skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. With the right controls implemented, you can decide how much you want your instance to interact with other instances, but it depends on the implementation. I don't know if masotodon is able to control this, and it might not make sense for them to do it.

In Peertube at least, you need to manually specify which other peertube instances you want to 'follow'. Other instances can also unilaterally follow your instance.
So then you have installed a Google drive agent, or at least you use the service? That is the problem you're discussing.
>I mean, if I'm in some 3rd world country without a reliable public transport system, then I'm not sure how internet access or a smartphone for that matter helps at all. In my experience in those places the bus/train just turns up when it does, no website would help you here.

I'm in Canada, my internet on my phone is more than good enough, yet it's not rare to see bus 10 minutes late and it happens often to need a second bus that may be 10 minutes after the first one. Traffic is not exclusive to third world country. Our bus have real time tracking so I can know 10 minutes earlier if taking another route is the right thing to do.
When I was in school - 15 years ago - I remember reading that we will run of oil in 2030. Seems like a similar wrong estimate.
So you are being intentionally dense. I'm sorry I tried.
The biggest loss I've seen in buying software (and I've been in large companies that have gone both ways) is agility.

If you're using a vendor solution w/o source rights, and you need a new feature to pursue a new opportunity... you can't.

Best case, the vendor is persuaded they can make money from it, develops it, and offers it to all their other customers. Middle case, they charge you an arm and a leg for custom functionality (more than it actually costs to develop), and now you're off the main tree. Worst case, they ignore you or refuse.

So the primary benefit to owning your own software development is the ability to pivot to new opportunities.

E.g. You think AWS would exist if Amazon had outsourced their server management software?
> "there's the questionable idea that electric motors will replace combustion engines because we're "running out of oil""

Right. Electric motors will replace combustion engines because they're cheaper to operate, offer better performance, require less maintenance, don't emit toxic pollutants, contribute less CO2 emissions, they're much quieter, and they offer a better driving experience.

Sooner or later they'll be cheaper to manufacture, too, due to reduced labour required, component commonality, fewer moving parts, etc.
Chances are your leadership style matches certain employees but not other ones.

There's a nice little theory (always messier in practice) around situational leadership by Blanchard and Hersey. 4 different leadership styles are needed to match employees in 4 different "states". Exceptional managers are able to match their style to their employees state. "Just good" managers usually default to 2 of the styles, and so don't always to well. Bad managers are either incomptent, or only use 1 style of management that mis-matches their team.

Check out https://online.stu.edu/articles/education/what-is-situationa... for more info.
I usually just use SHA / MD5 checksum, digital signatures

I think 7zip has a way for you to check the hash signature with just a right click on the file so thats dandy
Yeah, I'm disappointed that this submarine article has been on HN's front page for this long.
Instagram is my first guess.
U.S. Growth Hits 4.1%, Fastest Since 2014, in Win for Trump
If you're interested in this type of information in podcast format, check out the History of Networking series from The Network Collective:
https://thenetworkcollective.com/category/episodes/history-o...
Very interesting. I have a lot of friends in Brazil and parts of Europe that want things from Amazon US and try to order them, but have trouble getting them delivered. I've often had to play middle man. Often, depending on what they're buying, they're okay with high shipping costs as long as they can get the special collector's item they're looking for.
Why are you talking your work phone home in the first place? Or at the very least not disabling notifications for that after work hours?
Consider an arm that has 'fallen asleep' or placed under local anesthetic. It feels foreign, but you take care of it still as if it were your own. One has to simply extend their idea of themselves outside of what their neurons are directly touching to see the linkage between another human and themselves.

Here is a case where two people are brought in more direct contact, which seems to me to hold the door open for future possibilities. It makes it easier to see how two might merge, at least in a rough accidental sort of way.

https://kottke.org/17/11/these-conjoined-twins-can-share-eac...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-...

Have a good one.
I would be careful to say Women, as a group, cannot do something because of their physiology. Sure, many women have a hard time flying older planes. I would think many men would have had the same problem. If a woman really wanted to, I should think she could work hard and overcome those difficulties.
C compiler quirks I have encountered
Chrome on Android doesn't support extensions so you can't install its ad-blockers.
This has nothing to do with capitalism. Any economic system would face the exact same problem. Growth is not inherently capitalistic, its just the system that can sustain growth while others can't so its running into these problems while others collapsed before getting there.

Its a simply property rights (or externalizes problem) that is universal and incredibly difficult to solve.
Perhaps. But I also think that, of the people who are sticking to the heavyweight fat-client model of computing, some are doing so for technical reasons and others are doing so for principled reasons. If Google's softening on the "everything must be a web app" removes the technical barriers, I could imagine an expansion of Chrome OS.

As a paying FastMail customer, I'm right there with you on Google's privacy posture. But given the number of corporate G-Suite customers, I don't think principled rejection of Google over privacy concerns is the major impediment to Chrome OS adoption.
I had my employer buy me a separate phone. Work people ask me why I would rather carry two phones but they don't see the flip side when I'm only carrying one phone at home with nothing work related on it.
Ah, it's a variation on the URL vs. URI vs. URN debate again.
But the linux alternative for those tools are exceptionally decent and free.
Assuming a world war scenario, there likely is no competition with the private sector, which will have a choice between producing what the government wants it to produce or being put under government control and then producing what the government wants.
Twitter is not showing not much growth in MAUs. Valuation is still high. Market cap is based on future cash flows. No future cash flows (MAUs) means market cap has to come down. Just showing profit is not enough. It just shows you can control expenses but does not deserve the huge market cap. This is a $1billion company posing as a $30B company. Anybody disagree?
I'm an Apple Music user. On my iPhone, it's very good. performs well, features that weren't there 3 months ago have been added (like when I select the album/artist on the now playing it asks if I want to go to that album or the artist, for example.)

Apple Music on the desktop has been functional but like iTunes (I'm on Windows) it's not quite as fluid. Having said that, trying Spotify after using Apple Music has been awful. The UI to me is very clunky. It's slow. And I find its classical music collection (a big piece for me) is woefully lacking.
Something I don't understand though is when I do a google search, google sometimes sponsors these phony sites.

One time I downloaded the wrong google chrome which was ironic because I was on google searching it.

Other examples that come to mind with different sites are popcorn.sh vs popcorn-time.to. There not the same repository.

Normally I just do a sanity check by checking the domain URL and checking if it has authority.

If its on sourceforge... I just assume its malware or has bundled PUPware on it, run it through antivirus and SHA/MD5 checks.

Ninite.com is pretty convenient I hope they don't get comprimised one of these days and get sold to a shady vendor
China to Qualcomm: Don’t Blame Us for Failed NXP Deal
>Do you think there's more work / less applicants ( or at least a higher such ratio ), in C / embedded, etc?

I don't know but I think you are on the right track thinking in terms of ratios. If there are (only) 100 jobs for technology X and 90 people with that skill, that's a good skill to have. If there are 10000 jobs for technology Y and 11000 developers for that technology, the ratio is not as favorable.

I think the Internet Of Things (IOT) might be a nice bridge from the "webby" world to the embedded one. One of my friends was doing node.js on an embedded medical device for example. (Queue "Security is the 'S' in IOT.")

At the end of the day, job security is based on creating value.
If you want to be remunerated well for that value, you don't want to have a lot of direct competition.

I deliver solutions on the "edge" of the embedded realm sometimes - things that run on small Linux computers (Beagle Bones and Raspberry Pi). I can't speak to the demand for "real" embedded developers. By "real" I mean dealing with things like "board bring up" and FPGAs. Perhaps the graybeards I know that do that stuff are there through selection bias.

As consultant, I create the software for complete products or the core technology/secret sauce for companies that don't have that skill in-house. They could hire a skilled web developer fairly easily (assuming they pay reasonably). It's a lot harder to higher a developer that can turn data packets into a radar display, make a desktop product to monitor laser plasma emissions or track a flying golf ball using computer vision (my last 3 projects).

I hope that was helpful.
California still in denial despite benefiting.
That is all nice and true in theory. But property rights don't exist from nowhere, they need to be created by private actors or governments.

Global property rights issue will not be solved by simply law-suit the way you might fix a noise problem. Governments are not only not establishing property rights they would actively prevent anybody that did.

If your read the literature on the economics of property rights and Ronald Coase own writings you will see that he did not believe simplified version of the 'Coase theorem' that was formalized by Stigler.
Twitter has been very sloppy in maintaining a clear line between abuse and unpopular opinions. Twitter has value because it's a relatively open place where anyone can interact.

When twitter starts having strong opinions about what content is acceptable or not outside of abuse, then it becomes a very liberal echo chamber which drastically biases all the conversations that go on in it.

The issue, and this isn't a twitter specific issue, is that the line between preventing abuse and censoring content is not a clear or distinct line at all - some users want every art installation to have a trigger warning before it while other users hold the firm political opinion that the mixing of different races is unethical.

It's not clear that Twitter (or Facebook, or Reddit) has ever been good at navigating that line, or that they should be in that business. Reddit is somewhat successful in that most of the moderation happens at least at a subreddit level, so that if you disagree with a given community you can simply move to a different one.
This looks very good and will be interesting to see how it scales in a large cluster - should be possible with it being written in Elixir to scale this out quite well. I'll also be interested to see how stable the NIFs are, I'd feel much more confident they weren't going to crash the VM if they were written in Rust.
> This time it's all about the roving staff, who aren't using OpenSUSE and didn't use Solaris before it. They've always been Windows users and it seems that officials feel it might be time for a bit of consistency.

So my takeaway is that someone at the top was pissed off that he had to use an e-mail client other than Outlook and made a multi-million dollar infrastructure decision based on that.
Instagram will have its own moment to shine. All the 40 somethings trying to be like 20 somethings with their before and after pictures is not going to last once they realize that they are simply models on steriods. Usage will drop.
Lean Canvas FUN TIMES
An affordable holographic display /technology
The internet’s forgotten shit pics are accidentally amazing
With you on most points. As someone who has gone back to a dumb phone, the only thing I really miss is having a high quality camera with me.
Guys... I hate to break this to you but their MAU were always juiced due to rampant bot activity.

They said they were culling bot nets and this is the result.

A lot more culling to go, though.
SISCOG [1] uses on all their products. Actually they use Allegro CL from Franz. [2]

The main reason (for still using it) being that it all started out as an end of college project, by the two CEOs, around Artificial Intelligence proof-of-concept-general-tools (so to say) until the big breakthrough for danish railway company, NS, which was impressed with their fleet scheduling project.
This adventure began in the late 80's and they were using Lisp Machines!

I suppose the reason for still using Lisp to be a mix of i. there is no technological necessity to change; ii. the codebase of existing products is too big to translate; iii. CTOs don't have enough knowledge on other technologies to evaluate the feasibility of a change; iv. many of the developers actually love Lisp :-).

Most of the support technology is also done in-house and they don't tend to use many external libraries.

1. http://siscog.eu/

2. https://franz.com/products/allegro-common-lisp/
Australia is not utilising only 14% of their resources, they have only 14% of the known world resources. More than 50% is based on Congo were the work is performed in miserable conditions.
We are all happy that we still don’t reach peak oil, but if we don’t change the way we think about progress and economic growth, in a world with finite resources will have severe consequences.
Voice Messaging on LinkedIn: Giving You More Ways to Have Conversations
Collaborative Hacking Platform Announced in Advance of Black Hat
Thorium is radioactive, just not very much. It's toxic in the way a lot of heavy metals are. https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp147.pdf
The fact that we haven't run out of oil yet doesn't really change anything about the fact that oil-based industry is not sustainable. I don't see why this isn't a similar situation.
A stock/bonds portfolio is good to have, but I find that having enough money in the bank, and some actual cash, buys real peace of mind. My advice, try to figure out how long it would take you to get back on your feet if something went wrong (lose your job, your company, your health) and try to save up enough to tide you over for that time.
MS is extremely flexible with pricing in their EAs. They can make any arbitrary product pretty much free by gladly readjusting prices, discounts and benefits in other parts of the agreement.

It wouldn't surprise me if they made the switch appealing by this sort of shenanigan, but client CALs are pretty much free already at volume. It's the server licenses where they kill you ... but with Azure flexibility as an option, not to mention O365, it's super-easy to see how MS makes lock-in look very, very appealing.

source: use to own the MS EA at an F200 company that tried to extract Office in favor of Google Drive + LibreOffice, and Windows Server + SQL Server for CentOS + PostgreSQL.
Another Vinge goodie is the effect of the "main torch" of a starship on the permafrost of a planet as it hovers around looking for a landing site.
Yeah but this goes both ways; Slack and Microsoft know they're huge targets, and have competetent detection and mitigation in place to deal with intrusions. Of course that doesn't mean a breach won't happen, but it's not like APT casts the "hack" spell and suddenly all your PII is out in the open, you have to fuck up somewhere and not notice for a period of time.
Same, for small personal projects only. Drawing a quicklisp map for example:

https://github.com/pablovaldes/quickdot

You can find a picture example of the whole thing in the directory doc
Strange, mine actually prioritises walk-ins over phone calls for same-day appointments.
Fellow trial lawyer here, and ditto.

For context, a “simple” failure to diagnose case against a radiologist is going to cost me close to $20,000 out of pocket, and hundreds of hours of my time - not something I do on a whim.

A judges’s admin assistant that I frequently deal with recently retired. Someone asked her what advice she had for attorneys. Her response - don’t file med mal cases because they’re losers, and I practice in one of the top 5 “judicial hell holes” in America.
I'd argue that Hipchat had the exact opposite problem with notifications. It was _too_ aggressive about notifying everywhere.

I've had many times where I was looking at a DM room with someone in Hipchat, with the window focused, and it was still sending me emails with every message from them like I was AFK. This is especially common on the mobile apps, both Android and iOS. I'd often be chatting on my phone at lunch, and come back to my computer to find 50-100 emails of every reply I'd gotten in Hipchat.
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Without wanting to fall back on an old trope, but: "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" feels pretty apt here.
You can now schedule routines on Google Home
How to Use Webinars to Comment on Live Industry Events
> I think what they meant to say was that it could make a typical globular cluster satellite of the Milky Way galaxy, containing about 225000 butter-stars with the same mass as our sun.

I don't think it was anything near that complex: 40 trillion trillion trillion is just the number of tubs of butter it takes to get 10 billion trillion trillion tonnes if you assume each tub is 250 grams.
This is where the topic editing feature comes into play; any user can change the topic of a message sent recently, and if someone posts something in a wrong topic, it can be moved to a different topic.

Also, after a while this paradigm grows on you and by forcing you to think of a relevant title for your conversation, it forces you to have more cohesive conversations in my view.

And, lastly, it is possible to send messages without any topic (it defaults to (no topic)). :)
Hone your tone of voice: A linguistic perspective on how to talk to customers
This won't be popular opinion, and this is coming from someone obsessed with science, and space. The billions being spent by Silicon Valley elites, should be focused on things like eradicating cancer, disease, and cleaning up our only home before dumping money into yet another rocket company.
> the environment is not something the market will automatically solve

Not quite true. The market can easily solve for it. You just have to internalize the external costs. Usually done through taxes (ie carbon tax).
I mean, come on! Only 28 matches? Wildly inaccurate.
For a general software developer, I have seen Code Complete (Steve McConnell) and Clean Code (Robert C. Martin) recommended a lot. I have copies of both on my desk at work.
0 is a symbol, but that symbol has quite literally no value. It is special that way.
This point is spot on, but often overlooked.
Is there a modern dumb phone (physical keyboard, LCD display) still smart enough to sync with my Google Contacts? That's one convenience I'm not willing to give up on.
I don't have that problem because I've set the Hanazono font (A and B) as first choice for all Unihan characters on my computers (both Linux and Windows). The latest version, released last year , contains fonts for all 88,000 or so characters in Unihan up to extension F. The downside is that the Japanese version of the character is displayed instead of the Chinese where they differ.
The Elements of Statistical Learning

or the more beginner friendly

An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R
very nice. reminds me of https://github.com/bitly/data_hacks
Agree with this. On premise doesn't seem to be an attractive value proposition for most vendors. Most of them seem to be moving away from that model. Even customer requests around this seem to have reduced. We used to get a lot of requests around on premise in the initial conferences where we pitched our Flock messaging product, but that number has been steadily decreasing over a period of time
Never assume malice where stupidity will do.

I've been in an enterprise-y work environment. It's amazing the crap that gets churned out by massive teams for simple tasks.
It is the "-lein" in "Fräulein", but "-lein" isn't only for feminine nouns: the word "Männlein" also exists. I suspect "-erl" is the same, though I don't speak a dialect where it's used; some dialects have "-l" or "-li" which can also attach to any gender of noun (as in "Hansl" and "Gretl")
There is over a cubic km of earths crust that can be mined per person on the planet using current technology. There is zero need for space mining as actually rare materials we care about like Oil don't exist in space.
The consumer version of the RPlate, sold through auto dealers, will cost $699, plus $99 for the first year and $75 a year after that to connect to the system’s cellular network... Once advertisers come on board, drivers could get a rebate, either through fees paid to them for agreeing to let their plate promote products, or through discounts for those products

The mind boggles.
Open/LibreOffice compared to MS Office is a joke in a corporate environment where Excel and Powerpoint are kings.

There is also not a single email client that integrates resource management as well as outlook good luck linking Thunderbird to your conferencing and meeting room management systems.
Email does not convey the emotion of a phone call, let alone a video call.

I'd argue that email (and video calls, etc) have killed our ability to convey emotion via written word. What used to take time and thought has been reduced to quick blurbs given with little effort.

Get off my lawn! <shakes cane>
> And Python is taught in the intro to programming course in just about every college in the world.

Why do you think that ended up python instead of ruby? Something about the language or it's uses, or just a coincidence of history?

I have no idea myself.

I think ruby and python are about equal level of both "simpleness" (neither is very simple, actually; although it depends on what you mean by 'simple') and "good enough for widespread professional use" (both are, and especially both were ~8 years ago). Or do you disagree and think they differ there?
> some users want every art installation to have a trigger warning before it while other users hold the firm political opinion that the mixing of different races is unethical.

Those aren't even slightly equivalent positions, though. One is a request that material dealing with shocking or upsetting subjects be marked as such so that people who may be affected can avoid it, and the other is unsubstantiated racism that has been known as wrong for a century or more.

For twitter in particular, there's an important difference between expressing an opinion to the world in general (or at least your followers) versus actually "@"ing somebody. While you might argue that people should be allowed to post anti-miscegenation rants into the void, posting them @ a mixed-race couple is clearly abuse.
I propose that MAU growth is a dumb metric for a company that is 10 years old. Companies exist to make money, not attract eyeballs. Plenty of companies make good money without reaching every person in the world, or even a sizable percentage of them.