skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC a gondola cableway is one of the cheapest means of transportation to build (compared to railway tracks and trains, or bus systems if you would need to develop streets first).
Some great points in your blog-post-length comment ;)

I'd add that there's often a danger in the middle ground. Complexity and meaningful switching costs, without the benefit of interop, is likely the worst-case scenario. IOW, might be better to go all-in than muddle through with half-measures trying to avoid lock-in.
You can't make big money on the Internet by being honest.
The text covers the full width of my 27" monitor which, while readable, is not nearly as comfortable to read as text that doesn't.
Fire from overheating or fire from accident?
> which removes the list of all your contacts

Ya, they fucked this up. Favorites are no longer supported but you can "pin" your "favorite" people so they go to the top, unless you have an unread message from a non-pin then that goes above your pins. But after you read your unread message from your non-pin then that thread is moved below your pins, so... good luck finding that again after you've had a few of those threads! It was far better the way it was before when the favorites and other were separate.
If the key is designed properly, no. For example, Yubikey does not store any state:

https://www.yubico.com/2014/11/yubicos-u2f-key-wrapping/
My undergraduate degree (from The University of Edinburgh) is Artificial Intelligence. I remember when I was visiting different universities in the UK back in 2000, Edinburgh was the only one I saw which offered AI as a "real" degree. Everywhere else it was a specialization which was tacked on in the final year of a computer science degree.

That seemed really odd to me then. Seems even odder now.
Please, FF devs, if you're reading this, preserve this feature, or at least give it an about:config setting.

I use ctrl+shift+t in private browsing all the time.
See the curriculum here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curricu...

These are all standard ML/AI courses
Is CMU trying to compete with Udacity? I personally couldn’t take a degree in AI seriously.
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The true cost of email is nothing compared to the true cost of slack.
I Played Fortnite and Figured Out the Universe
My only thought on that idea is that it feels like an undergrad in AI is less useful in the sense that most AI positions prefer PHD over masters, let alone undergrad.
It's going to be hard to find the exact episode but I remember an episode of dotnetrocks where Carl & Richard (who are reasonably close to Microsoft and aren't really anti-msft) mentioned that when Sinofsky walked up the stage to announced Windows 8 he had already been told he would be asked to go.
Yes, that's why I explicitly stated it as a loophole, but that's not at all what we're talking about here (the Pinapple Fund somehow not being "generous" because the donator took advantage of tax breaks due to donations) or in general.
Tesla/Fire/crash always makes news.
Higher level math book recommendations?
I have a background in discrete math, combinatorics, abstract algebra and computer science.

I am considering Ramsey theory by Graham, Metric spaces by Searcoid, Surreal numbers by Knuth and CPDT (that book about Coq)

I am motivated purely by interest in the subject of math. Any ideas?
CMU CS undergrad courses do have an AI component (e.g. building a chess engine), but this appears to be a more formal classification.
Yes, but if they had implemented that as a fall-back after a problem was detected I doubt anybody would have had a problem with it. Instead they routed all the traffic through their DC and for a very large number of calls that meant more hops and at least one extra latency incurring handler of the packet stream. So even if in some edge cases it was a win for a large number of calls it was a net loss.
Adding "What is an acceptable response time for emails?" to my list of interview questions.
Yes, we are! :)
Why should it be legal fraud with severe consequences for an AI caller to not disclose the fact that it is an AI?

You implied the reasoning behind your statement was obvious ("of course") but it's not at all obvious to me.
Aside from how cool the implementation is, this is a fantastic name.
For spell check, I've noticed I have to right-click and check spelling. I actually kind of like not having the browser second guess me, but not sure if this is an intentional default on FF's part.
"At the same time as I've been playing this game, I've been making my way through a popular science-fiction trilogy written by Liu Cixin, translated by Ken Liu, and the books have spun my evenings with Fortnite into a deeper, weirder dimension." :)
Thanks! Looking forward to getting in touch!
Isn't sending to charity the exact same tax benefit as buying some equipment that is a corporate expense? Like, you're not literally offsetting taxes, you're just buying stuff for 25% off (or whatever your tax rate is). So with charity, you're making a $1,000 donation to charity, but getting $250 back from the government. You're still out $750 net though.
"I'm also unable to see a list of my contacts filtered by who is online in the app, which I consider to be as basic as it gets."

It still boggles my mind that someone thought this is a good thing to do.

I read on a KB on MS site when I was trying to figure out how to change that, and it said to see if someone is online send them a message first.
I'm paraphrasing of course, but I couldn't believe that that was coming from MS about something so simple as trying to figure out who is online.
For what it's worth, that was my personal response and not anything official or reviewed by System76 "the company." I try to retain a bit of autonomy while working for Sytem76.

I agree that my tone may have been a little unprofessional itself, and that's on me. It has just been a frustrating time trying to do what's best for both our customers and the Linux ecosystem at large, and then being raked across the coals for it with a misleading and seemingly emotional blog post from a core Red Hat desktop employee and high-profile GNOME contributor. It's just not a fun thing to wake up to when you're also actively working with the guy on his other projects and contributing to GNOME itself, you know?
It's also better in that you can avoid cycle-leaking from your smart pointers.
Well, if it were criminal money, the world would much more clearly be a better place because of it. In no situation does this increase the amount of crime in the world.
I used to have a final card. I wish I could have just been rolled over into this instead of having to sign up for another card.
At least in America, isn't it a product of FDR?
> Are there non-Western peoples who want Western things?

you mean like Libyan revolution, Arab Spring, Taiwan and South Korean democracy, India democracy, Hong Kong protests, Tibet protests, etc?
Honestly that looks more like out of place amphetamine-induced logorrhea.
It's definitely disappointing, I feel that, but don't give up hope! I'd encourage you to engage with your local community to work towards a coop/municipal broadband provider to help alleviate the problem, or even go so far as to start your own wireless ISP.

One person cannot solve this problem, but each of us doing a small part where we each live does move the needle. You are going to need to get involved, and there is going to be a time commitment. Prepare accordingly.

https://muninetworks.org

https://startyourownisp.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/technology/how-to-give-ru...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/2ftsf7/i_own_...
Can't you creeps ever just let a joke slide?
PM power! PMs are hustlers and it is great to see a former PM navigate his way through raising a round with a mentor like Justin Kan. Love Justin’s real advice like avoiding the SV beauty contest, staying focused on building your business and bringing in investors who will add value rather than add splash.
The US Dollar is already a digital currency, only a small portion of it is represented by notes and coins.
The same reason people buy Coach bags etc... status and brand.
Correct, but it wasn't part of the platform tooling, requiring an additional expense, with a price tag which on the 80's computing world very few companies were willing to shell out.

Yep, I always get that part of Lucid's history wrong.
> They are frustrated their country turned dictatorship.

You're wrong; the majority of chinese I've talked to say that while it can be overbearing, it's given them more opportunities. I hear more things positive about the government in frank, private conversations than with most people from my country. This is a result of the recent rise in wealth. But just wait until that prosperity subsides.

I'n not arguing that there isn't bribery, censorship, or corruption. I think that western societies function better under democratic rule, but the chinese culture and political system is much different than ours. As long as the people are prosperous they won't mind the rulers, but once things go bad at a large scale the power will change.
quit arguing slippery slope fallacies.

It's perfectly reasonable to say you want 0.08, but you are willing to accept the margin of error as well.
Got bit by this hard, since it was a rolling update it was tough to reproduce at first, at least they gave you a nice console warning that your context handling was broken /s.

Fix for us was literally just calling audioContext.resume() in the click handler callback while waiting for onload but would have been nice to have a depreciation/warning period
Try to be well. Flourish. Happiness is fleeting.
This particular iodine compound is effective precisely because it kills methanogenic gut bacteria. Given that those bacteria are a normal part of cows' gut flora, it's reasonable to worry that killing them might be bad for the cows, and would be surprising if it was good for them.

Although, of course, it might be! That's why the only way forward is to test it empirically.
The word "millenials" as a classification is not used in China. Everyone gets classified instead as 80后，90后，00后， etc. (meaning born after 1980, born after 1990, born after 2000, etc.). Because of China's rapid economic growth, the difference in attitudes for someone born in the 80s versus someone born in the 90s is actually very pronounced.
> However having access to things like a network manager to join wireless networks, a battery indicator, a volume control, etc is essential in today's world, which is why I now run a heavyweight xfce environment.

You don't need to run a full DE to have tray icons. I'm running i3 and the network manager applet + other tray items work just fine.
An RFC would be interesting, but I am not sure it would be adopted. You might start with a gist on github with the configuration settings required to do this in postfix, qmail, sendmail, powermta, etc. It might help to give the page a shiny logo and a trendy name. If there is enough interest, perhaps even register a domain with a catchy name. What would be a good name for it?
Try Ubuntu Budgie, it's much more user-friendly.
I won.

In a night bar in Pigalles with illicit activities happening all around, on an iphone 1G freshly jailbreaked to check if vim other ssh to edit a touchy bash script was doable, while quite intoxicated.

Because of this stupid geeking I missed an opportunity with one of this queen of the night as beautiful as dangerous.

Since then I refocused myself more on what people call vices and not virtues. I never coded anymore when exciting stuffs were happening around.

Never had a regret.
I'm fairly neutral on having systemd handle DNS. It seems unnecessary, but I'm not an OS dev. I do strongly prefer text logs, which are still in use on the system under discussion.
I am no fan of ISPs, but this is a silly argument to make. There is no "enough" when it comes to capitalism. Your problem should be with either the politicians for believing these arguments or with our entire economic system, not with ISPs for lobbying on their own behalf in this manner.
Rust 1.26 released
You could peg the digital currency to the dollar. There is zero value in a fluctuating digital currency...
That usually what point in time restores allow, by using snapshots as a base and WAL since then.
The way I conceptualize of it is that evolution is still almost entirely Darwinian, but that there's also a ton of other stuff that happens. Without wanting to get political, I think a good analogy would be human gender and sexuality. The statement that there are two human sexes, male and female, and that they seek each other out for the purpose of mating explains somewhere around 95% of what you see in humans. But human sexuality is complicated and to get to an explanation that encompasses 100% of what you observe requires vastly expanding your model of what's going on. So what's going on now with evolution is that we are discovering all the little ways in which evolution is complicated.
I've been running a Pi-Hole instance for about a year now, it's excellent. I could never get it to work with my router, but manually configuring the DNS on my devices to point to it works just as well.

One thing that became immediately apparent was how much faster browsing the web got after I turned it on.
WRT gambling he was a fiend for the roulette wheel IIRC.
Even in EU they do things that would be unacceptable for other products:

- Year-long locked in contracts. No trial period.

- Zero guarantees whatsoever on bandwidth and latency.

- No third-party, legally recognized, quality certification/monitoring organizations.

- Little guarantees against traffic inspection, DNS sniffing & so on.

- In some countries it's legal to sell ADSL as "fiber".

- Sharing your uplink with a neighbor can be prohibited by contract.

I know it's nothing new, but that's not an acceptable argument. It's about time we raise our expectations.
Sam seems to not understand that most fiat currency is already "digital"
It is like Microsoft wanted to clone a bunch of popular services (e.g. Slack) and just mashed them all together without a care in the world

The LinkedIn Model.
Is it me, or is pi hole way more popular than it should be? Compared to the alternatives, it's worse in almost every way. It only works on your local network, so good luck blocking ads while you're at work, using mobile data, or at a cafe. Browser based adblockers (which is available on most desktop browsers, mobile safari, and firefox for android) can block elements and url patterns, pi hole can't. Even if you're on a browser that can't use adblock (mostly android), you can still use VPN based adblockers (the ones that reroute your traffic through a local VPN), which work regardless of what network you're on. And worst of all, all of the alternatives are free, which can't be said for pi hole[1].

[1] I know you can run pi hole on your desktop OS, which is technically free, but you need to leave your computer on 24/7 which undoubtedly raises your electricity bill.
Does anyone know if there are performance penalties associated with using a Raspberry PI as your DNS server?

Also, a link[1] to the Pi-Hole page.

[1]https://pi-hole.net/
Before the 40-hour work week society was indeed set up for longer work weeks, and workers organized to reduce it. There's historical context for many countries given here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
What exactly does the 1h 12min number represent? Is it the average longest uninterrupted period a worker has? The sum of multiple periods that meet some threshold? The phrasing sounds like the latter, but if so, what is the threshold for productive time that is uninterrupted?
Aren't most if not all of Large ISPs public companies? They answer to the shareholders... Their business model revolves around making their shareholders the most amount of money possible. The company answers to the shareholders.

A Municipal ISP are mostly non/low profit, they have no share holders to pay out. No one looking for their 'investment' back as capital, just people looking for stable internet. The Muni ISP answers to the customers.
The regions in Europe which have cheaper/faster access have either community managed infra or high population density/cheap power. Does the US have that?
How many of you have immigrant parents who, where English is a second language, would have great difficulty performing the kind of verbal gymnastics that you take for granted?
It's not. Just a different name (which unfortunately adds more confusion).
What do you think the effects would be if China did this instead of/before the US?
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We recommend it! Not only is the pricing great, Adrien is great - very responsive and genuine. The page itself is a wrapper around the updown.io status page in a frame.
Other existentialist works include:

- "The Plague", by Albert Camus
- "Metamorphisis", by Franz Kafka
- "The Moviegoer", by Walker Percy
- "The Bridge Over San Luis Rey", by Thornton Wilder

I can't say they are enjoyable or relevant in the way Dostoevsky's books are.
I listen to discussions on the "Intellectual Dark Web" regularly and am generally a big fan of the free flow of ideas - but this view of identity politics, as much as I try, I cannot get my head around.

It seems primarily to be a chicken and egg problem: The IDW insists that identity politics requires people to identify themselves as a group rather than free-thinking individuals. I think the point this misses is that these groups did not start by self-identifying as groups, they were identified as these groups. The black community, LGBTQ, women, religious minorities - they were first treated as a single group of lock-step individuals by those looking to oppress them. Is it crazy that to respond, they respond as a group?

This idea that they are beating down the discussion by applying ideals to an entire group of disparate individuals I really think is backwards. It is a response to being grouped by outside forces in the first place, where these groups do have a single shared problem now - that they are not viewed as individuals and treated as a single bloc.
First of all, they're not removing the content, it's still available from the artist's page. Second, it seems to be based upon the conduct of the artist more than the content of the songs themselves.
I can't speak for the parent, but I've personally known people with parents who ran charities and political campaigns for the sole purpose of collecting donations and spending 100% of the donations on "operations"; paying their salary while they do nothing other than the occasional fundraising as the well dries up.
>Having done absolutely nothing would have left Skype in a better shape

You don't get a promotion for doing nothing. Doing something, on the other hand, might just work.
Oh, that's a good idea. The AI implicitly identifies itself via caller ID. If you're a hair salon, you get lots of calls from that number for many different customers.
I think this comment may give us a lot of insight into why there aren't more women in tech...
On a past life, about 20 years ago, I was a FOSS zealot of the first GNU wave.

Nowadays I use whatever makes business sense.
Agreed, same for me. I did get it to work with my router as well, and it works amazingly well. When you supplement it with the community ban lists as well, it's incredibly powerful and updated quite frequently. Highly recommend it. Works great off a Raspberry-Pi.
Rust is your silver bullet?
So others can also see the thought they put into the program, here's the actual curriculum:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curricu...
This post is about Aurora, their own custom db. They could've easily called it PITR to match the rest of the industry.
Check out Nicky Case's interactive guide detailing alternative voting systems:

http://ncase.me/ballot/
Have you considered the possibility that what we call 'human intelligence' could result being only advanced automation?
Interesting timing, because I just started Notes from Underground yesterday. I have to say, I'm a really big fan of Russian literature for some reason.

Crime and Punishment, to me, seemed pretty straightforward, where we knew the problems Raskolnikov was having, and pretty sure of the ending where he'd confess and be punished (clearly from the title). Whereas The Brothers Karamazov if I remember, was somewhat more of a non straightforward plot. Where the characters were slightly less straightforward. I checked on wiki and said that Crime and Punishment was fourteen years before Karamazov, 1866 to 1880.

Besides Dostoevsky, I really liked a few of the Checkov short stories, and then Master and Margarita, which was written in the somewhat early 1900s. Not sure if those related to the existentialism you're talking about, but all unique.

I think my main like of both of these, and books in general, is the ability to see how similar humans are from centuries ago, and in different cultures. With the feeling of desire to be punished, or in a Checkov story, falling out of love with a woman and not really knowing how to end things. Being able to see relationships and similar thoughts from completely different people is very comforting. Otherwise we all could be stuck in our heads thinking about how everyone is different from you, where we're all more alike than we think.
umm, is the title misleading ? fta, it is actually executing code _not_ in comments :)
Most problems are optional ones. Lots of little choices that add up.

Shaping those choices is a worthwhile discussion - how can we encourage people have healthier diets to trade some short term indulgence for fewer long term health problems, say - but if you see someone who's making money as a result of people still making the short-term choice, and they're talking about "it has to be up to the user," then yeah, they're probably being dangerously naive or (probably) worse.
What is this... jotting down some notes? I guess this will generate discussion because Sam wrote it, but it is probably one of the most boring and banal ideas in the space. And the exposition is very... shallow to say the least.

"A tricky part of this would be how to balance letting the network have control over itself and letting the government have some special degree of input on ‘monetary policy’. It’s certainly ok for the government to have some, but I think the network needs to be mostly in charge (e.g., the government couldn’t be allowed to arbitrarily inflate the currency when it wanted to)."

This is how the current monetary system works. The "government" can't "arbitrarily inflate the currency". I'm surprised at the lack of depth of this article, is this a brainfart? Haha.
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Surely the next step is for websites to host their own ads again? They can even forward cookies on to ad networks etc.
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Exactly.

But they did the same in France 10 years ago. Then the ISP named "Free" started to sell an offer 3 times cheaper and WOW, suddenly everybody matched the price.

So not only competition on price is possible for ISP, it's actually necessary for the clients. It's wont benefit the existing ISP, obviouly, so it must be done no matter what they say.
It's worth noting that this profile was published at about the same time Medium started cutting off publisher memberships: http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/medium-abruptly-cancels-the...

The NYTimes author's response: https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/994634637451415601

> Gotten a lot of smart criticism since this piece ran. Agree that @ev’s grand plans should be evaluated in light of Medium’s history of sudden strategy shifts and the writers/publishers who get hurt by them.
Idea: If you made every government paycheck and contractor payment made with this currency it would be enough to become a standard of payment, and if you required taxes to be paid with it you'd always have demand.
We are in agreement then. Text comms are nuanced!