skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When it comes to bets on the outside world, crypto-gambling is arguably a lot worse than a high street bookmaker as it involves a de facto side bet on (i) the value of the crypto asset not declining during the bet duration and (ii) the oracle being reliable. It's not like you can't get odds or participate in more obscure bets or prediction markets using regular currency on p2p platforms or even with high street bookmakers either, it's just they're relatively niche interests...

Very well stated!
>It is interesting to see Indians talking of themselves and India as a separate entity.

Apropos of that, I have an Indian acquaintance who is an activist, focusing on women's rights and poverty. She's told a couple of stories stories about going into tiny, remote villages in India and telling people about their basic rights under the law, only to be asked "what is India?" and having to explain that the place these people live is called "India".
Thank you for a very detailed and helpful answer! I particularly like the symmetry of being able to generate all of the strings in the language.
TIL. I'm a Finn and slightly dyslectic. I didn't realize that the band name was misspelling until now.
They dumped it because of Apotheker. This was Hurd’s project and once he was out they firesaled the whole line. It didn’t even have enough time to make a sale.

That’s when I HP was in real trouble. Instead of pursuing new markets in mobile they retreated back to PCs, printers, and services. They were trying to grow into a market o it’s way to stagnating.
The worst is Vietnamese food in Stockholm, it taste nothing like Vietnamese and tries to imitate local thai tastes. And that makes me so sad because I love Pho but I have yet to find a good one in Stockholm.

I also wonder why people buy sushis in a thai restaurant here, they are usually much worse than in real sushi restaurants and equally expensive. Maybe it's because the different persons at the tables disagreed on which food to buy but still, what's the next step? Selling pizza and Kebab in chinese restaurants?
Does it still have 64 users?
In China of course.

FTA: "In China, Apple said it removed nearly 700 virtual private networks, or VPN, apps from its App Store last year in response to new local restrictions."
Yeah... Just yesterday I was driving at night, through road construction, with a torrential downpour, and nowhere to pull off, and it was freaking scary. And I remember just thinking, "This kind of thing happens to me maybe a few times a year and there's no way in 30 years that we're going to trust autonomy with this"
Soft power is the best kind of power. Oh no we've been conquered by excellent cuisine!

Someday, we'll just call it "food".
That's a good point. I find that my approach to programming lectures, for example, is quite different from my college days (psychology). And even then there was a difference between the 'typical' lectures and the ones on statistics and methodology.
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Fair enough. I misinterpreted what you meant by understandable. It had two definitons: one literal, and one moral in the sense of forgiveable
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I'm assuming you're talking about traditional package managers. Proprietary packages aren't uploaded to the main package repositories from what I've seen. The company will typically provide the packages themselves (e.g., a deb or rpm file), and sometimes they'll provide their own repositories for easier delivery. This has been my experience with Dropbox, SpiderOak, and Sublime Text.
Neomonde, Mami Noras.
I agree. Anything with low-occupancy vehicles feels like a dead end to me. Of all things, car ownership is the thing we're aggressively enabling/optimizing in 2018? Really?

I'm usually not a person who's sympathetic to complaints about advances in technology eliminating jobs. Not for a real overall long term gain to society. But autonomous cars putting swaths of people out of work while at the same time taking us in the wrong direction on traffic, emissions, etc. doesn't feel great. Those drivers losing work slowly over time as cities evolve truly better and more sustainable transportation options feels more right.

Aside from the opportunity cost of not furthering public transportation, autonomous cars will drive around aimlessly anytime the cost of fuel is less than the cost of parking. We already have Uber creating waste by idling/driving around between passengers.
I think that depends where you go in London.

As with nearly all foreign cuisines, London tends to have some of the best 'authentic' examples of Thai food and some of the most heavily adapted examples...

It's the same with Indian (some excellent restaurants and some very British, cream-filled takeaways), Italian, Mexican and definitely Chinese food.

I assume it's at least partly down to many of these more exotic cuisines having been introduced to Britain earlier than much of mainland Europe, resulting in them being more heavily adapted to local tastes.
I’m not sure how authentic it is, but the little place below the consulate in River North is pretty good.
You have to ignore Waymo to still have this opinion. I doubt they'd buy 80k cars if they didn't think they could use them soon.
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Is it really click-bait, though? The title seems to pretty accurately describe the contents of the article.
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sounds like they're cracking down on vpns as well
I'm on an astrophotography kick lately, so the only thing I see is "increase in light pollution". So goes progress, but it would be neat if some places found ways to advance without also leaving behind the vision of the stars that used to fascinate and inspire so many people.
> EDIT: By packaging system I assumed we meant the same repositories, and packages. Since that is how Flatpak seems to work.

Flatpak is entirely decentralized, anybody can make a custom runtime (Debian/Fedora ones exist), and anybody can host a repository.
> I feel like we have an embarrassment of riches in terms of good Thai food here in the Triangle area

Ditto for North Texas. Some of my favorites include:

Banana Leaf in Far North Dallas

Thai Spice in Far North Dallas (they live up to their name!)

Best Thai Signature in Far North Dallas

Legends Thai Cuisine in Plano

SaWaDiKa in Richardson

And there are so many others around I haven't tried... TBH, I mostly go to a handful because the ones near me are so excellent I don't see a need to shop around.
If I need software not found in my upstream repos you have 3 options:

1. Packaged by the developer/publisher, see Virtualbox, Spotify, Chrome, Slack etc...

2. Packaged by a single 3rd party, see PPAs

3. A central 3rd party repo populated by anyone, NPM, AUR, pip, Snap/Flatpak etc..

Case 1: I have to trust the developer/publisher which is sensible, you're already trusting their code to run.

Case 2: I have to trust some random 3rd party, sometimes this is possible, sometimes not but if I do trust them I'm trusting them for one package (and maybe it's dependencies). I may have multiple options of who to trust to provide this package.

Case 3: Anyone can package anything if they get there first they can publish things however they like. The problem is that they are implicitly trusted by the repo, not me.

The first 2 are acts of active trust, I have to verify the person/company I'm downloading and make a decision whether I trust them or not. With a 3rd party central repo (it doesn't matter what format) I do not have that option, I either trust everything that anyone can publish to be correct or I don't use it.
My wife and I really enjoy watching cooking competitions. We have probably watched several entire series of them both on Netflix and on others. Netflix produced a couple of their own originals. We could not make it through more than a single episode of any of them.

One was actively offensive and disgusting in which the competitors were floridly incompetent and the challenge was to make something gross. After that experience which was like watching the worst of Youtube except with a 'made by Netflix' label I do not search for cooking competition shows on Netflix anymore.
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That sounds possible for large players.
Cookie laws, legal nag screens everywhere, monitoring comment section is a 24/7 job... its just absurd. Honestly, just turn off the internet in the EU.
More should do this. I am blackballed from Silicon Valley from a series of bad employers and have a misdemeanor driving-related arrest, so a Day Labor non-profit that does the same has been my only way of attaining employment. My income has dropped 10x but it’s enough to feed me, and most of my network has turned its back on me. I am hired by executives and doctors for cash now who feel I am wasting my skills too.

I have great skills from over 18 years of passionate programming, being squandered. If any bay area tech companies hire like this, I’ll make your year.
If that was valid we would never had a patent free MPEG-2 and MP3 codec by now.
Coal jobs are usually available in areas with few alternatives. Whole regions depend on mining. It's hard to tell people that their whole city needs to change jobs when there are none available.
Do standards matter?

Yes.
> When self driving cars give up, they give you a second or less to assess the situation around you and avert disaster.

I don't think the problem will be any situation with short reaction times at all. Nothing at freeway speeds, or situations like the Uber accident. That I think is where autonomous cars will shine, because sensors never get tired and reaction times are great.

The weird things that will happen which I count to the "not going to solve any time soon" category will be when the car comes to a completely snowed over roadworks, in the middle of the night, with the diversion signs completely hidden in snow. Construction workers barely visible in the snowstorm. Are those guys roadworkers or pedestrians? Are they working? Can I pass here? Will I get oncoming traffic because they narrowed it to one lane?

When things this weird happens at highway speeds or anywhere else where reaction is important - humans probably fail too. And at that point it's not really a question of technology but one of trust. Can we allow autonomous car to kill tons of people every year, with the sole excuse that humans would have killed all those people too, and then some? I'm not convinced of that either - I'm only arguing that from a technological standpoint, it should be possible to reach the 99% cars within a rather short timeframe. Those cars may be left on the scrapheap of history because of legal or ethical reasons, however.
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If you don't do a lot of photo printing I'd highly recommend getting a laser printer. Far more reliable than inkjets, never dry out, and the toner is cheap. I got an $80 black and white Brother nearly a decade ago and it still works fine. These days you can get color laser machines under $200 and the toner remains far cheaper than ink cartridges.

The other way to avoid paying through the nose for tiny ink cartridges is to get a printer with refillable ink, i.e. Epson's EcoTank branded models or one of the many third party refillable cartridge solutions. But these always end up drying out and clogging if they're not used frequently enough.
Waymo's initial commercial deployment is imminent but is now a good 6 months behind their initial announcement last November. Waymo is still using safety drivers most of the time, and the commercial deployment will likely be confined to members of their EZ rider guinea pigs. It's very exciting seeing how far they've come, but for every new region they hope to roll out in there's going to be a ton of work. AI can interpolate but it cannot generalize.

We're past peak hype and sliding into the trough of disillusionment.
Flathub reviewer here. We do not security audit code of any project as thats just unreasonable. The user puts ultimate trust in the upstream projects we just ensure that the right upstream is used, libraries are up to date and sanely built, permissions are as reasonable as they can be, etc.

This is identical to every traditional distro like Debian or Fedora.
The EU usually makes little distinction between a 3 man startup and a multi national 5000 people company with their laws. They don't get that such laws only re-enforce and strengthen the position of the big dominant players (Facebook, Google, Twitter...) that have the legal capacity to deal with all this nonsense.
It is barely even ambiguous. Bean absolutely knew, and showed it; Ender probably also knew, but intentionally hid the fact that he knew from the adults. The whole battle school was filled to the brim with brilliant, command-trained, engineered psychopaths, as a design feature of the program. They needed someone just empathy-deficient enough to sacrifice most of the human combatants, if it meant annihilating the enemy.

Ender may have suspected that the command would turn on him once the war was won, as they turned on Rackham, so established a public facade of a personality that would struggle morally with winning a total war by any means necessary. He had to be a good guy, rather than a captive, monster-fighting monster, and then keep up the act until he could escape the ensuing post-victory political meltdown on Earth.

I'm not sure if Card even knew at the time he was writing it, or if he left that intentionally ambiguous, to be filled in later if necessary. But as I read it, Ender knew, and was already playing at least one move ahead, past the victory against the aliens.
Great, thank you! I rewrote them for fish shell syntax and added the '-c' flag for `less` so it starts writing from the top of the window instead that from the bottom, I'm more confortable with it (still I don't know why it doesn't fit the terminal width like man does, but it wraps text every 80 characters - I guess it's not a problem anyway).

function mdless
pandoc -s -f markdown -t man $argv[1] | groff -T utf8 -man | less -c
end
function umedit
mkdir -p ~/.notes; nvim ~/.notes/$argv[1];
end
function um
mdless ~/.notes/"$argv[1]"
end
function umls
ls ~/.notes/
end

(reminder, to make them permanent just: `funcsave mdless umedit um umls`)
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I agree. If the food wasn't great, it wouldn't matter how hard they marketed it. There's far too many great options out there to end up with 10x the market share per capita of other cuisines if it isn't also great.
I like to run a pretty lean system, and flatpak gives me the ability to install some of the bloatier packages without the deep system dependencies they bring with them in a package manager.

Installing a PDF reader should not forcibly install Udisks2 and upower.

A lot of commenters are upset that maintainers are being removed from the equation. Can't each distro just set up their own maintained repository? If I understand correctly, there's nothing about flatpak that actually prevents traditional maintaining. The only thing distros have to do is integrate flatpak, set up their own repository as default, and note that user should use other repositories at their own risk. Which is basically how things already work.

Is there a valid reason to hate flatpak itself, or are you all just too caught up in hating change to actually evaluate it?
People are very good at not knowing how unqualified they are. Former brother-in-law of mine was convinced he was a computer expert because he built a computer once.

IT pay is well-known for being better than average, so I'd bet you'd have people who can move a mouse trying to get entry-level IT work at a company known for hiring anyone.
They’re referring to the entire metro area there.
“If you look at the emergence of railroads, for the most part people have learned not to stand in front of a train on the tracks,” [says Andrew Ng]

Because the train is the rail's single legal user, that's why it can afford to run at signalling-controlled speed, not by vision-limited one.

So, by his own analogy, he would like to own the street now because his SDV is the most expensive piece of traffic, does he? Next step from "it's your damn fault for being in the way" is adding the cowcatcher, then: "You on foot, you on the bike, you in the less-protected car, you have all violated the SDV's expectations, off with your plebeian heads!" That's a very different (indeed achievable, and most importantly cheaper for Ng and friends) dog-eat-dog vision from the usual technicolor utopia marketing of "SDVs will predict you and drive far more safely."

Historically, such forays into adversarial driving have been met with caltrops, or in general, an arms race.
Got ya. They create their own repositories, and don't use the central one.
They’ve made it clear that they are not making exceptions for small players, specifically somas to preclude pushing extremists out into the fringes of the Internet. No small platform will ever be able to launch in the EU again.
I think removing extremist content is a good idea overall (although this then begs the question, how do you legally define extremist content?[1]), but I feel like 1 hour is a bit tough, primarily because 1 hour can mean different things: does it mean from being reported, or being uploaded? This question isn’t covered in the article and it’s an important distinction I feel.

1: the problem being that a lot of religious texts could be defined as “extremist” if an ill defined law is created. I guess you have to define directly what content would be considered extremist, e.g. any video from a known terrorist/terrorist group like ISIL, which will never be perfect but better than having a definition that’s too loose.
Is that Thai cafe near 54/55 where Sarah's empanadas? (Also good) if so I miss that place
Excellent. But I have to wonder what is classed or will be classed extremist. Russian Trolls are subtle, and will be able to avoid this. Democracy is getting hit more by those very trolls than anything else. So have to wonder if this is gonna be worth it.
How? Can you even define "extremist content" in general terms without also making religious texts illegal? Or scientific articles that go against the politically correct narrative?
just two steps away from china

1. authorities can have their own definition of "extreme"
2. site must delete or get shutdown
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To me it felt like genuine appreciation. I can fake it for a bit in several languages but writing pop songs in them would feel like a massive achievement.
> If every distribution was using the same packaging system, would they still be separate distributions?

Do we even need that many distributions? What's the value proposition for all those hundreds of Linux distros?

My impression is that for many of them its:

A. we want to make my own distro, to learn, get visibility or maybe even make money

B. we want to make our own distro because of an already existing user base from point A.

C. we want to make our own distro because we can't get along with distro X makers

I wish that the barrier to entry to making a Linux distro was higher. People would have to put more thought and effort into it and the overall quality would be higher.
You may know that, but does the average person who might find themselves in a jury pool know that? Would they understand the distinction? To the average lady person, this would be like saying alizeran crimson is more than just a red paint.
Why is this even an article? classic straw man fallacy.

Nobody serious has ever said that it is ok to hate men.

But still somebody thinks that it is worthwhile attacking a position nobody is holding.
The weird thing is that he has a dog, Pluto, that behaves like a pet and at the same time his friend Goofy, that's also a dog, behaves like a human. OK, he's a mouse so go figure.

(Spanish speaker, no English until I was 12)
Info is much better than man, but keep in mind it's only covering gnu coreutils (which isn't a bad thing!)
Mami Nora's is so good. I need to try to re-create their beans and yellow/green sauce at home again.
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> There was WebOS.

That was 20 years after Windows came on the scene.

Parent poster was wondering why 1980s/1990s HP let Microsoft commoditize hardware (courtesy of IBM). I think the answer is the same as for IBM: old management who couldn't see the revolution coming. After 40 years of Cold War, where the business landscape had been more or less stable and consistent, people struggled to conceive the notion that fundamental shifts could happen.
Who’s allowed to write about technology?
To me, it might be. But literally all the jobs I’ve applied to in the past half year have given me some variation of a comment along the lines of “but can you list ALL of the projects you’ve ever worked on and the languages/libraries you used for them?”

Mind you, that’s in Japan, so possibly not entirely representative.
"just because you hire anyone who applies doesn't mean just anyone will apply"

I can only infer from this statement that you have never been in a hiring position in which you are receiving the raw resume submissions from the field. You either have never been in a hiring position, or you've only had the post-filter resume stream sent to you.
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"Mr King told the FT that the law would apply to small social media apps as well as the bigger players."

They are deliberately announcing a law that small upstarts will find impossible to deal with and they are deliberately announcing they intend to discriminate against them.

3 AM video while your entire team is asleep? Fined.

That is downright terrible.
In Slack my company uses https://littlebirdie.io/ I haven't seen an email notification service yet.
Dangerous logic. We may have to blame americans for thier country too.
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It's this kind of condescending attitude towards users that keeps Linux a non-option for people. What happens when a user wants to install something that isn't in the repo? Or do you just imagine that "average users" don't do that (and that no one else matters)?

Edit response: It is condescending because it imagines the user is incapable or uninterested in the way their system actually works, as a mere pusher of buttons to make the blinkenlights go. Sure, some users are like that, but largely it is a convenient excuse to dismiss criticism.
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The EU internal report is here: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-1169_en.htm

It seems to be in early stages. The one hour rule is fine for larger sites that can afford it, though for smaller sites where "all employees are asleep" is a valid condition so I'm not sure how they'll handle that.

Additionally this seems to piggyback another set of rules determined to make Youtube DMCA/Copyright/Community Guideline strikes more transparent and fair, which is urgently needed IMO.

I'll definitely keep any eye on it, it might be harmful depending on how the final draft as law turns out.
I wish this was for life with a checklist like functionality. Like um edit morningRoutine