skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I see it as an existential observation rather than a dismissal.

On the whole, the actions of both the voting public in many countries, let alone the politicians that they vote for, do seem to be displaying an increasingly aggressive level of stupidity. Or possibly, if not stupidity, one could more accurately call it apathy.
It’s cool how you can pick up someone’s “accent” online in that way.

A spoken accent is often a dead giveaway if you have some idea of the phonology of their native language. The way a lot of people learn the sounds of a foreign language in the first place is by “transliterating” them to their native language—so they never quite pick up the foreign sounds exactly, just the nearest approximation from their native array of sounds.

But even if you can’t hear them, the mistakes and idiosyncrasies of their writing are going to be influenced by their native language as well, in fairly predictable ways.

Of course now that I’m trying to think of examples, I can’t recall any. :P
Arm unveiled its 2020 roadmap and wants to compete with Intel CPUs in laptops
Agreed. I would have no problem with the Canadian government owning US healthcare since they already own and operate Canadian heath-care and do an ok job at it. Everything the US government owns seems to eventually slide toward being a lot like the DMV.
I would look for remote-first/remote-only companies. They surely would love to meet a great product manager who understands how remote work goes.

Also, being only 2.5 hours from the bay area doesn't sound bad. Why not look for on-site gigs and commute a few days and push to work remotely a few days as well. If you're convincing enough to hire, you will find some gigs that allow their product manager to work a flexible schedule and remote sometimes/up to half the time. Anecdotal but I've seen product managers at several FAANGS do this, and even more often at startups.
Good luck!
The Guimet Asiatic art museum is pretty spectacular:

http://www.guimet.fr/
No, they still do not. Banks don't even need your SSN...

> You are not required to have a social security number to open a checking or savings account.

Source: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/can-i-get-a-checkin...
MP4, IIRC - it can definitely do multiple audio tracks (iTunes uses it for AAC and AC3, for example), and I think it can do multiple subtitle tracks.
Even a FLOSS-only smartphone cannot protect you from all the surveillance concerns, like remote location tracking using Silent SMS:

> In Germany in 2010 almost half a million "silent SMS" messages were sent by the federal police, customs and the secret service "Verfassungsschutz" (offices for protection of the constitution). These silent messages, also known as "silent TMS", "stealth SMS", "stealth ping" or "Short Message Type 0", are used to locate a person and thus to create a complete movement profile. They do not show up on a display, nor trigger any acoustical signal when received. Their primary purpose was to deliver special services of the network operator to any cell phone. The mobile provider, often at the behest of the police, will capture data such as subscriber identification IMSI.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Silent_SMS
This sort of thing assumes that we are all on mobile devices with wifi.

I'm on a desktop, with a hard wired ethernet connection. It's also my work machine. To go 'offline' I'd have to either pull out my network cable, or go into network connections and disable the NIC. My work email would start complaining, and before long someone from IT will probably show up to see why my machine has fallen off the network.

As others have said... there's also Offline Mode in Chrome.

Now, imagine I'm a less techie user, using the browser that came with my work PC. I'd have no idea how to go 'offline', or even worse, be physically unable to. As such this content is out of reach to me.

I hope this sort of trick doesn't become a trend. There's a big difference between 'not connected to the internet' and 'offline'.
If I were appointed name-taker in that situation, I would never actually take any names, only ever reporting that everyone remained silent.

Reporting someone for punishment, even if deserved, would only ever come back badly on me. (Unless I'm missing some incentive for reporting someone, in which case I need to ask what would deter me from wrongly reporting someone just to get the reward.)
As a teacher I used to spend about 6 hours a day sitting at a desk, and was having progressively worse lower back issues. 6 years ago I got a standing desk, which improved things quite a lot but only to a point.

3 months ago I started a body weight program, and this has done wonders for my lower back. There is still work to do, but the improvement has been consistent. I’m looking forward to how it (and me generally) will feel in a year!
Probably not using Bittorrent itself is sufficient. I would also be wary of their Sync application.
Does anyone know how to make the annoyingly large Medium top-bar, and "open in app" button (hovering over the article) on mobile go away without installing anything?

Edit: found one solution: https://outline.com/SV3V7N
He gets downvoted because it mainly falls in the same category as homeopathy, so if it has reproducible effects it no longer falls under homeopathy or 'traditional medicine' but just as regular medicine. People have to stop putting faith in this quackery and look at stuff that is tested and proven.
having them moved away from that nuclear power plant is a big relief for Vietnamese people already. This is still a huge leap, I would say. Basically, they are just following what China is doing (slowly) so if renewable energy could make a huge impact in China, they might accelerate the program.
Honestly this is probably a good idea.

When you think about how many people use Johnny No Good Hacker’s lastest ROM because it’s largely the OEM supported Android x with one or two Android ++x supported features, it really sounds like a good idea.

It would be nice if there were a safe way to bypass that “immobilizer,” though for people that trust their ROM origin and the software on their phone.
We (the west) should be strongly encouraging this in developing countries. We have the money, we have the instruments, all we need is the will.

The US put men on the moon using 1960's technology and brought them back alive. Switching the world to 100% carbon neutral energy production should be more than achievable.
Consider that the average healthcare consumer pays an insurance company a premium and a co-pay so that the insurance company can reimburse a doctor whose rates are higher to offset the cost of administrative salaries for assistants to deal with the insurance companies. If you think about it, it's basically a form of racketeering which happens to be legal because the doctors and the insurance companies aren't formally colluding to needlessly increase the administrative complexity of the system, and because there is no legal response, the insurance companies are incentivized to raise administrative complexity and cost over time (since inelastic demand has no effect on preventing revenues from rising from pure cost increases).
Not using a smart phone atm, but this is my backup device for occasional quick photos/2FA etc. and it is fine for the job and doesn't leak data.

It does try to get updates and info from Canonical, but I block that in my pihole setup. It doesn't do anything else, from what I can see, over the network.
Health benefits is just another expense that you should calculate into your required hourly rate if you need it. We aren’t talking about exploited (not being sarcastic) relatively low paid employees. It’s no different than calculating your self employment taxes and factoring in unpaid time off when taking your required hourly rate into account.

I paid insurance out of pocket during my first contracting gig via CORBA - that was before I was married. Most contractors I know either buy through the ACA exchanges or through thier contracting company.
The mantra that shared memory parallelism is hard to get right to the point where such platitudes as "unless you're writing some really really really niche thing" are uttered is entirely erroneous I find, through my own experience.

There are idiot-proof thread-safe datastructures and producer/consumer APIs that map extremely well to most problems that come up in practice in the domain, that one should confidently use. Refusing to do shared memory parallelism because of the _abstract potential for havoc_ rather than any practical justifications based on the problem-at-hand is throwing out the baby with the bathwater and is not the mark of competent engineering.
Show HN: React-cute – render cute json in React
Tell them that I'm undocumented and paying with cash?

(I'm not undocumented, but I imagine they see that enough which is why they don't bother saying anything when I leave it blank.)

I'm pretty sure they just want your SSN for collections/credit-reporting purposes.
Is this the issue you are referring (?):

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1978-09
Gah,

Look, the digital video world exploded, 90% of it using MPEG's standards(MPEG1/2 to start with, h.264 now. HVEC/av1 is just a blip) they were all patent encumbered

FFMPEG runs 60% of the digital media world. _if_ patents were to be called in, places like disney, netflix & fox would have to spend literally billions swapping out FFMPEG or licensing it.

Your phone/computer pays a h264 tax, in the same way that they pay ARM/intel, qualcomm, wifi alliance, HDMI alliance et al.

HVEC gives you more efficient 4k, and HDR, but for most people that just isn't important. Streaming services still use h.264, because there is not hardware/software support upstream.

Now, the thing that will decide it is the speed/quality/cost tradeoff. If the hardware doesn't support a codec, it won't be used.

AV1 has a really slow encoder, so until that has changed it's not going to be used for on-the-fly encoding (live or just in time delivery from mezzanine codec)

for industry noise, see https://www.ibc.org/delivery/codec-wars-the-battle-between-h...
14 year in same company
I am with the same company for 14 years. Feel bored and my technical skills not sharpen.

Any idea who to change the path.
Also, try https://osmand.net - great and getting better all the time !
I don't share the negative sentiments expressed by others in response to your question. I think things have changed significantly for the better. I'll leave you with these two images - you can decide for yourself if anything has changed:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/in...
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/in...

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/new-night-lights-m...

Scroll down to India's map and play with it for a while and then ask yourself whether India has changed for the better.

You may not feel the difference as much as India's villagers and poor.
Literally ten percent of American pop culture is one hundred percent Swedish. I married a Swede and it gave me an opportunity to see that there is an incredibly tight feedback loop between Sweden and the States, in some incredibly particular ways. Music is one of them. Edited to add that I typed this up wearing the hat I usually wear on another site, so I don't mean "literally" literally, but more like "seriously".
What is a glassboard, and how does it make you stand?
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Even if you'd be able to keep your integrity and not play the "game", likely there would be another one to rat anyways.

Similar system did exist in east Europe before the wall fell. Major part of population used to report one another...
I don't find that inconsistent. The Standford experiment showed that people act out the stereotypes of the roles they are assigned.

My stereotype of a drill sergeant is yelling a lot, but fundamentally devoted to 'making unruly young boys into men' through bullying, disrespect - it seems to me that the conclusions predict that a quiet person who is assigned the role of a drill sergeant would suddenly start yelling a lot or a otherwise respectful person would become disrespectful.

The stereotype of a prison guard is much different. Rather than 'unruly boys' it's 'hardened criminals' - the difference in reaction to being assigned a role can be explained by the differing stereotypes of the roles, as an alternative to the experimental conclusion being wrong.
> Monoculture isn't possible with a diverse, agile workforce and unless everyone's on the same page those big, prescriptive methodologies just don't work

This is a really interesting insight. I don't have much personal reference to compare to the software dev cultures in e.g. the 80s or 90s, but there is definitely a shift towards software engineers having more autonomy, more connected with the customers, often being customers of the software themselves.
Yeah, tar is actually pretty simple these days. (At least GNU tar, don't know about other tars.) In 99.9% of cases you only need to know the following:

tar caf $archive $file... to create
tar xf $archive to extract

"x" will automatically recognize the compression format, and "ca" will automatically infer the desired compression format from the extension in $archive, e.g.

tar caf backup.tar.xz /home/user

makes an xz-compressed tarball.
> ///Maps
> OpenStreetMaps

Openstreetmap only supplies data - to use it one needs an application such as https://osmand.net/ or https://maps.me/
To me, the unique aspect of that docu was the "banality of.." perspective.

About from a quirky sexual liberalism, the teachings were standard fare for a religion. The phenomenon was also unremarkable, the the grand scheme of things. The world is full of holy men, holy places, masters and devotees. It always has been. Any religion with a an origin story features a story like this. The old Hebrew/jehovist religion centred around prophet-leaders. Moses was a holy man, along with the other prophets. Jesus was such a holy man. Mohammed. Budha. Zoroaster, probably. The founders of most old catholic orders... You might even include communist "holy men" or other secular/political movements in that overall group.

Basically, we can just take it as a given that holy men with an extremely devoted group of devotees will emerge here and there.

At that point it's up to a St. Peter, or a Ma Anand Sheila to do something with it.

Just before wild wild country begins, America experienced the Jonestown bloodbath. Its definitely a history that repeats.
Why do you feel the US is better in this respect? The US has several other obvious advantages compared to India, but equality of wealth distribution and lack of crony capitalism don't seem to be among them.
If you have one of those browsers with builtin DOM element inspection/editing, you can make it go away by deleting the respective item. A bit cumbersome ...
Related paper that also mentions the SGI workstations in this PDF: https://w3.leica-geosystems.com/downloads123/zz/general/gene...

They used / use SGI Visual Workstation 540s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation
Just scooter it the wrong term. Lime, Bird etc. should call them what they are: Kick Scooter or Trottinette.

We have dockless Electric Scooters[3] ("Vespa" style motorcycles that require a driving permit) here in Switzerland and we have Lime Trottinettes so it can get confusing if not using the right term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_(motorcycle)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick_scooter
[3] https://www.mobility.ch/en/how-it-works/rent-a-scooter/
Play Zork in the browser - encrusted
from another website.. "tACS: Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) is a noninvasive, low-level alternating current applied to the cranium. New research out today suggests it expedites memory consolidation while you sleep. As with the above noninvasive transcranial stimulation techniques, it is not fully understood how it works and the long-term effects are unknown."
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2018/07/23/can-we-...
> `um git`

This needs integration with voice assistants.
There are solved problems in AI? The area is so new and we have such descriptive ideas of what could be done that it feels like nothing could be solved for decades.
Unfortunately, MicroG hasn't been maintained in the past months or so and the only developer barely communicates anymore. It's getting to a state in which it will stop working very soon.
there's no better time to come back. Do come. Its about what you can create in the world's largest democracy.

Are we the only country with constitutionally guaranteed Right to Privacy ?

come and build. Oh and that goes for everyone else too. We have a lot of American, Brit and Chinese founders building successful startups in India.
I concur the review linked is more about effectiveness of intervention methods. My point was that it's been so thoroughly highlighted that we need bigger sample sizes, and yet here we are with N=15.

As for "invalidating the health benefits of standing vs sitting", here is a well-designed study [1] (N=7300 and 12-year span) that found

"""

Occupations involving predominantly standing were associated with an approximately 2-fold risk of heart disease compared with occupations involving predominantly sitting. This association was robust to adjustment for other health, sociodemographic, and work variables.

"""

I.e. I think we can reasonably claim that the jury is still out on the health benefits of standing desks etc.

OTOH, that increased exercise is a good thing is undisputed.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/187/1/27/4081581
As far as prescription drug cost, even the part of the health care system that is government control - Medicare - prescription drug prices are whatever the company sets. When Bush signed the law making prescription drug coverage part of Medicare, part of the law was that the government could not negotiate prices.
Oh I see... AppEngine is also "pay for what you use" but it seems it's rounded to 15 mins rather than CloudFunctions which is 100ms. Thanks!
I wish we could just emulate non-floss Android Qubes style. Then the banking app could just be spawned when needed. Maybe not full emulation but containers might be good enough.
The use a brain "massage" device on a person while they sleep and they see their longterm memory improving. Brain improvements are a big business and a lot of people have got ill for trying these stuff at home. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-27343047
Did we learn the right things from Steve Jobs?
Objectively worse? To what end? What really matters?

Do you care more that your healthcare is 10% more effective at its peak, or that 30% of the population is uninsured, without access to good preventative care? From there you have to extrapolate because nobody can predict the cost of these societal schisms, or that of the cost to heal them.

There is no objectivity to be had here; just morality, hope and fear.
I’m not familiar with the song, but going by lyrics alone, “I won’t do the things they learned me” is accidentally spot-on for native speakers of some dialects of English where “learn” can also mean “teach”, e.g., “That’ll learn him to mess with me!” (= “That will teach him that he shouldn’t mess with me”). To native speakers in general, it comes off as adding a bit of old-fashioned/country flavour.
By no means my area of expertise, but a quick glance suggests:

The experimenters set up a system that could detect slow-wave (SW) fluctuations in brain activity. They used trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (electro-magnets on the scalp) to "augment" this SW activity. This seems to have improved memory, measured by some specific learning task they set for the participants.

Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation is becoming popular in trans-human type circles. Apparently it's becoming feasible to do at home with cheap off the shelf components. However, of course, the long term effects and side effects are poorly understood.

This particular experiment used 16 participants (only three of whom were female, for some daft reason) so we can't draw any firm conclusions from this.
Chapter 2 concern system calls. IMHO, this should be maintained by kernel developpers and updated each time I update the kernel so that it is always in sync. I would like to understand what is the contract the developper has implemented. The limitations of a system call are the developpers regrets and their plans for future evolutiond. I do not care if the style is not good. What I care is how it should be used.
A nice way to compare how various CSS resets and frameworks style HTML elements is
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It's not just "some" web developers. It's absolutely everywhere.

Developers can just refuse to build awful websites that are user-hostile and violate privacy. We're highly paid professionals. We can just say "no."
Yes regulatory burdens like actually being forced to cover people with pre-existing conditions, not being able to drop people once they use thier insurance and not being able to exclude certain conditions....
incentivizes good service

I understand it actually incentivizes being an attractive female who touches male diners.
Well, I think most popular DACs in consumer electronics today are 1bit SD, though I remember older CD players having a 16bit DAC

They require higher clock frequencies and aren't that accurate (though, as you mentioned, some other sources of inaccuracy are simply nonexistent)
Though from what I've seen, most people I talk to use the POSIX forms (such as 'ps -ef') and aren't aware that there is a BSD form (such as 'ps aux'). I've always used the BSD form, even though I came to Linux much much later, but I guess which form you use comes from where you learned basic *nix commands.

I guess the lack of '-' with tar is more apparent because POSIX didn't create a different syntax, and so most people omit the '-' for terseness -- while with ps it would require learning a different syntax.
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