skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't just link to your blog instead of making a comment here.

At the very least, summarize your post and link to the extrapolation. "This is specifically a marine astrolabe for determining latitude from the elevation of a specific star, not a generic astrolabe with many other functions. It's also not the earliest navigational tool. These names and distinctions are important, and getting them wrong is indicative of damaging, incorrect click-bait journalism.
I go into more detail on my blog: [link]"
Thruster for Mars mission breaks records
I think you missed his main point:

> the SDD, Memory, wifi card and battery are all accessible

That means you don't need to bring it in to a certified repair center. I looked up his laptop model, all one needs is a standard Philips-head and a M2 x 3mm Torx screwdriver (I have a Torx kit from eBay that I got for ~8 Euro).

p.s. Apple laptops used to be user-serviceable. In fact, I recently upgraded a several older MacBooks with SSDs and only it took a couple minutes.
Amazon service will let couriers open front doors
Population dispersal would reduce economic productivity, leading to poverty:
https://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/aecrev/v86y1996i1p54-70.html

"Using data on gross state output, the authors find that a doubling of employment density increases average labor productivity by around 6 percent. More than half of the variance of output per worker across states can be explained by differences in the density of economic activity."
1. Don't build expensive houses in regions that are known to frequently get high powered hurricanes.

2. Don't build homes out of flammable material.

3. Use the money you would've spent insuring a house on repairing it.
Well, if you rewrite in C, you're not using the language whose semantics make it difficult to execute quickly - you're using C. One of the great things about Python is the (relative) ease of interfacing with code written in another language (particularly C), so I don't see this as a square-peg-round-hole situation. You're using the right tool for the job, possibly on the per-function level instead of per-project, but it's much the same.

I really don't see the speed thing as a problem. I write everything in Python until it's slow, then I write some Cython or cuda for the bottleneck. No biggie. One language doesn't need to do everything, and with the particular set of compromises it has made, Python seems to cover a wider range of general-purposesness than most languages, so I'm happy.
All the hallmarks of classic Bloomberg FUD.
Nice start! And I like the name ;)

Denver might be another good candidate for you to tell your narrative via data. Don't know if you have ever seen the show "Weediquette" on Viceland. But there was an insightful episode on the Denver housing market last night. Developers build $6000/mo high rise condos targeting "Green Rush" cannabis entrepreneurs flush with cash. While city government bans outdoor "camping" for the thousands of locals displaced by an influx of new residents.

I'd also love to hear your team's opinions on the affordable housing crisis. As well as alternative examples of government policy that works. And is policy making your eventual goal? Or more direct initiatives?

Solving affordable housing: Creative solutions around the U.S.

https://www.curbed.com/2017/7/25/16020648/affordable-housing...
But recorded history in Europe goes back some 3000 years.
My campaign started in 1978. We're still playing. Over 60 players have come and gone, but the current crew has a half-dozen of the original players from the 70s and early 80s still going. We've outlasted at least 6 marriages, lots of moving (I currently Skype in, but will be moving back home next year), and all manner of turmoil. When I've been too busy or burnt out to DM, someone else in the group has stepped up to fill the gap.

It's hard to schedule because of family and work obligations, but we are pretty close to monthly.
Is delivering packages really that hard in the states?

Where I live almost every apartment has post boxes in the entrance area. Amazon drops the package in there and when I come home all I have to do is touch my key on the machine and it spits out my package. More advanced machines even send you emails when something got delivered.
FYI, the display is bigger, but the phone is actually smaller due to the "bezelless" design of the LG V30.

The difference in weight is mostly due to the reduced body size, so less materials used.

A thinner phone also generally weighs less due to less material.

The combination of soldered battery (so thinner phone) and "bezelless" design could explain a large part of the difference in weight due to less materials used.

[LG V20 specs] https://www.gsmarena.com/lg_v20-8238.php

[LG V30 specs] https://www.gsmarena.com/lg_v30-8712.php
Amazon delivery person sees a marijuana plant ...call the police. Etc etc. No thanks.

I'll pick it up at a delivery hub or keep coming back./
App Development Roadmap: The Story of the Avocados App
That’s true but a secondary concern since most of these benchmarks are for toy programs where all but the most primitive JIT will help
What if they simply time the entry?

E.g. a courier taps to unlock the door, within 30 seconds, they must tap to lock the door or the local police will be called.
My local library has at the very least books, videos, music, jigsaw puzzles, and museum passes. That's just the stuff that's obviously visible from the entrance.
AWK is a programming language. In the AWK book by Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan, towards the end of the book they implement an arbitrary assembler, the virtual processor and a virtual machine for the machine code they just invented to run. They also implement a relational database management system in AWK, as well as an autoscale graphing solution.

I myself have implemented XML SOAP command line client, a backup solution, a SAN UUID management application and an automated Oracle RAC SAN storage migration solution, a configuration management, and an Oracle database creation / management applications in AWK.

Usually I develop a thin getopts shell wrapper around an AWK core. Works every time, the executables are on the order of a few KB (the largest so far, the XML SOAP client is 24.5 KB) and they all run like a bandit. Memory requirements are miniscule. Dependencies are minimal: the only external dependency so far in my software has been the xsltproc binary from the libxslt package.

AWK is easier to use than Python or Perl, and is much faster than either of those. Typical code density ratio of Python versus AWK is 10:1, sometimes more. This means that if you have a 650 line Python program, you can implement the same functionality in about 280 lines of AWK, and the program will be far simpler. I've once collapsed a 280+ line Python program into a simple 15 lines of code in AWK.

AWK is an extremely versatile, powerful programming language.

For even more speed, AWKA can be used to transpile AWK source into C and then it will call an optimizing C compiler to compile it into a binary executable. Typical speedup is on the order of 100%, so if your AWK program ran in 12 seconds, it'll now finish in six.
Embrace, extend and extinguish. Welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss.
My college dorm had an airlock setup that was something like this, with an inner and outer door that both lock separately. A couple times we woke up to find a homeless person had caught the outer door as somebody was coming or going and taken up residence to escape the winter cold.
Precisely the opposite reason R drove me away. R uses 1 based indexing.Seriously we should all be using Zero based indexing for all purposes.
Should I Quit My Job? Take This Quiz To-Just Kidding
My bad. From the URL I thought it was about Packstation. That's what Amazon Lockers are.

But in the US there are apartments that have something like a "Packstation" for residents only.
? American culture was mostly imported from Europe during its infancy. Latin America was barely even a thing then.
It's referncing same useless Steam survey for that quote. See above.
GistBox is becoming Cacher
> What counts as a repair and how would properitary components be made available for the repair? Under what markup do components need to be made available?

The bare minimum would be to require an infinite warranty. So free, and with compensation to the customer for the repair time.

Don't want to deal with that? Get rid of the damn locks already.
That seems like a reasonable heuristic. I'm not really educated on the subject, but I think it has been used in the past (trust is conferred to countrymen with children, since they have skin in the game).
> It does not show anything about Canonical's financial incentives or their strategy, your statement is basically stating an assumption what the reason is.

Fair point.

> What has Canonical to do with it? Neither "Linux", "Linux Desktop", "Linux Gaming" or "AMD graphics under Linux" are in any way tied solely to Canonical or what Canonical does. Again, am I missing something?

Ubuntu is the only official supported distribution by Steam and GOG (they also support Linux Mint, but it's based on Ubuntu).
> I've noticed there's a big difference between American and European board games (and probably also table top RPG frameworks) in the sense that the American tendency is to favour luck and hail Mary rolls to save the day. Eurogames tend to be focused on resource management and long term strategy.

D&D especially since 4e, is very much by conscious design centered around structured resource management (that in 4e this was done in a very heavy-handed metagame way by way of, e.g., encounter/daily powers, I think, contributed to a lot of the complaints against; 5e’s short/long rest system is nearly equivalent in effect but ties the mechanic in a more organic way to the fiction.)

> I see that The Dark Eye does use rolling for combat, but it calculates armour differently, in a more predictable manner (for example, in D&D armour makes you less likely to be hit, whereas in The Dark Eye it makes you take less damage)

This is extremely common in American TTRPGs that aren't D&D or deliberate mechanical clones.
Considering that congress has shown that they care more about campaigning and raising money than passing legislation that protects average citizens, I love having an independent CFPB watching (or at least trying to watch) out for me.
Situations like these do arise, it is only with great care and some sacrifice you get to walk this path. Losing out on the discourse between those who use different messenger protocols or who communicate through the likes of Facebook or G+ is one of those sacrifices. You can try to convince them to join you on some other channel but the chance of this succeeding depends on those friends' attitude towards both the subject of personal privacy as well as your reputation - if you cry 'wolf' at every opportunity they'll soon consider you to be a tin-foil-hat wearing loonie.

Fortunately the evidence against just those actors - Facebook, Google and others - is getting more and more visible and palpable to all. Between Facebook's blatant censorship of content and Youtube 'demonitising' [1] 'controversial' videos and actors, it is getting hard to avoid noticing that they are flexing their opinion-influencing muscles. This should make it a bit easier to convince people to jump ship [2] but you won't get all of those people to forego on the delights of Spies'r'Us or CatVideoCentral. Still, once a few of them join you you'll no longer be out of the loop and that is what matters here.

[1] a good word in this context as it almost reads as 'demonising'

[1] ...and please tell them that moving from Facebook to VKontakte is not an effective move in this respect
Founder of ZeroTier here -- nice writeup!
Two useful articles in general

Things to keep in mind when writing [1]

How can you start writing [2]

[1] https://medium.com/@writingtoday/how-to-become-a-better-writ...

[2] https://medium.com/@writingtoday/how-can-you-start-writing-e...
Is Student Loan Debt Going to Start a Housing Crisis?
And someone takes a good look at your possessions and someone else comes 3 week later to take them.

No thanks.
It's standard practice for cleaning/home-maid services and a number of food delivery services (e.g. Abel and Cole) already do this. It's just a matter of trust and reliability.
Offering a free tier, just invites freeloaders, who are THE WORST end users to deal with. They are the most demanding, and will tie up valuable support time. Do not do free anything for SaaS. If you're product is good enough, make them pay for it.
I read about an interesting proposal, it goes like this: American law has a distinction for items you can own but not buy or sell, for example a kidney. You can have a kidney, you just can't sell it and if you're lacking one, you just can't buy it. Similarly, lobbying should be classified like kidneys. You or I or anyone else has the ability to talk to our congressperson or assemble outside their office or petition them, we just can't sell that ability to anyone else. Nor can some CEO buy a 'lobbyist' or anyone else to go speak for them. The first amendment stays preserved that way.
> This requires you to actually get "all the research groups" to migrate their sites to your platform, which would be difficult to achieve (particularly if you restrict them to a design they don't want).

Exactly. The platform will be increasingly more useful as user base is growing. The same is applicable to majority of other networks. It is most likely that we will have to continue onboarding users almost "manually" until we reach a critical mass.

> I have strong reservations about your apparent aim of making a single for-profit company the gatekeeper to the websites for every research group.

Good point. As researchers ourselves, we have tendencies to favor open-source projects/organizations over for-profit companies. There is no denying it. But considering all the things, I believe that for-profit companies achieve their goals much more efficiently. Simply put, we are a social purpose for-profit company started by researchers who got tired of redundancies, poor discoverability, lack of sane structure etc., and are trying to build a solution.

I am interested to hear your opinion on some of your points above. Could you elaborate on your reservations? What is it that you are most concerned about? What could we do to improve on that apart from going non-profit?

> An alternative way of making research groups discoverable would be to create a directory of researchers that links to their existing websites, rather than trying to replace them.

As you have said it, this approach will work to make research groups discoverable. However, it would be difficult to solve many other issues we are trying to solve. A single platform is a better option in this case, as it allows deeper integration and interconnection.
GNU style.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_coding_standards
Specifications of OnePlus 5T Leaked in the Latest Antutu Test
Commands like cat, cut, sort, uniq and awk are still pretty relevant nowadays. Even on huge volumes of data.
> I think we are done here. That's not how society works. You don't just get to do whatever you want to do and expect the manufacturer to still cover the warranty.

Well, yes, actually, I do. And not only do I expect it, it's actually the law over here.

> If you tamper, see a dictionary, with the device then it is not their responsibility to cover it.

Well, OK, let me quote a dictionary:

| a :to interfere so as to weaken or change for the worse —used with with

| b :to try foolish or dangerous experiments —used with with

| c :to render something harmful or dangerous by altering its structure or composition

(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tamper)

So, according to the dictionary definition, competently repairing or modifying the phone certainly would not fall under tampering, do you agree?

> That's actually pretty much how the law already is.

Actually, I doubt that it is, assuming that you are talking about the US.

> Your house example is kinda silly. It's a house, not an electronic device.

I agree that a house is not an electronic device. Why do you think that different rules should apply in the case of electronic devices?

> I'd love to agree with you but reality suggests otherwise.

Why?

> If you overclock your CPU, as a rough example, they aren't gonna let you RMA it.

Whether they "let me" anything really is not the question. The question is what their legal responsibilities are, i.e., what I can enforce via the judicial system if they do not voluntarily "let me".

> I don't blame them.

I think I got your standpoint. What's still missing is the justification.

> Swapping out user serviceable parts, as a reasonable person might do, is an obvious exception. You might want to try looking at it as a reasonable person (the legal concept) would.

You do understand that that is not a meaningful use of the legal term "reasonable person", right? That is about figuring out the intent of a contract if things are not spelled out.

> You really seem to have a bit emotionally invested in this so I'm going to respectfully bow out now.

Unfortunately, that is not really a justification for your standpoint either.
I'm not so sure they will sell a ton. Most of the talk I've heard has been "meh" regarding it. I'm personally holding off until I see more hands on reviews and feel comfortable that I wont be a beta tester for Apple.

I'm really excited for the screen (not the notch). True blacks are where Apple has really suffered. I love reading at night on my iPad but it's a much worse experience than my Samsung tablet with an OLED screen. The move to OLED by Apple is really the biggest thing here that people aren't paying much attention too.
How and Why Garlic Can Be Priceless Regarding Cleaning Your Liver?
Oh, gosh! Of course it's an anonymous dude showing up to try to preserve the argument that women are biologically inferior. With an account that's doesn't appear to care about much besides arguing against diversity. What a surprise.

We aren't of course seeing 50/50 outcomes in tech. As I said elsewhere in this thread, we are steadily approaching them in law and medicine. This is despite that fact that goofs like you made effectively identical arguments for decades about it just not being in women's nature to study those topics, to do that work.

That ended up not being true. When the barriers in law and medicine were diminished, representation ended up pretty quickly moving toward 50/50. If you talk to women in tech you'll quickly discover that they face similar barriers. Prof. Ellen Spertus wrote this in 1991:

http://www.spertus.com/ellen/Gender/pap/pap.html

Talking with her recently, she mentioned that she believes the problems are the same or worse.

We have seen this pattern over and over for many topics for the last 100 years. Dudes say women can't or intrinsically don't want to. When we reduce the discrimination, they can and do want to. It turns out what women don't want is to deal with discrimination. Like, I'm sure, yours.
China temporarily shuts down thousands of factories in pollution crackdown
Awesome stuff! You should make it and see what happens. Many researchers/students struggle with the discovery of research groups, collaboration etc. The more people/companies try to tackle these issues the merrier.
A Software Bug is more costly than you think
Fine, but it's just an import away: https://github.com/kislyuk/ensure (written by HN user ak217)
Actually, no. A massive amount of crime is either primarily or secondarily driven by economics.

That is, the crime is conducted for direct financial gain (various black markets, theft, burglary, fraud), to defend a criminal enterprise (turf wars), to gain resources to feed some criminal activity (drugs and gambling addictions, especially), or as a consequence of economic marginalisation (people pushed into desperate situations, or engaging in activities on account of those).

(There's also a tremendous amount of white-collar and corporate crime which is never prosecuted, a whole 'nother story. The dumb criminals are the ones who get caught.)

Even various forms of tribalistic / hate crimes are often related (with varying levels of justification, having a floor of zero) to economic perceptions. As are crimes of passion or pride or reputation.

There's not a whole lot of crime that isn't at least arguably connected to some economic motive or dynamic.
I liked this. My main takeaway though is that these people are ridiculously well-connected. It's difficult for me to imagine having that kind of access to so many top-tier companies (even if they weren't recognized as such at the time). And I'm guessing these companies actively sought them out! It really just seems like a different world.
Also: advanced/expensive iSCSI options (simplest: read-only)

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/21889ca0-2...
>I typically use IDEs, and every IDE I've used has had a "Go To Definition/Declaration" feature

This is also available in some dynamically typed languages, working just fine.
Sort of like library drop boxes.
Absolutely, it's not easy to process. But if it can be easy to grow like a decorative grass, space is less of an issue as it can be like a decorative grass. And my point is not that Americans will ever grow something like Kernza en masse, but if enough trendsetters do it, there's a greater market for farmers to sell to.
Quite amazing to have so many contributors working at such a rate (204 patches a day!) on a Free Software project.
In your view is it ever permissible(enforceable) to forfeit the right to sue as part of a contract? Or are there just certain kinds of contracts or circumstances for which the right to sue is inalienable?
...what? You think a society where some votes count more than others is better? That seems to only be possible if you presume that you/people-who-think-like-you-do would be the ones with more votes.
Huh? We were talking phones. Modern phone is a bundle of hardware and software. Apple charges very specific fee for their bundle. Google is pouring a shit ton of resources into their bundle as well, which they basically re-sell as franchise to hardware makers.

I could start listing all the super cheap Android phones as Apple competitors. But that'd be very simplified story, because they'd be nothing without Google's software and promotion. And if Google charged for the software as well Android brand, those phones wouldn't be as cheap. Now end users pay that fee with their eyeballs.

I never said that every locale has ability to make a quality giant or whatever. I said that Google dumping prices make someone else hard to enter. Especially at the cheap end of the market.

Apple's 'privacy' angle was very clear for at least a decade. They didn't pay as much lip service to it, but they products are clearly very different from Google. And been that way for a looooooong time.
Is it standard to enable them to remotely unlock your door?
You don't actually need Chrome for Desktop, just a browser with WebComponents support. In fact, it will partially work in Firefox if you go into about:config and enable `dom.webcomponents.enabled` and `dom.webcomponents.customelements.enabled` - the banner is just a warning.
A Guide to Finding Happiness: Dan Buettner's 'Blue Zones'
How Russian trolls silence victims of assault
I've been a fan of Dillinger for years, automatically updates, side-by-side layout and converts Markdown to PDF/HTML.

It's not a CLI program though, web app.

https://dillinger.io/