skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All in all, I'm pleased with the phone. There are some things that are pretty rough, though, and that compensating for the removal of the home button has caused a glaring problem. Shutdown being the biggest one so far for me. The Konami code that you have to enter in order to initiate getting the slider to appear is nothing short of amazing. I'm hoping at some point a button to activate the slider ends up in Control Center.
The problem is not that the growth is not there. But the sharing the growth corresponding to people's contribution.

Do the super rich really should enjoy the wealth? Are those really justified? Do their employees has done proportionally smaller amount of contribution to only entitle to that much less wealth in salary?
This seems like a false dichotomy.

A better question is "what value does Bitcoin provide for the energy it uses compared to similar alternatives (Ethereum, Ripple...)?"
If bitcoin scaled to thousands of tps, then energy would be no brainer, and justified. Or if bitcoin lived up to its promises yet.

The argument I think we would probably agree on is some sort of revolution is happening, and there are consequences that will be forgotten once it ends. That i think people would agree on (setting aside if bitcoin is a revolution or a bubble).

What you are saying is "traffic accidents kill people", and then saying "so what - people die naturally every day!", and that's not OK.
> Electron app

Nope.
I expect that soon enough they will start routinely fetching DNA from foreigners as well. Nations in which the population would object to such things can offload some of their DNA cataloguing requirements to China and others, so people in the US and UK and so on can include the Chinese database in the search when they're matching DNA. Sure, you'll only get people who have been to China (etc.) but it's better than nothing.
What does that have to do with liking the product? If an Android phone ships with a FaceID like feature, it's OK to just like it and not be sad that it wasn't the first phone with it.
European airlines prefer european airplanes; its a question of EU pride
Jazz leadsheet dataset in MusicXml (12keys)
In conlang (constructed language) communities, Esperanto is a type of conlang known as an auxlang (auxillary language) that tries to be easily learnable and speakable by many people. Esperanto remains very popular and has tons of high quality learning material (I myself learned it from a book in my local community college public library over a few hours in between summer classes) and translated works.

That said, there's plenty of criticism for Esperanto. In Esperanto nouns are male gendered by default, and a suffix is used to make them female. (e.g la patro means "the father", and la patrino means "the mother"). Esperanto is also much harder to learn for people without western language backgrounds.

For folks interested in the world of auxlangs, there are other prominent ones. Toki Pona is ridiculously easy to learn (the vocabulary is some odd 150-or-so words) and has a very neutral phonology (easy to pronounce regardless of language background). You can pick it up in a month or so of idle study. There are texts out there and communities on Telegram which make it fun and easy to join in. It's hard to be specific in Toki Pona, but it turns out most banter is just light conversation anyway. I've used it in a bar setting with friends and it's a fun way to have a "secret" language.

Lojban is a conlang based loosely around predicate logic, which makes it weirder than most other languages, but also easy to express complex ideas in. Lojban has unambiguous syntax, and many parsers have been written for Lojban. The "standard" camxes parser is useful when learning the language. It doesn't have as big of a following as Esperanto, but is unique and fun. Lojban has rougher learning materials than Esperanto and fewer translated works, but they are there (including "lo selfri be la .alis.
bei bu'u la selmacygu'e", Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) I'm partial to Lojban myself as far as auxlangs is concerned, though I find it to sound very... harsh.
The political/economic climate around the time bitcoin caught on was also the Ron Paul/Austrian economics fad. They were calling the end of the USD and fiat currencies because central banks were risking hyperinflation. Lots of people were calling for a return to gold. BTC seemed even better. I think it's safe to say they were completely wrong about everything and orthodoxy won the day.
Really glad someone put this together. The official documentation is pretty good but somewhat lacking in terms of practical examples around templates.
There are many possible reasons but I'll just list three.
(1) Pump and Dump schemes. The industry is unregulated so any money making tactic, even unethical is not illegal.

(2) Roger Ver (Bitcoin Jesus) just said "Insider Trading Is a Non-Crime". He was speaking of the recent insider trading allegations against Coinbase insiders who may have traded bitcoin cash early and leaked info. This news reduces confidence of ordinary investors.

(3) It's a young market and this is normal shakeout. Bitcoin "crashed" at least 6X in 2017. Each time was predicted as "the bubble burst". And each time it has roared back even stronger.

So it your strategy is HODL, this is part of the business cycle.
Providing capital to those with talent IS providing value. Thats why entrepreneurs exchange a portion of their company for the capital - capital has value and helps the entrepreneur. Money doesn't appreciate in value by doing nothing. Once you have wealth you can use it to make more wealth by taking risk based on the demands of the market.
Would it be feasible to fund these trials through a Kickstarter campaign?
The trick with inspectors is to feed them- they have to report something, so their bosses know they did there job- so you have to leave a easy to find - not to expensive flaw. After that one is found and fixed, you get the cross in the checkbox and the caravan moves on.

Also - all in all it sounds a lot like farming in europe.
And what do you propose?

It doesn't take much to poke holes in the way things are - it's a lot harder to do something about it, other than 'raising awareness' aka complaining.
I agree Control Center would be a good place to put it, but how often do you turn off your phone?
I am a former U.S. Marine and I have found that the things you learn and the training you experience only give a glimpse of how strong the bonds you gain are in service. I will always identify with my service as there is a implicit understanding in the phrase semper fidelis, which is the Marine Corps motto. But I think that many other service members hold the same value in their service.
We are running out of effective antibiotics. It's not the supply of amoxicillin that's the problem, but the rapid increase in bacterial strains that are resistant.
No worries! Unfortunately, the decision was made long before my arrival, so I'm not entirely sure - but I asked about that too during my interview. My CEO reviewed a few SAAS including Salesforce but none of them made sense for how he worked.

Now, I've reviewed SAAS for other purposes with him, and my guess is that pitches went poorly. My boss is particular about his business, and I've witnessed more than one demo fall apart when customization came up.

The CRM could someday be a core part of the business. It probably offers us the same competitive advantage that a secret recipe benefits a restaurant. I've also integrated into it some nifty functionality I haven't seen yet on the market. But ultimately, the business is driven by staffing.
It makes me want to ramp up my efforts to get my friends and family members to install ad blockers, and also makes me even happier about the piholes I gave to several people as gifts the other day.
"She had her moment in the limelight." - "Limelight" hasn't been used for stage lighting (or anything like it) in over a century.

"The application is tied up in red tape." - "Red tape" as a binding for important documents is now little used outside of handful of places.

"The company bigwigs fired half the staff." - Once upon a time, people in authority wore wigs as a symbol of authority. Now it's limited to a few legal and parliamentary systems; CEOs and the like don't wear them.
Taxes on capital gains are harmful and don't make sense. It would be more efficient to tax consumption and have no capital, estate, income, or corporate taxes. Scott Sumner has written many excellent articles about taxes on capital gains:

- http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/07/do_you_really_w....

- http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/04/theres_only_one....

- http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/09/our_bizarre_sys....

- http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=26636

Unfortunately sensible economic policies aren't politically feasible. This is partly because of the economic illiteracy of most voters and the lack of incentive for politicians to adopt economically sensible policies, but also because economists themselves often misunderstand economic theory.
You can just disable ME in the BIOS to mitigate this right?
Some people will construct elaborate reasoning for why they don't need to treat others with basic respect and dignity instead of just getting over themselves. When you find yourself saying, to yourself or others, "why should I have to...", consider that maybe you should just take the feedback and do what is being asked.

On the other hand, part of the experience of the corporate workplace (in America at least) is being coerced into pretending that indignities inflicted by your superiors are actually good. So, you know. As usual we end up focusing on what workers need to do differently, but rarely on what bosses need to do or stop doing.
Yep, last time I worked at a company w around 13 devs, everything had to be done "the microservice way", because all the cool guys are doing it and it is the way to go.

Microservices is the new snake oil :D Now downvote me into oblivion :)
The problem for me isn't that I can't find a note taking app that works. My problem is I don't know how to take notes. I always read on people favoring apps and using xyz for the past decade. All I wonder is what do these people put in their notes, do they read back often, and how can I learn to get my state of mind in a note taking app like they do?
I understand that. However, I'm not sure if using Atlas is the best choice. For example, will they charge me more money after establishing my company and am I going to be 'trapped' in using SV bank and other services provided by Stripe.
I like how "vehicle registrations, insurance documents and time sheets" is painted as an onerous and undue burden of proof for the farm.

How dare they require legally registered vehicles and insurance at a business. And they'll fine you if you have rats in the food prep areas!

A lot of these super specific rules also seem to be a product of the regulatory culture in the US where you don't regulate things until someone has fucked up really bad. Then you get these super specific rules that cover that one case, but nothing else because people will scream about "unfair over-regulation".
In the next ten years, I think there's going to be plausible deniability that any person's presence in a video, and especially in audio, is actually representative of them. There's already imperfect transpositions of celebrity faces onto the bodies of other people.

I imagine it's going to have a big impact when it first gets rolled out to mimic someone on the political stage, and then people will use it to discount any audio or video they don't like.
From the draft paper: "It should be noted that the Snabb project [16] has similar
design goals, ixy tries to be one order of magnitude simpler
than Snabb. For example, Snabb targets 10,000 lines of
code [15], we target 1,000 lines of code and Snabb builds on
Lua with LuaJIT instead of C limiting accessibility."

Snabb aims at practicality while Ixy aims at education, as I understand it, though I haven't read either one yet.
Until he says Apple screwed up so bad that he recommends another company's product, he can only be called a shill.
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Soft skills are often used as beating sticks on techies by the rest of populace; it's the usual "socially-clueless nerd" song we hear all the time, like we couldn't take care of ourselves. Don't tell me you didn't notice people that lack skills needed for their jobs diverting their attention to their strong aspects, like being "political", and trying to hack other people to believe that their skills are what actually matters instead of hard skills coming from years of practice and suffering. It's like the oldest play in the book, divert attention from your own shortcoming and negate what is important. Due to "nerds being clueless", it actually often works, which is sad.
I love my iPhone SE but I can’t say it inhibits my web browsing although my eyes didn’t like it compared to the 6 I had before. Smoking was hard too and that didn’t stop me doing ten years of it.
Relevant: You Are Not Google [1]

[1] https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
Buffett's whole approach to valuing companies to invest in doesn't really work for tech cos, especially software.
IBM designed and maintained those machines that facilitated holocaust. Meaning, a lot of techies were on a place installing, training users and seeing wagons and facilities. Not just management. NSA spying runs on techies and backdoors don't make themselves. Blackhat is a thing too. Tech does not have as much power as finances through.

But most importantly, on the single average engineer level, which is more relevant, there are plenty of companies with backstabbing culture or individual bad actors in companies with otherwise good culture. For example, I have seen engineers badmouth other peoples work not because it would be bad, but to make themselves look good in comparison. Etc.
I've seen a glut of developer note taking apps lately and every time I see them I wonder, why not just use something like org mode? That's one of the biggest things emacs has to offer and once you start to use it, all of these markdowny developer note taking apps become irrelevant.
An additional tip. Template actions don't necessarily have to be delimited by '{{' and '}}'.

Before parsing, you can call Delims to use custom delimiters.

func (t *Template) Delims(left, right string) *Template

https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/#Template.Delims
Democracy Is Dependent on War
Liars.

Citibank uses more electricity
Of course. Secured by POW
Why fight one-by-one. The highest impact use of money would be lobbying to disolve the FDA or, failing that, eliminating the requirement to show efficacy (leaving only the requirement to show safety, which is relatively cheap).

Of course, I anticipate a number of replies telling me how wrong I am and that regulations are needed for safety; none of them will mention the trade offs involved.
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So true! org-capture is an absolute godsend.
I use Polly for ebook to audiobook conversion and they work pretty well for most stuff - not completely natural by any means but more than sufficient for casual listening.

https://auditus.cc
Definitely Gruber. I've seen Thurrot recommend products from more than one company. Gruber, never. If Apple has a product in the space, only the Apple product is worth buying, no matter how objectively bad it is.
My approach for anything remotely sensitive, or that could be used to gain access to other accounts, is to generate a LastPass password and to memorize a handful of short "salts" that I add to each sensitive password manually + using 2FA wherever it's available.

Obviously there's no 100% secure approach, but at least this makes me sleep better knowing that if LastPass were comprimized, my stored gmail, bank, paypal, work, etc. passwords wouldn't work.
By "Konami code", do you mean lock button + volume up button?

I mean I understand it is hard-er, but I wouldn't call it hard.
Another seasonal article variant from the FT (paywall)

Embrace failure and shoot for the moon — tech cliché bingo

https://www.ft.com/content/c6509e8e-e6f5-11e7-8b99-0191e4537...
Buffett describes Apple as a consumer products company, not a "tech" or pure software company. Clearly, Apple is the outlier in the tech ecosystem.
1. You have no idea if it's vulnerable or not. For starters, you don't have the source code and nobody you trust has seen it. You would have to take Intel's word that "disabling" it actually works, and hope that there is no other vulnerability Intel doesn't know about.

2. It doesn't have to be "vulnerable" to be used in an attack; it's essentially designed to be an attack. So any government agency or leaked Intel info may be sufficient to abuse.

3. You can't reliably check/audit if it is being exploited or not since it runs at a higher privilege than any diagnostics you might try to run on your own computer.

Disclaimer: I am not an expert in computer security.
Disparity of wealth isn't how most people define being rich/poor. Most people compare themselves to their 5-year-ago self (or their parents, or their childhood, or their expectations), and as long as they're doing better than expected, they're rich.

It's just that people who compare themselves to others tend to be disproportionately loud. If you compare yourself to yourself and come up short, you have nobody to blame but yourself, so of course you're not going to crow about it. If you compare yourself to the people you hear about on the news and come up short, obviously they must have cheated.
Wasn’t sure what made the BeagleBone Blue variant variant good for robotics until I read about the 8 servo drivers and 4 DC motor drivers built into the SBC! That’s going to be really handy for lab robotics projects. Buying a servo hat for Raspberry Pi’s or wiring up my own driver chips for one off projects has been annoying. Thanks!

Question, do you know if the UCSD course is using the PRU’s and/or porting ROS to the PRU’s? That’d be really excellent.

And of course there’s the Pocket BeagleBone [1] that was released this year. I just preferred 4 for prototyping, primarily since they have the onboard dual 200 mhz real-time processors, are in stock, and have really good support and design specs.

1: https://beagleboard.org/pocket
Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter
Yeah, pretty much, here's somebody with that argument: https://medium.com/@shemnon/is-a-git-repository-a-blockchain...
Is it normal to feel a tad bit scared of wireless charging?
I choose more to look at the fact that what our standards for much of that, housing, food, etc. have risen, and what we consider the bare minimum is fanciful living compared to what they settled for a century ago.

Much of that is to the credit of technological innovation, but then technological innovation often comes out of a well-functioning economy.
I find "nl" pretty useless, because it only numbers non-empty lines, which is never what I want.

There's "cat -n" which numbers all lines. (-n is not POSIX, but it's available on at least on BSDs and Linux.)
I wish the piece had been better edited to lead with a definitions of soft/hard skills, then a topic sentence for the thesis, then supporting arguments. There may be some good nuggets here, but it just feels like there's just rambling on and on.
Substitutes, not complements, but yes.
Bitcoin is estimated to use about the same energy as the whole country of Denmark[1]. Denmark has over 790 million cashless transactions with "Dankort", a local debit card, per year alone[2] - excluding other payment methods. Bitcoin can handle about 2,000 transactions per block[3]. 2,000 transactions times 6 blocks per hour times 24 hours in a day times 365 days in a year equals 105,120,000 transactions per year.

Congratulations, you just used the energy of the whole country of Denmark with _everything_ in it (housholds, heavy industry, etc.) to process less than a 1/7th of Denmark's cash-less transactions with a _specific_ (albeit widely used) debit card.

You see, your argument is simply invalid. "Traditional" banking is more energy efficient by multiple orders of magnitude.

1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoins-insane-...

2: https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/publications/Documents/2011... (page 125)

3: https://blockchain.info/en/charts/n-transactions-per-block
If you just redefine the word then there's not much of an argument. Resources are constrained, wealth isnt. You can create value somehow and generate wealth, regardless of what someone else is doing.
The recent trend toward replacing technical acumen with "soft skills" is disturbing.

Let's dispense with a strawman: of course interacting with other people is necessary. But there are lots of people out there who said the "tech stuff" is easy and it's the coordination and empathy and stuff that's the real challenge. That's a dangerous perspective no matter which of the two ways you interpret it.

One interpretation is that you really don't think that technical quality is important. In this case, you'll end up getting complacent on quality, ship crap, and open yourself up to competition. You'll be in good company if you go this route: it's part of the reason big companies inevitably decay and get outcompeted by smaller, newer ones. (Notice how a lot of this "soft skills only" crap comes from big companies with products having enough inertia to last a while at a low quality level?)

The other interpretation is most insidious: you do recognize that technical excellence matters, but want to redirect credit to non-technical managers. This phenomenon is a huge problem outside tech; it goes back at least as far as Edison. We shouldn't be in a hurry to import this problem into our own field.

The truth is that in our field, there's a wide distribution of skill levels, and some technical problems go from "impossible" to "routine" once your technical people pass a certain skill and quality bar. Soft skills do not get you over this quality bar. Actual technical knowledge does.
GXY if you're in AUS.

GALXF (otc adr) if you're in US.

Last I checked, it's the only pure-play lithium miner that is producing and delivering.
> You mention "social sciences" as a bad thing,

Where did I say that? I said "you can't get away from social agenda when it comes to social science research, but all the real valuable social science research results come from genuine curiosity whereas a lot of bad research results come from a clear goal to convey their existing message"

> You disregard evidence because it "feels" wrong to you

Yes you got it exactly right. It feels wrong to me. And it's presented in a way that I don't like. That's it.

I don't care how many peer reviews it received. This research WILL be used by lobbyists and viral media to get traffic to their websites, and the authors know it. I didn't say this was not science. But it's science optimized for fulfilling an agenda.

You talk like you know EXACTLY what science is, but at the end of the day the term "science" is a word humans invented. Which means people will have different interpretations. We can't really reach an agreement here just like how people from different religion can't come to an agreement about their Gods. So don't try to feed me your version of science and tell me that's the "real" science.

My only point was that I do not like what this piece of "science research" will be used for. You can argue with me on that point if you really think there is no agenda behind this research. Because that's the only point I'm trying to make.