skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chromecast will work, it's relatively cheap so if it stops working after an X amount of years it's less of a financial pain than having to buy a new TV for the same functionality. The other side of the throw-away society and/or planned obsolescence is that replacing things becomes cheaper. I mean there's probably even cheaper alternatives than the Chromecast if you're on a budget.
I've been wanting to do exactly this for a long time, for exactly the reasons you state.
Google Releases Colaboratory
Yeah, I was a bit wrong. It does a syscall for every 4K.
Normal systems use a slow syscall only for malloc > 128K.
I see no other advantage than extremism in security, and giving a damn about performance.
It would be illegal and unethical for Apple to pay more taxes than it owes. That money doesn’t belong to Tim Cook, but to Apple shareholders.
Search, then click on the "tools" button and toggle to "Verbatim." It's a little more than just unpersonalized -- it also gets rid of things like synonym expansion, stemming, and allowing the search results to elide particular parts of your query. But it definitely gives you that 1998 feeling. :)

https://searchengineland.com/responding-to-complaints-google...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/style/2014/04/09/love-and-f...

If you want the full story without reading the book.
You can literally use Neovim as the Sublime Text editing engine.
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Downtime would be acceptable I think, especially because we could just launch a separate instance of Prom while the main one is being migrated.
In an unrelated note, I think HN should have or at least suggest that submitted links remove referral tags like the link to the article.
You don't think falsely-identified users would be bothered by notifications to check random porn videos? The same userbase who freaks out (somewhat justifiably) when Facebook suggests friends/connections that the user believes (perhaps wrongly) that FB could not know independently?
Of course it's my choice,and I've also set up clawsmail to display HTML mail by the press of a button. The point is that I'm not the only one. With plaintext mail you can reach everyone, with HTML mail only a fraction of that.

If you send HTML mails, they're simply more likely to land in the spam folder, where 80% of all HTML mails belong.
Tldr: Google says it won't support version pinning for fonts hosted on their CDN.

So, if you want to use a Google hosted font, you're stuck with bleeding edge. If that doesn't work for you, you have to find an alternative host.

Bleeding edge means things like fairly drastic weight changes.
Seek time is not relevant, our stuff is on SSDs. Thanks for the link, I've known about the transition feature.
No, it's a pretty reasonable analogy. For the original point, if all we had was machine code, and that code had a complete description of the machine which could run it and how to create it, it would still be useless without a machine to process it. The code on its own would not be sufficient to create the machine.

You can't make use of DNA without all the complex machinery required to transcribe it, translate RNA and replicate it. There's a chicken and egg problem. The DNA does indeed encode the instructions to make and assemble all the rRNA, tRNA and protein sequences to do this, but you have to already have the machinery in place to do so. Kind of like compiling a compiler. You need an initial manual bootstrap, which in the case of life as we know it, took place many millions of years in the past. Just as the code for a compiler is just so much meaningless ones and zeroes without a working compiler to process it, so is DNA in the absence of the translation machinery. Without any context for how to process it, it's just a meaningless jumble of bases.

One thing to think about. If we discovered intact dinosaur remains with non-degraded DNA, could we resurrect it? We don't have the machinery since it was lost with the death of the organism. But we could potentially bootstrap it by placing it in the cell of a related species, e.g. a reptile. But if it was a completely different form of life, we wouldn't even know where to begin.
I use it on a BID basis (medical).
This Time, Facebook Is Sharing Its Employees Data
Presumably they're using this to sell handbags. Like to put "buy now" buttons under images on their properties or something.
I live in a smallish town-4500-and we actually have a paid fire department.
Governments have no interest in fixing it. Usually law makers and legislators benefits from those loopholes, directly (with their own money) or indirectly (with campain supporters). Not only in corrupt contries but also in well stablished democracies.

Those loopholes are used even by people who claims doing a lot of charity, as Paradise paper is showing.

I'm very pessimist about this going away anytime soon.
Eliminating corporate income taxes would be the best way to start, given it would benefit society immensely.
Is there anyone here who is enough of an expert to propose changes to the U.S. tax code that would actually get rid of all of the tricks that multinationals play to avoid taxes? Or knows of where to find such a thing. I have responded in subthreads to at least 3 people who think they are but curious if there is anyone out there with actual expertise on the topic.

My sense is that it's easy to feel that the solution to the problem is simple (like this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/793/) when in fact it is tremendously complicated: perhaps even intractable. It may be that it there is a sort of Godelian way of always finding a loophole given the emergent complexity of the interactions between the tax codes of ~200 different countries, many of which are incentivized to have a lax tax code to promote local job growth.
I too, have lost my share of Lambo's in various fires.
And do what? Logitech hasn't established a specific duty (inc. contract) to keep their devices online for any length of time. So therefore the only test might be "reasonable expectation" which is a pretty low bar.

The FTC are likely pretty powerless in this situation. Only negative PR and taking your business elsewhere may assist here but given the lack of competition in this space, good luck!
That data is extremely valuable way outside NASA, it's routinely shared with other countries that fly to space (yes, with Russia, too, and Russia sends their data to the States).

As long as it's space-related, the astronaut's medical history is really anything but private.

What NASA could be trying to do is limit press access to individual astronauts because they are still entitled to their private lives. In this case, yes, they will be concerned about personal details leaking.
Working link in the UK: https://youtu.be/xc8epam4NyY
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Pretty to look at but when they get around to building this electric supercar, self-driving cars will be the norm.

What is the nature of a self driving supercar? Is it to get where you are going a bit faster?

Dead end in my opinion - except for an off-road manual-driving supercar.
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Is this just Python 3 vs 2, with PyPy refusing to update to 3?
Couldn't you just take a screenshot of the original pic to get around this? The new image would have a completely different hash. Or just resize it. Or do some color correction. Or a million other ways to alter the picture.
Right, so why all the fuss over whether some of them don't bother? How many banks do you need? As long as there's one that will take your business, why should you care that the one down the block won't? I guess it could be an issue if you're in a rural area with limited banking competition? Even then, most banking is done online now and a couple of trips a year to the "big city" to get some business taken care of (see the consulate, visit a specialist doctor, sign for a loan, whatever) is just part of life if you're in a smaller town, no matter where in the world that is.
You mean unproductive and counterproductive.
What are we doing wrong? We use Prometheus for many things, for example I'd like to know how specific latencies have changed over time. Why should I store these numbers somewhere else?
Showing how poor performance affects user behaviour
If you're interested in cartographic information that can't be readily put into words, maybe a text-based search engine isn't the best way to find it. A map makes more sense. Query a map (like Google Maps or OpenStreetMap) for "pizza [exact location]".

We've been so conditioned to use Google Search as our one stop oracle that we fail to stop and think whether a text-based query is actually appropriate.
> Splunk is a event logging system, compared to Prometheus which is metrics based. You need both types of systems to be able to properly observe your systems, they're complementary.

While this is the traditional way of looking at them, I strongly disagree that metrics and logs are different toolsets, or that you would need both of them in order to properly observe your systems.

I've written and spoken about this approach before: https://medium.com/@chimeracoder/dont-read-your-logs-13586c7... and https://vimeo.com/221049715
It's a real pity that there isn't a .25x setting, or even a .125 setting; the .5x setting feels nice, but still a bit slow-ish. I understand that the intent here is to simulate slow phones (try using the phone with the 10x setting — it's horrid!), but it'd be nice to simulate a fast phone instead!
> There's plenty in the books to warrant a series. Game of Thrones does ~9 hours per book and still had to cut characters and plot points.

The books in ASOIAF are longer thsn those in LotR, there's more books, and ASOIAF books have a higher density of action vs. description. Yes, there were some elements cut from LotR in the Peter Jackson movies, so maybe you've got two short seasons of material.
It's really hard to know how detailed we're talking about based on this quote. But details can be created without being "clear" to the naked eye. But even if they needed to be clear, I suspect there were humans alive back then as well as today who, through genetic variance or lived experience, can see the details clearly whether you or the scientists who made this find are able to.
off-topic ... or is it?

> Even when it's about political stuff - I'm rather happy I don't get anti-vax information when I'm searching for health information.

Health information should not be considered political stuff. Unfortunately, it is ... at least in some countries.
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This is an irresponsible comment.
It didn’t have to be this way and it still isn’t the only path we have. It’s possible to build technologies that are fundamentally more socialist and redistribute wealth back to their users. Social media is disruptible in this fashion and so is gathering data for training AIs.

San Francisco’s poverty and squalor is already a concrete example of where this Wall St 2.0 mentality leads. Let’s work on escaping this path.
apple already pays huge amounts of taxes to germany. It just doesn’t pay large amounts of a specific tax called “income tax” because it isn’t based in Germany.
> Being stateless isn't an option.

That is unless you're a rich company - then you can create shell entities with effectively no domicile that earn income, but aren't taxed in any country.

Corporations are people, my friend. People with extraordinary abilities.
One pleasant surprise that I had with my new receiver that I hadn't realized: Modern HDMI has a control bus that will replicate commands like powering on, changing channels, changing volumes, etc. along the bus and other compliant components will play along.

That means that with my receiver and TV, my Xfinity remote is able to control everything I need it to in my entertainment center.

I was getting kind of bummed about the sad state of Logitech Harmony remotes as my old one was failing on me - but it turns out that it no longer matters.
There is significant trade imbalance between US and Germany as in Germany exports 2X more goods to US so if laws would be passed that make you pay taxes on profits proportional to sales in a given jurisdiction Germany would suffer greatly.
It's a forum. Read the thread and don't have any such concept as a "mention". If you get quoted, you'll see it as you go through the pages. If you're really lazy just namesearch your handle (which may or may not change, may or may not be unique, etc) but basically participate don't just cherrypick.

I hate most modern forum software with a passion.
Tim Cook has made statements in the past that they stick to the letter and the spirit of the law.

The least they could do is report these tax loopholes: post them publicly to make it easier for the government to close them. Instead, they are kept a secret. Why do you think that is?
it’s immoral for corporations to pay extra taxes. Those profits aren’t theirs, they belong to shareholders.
Even though their product borders on pure evil, I have a certain admiration for how they aren't even trying to hide it.
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That design doesn't look like it has any springs anyway, so the whole thing is a giant unsprung mass, :p
personally i block web fonts regardless, particularly on mobile.
> Or maybe they're somewhat aware that in essence "nobody cares"?

If nobody cared, the reaction would be a collective yawn. But since it creates a shitstorm, some people obviously care and are offended, that you are daring to have another opinion.
What's wrong with using your computer and an HDMI cable? I really don't understand this whole smart TV thing
Updated my develper edition FF today, and the first 58 beta came along! I'm impressed it consumes about 300MB of memory only. It's not that much more than when my Emacs has been running for some weeks.
I felt the same when I ran my business. A lot of rules are designed so that only the big guys can afford to take advantage of them. We also had a situation where the county lured a big company with monstrous tax cuts while the small guys got nothing despite being "job creators" too.
Prometheus is not intended as durable long term storage, it's fundamentally limited to the size of a machine. You should also design your monitoring be able to tolerate completely losing the data of a Prometheus.

We recommend using another system for long term data, see https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-en... for some examples.
cmd+w works. I did gather that Google / Chrome wanted to auto mute autoplaying videos.
But you probably didn't since at this point it's difficult to find a high end TV that doesn't have some crappy OS built into it.
If have thought 'clarse action' would've been the more obvious substitution. ;)
> That analogy is hard for me to follow. Again, for the most part, no laws are being broken.

The analogy was more to demonstrate that harsher regulation ain't always the only solution. And with something as abstract as "taxation" I think it's usually a rather bad approach because new regulations will only result in new loopholes being created, it's an endless cat&mouse game wasting a lot of resources for everybody involved.

That's why I mentioned that "moral debt". Across the whole world there exists lots of behavior that's technically not "illegal", but still frowned upon by large parts of societies, tax evasion rates among them.

Imho if you want people to follow the "rules of society", and not use every chance they get to circumvent financial legislation (which is what a lot of tax evasion effectively boils down to), then you first need to convince them that paying taxes isn't just a burden to them but also of use to them.

> I can deduct the property taxes and mortgage interest for my house from my Federal income tax.

If that's an easy and obvious process, open and evident to everybody who'd it be relevant to, then that's a-okay.
Sadly that often ain't the case which is in large parts the result of the above-mentioned cat&mouse game.

I realize that my whole point might come across naive in a kinda "if people were just good we wouldn't need laws" way, but that's not at all my intention. I just think there's a real cultural rift here in terms of how seriously some people take their responsibilities towards the society they are living in, historically that's never been something you could fix through "legislation".
I don't pay taxes half way across the world because I don't do business there. Apple does. They have employees in Germany and sell their products (including in their own stores). Of course the vast majority of value is not created there but in the US. However, it's not like they pay their full share of taxes there because on paper the value is largely created in a place that conveniently doesn't tax that.
> since Chrome doesn't have the ability to scroll through tabs

How can you scroll through tabs? What do you mean by this?
They shamed Google/Nest into full refunds for bricked Revolv iot hubs. This situation seems similar.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/15/ftc_lets_nest_off_h...
"takeaway pizza near me" Google knows where I am right now after all, I used waze on the drive here, and have an android phone. but even using the employers PC in front of me it knows where it is.

Note: I have hast a few instances where "near me" didn't work as expected.
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Genuinely curious. I wonder how a partnership between competitors like this usually starts off? Someone near the top (i.e. mamagement) of each company say "Hey, we are behind on this. Can we borrow it?". Or their staff talk and suggest it up? Or else? Does this happen all the time but few would only make it through? Or these discussions rarely happen?
Yes, this is probably the sad truth. You hear officials lament the immoral actions of corporations one day, then sign loopholes designed by BigCo and friends into law the next.

Which is exactly why I think the tax office should provide a free service to anyone looking to optimize their tax footprint. If it's legal, why not?
Only one out of ten published so far: http://goo.gl/RNPP9d

There's much better to come, this is a kind of weird side product, so you probably won't like it. Also, people tell me that I'm bad at self-marketing. :p
You have to write your Kotlin anticipating it'll be called from Java though (e.g. by using SAM interfaces instead of function types for your arguments)
I dunno buddy, I still seem to search "workshop 3d printer" in and get top results from countries I dont live in. Not to mention, I often search for full phrases that have two keywords way separated from another, but because google is used to seeing them together, it will still display pretty irrelevant results.

Last week I had a copyright discussion, so I looked up "Do I own the copyrights to my art?. First link was "creator or buyer: who owns the art?", second link was "does deviantart own my art?", the third link was a website called "desiring god" about copyright and the scripture...Sure, you can say the first link is relevant, but I never mentioned "buying" in my query, and the fifth link is the one that truly answers my question. It says that artists in the US have automatic copyrights to their work as soon as it is completed. Same things have happened where I search up a more complex query, and google throws me buzzfeed links and other stuff that have nothing to do with it, in its attempt of simplifying what I'm looking for.
What difference does it make? The stock holders have no power.
I agree that I'm being a little silly, it's what my last line hinted at! I do think outrage is better directed at our legislators than at corporations though, but I don't hold out hope for substantive change either way.
Also known as HDMI CEC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control
That's where the magic autoheal comes in.

But yeah, that would be a pretty big safety risk. It's a concept, these panels don't even exist yet. Actually it's not even sure if they'd even be possible. Safety only becomes a factor once they can start making them, I think.
I don't get it. How is stating "we don't like opensource, opensource is a problem" considered morally questionable or bad? There are lot of companies out there, outside SV, which don't really care for open source for various reasons. Whether they are correct or not, is a separate matter.
Thanks for the pointer. It builds and runs well. Font rendering is fine on my MacBook's retina screen, but it looks terrible on my external monitor for some reason.
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“They are doing it too” is legally a valid excuse. The way legal disputes get settled usually is based on the outcome of precedent legal cases and how they relate to the current case.
Your moral outrage (and the outrage caused by paradise papers type reports) is just a failure to see the world for what it is. An ant can complain all day about the size of the mammoth, complain that it’s unfair that it’s got a fur coat or that it’s one step is equivalent to hundreds of ant steps, but this won’t change reality.
This is how success works: if you do it for so long and in such a way comparable to Apple, you are able to have more leg room than other ants.
My only criticism of Apple is that do portray themselves as very humble engineers that love designing beautiful products. Engineers who have any experience designing software and hardware products have a deep admiration for Apple as an organization, specifically because we know exactly how much work goes into a working product, moreso because Apple’s products, even though they are not perfect, show a high level of resiliency both in the market and in our day to day lives.

Admitting thus that at least some of the people and companies that hide their money in tax havens made their money in a legitimite way (we’ll get into this later), don’t you think they are entitled to try to save as much of it as they can?
The author of the piece makes reference to the mostly public educational system which implies Apple has some social reaponsibility to give back to it’s country. How about the high salaries that Apple pays to its engineers? Isn’t this enough to show that they value craftmanship?