor not rich, it is not clear where the "bigger idiots" are going to come from.

China's tax burden is already high for those that pay them. Going after those that don't at the high end is difficult because they tend to be officials or highly connected to officials in the first place.
Yep. After working with JSON logs from 50GB up, converting them to Parquet (plus snappy compression) was really liberating. This also led me to Apache Drill, one of the best onprem data exploration tools IMO
The Other Kind of Centaur: Human-Computer Hybrids
Generally, it isn't really environmentalists exactly fighting these projects. Instead it's folks who don't want them near where they live or other powerful interests in the vicinity, who utilize existing environmental regulations to put these projects into analysis limbo for years on end. So there is a relationship in that the environmental laws are able to be abused to stop NIMBY projects. The same laws are now being used to stop High-Speed Rail.
Humans are by-and-large terrible creatures anyways.
I feel like adding a pull request to add whisky to the list. Some of us prefer scotch.
>"Actually they keep this to remind themselves every day that one day they could be dust too."

How is it a reminder if it isn't at all visible to anyone there? The back of the sign is obscured by woods. The only way to see it is to walk around to the back of it. I'm not surprised that company propaganda would spin this into some nonsense about 'this is a reminder ..." though.
xbindkeys probably?
Stabilised != final though, so you'll still need a layer in order to find all of the new knowledge and compare it against what everyone has locally (not going to download 50GB every time someone posts a new useful SO answer), and update the local store. Why not keep that index centrally for everyone instead of replicating it for 2bn people?
No where else in any other state has there been a "backfeed the grid" issue. I have never heard of any electrical technician getting killed due to solar panels backfeeding the grid. So when you remove those whats left?... lobbyists.
The worst I've seen for presets is in GM's implementation. You first have to touch a tiny "up" arrow in the bottom right of the screen, and then you have five touch presets along the bottom. Madness!
Wow, 25% of page weight wasted on extraneous cruft.
The fan and AC on a touch screen is an immense failure. Here in Norway there are many tunnels on the motorway and in some conditions this leads to the windscreen steaming up a few seconds after entering the tunnel. Imagine not being able to see out of the car until you fiddle with a touch screen at 120 km/h. Hire cars, where you aren't familiar with the layout are going to be a lot of 'fun'.
You should explain this in a main comment that hopefully gets upvoted to the top.
I wonder why Redox has so high requirements, 1GB of RAM looks like a lot for pretty much toy OS. I'm using server running on 256 MB RAM and it's enough for quite a lot of services.
I tried Vivaldi a few weeks ago. My main problem with it was that it was missing some media add on (details escape me) needed to run Netflix on Linux. Firefox had it by default. I liked the UI and side tabs, but it's easier for me to stick to Firefox now.
> In my case it was this annoying Google's insistence on telling me what I was actually looking for instead of searching exactly what I wanted, including ignoring "" etc.

GOD YES! This gets incredibly annoying when searching for version-specific information, considering the differences there can be between version foo and version bar of $DISTRO. Nothing like searching for something specific to CentOS 7 and getting zillions of CentOS 6 and 5 hits.

Google will also helpfully ignore the "Verbatim" option, and God help you if you're trying to search for multiple specific phrases.

Google is looking more and more like Alta Vista in its waning days.
www.google.com uses encryption too these days.

You are linking to a ~5 year old thread that is discussing the state of things well before google switched everything over to ssl.
A better solution is to enter the Reading mode of your browser.

Some sites popup dialogs and even if you delete all the elements they have set some of the elements in the original page to not allow scroll. With reading mode you just bypass all that crap.
I'm from Barcelona so I'm probably biased

There are about half of the population of Catalonia that doesn't agree with you.

but I still can't understand how holding a referendum can be illegal in a modern democracy.

This is not a referendum to ask about sideways width. It's about asking people if they want to commit a crime: secession.

Some say that Catalunya can't decide whether they want to be a country, and I don't understand that neither

It's very simple. Constitution says that sovereignty is in the nation as a whole, so a part of the nation can't simply vote to leave. That's the case for most civilized countries, so hardly a surprise.

This is like saying that Brexit should have been voted by all Europeans.

No, it's not. You are comparing denouncing an international treaty with trying to overcome the government.

Is there any legal technicality that I'm missing?

No, you are missing the elephant in the room.
If you use chrome, check out the vimium extension. It maps most browser actions to vim keys and makes mouseless navigation super easy.
I'm not sure if it was intentional but "case beer" made me smile.
HTC is halting trade of its shares in anticipation of expected takeover
Perhaps rather than thinking in terms of material mass, he was thinking in terms of subjective conceptual 'weight' of each in the minds of his audience. Mosquitos are annoying and can be quite dangerous due to carrying parasites and pathogens, so the 'weight' we give them in the messy associative matrix of our brains is far larger than their raw mass. In other words: maybe he didn't mean it precisely.
Tips for the use of Dowel Jigs
> Not as much. Outside of Tinder men have a range of other attributes that can help them: personality, timing, etc...

Same way in Tinder, after the match you still have to flirt. The similarity is in the optimization for the first contact.
How are you doing on Bing and Yahoo? Maybe your SEO is too Google-specific?

I wouldn't blame you, mine is too (since the majority of readers use Google), but I rank exceptionally higher in alternatives than I do on Google.
Merkel perceived as populist in Germany? I've heard a lot about Merkel but this is new. Do you have a poll or anything to show this is really the case and not just your (or your friends/relatives) opinion? Who of Germany's politicians would you call then less of a populist?
Might I suggest using the bounding-box of both specimen to try to make the equation work?
Ageing star blows off smoky bubble
> The duopoly controlling today’s political
competition has no accountability for results.

Sums it up perfectly...
Does anyone remember how back in the day, we had Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, Dogpile .. a whole host of search engines. You'd go to two or three to get an idea of what was out there. People had different indexes and there were a lot of players.

Today, it's just Google. I've been using DDG for a few years, but about 1/3 of the time I add an !g because I don't find the results I need on DDG.

The cost of entry to the search market is exceedingly high right now. This is a pretty good article of detailing how one person was able to come up with an idea and challenge the behemoth in very niche areas (privacy/the nsa leaks were probably the reason I started looking at/using it around 2013).

Yet I still miss the days of using multiple search engines; seeing a variety of results. I hate the de factor standard of Google. When a company controls that much of search, they get to define the narrative. They literally shape the way many people perceive the world.

I wonder if tech will get to the point where indexing will be easier and we'll see more solutions that are cheaper and that can crawl larger datasets with lower processing requirements. Maybe the next step will be distributed search with shared indexes?

In any case, Google can't remain on top forever (at least I hope not). It'd be nice to see more tech in this space, but it's an incredibly difficult problem. There is reason Google climbed to the top like it did.
I've had DDG as my primary search engine for I'd guess at least 5 years if not more. It's extremely rare that I ever need to use anything else. I do wish there was a way to tell Yummly to go to hell whenever I search for recipes, though.
Welcome to America, my friend.
Unless they fixed it recently, the location new tabs open in sometimes gets out of sync, so new tabs open in some unrelated position in the tab bar instead of next to the current tab.

The performance of Vivaldi is abysmal if you use many tabs. If you get past 50+, the UI becomes really sluggish (really slow to open new tabs, for example).
> I credit my operating system to Canonical, even though the heavy lifting and behaving nicely on hardware is done by people contributing to Linux. Linux out of the box doesn't mean a thing to me. Bing out of the box doesn't mean a thing to me. DDG and Ubuntu do mean a lot to me.

That's a dangerous comparison to make because there isn't really any consensus* on which part of the stack to name the OS. For example, Linux is technically just the kernel. So most of the UX you deal with will be GNU and other user space tools. Depending on the DE you use, you might not even deal with much of Canonical's code. And Ubuntu does owe an awful lot to it's parent distribution, Debian.

In short, I get the point you're attempting to make but unfortunately your comparison is more contested than the original subject you were discussing.

* though many do advocate GNU/Linux
Google Cloud and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Very much George Monbiot's style, I find it grating sometimes how hyper-critical he is of a lot of climate change endeavours. But I suppose it's better to have that voice there than not.
Well, if you lost the private key at the beginning, when they weren't worth much, you wouldn't have been that careful. So I'd wager that there is a fair amount of lost coins around.
(I repeat my comment here thanks to tertius advice).

The government of Catalonia can hold a referendum following the Law. The problem here is that the government of Catalonia is not following even their own regional laws approved by them, not to mention the Spanish Constitution.

The secessionists have even forbidden the opposition to participate in the debates in the Parliament of Catalonia.

Remember also that Catalonia has never been a nation.
The problem is our obsolete voting system which effectively prohibits a third party from winning. Range voting does not have this problem.
Hollywood is not optimizing for perfect realism. They are operating under many constraints such as budget (yes, even on Avatar they had budgets), schedule, and the need for directorial control (which often conflicts with realism). It would absolutely be possible to produce prerendered videos of mostly static scenes using today's technology that would be indistinguishable from reality, although the expense would be high.
I am mostly commenting on a big amount of comments deeming Bitcoin a failure or similar.

The Bitcoin of ~a month ago is not the same as today, that's a big power, to have upgradable decentralized money. Certainly Bitcoin is not perfect, but the good thing is that there are a lot of talented engineers working on the issues and new features, the majority of them even before Bitcoin really was worth much. But having it being valuable at the moment also acts a huge security/bug bounty and an incentive for more people work on it and make it better.

= All about the price

Even if the price crashes horribly, unless there's a unrecoverable catastrophe, it will keep on going because there's an ecosystem around it and clear price-independent advantages. Using Bitwage to be paid in Bitcoins and avoid crazy cross-border/currency fees of banks will be still an advantage no matter the price of bitcoin. Same goes for prepaid/debit cards backed with bitcoin. Doing commerce painlessly without crazy procedures with Africa & Latin America or wherever. Being immune to capital controls and asset seizures.

= Hype

I hate the hype everywhere, but it's not the tech's fault so many cluessless & irrelevant gold-diggers try to ride the wave, just with a lot of things you can just ignore. If you follow the devs, they are pragmatic and don't try to pump-up things like most altcoins do, that's something I greatly respect.

Anyway, there's a long way to go, but just because there are flaws at the moment, it doesn't mean it's dead, it's a live technology. Being pragmatic is key, Bitcoin is not some Utopian perfect invention, but it's good enough for a lot of things at the moment and I see it getting better every year.

Bitcoin offers true permissionless commerce and ownership of wealth and it now might not make any difference in a lot of democratic countries until it begins to do.
I don't know, I guess you'd have to read the author's book or Darwin's.
Uber/Breitbart Fake Ads Lawsuit
Javascript has array_map called Array.prototype.map(), it has an array_merge method called Array.prototype.concat(), array_reject can be achieved using Array.prototype.filter() and so on. These functions are a poor reimplementation of some native features.
> d it shouldn't be for armchair economists thousands of miles away to decide.
For someone who's critical of Armchair economists, you certainly are doing just that yourself in your post. And people thousands of miles away are able to discern whats morally right, and whats morally wrong. Your post reads like you are on the coke PR team.
You vastly underestimate the amount of knowledge in random blogs and small websites. If you are only after the "mainstream" sites, sure, but that's quite the bubble. I want and need access to all the blogs, forums, wikis.
Done, thank you for the advice.
Freedom and liberty is usually opposed through legalism. I think the desire for self-determination is just and admirable.
Stock buyback's are one example, but companies can also issue/aka create new stock from thin air and sell it. Though clearly less extreme than I was describing, the forces are similar.
You can definitely get a monetary price decline from DIY. But most people's time has value, too.
Humour: I also like to think this is "Farenheit 451" becoming a little too real.

Serious: we are definitely not ready.
The idea that being smart means you don’t have to be kind
> The problem is our obsolete voting system which effectively prohibits a third party from winning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Presidential_Deb...

Multiple lawsuits have been filed by third-party candidates challenging the CPD's policy of requiring a candidate to have 15% support in national polls to be included in presidential debates. While the lawsuits have challenged the requirement on a number of grounds, including claims that it violates Federal Election Commission (FEC) rules and that it violates anti-trust laws, none of the lawsuits has been successful.
You miss the point about trust. The trust issue that blockchain addresses for big banks is not "I'm worried you're a scam that will disappear with all my money". It's "I'm worried that you've not got every single number exactly right and there will diaagreements". Hence it takes 2-3 days in the US to settle a simple financial trade, to allow for multiple batch reconciliations to verify that the information that each party holds about the trade matches up. Using a shared, distributed database to store all this information, instead of every party keeping their own copy, has the potential for colossal efficiency gains. That's why big institutions are interested in blockchain.
Look at it from this point:

I'm an spanish citizen thereby granted to have free access to all national territory. If just catalan people is allowed to vote, then they are depriving me, and other spanish citizens, from the right to freely visit/live/work in catalonia.
Your works are very amazing!
I have three questions :)

1. Could you say your opinion about future of Rust. Will it become mainstream?

2. Pros/cons between Rust and C for system programming?

3. I heard many times that implementation of standart data structures like RBTree, Graphs without recursion traversal in Rust it's very difficult and painful tasks with unsafe hack code. So if i am Rust beginner i should avoid learn this language through implementations my own data structures(BST, AVL, LL, ...)?

*sorry for my English. It is not my native language.
> no one has been dragged off

same is as true for N. Korea
One of the problems with your idea is that the camera position is one of the parameters of the rendering equation, so the same surface looks different from different points in 3D space. To fully capture how light interacts with the space, you can't make one photo, you would need to place the camera in infinite number of positions and store the results in infinite amount of memory.
This answer ... misses some critical points, and skews pedantic.

The Fed cannot net print money without devaluing what's in circulation. Inflation is literally the fact of more money chasing fewer goods. More money => more inflation.

The question then becomes "how might money leave the system?" There are several ways.

Taxation, if you subscribe to MMT, is money leaving the system. (Government spending is, as with Fed policy, creating money.)

Increasing or decreasing the overall amount of consumer and business debt increases or decreases the money supply.

Increasing or decreasing the overall value of financial assets -- stocks, bonds, derivatives, real estate, commodities -- by increasing or decreasing collateral and balance sheets, increases and decreases the money supply.

Money going into savings, particularly off-shore accounts (where it's not otherwise available to the financial system) is effectively withdrawn, through the mechanism of reducing the velocity of money. Other factors effecting money velocity do likewise. (This is, essentially, how often a given dollar is transacted.)

The more accurate answer would be that: "The Fed can't print money without devaluing the money already in circulations, unless there are offsetting withdrawals to they money supply".
Taking this as a 'no' then.
Also: the most invasive parts of the analytics / tracking / privacy-invading aspects of Google Chrome are closed source.
What about the Scottish Referendum then?
Amazing that we have such a shortage of talent, yet the talent needs to move without jobs in order to get hired...
Had been using it for a few years and recently gave up for firefox. A lot of small bugs and annoying glitches like url dropdown list that contains absolutely not relevant items or cursor jumping randomly while typing address. Since recent versions firefox introduced some standard features I missed a lot like flat compact tabs.
I don't see how this can possibly be an improvement on the first Chromebook Pixel from a design aesthetic point of view but I am hoping to be proven wrong.
Amazon is working on smart glasses to house Alexa AI, says FT
They also have a crazy amount of NIMBYs. Though they might not have figured out how to object to solar panels, yet?
While I completely agree that there are Unix idioms that could go by the wayside, the team is already taking on an enormous project. Reinventing standard practices at the same time (and the ridiculous bike shedding that would ensue) seems like an even more impossible task.
To be fair, I think there would be some survivor bias. They aren't going to list all their failures
Then explain me why the same arguments to separate Catalonia from Spain can't be applied to separate Barcelona from Catalonia.
The trillions evaporating decreased the money supply, which would have a deflationary effect.

The Fed's action countered that. Inflation would have been negative in the absence.

The Fed increased inflation relative to the non-intervention case.