skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems more like Highly Selective Skepticism at best to me. Straight naïve skepticism in the "question everything" sense tends to converge around scientific consensus unless you start from several wildly different and confident priors; however, the Flat Earth rhetoric seems to be quite satisfied with handwavy phyiscs when it comes to the sanctified Flat Earth Dogma.

Personally, I like reading FE stuff if only because it gets me thinking about "how do I know what I actually know". I like trying to think up simple experiments that test my underlying trust in standard scientific explanations. Like, if I deeply mistrust data that's not my own, how could I convince myself that space has no atmosphere to speak of?
Not really, these charges were be born by the consumer. This is about the ability to offer consumer tiers. Sure there might be companies that pay the consumer fee to be included, like QVC did to be on everyone's cable.
Really really bad
Rust does not have HKT, and so we cannot write a generic Monad. Rust has many instances of Monad, though.

That said, at some point, we'll be getting ATC, which is equivalent to HKT in many cases, but feels more Rusty.
> As a matter of fact, I could, because I am an entitled white western dude. But the rest of the world can't. I wonder how the Atom vs Emacs debate plays out in China or India or Africa.

So there will be companies writing less demanding software for less developed countries that will reap all the market, audience and benefits, right?

This is similar to the diversity argument: "hiring a diverse team is beneficial! only staying diverse you can have innovation" is similar to "billions of people are stuck with slow hardware and ancient OSes - these are the markets of the future".

Guys, why don't you all form a diverse team, go capture the market of the future and become billionaries in the process while we keep on writing Electron apps? Sucks to be us, right?
Sadly, no. I've tried to find out but couldn't find any clues.

As far as I can tell, they're using their own custom built casing. It definitely looks much better built than the Clevo machines, but I've not yet have been to get my hands on one and take a closer look.
Here's a thought I had for quite a while now: Find the most notorious flat earther who also happens to have a very strong reputation in the flat earther community. Launch a Kickstarter to collect enough money to send him to space (like all those billionaires do).

I'd hate to make a moron such an awesome present, but it could convert a lot of other morons.
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If any of you visit eastern europe or countries where pirating a copy of windows is common practice, you can get linux laptops everywhere, sometimes the same machine is discounted because it's a display unit with freeDOS (who'd buy a machine you can't test)
At pictures I see PgUp/PgDown keys next to up arrow. Dell has it the same way I think. It's a bit different to an End key, but even then, the biggest issue was that it's only the End there. No Home on the other side.
I hadn't seen that before but that is a great post and makes an excellent point.
Getting data between SaaS apps is not only easier, but formats like JSONAPI are far more powerful than pushing csv binaries that may or may not adhere to a spec.
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How does such a belief stand up to something as simple as talking to someone on the other side of the world, where it is night during the day for you? Even if one believed that people lived on two sides of a flat earth, surely flying between two such places would be sufficient to convince anyone that the earth is not flat?
Not jblow but it's rather obvious that anecdotal evidence isn't a sound basis for the sort of general advice given.

That some people fail to make a big splash isn't evidence that a big splash is a tactic that will fail. Particularly if you take a broader view as this has been a successful part of the business model of games for a long time. Whether or not it's right for a specific game and the longer term business of the developer is a much more nuanced question.
Thank you a ton for this one! I find Golang amazing and have done all the tutorials and can kinda use it but I've never build anything real in it, mostly because of lack of ideas. Thanks!
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As a lot of stuff nowadays, this is just another 'fast food' for startuppers, a random svg generator would have the same value.
Half of all floating-point values are between -1 and 1. Half of the remaining values have magnitude between 1 and 2. And so on... If we represent positions in kilometers, and we're talking about a solar system with radius on the order of a billion kilometers in diameter, and it becomes clear that we're wasting almost all of those floating point bits!
We are the customers though, that's why it's so tragic a fall. I spent something like $200 for Windows. Microsoft doesn't get to use that excuse here. It's not some free service like Gmail; Windows is paid. See also the OneDrive advertisement fiasco.

I think Windows started going downhill for two reasons: When Microsoft coopted the desktop version to add mobile-oriented features (Windows 8), and then when they coopted it to start cross-selling their cloud and Web services.
Unfortunately the author does not say some pretty basic things - which PostgreSQL version, how much data, how much of it fits into RAM, what storage (and hardware in general) ...

If I understand it correctly, PostgreSQL was using the default configuration. Which is rather inefficient, and is more about "must start everywhere".

Decreasing random_page_cost makes sense if you have storage that can handle random I/O well (although I wouldn't go to 1 even if it's an SSD). But who knows if the data was read from storage at all? Maybe it'd fit into RAM (and just increasing effective_cache_size would be enough for the planner to realize that).
GPUs seem to be the only remaining issue with OEM Linux laptops. I was almost ready to buy a Purism Librem last year after the sad MBP announcements, but I got cold feet because of that. I wish someone had the money to pay one of these companies to polish linux drivers and ship some decent GPUs.
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> designed and customised to run Linux - and only Linux.

So no BSD then?
1800 feet, that is, like, 600m? There are even cliffs that are double that height.

Why not just hike up a mountain? In New Zealand or Hawaii it should be possible to go from sea-level to above 3000m in one push.

Or take a balloon?
Mostly I want my operating system to stay out of the way, if I have a particular requirement I'll go and find some software to satisfy that. Sadly it looks unlikely I'll get that from now on.
14" is perfect size for me. Not 13", not 15" but 14". I hope it will become easier to find in the future.
Manute Bol may have been in his 50s when he played in the NBA
Hmm "fast" logo maker - sure, it's fairly quick to use, but is speed of creation really what people optimize for when creating a logo for their <whatever>?

I feel like you'd be better off emphasizing ease of use for non-designers or something.
I really think that even in "third world" countries people know that vaccines save lives, because they are (our have been) struck by diseases.

They're the ones suffering the effects of climate change.

Living in Brazil, a "third world" country, I have a feeling that people can't be bothered to feed this bullshit theory about flat-earth, because it just doesn't make any sense.
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You are right, the pricing models are hard to compare 1:1. However, most Flixbus' customers can't afford (or don't want to afford) a Bahncard 50 and are very price sensitive. I've been travelling with Flixbus throughout Europe and the crowd is typically either very young or comes from the low-income strata of society. Anecdote ain't data, but that's what I also hear from the folks working there.
Also, it has cost DB €10 billion to build the new connection, so they'll have to recoup that investment. Imho and as mschuster91 indicated, they will mainly steal customers from airlines.
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I don't see Vimeo on the free video bandwidth list.

This is the exact same problem.
Stick-poking, kicking and wrenching are popular and underestimated hardware engineer debugging tricks.

https://youtu.be/dEkOT3IngMQ?t=28s
Isn't a battery just a name for the collection of battery cells? Tesla's (the car) battery is composed from a lot of units that can store electricity.

Some RC batteries are just different cells/smaller batteries that are combined together in a nice package.

I think even the batteries in cell phones are composed from different components (some of which doesn't even store energy).
to the point that whenever I run post win nt machine without theming or compositing I get happy. Seeing that old UX brings all kinds of good memories.
100 days or it's free was the deal.
The urgency was the arrival of summer and an ongoing spat between state and federal politicians.
edit: I too can mix up GW and MW.
There is certainly scepticism, but there is also a huge amount of distrust. A large amount of flat Earth theory revolves (hah) around conspiracy theories. The two are probably intertwined though. Flat Earth theory doesn't work unless you assume that everyone (except you) is in on it - the government is in on it, airlines and shipping companies are in on it, the people who make the jets are in on it, NASA (et al) has been conning us for decades, the 'scientists' have been publishing false information for centures, and on and on.
I'm not sure they'd allow him in space if he's likely to deny it and not believe the dangers of the vacuum just outside the window.
> Turns out that installing a distro is the least of my concerns when it comes to a laptop.

Man, how times have changed. Linux working half-decently on a laptop used to be the holy grail of opensource fans. Nowadays, thanks to Ubuntu and friends, chances are that most of it will just work, regardless of hardware. This is a massive achievement and it's not really as promoted as it should be.
Oneplus also has this kind of shitty ads. All Oneplus owners got a notification when the 5 was released.
If Rivendell one day decided to become a democracy, and I as an Orc wanted to bring the Orcish way of life to Rivendell, the prospect of Elves being allowed to vote would factually be a hindrance to that kind of model assuming that Elves want to preserve their existing Elvish way of life.

(The implicit assumption here is that these particular voting groups are statistically more in favor of a welfare based system than a merit based one.)

Therefore, if one were to believe that the Orcish way of life equals "making things better", and one is living in a democratic system where the Elves are allowed to vote, then I would "have little hope that voting will make things better", since voting would lead us away from an Orcish way of life, which I assume to be superior.

He loves voting

He thinks taking away voting rights is absurd

He has little hope that voting is going to make things better, given the outcome of those votes.

The opinion here is "capitalism good, libertarianism good, democracy good, XYZ groups tend to vote against my political philosophy". The rest is facts.

Given that the democracy votes the way it does, and is heavily affected by the votes of XYZ groups given their sizes, factually, voting will not make things opinionatedly better, as an outcome.
They made a mistake starting with Windows 8, I'm guessing they were worried about the iPad eating into PC sales. Well it turned out that that didn't really happen but we are stuck with the tabletisation of Windows anyway.

I've been trying a Surface but it's going back because it isn't good at being a tablet nor laptop.
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But if having 6 or 12 months worth of savings is a requirement, then you can rule out just about everyone except rich kids and upper middle class teenagers.

Here you have hit the nail on the head - of why most successful founders come from at least a bit of money. Not all, of course. But is sure helps.

The point isn’t really how many months of savings you have, it’s what sort of safety net yo have in practice. Does anyone have your back if you can’t make rent payments?
Pretty nice hardware for the price. 8MB flash and 64MB ram, small form factor, dual NIC and WIFI. That will go far with lede.
Derive from other people's testimony:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/11/me_on_the_equ...
Yeah same, I love the guy and that's not to disrespect all his involvement but I feel like using "Tesla" in the title would be more respectful for everyone's work...

Edit: Title has been amended on their website, thanks Mashable!
Sorry, I misread "Page Up/Down" in your comment for some reason. End key is a bit more mysterious and that the is no Home is also weird.
Eratosthenes proved the earth was round, trivially and in a straightforward manner, thousands of years ago[0].

Persistence in the belief in a flat earth can't be a matter of simple ignorance and lack of faith in the status quo. Understanding the rules of basic arithmetic is more difficult than understanding why the earth is round.

[0]http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/09/21/who-disco...
Fill out a form, click a button and the actual hard work is done for you - via robodialing and spam. Democracy in the modern age.

Do you really think this is effective? That this lets your voice be heard?
Being wrong is in itself not a big problem. Believing what you're told about something that's not going to affect you anyway, is no big deal.

The problem with flat earthers is that they put a lot of effort in being wrong, and try to convince others to be wrong, and that the people who are right are all liars conspiring against them. It would be nice if they put that time and energy into something more productive.
Rather than "build our own" we should take back what used to belongs to us in the first place.

They say there's a shortage of qualified I.T. people. If you work for telecoms who support a non-neutral internet, then quit. Go on strike. Work only for companies who support Net Neutrality.

Kill the enemy using free market capitalism.
I'm really curious why people are downvoting this.

I know there's a sentiment on hacker news that you should take advantage of a company when you can, because they won't hesitate to take advantage of you. Is it that?

It seems like at that level of compensation you are almost certainly in a small enough circle that any grudges you incur could severely affect you down the line.
I think it's actually fair to call it "battery" instead of "batteries" from the outside the system behaves like one.
Yeah this occurred to me after posting that pedantry. You're right. Even consumer batteries can have multiple cells.
> a new build of some sort and had not yet been connected to the main supply

Yeah, that's a valid reading of the part that I quoted, and I would have interpreted it as such. Except that he then goes on to say that "the plug was pulled", implying (to me) that the bill for running consumption hadn't been paid.
It wouldn't be so bad if you could just turn it off but that seems impossible with the latest release.
> but it could convert a lot of other morons

I think you may be underestimating the sheer tenacity of these beliefs. I mean, what makes you think that super flat earther wasn't an Illuminati stooge all along?

BTW if you do decide to do this, I happen to be a very strong believer that the earth is flat, there's no such thing as space etc etc. In case you struggle for a candidate...
In the options I selected Ubuntu logo.
Not like other ngos, as I already pointed out. Also see the universal scheme - people don’t choose recipients.

People didn’t ask for or need your direction on who to give money to, nor is watsi mutually exclusive with local charity or healthcare. Perhaps find a better target for your self-righteous preening about virtuous giving.
You can get it via ninite.com

In the "Others" section
Next reseller of the same OEM laptop ordered somewhere in China.

Check the right side of this laptop:
https://stationx.rocks/products/spitfire

and compare with Galago pro:
https://system76.com/laptops/galago

sides:
https://screenshots.firefox.com/0I2YsDmIvbKuYbr3/stationx.ro...
and
https://d1vhcvzji58n1j.cloudfront.net/assets/products/galp3/...

and I've seen this model at least on two other resellers.
He's a middle eastern soldier masquerading as an American citizen.

Look at his comically large coffee mug with the giant branding of a candy company on it. He's making fun of American culture. He shares the exact same perspective as Islamic extremists and those people you'd see in Iran burning our flag and saying "Death to America".

It's a multi-pronged attack on the "Western Society" way of life. They attack us with rockets and bombs and guns on the battlefield, and they attack us with Ajit Pais in the office places.

The world is a strange place in 2017.
They can change that, they even engrave your distro's logo.
You can customize the sticker on the super key during checkout, choosing from many distro logos or other Linux related logos. Windows is also an option.
I don't think anyone who thinks critically about politics finds a party they align with 100%. This is literally the definitions of the lessor of two evils: voting at an election is about finding the party you agree with _the most_, or who's downsides you can live with the most.
Unfortunately, Windows 10 LTSB is only available as part of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Enterprise is only available with a volume licensing agreement.
Also it seems he quit a job in gamedev to pursue this. He was already a professional in the industry, getting paid, and he was warned but jumped anyway.

It's like he went out of his way to do everything exactly wrong, knowing the chances of failure were against him even if he did everything right.
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> If you work for telecoms who support a non-neutral internet, then quit. Go on strike.

For shame Peter! That's class warfare.
That's a great point and the answer is that it has storage capacity measured in Watt Hours and it has a peak power supply capacity measured in Watts. Other comments have the details :-)
I don't think its that weird?

Photoshop most started application so it offers it at 'pho'

yet you keep typing another char, so apparently its not photoshop you search for, maybe its the number 2 app that is required, lets offer photo booth.

Ah wait the user keeps typing, well i only got two proper options, let suggest option number 1 again.
There is so much cultural stuff that appeared because of war. Do you avoid those things as well?
Every time I doubt the myth of the 10x programmer I go look at Fabrice Bellard's site.

Just look at his 2001 winning International Obfuscated C Code Contest self-hosting C compiler: http://www0.us.ioccc.org/2001/bellard.hint

He won the year before too, with a program which found the largest known prime number.

In 2009 he wrote a program which he used to calculated Pi to the most digits ever (at that point), on a desktop PC. He broke the previous record which was set on a 640 nodes supercomputer.

(Oh yes, original author of QEMU and FFMPEG too)
The maintainer is in and out, life happens.
paypal has an incredible track record of utterly shafting people.

most users don't know about it, but the depth of the stinky pile of their history is breathtaking in its depth.
Same in the Netherlands, more and more shops are electronic payment only. Cash is a cost and a risk to them.
Absolutely the truth. Starting my business was the most stressful and intense thing I have done in my life outside of combat, and I don't even have kids to support. Staring down the barrel of rent and bills with no one to back you up financially... It is incredibly intense. It seems common to have some kind of benefactor ready to throw a parachute if there's trouble. Which makes me think that's part of the reason I find I just can't connect with a lot of business owners out there. Hard to describe, but those people are from a different kind of substrate. In a similar way, I can sort of tell who is a combat veteran at parties.
Hi http://www.codemesh.io/codemesh2016/steve-klabnik ;)

https://github.com/steveklabnik/ruby/tree/rust
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I read "semi electric truck", and wondered what "semi electric" means. Hybrid?

But reading the article, it becomes more clear that it's about the Tesla Semi, which is an electric truck. Confusing headline.
I hated to wear wrong clothes so I built an app. This is the result XD
You can connect batteries to build what is effectively a bigger battery.
Connecting pizzas, not very scalable.
And twice your salary in a retirement fund by the age of 30, and three times your salary in retirement by 35.

Basically quit your day job only if your side hustle is already making more money per month (not per hour) because odds are even making more per month is still going to result in not being able to survive much past 57.

Side note, how many 57 year old indie game devs are there?
Since Sprint in 1995 got away with asking others who peered with it over public exchanges for money in order not to turn down their existing peering, NN was dead.

NN does not live in reality. In reality there are so many line cards that one can put into a router/switch/linux box, there's so much space in a cabinet and there are only so many people who know how to operate in a physical world. Everyone with a little money and clue can generate a hundred gigabit per second traffic towards eyeballs behind Comcast but only those with serious money and serious clue would be able to do it with reasonable performance - Comcast/Verizon/ATT/NewFiberToEveryoneOnTheEastCoast ISP will need to prioritize physical world deployment and it would go to the one with serious money and serious clue.
And since NN cannot address this, it is toast and it has always been toast.

The solution is regional ISPs and regional networks - breaking up franchise agreements with Comcast and Verizon that your little town has, getting ROW via cities/towns, leveraging small electric companies ROWS, etc.
Unless I'm misunderstanding it, the Substratum project you've linked is attempting to implement a decentralized WEB, not a decentralized INTERNET. From what I gather, Substratum would still be running on the same internet backbone, and be subject to the same consequences if Net Neutrality is repelled.
Even things like referring to the player as “him” – it seems small but it adds up and people notice it.
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Black friday is a thing in Italy??
I can highly recommend Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/) for Mac. Best system-wide search that I've used and you can even create workflows!
We don't need super accurate clocks in the GPS receivers; instead, the GPS satellites carry atomic clocks with them, and include timestamps in their broadcasts. So you get two signals at the same time, compare the time the satellite said it sent each signal, and you've got the difference in travel time.
They can only wipe out your funds if they copy they wipe is the only copy. But this is extremely poor practice, and backups are very common practice to protect against precisely this sort of thing.
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> Existing regulations are a restriction on the freedom of service providers.

Then go ahead and call it "corporate freedom". The network isn't getting any more free without neutrality.