skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's UNIX but without most of the shortcomings of other UNIX distributions.

Also with the OS and the hardware made by the same entity, there is no finger pointing when stuff goes wrong. You don't have the card/board/device maker blaming the driver/OS/software authors and vice versa, so instead of a hopeless feeling, you have a system that works. Yes sometimes Apple is said not to own up to their own problems (keyboard-gate, etc.) but often there exists a PBKAC and there are a lot of haters out there who love to post exaggerated horror stories, so take all that with a grain of salt.

It also has a bug reporting system that, while it could be better and doesn't give you much feedback, at least you know it is being paid attention to, and updates are improvements.

Also you know the creators aren't out to harvest all your data, and they seem a lot less likely to be in bed with three letter agencies that would love to backdoor anything you write. Not thinking of Linux with those two points, but other players. Linux systems have their own problems (see finger pointing above).
I've been using Evernote for a few years (I got it for free back when Apple was doing app of the week). I've never signed up for a subscription. Frankly I have another note app that I prefer (trunk notes) and use for important things I want to save. The main thing I like about the other app is it does auto backups to dropbox, the notes are in plain text (markdown), and I can easily email a zipped up backup to myself. Supposedly you can download notes from Evernote, but after reading the instructions I didn't bother to do it. Its not anywhere near as easy to do. I've seen too many cloud services go belly up over the years to trust my important notes to Evernote.
The US should pass legislation banning cookie notifications just to counterbalance the incentives.

I have them blocked but still they are awful.
ASIS[0] is CIA (foreign intel) - ASIO would be the FBI's counter-intel department

ASIS is also the department that was secret between its founding in 1952 until 1972

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Secret_Intelligence...
If you want citizens, 30 years ago 3% of Americans had passports. Now ~45% do.
They are, among other things, paid by the government.

They are not independent of it, under no definition of any of those words. Maybe oversight is lax. Maybe oversight is perfect and everything happens exactly as the overseers want it.

None of that changes anything about the truth of the initial claim. "Independent of" is patently false, and an obvious attempt to sensationalise.
I too work in the software industry in India (and have been working since the last 30 years). And i have worked for several years outside india as well.

My Indian colleagues through the years (male and female) have been no different in their commitment compared to colleagues i have worked with in Europe, US, Australia for several years.

And I should add that at least the companies i have worked in "give a shit" about women in the workforce. I don't know whether we have more women that the US - but we definitely have much fewer than there should be - so there is no need for being self-congratulatory. My company (with about 1000+ people) has several policies in place to hire more women and make it easier for them to resume after a break. And i think we are far from unique.
Im not affiliated, but I think www.blinkist.com is excellent. The summaries are very, very short, and if you like the message, you can buy the book. It has both audio and text as well.
Any idea if Elon Musk used cryptographicly signed messaging anywhere, because this starts to feel like his messaging has been compromised. Our president has plenty of reasons to want to destroy this man, and this could be the first extremely public example of the president using his power.
Pharo is pretty much the future. I wonder if WebAssembly and it’s upcoming ecosystem will be useful to take some load on a future Smalltalk?

[edit: since I’m getting the posting too fast crap here is another language mentioned in the article KRL by Danny Bobrow and Terry Winograd https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/033e/cd544c4e71b14a7d3ee061... ]
https://lesschurn.io/
James Watt was able to go around England installing steam pumps in coal mines. Why was Hero of Alexander not able to do the same thing?
I'm a long time windows user, but have been on Linux full time at work for over two years (not by choice), and have been using a Mac at home for one year in the hopes of being won over. That hasn't happened though as the key-bindings on Mac are two different from what I am used to, so I'm switching back to Windows at home now that the Windows Subsystem for Linux is a thing.
What browsers do not?
Going back as far as I can remember, to about 5 or 6 years old, it has always taken me a very long time to fall asleep — like, at least an hour or two. It just takes a long time for my brain to shut itself off.

I have to hold myself as perfectly still as possible, not scratching any itches that might come up, or letting anything else cause me to move a muscle. Or, if I do have to move, get it over quickly and then go back to being still.

After a long enough time, I can sometimes notice that I have lost awareness of where certain parts of my body are located. I know that I still have an arm, but it’s not tingling or anything and I don’t have a somatic sense of where it is. Same for other parts of my body. Sometimes I have this awareness multiple times in a night, and it’s like someone is slowly dimming the lights on all those circuits until they finally extinguish, one by one.

By the time I was in high school, I discovered Dungeons & Dragons, and it was easier for me to fall asleep by imagining what my favorite characters would do in various scenarios. And over thirty years later, I continue to use that same basic concept — different RPG characters now, but the same concept.

One of the best things I discovered recently is the “Stillness Moves You” class that my friend Ariana Armistead taught a few years ago. She later developed that into the “InStill Movement” method (see http://instillmovement.com). It is simultaneously the most relaxing AND the most energizing thing I have ever done in my life.
Why is it that Tesla is the only parts provider when other car companies have aftermarket parts?
IIRC boost::unordered_map/set offered those, and I'm pretty sure the API was taken more or less verbatim from that. I suspect some desire of compatibility was to blame, but don't know.

Hopefully in the future mistakes of these sort will be avoided, but that might be asking for too much (certainly std::optional opted to break compat with boost's (`std::optional<T&>` is disallowed) so there's some hope).
Literally nothing.

Just kidding haha. I mean their main language is Mandarin, so that can be a challenge, even though tons of people speak English.

If you want to work in a Taiwanese company, you may have to deal with a really shitty arbitrary work culture. Sitting on your phone till 8pm cause it looks good, such bullshit.

It can get absurdly hot in the summer, 40c levels, with high humidity, and usually you gotta get your own AC installed unless you're in a super new building (few places have central AC). Also taifun (how do you spell that in English...) can be really intense. Also the mosquitoes are a fucking nightmare.

If you're a vegetarian, forget about it lol. Nobody there understands or really cares. You'll only ever be able to eat at foreign restaurants which pretty much restricts you to Taipei or maybe kenting.

Hmm other than that it is literally paradise to me. Whatever you want is an hour train ride (for one USD) away. Surfing, hiking, bicycling through mountains, rock climbing, art meetup things, entrepreneurship stuff, hackerspaces, hackers... It's such an amazing country.

Oh you do have the constant fear that north Korea or China will nuke you.
I'm sure they'll find a way to make money ... how long do you think 3D printed struts, suspension arms will last?

Maybe they'll just switch to mandatory monthly maintenance fees!
Paywall free link http://archive.is/gEktW
The Funniest Makeup Tutorial Ever LOL Hilarious
"factoid": I don't think it means what you think it means.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid
It's true that any codified protection of individual rights is worth nothing without people motivated, either in- or extrinsically, to uphold them.

But the power of such shape public opinion, and even people's sense of their, and their country's, identity.

The US, for example, has long had a strain of something akin to "patriotism to the constitution". It's a collective narrative that makes people believe in those rights (and the rule of law). And even those that do not share that believe have historically been motivated to play along, because it was the only way to stay what's called "acceptable company" (or "electability").

Of course we're currently running an experiment if that mechanism still works when 47% of the voting population and half the elected representatives decide to try something else for a change. Currently, it's only parts of the judiciary, and of the media, holding everything up. we'll see how it ends.
What is wrong with artificial rights? Aren’t a lot of rights already artificial? You can also argue that property rights are artificial: if someone points a tank at you then you will have to give up all your property, so property right pretends like that isn’t reality and is dishonest. But I’d say it is a good thing that people aren’t allowed to point a tank at me.
If they said this, "because they are actively working to understand and fix the problem but haven't come to a well resound solution and thus they cannot give you a decent time estimate because you will probably get even more mad if they under/over estimate the time it took to fix it." I would thank and applaud them. Tell me what it is you're doing at least. Why don't you understand the problem? What are you investigating? Some transparency goes a long way for me.
Were you able to perform operations given ARM services were down? Were you using your secondary DB for read-only or did you fail-over some other way?
io.Writer takes a byte slice as an argument and the escape analyzer can’t see through the interface, so it would be allocated anyway, I believe.
You can adjust the F-keys in the preferences. That and remapping caps lock to control is something I always do.
>Psychologists and biologists currently regard the controversy as outdated, and speak of the interaction between genes and environment.

As examined at length by Steven Pinker's Blank Slate, they regard the controversy as outdated because nature won. Definitely. We've found even enviroment itself is heavily impacted by genetics, as people tend to strongly self-select what kind of day-to-day conditions they live in.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/

>Shockley, by advocating such genetic-determinist views on race and intelligence, seemed like an atavistic throwback, to a time in America’s history when immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe (particularly Jewish immigrants) were screened out because of their alleged intellectual inferiority to the superior Nordic races.

Considering the Manhattan project had so many Eastern European jews involved it was joking referred to as a "Hungarian high school science fair project" this seems unlikely. But it wouldn't be the first time a racist ostensibly interested only in 'the biology of intelligence' conspicuously ignored the Jewish community's intellectual accomplishments.
Please understand that for many of us in the EU, freedom of speech as understood and implemented by Americans is not something desirable.

Based solely on my personal experience, most of the people are actually happy on how censorship is handled by our institutions. I've never felt restricted in expressing my opinion in whichever topic we are discussing, and I am actually happy that people preaching racist ideologies (that have cost us a lot in the past) find some obstacles in their way.

I personally don't consider your freedom of speech as inherently superior or the obvious step into progress. As many things in life, it has its pros and cons. Would you deem as "progress" all those echo chambers on the internet where people find support for ideologies that have cost millions of lives in the past?
I think about that all the time. Imagine a Smalltalk VM written in WASM. It could load with every site and every site could just be live Smalltalk.
I am astonished to see that my previous reply to the above (completely off topic) comment has been flagged and downvoted to oblivion.

If a country is located further East than Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, former Yugoslavia and former East Germany; shares a long land border with Russia; and was a de facto part of the Soviet Union for the entire duration of the Cold War; then yes, of course it is an Eastern European country.

How is stating that obvious fact a violation of any posting rules? If anything, it is the implied denigration of Eastern Europe that should be raising eyebrows.
The second definition there fits perfectly.
Best-selling authors seem to be aware of this trend, because I keep coming across excellent but very, very short non-fiction books. Among those I can remember reading and would recommend, these are published in the past <5 years and are <150 pages (or <5 hour audiobook):

- Discrimination and Disparities By: Thomas Sowell

- A Colony in a Nation: Chris Hayes

- Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates

(three very different takes on race relations in America)

- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: Neil deGrasse Tyson

- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Carlo Rovelli

- When Breath Becomes Air: Paul Kalanithi

- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century: Timothy Snyder

- Requiem for the American Dream: The Principles of Concentrated Wealth and Power: Noam Chomsky

- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now: Jaron Lanier

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I'm sure services I use run on all of the major cloud providers, but if that page was supposed to be enlightening, I only recognized one brand from the first page of customers.

I refreshed a couple times, and sure, I saw more (on average 1 or 2) that I recognized on each page. But I don't think your response is particularly persuasive. Are you suggesting that the services that I use that run on AWS are in fact, not services I actually use?

Or am I not a consumer? I'm confused.

Edit: Do you hold any Alphabet/Google stock? I've noticed your comment history trends toward dismissing criticism of Google, praising their products, and taking opportunities to speak about the flaws of their top competitors.
Fitting that this article is posted by John Carreyrou.
The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad
I love Boostnote too. It seems like they had a mobile app but the maintainer left a while ago https://github.com/BoostIO/boostnote-mobile
Yeah. Each campaign is its own (tiny) organization. The group that is supposed to help House campaigns is the DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) and for Senate campaigns, it's the DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee).
I mean, that is an unassailable point. I guess I would say that I feel productive in most languages after the learning curve. I get caught in the cycle of "oooo what if I'm more productive in x, lisp, or z"
Not surprising due to gsuite and 3rd party applications loaded on to Android devices.
It's actually not hard to beat the performance of standard set and map containers in specific scenarios. For example in one application I have a treap implementation that's much faster than the standard ordered map, but it is much less featureful (doesn't support deletion for example).
Many investors expect augmented reality to eventually have as much impact as smartphones. That may not be realistic, but the current Apple valuation is at least partly based on the expectation that it will eventually become an AR market leader.
Common law rests heavily on stare decisis. The precedent set in Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth is not likely to be overturned, as far as free political speech and organisation goes.
Are these benchmarks done with cold caches and multithreading? If not then we are not seeing the whole picture here.
> Rather appropriate - yukuza are "members of transnational organized crime syndicates"

That would be "yakuza." (YAH-koo-zah)
They had Outlook and still bought sunrise.

I still miss sunrise.
Maybe it's because I code, and tend to prefer plain text, but I never understood mobile apps that do note taking.

I have always just really wanted basic plain text on an SD card file system, but locked Android phones and iOS actively throw up barriers to keep people out of the raw file system. Even Google ships non-rooted flagship
smartphones without a default file manager, and like, zero support for core geek features like plain text, folder manipulation and zip files.

So then you have these note taking apps, and they aren't free, and they STILL don't provide these sorts of core geek features.

So then I have to attack my phone, break it with some local exploit, risk bricking it in order to reflash, and THEN maybe I get some of the traditional UNIX style file operations.

I'm not saying Evernote to the rescue, because, honestly, I don't expect that to happen. But FFS, having to nearly destroy a phone, or pay money to gain access with an aftermarket upsell, to add basic features that Linux provides for, native, as a matter of being an operating system, when using a supposedly free OS like Android is absurd.

So, if a CTO for a really popular app can't think of a way to help this situation, I'm pretty luke warm about what your company does for a living. How do your geeks use their phones at work?

A readily recognizable company like Evernote should have a clue about this kind of thing. At this point, I'm sick of scouring walled-garden marketplaces for no name freebie/ad-supported garbage apps, because I'm too lazy to crack my phone, and too cheap to pay. Why is there not some default solution. Even github created Atom because text editing is kind of bullshit, moreso than it should be in a lot of areas. Evernote could probably blast open some kind of mobile IDE/tooling offering, if they wanted to. Not branded as Evernote, but as a sort of power-user product worth paying money for, shipped under some other name.

Meh. Whatever.
No Democratic organization (DNC, DSCC, DCCC, OFA) really holds sway over campaigns. The DCCC would basically never say "hey, use these 2FA dongles or we're not sending money" to a competitive campaign, and they definitely can't do that over personal accounts ("hey ditch Yahoo! or we're not running any ads"). Maybe they should, it's debatable, but there's a lot of things we should do that are on the spectrum of "unimportant in the grand scheme of things" to "infeasible".
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
I'm the same. Happy with current functionality and the current price.

It doesn't need to be the only product or have the most users it only needs to be functional and make enough money for it to be worthwhile except with vc funding it has to constantly chase growth and returns.
https://twitter.com/WildGoose1776/status/1037056798195372032

If you require more authoritative firsthand confirmation, phone the PD yourself.
Not intended to be snarky: why is this crazy to you? All cloud providers have had downtime incidents, major hosted VCS providers, SaaS products. Downtime is a fact of life in tech.
If you mean that alcohol is not generally prescribed by doctors to treat an issue, you are often correct outside of things like wiping before giving yourself an insulin shot.

However, many people use alcohol to self-medicate for legitimate issues. The fewer services available to you, the more appealing alcohol and other drugs seem. Alcohol is, after all, cheap and readily available.

Sometimes it is as simple as trying to be able to withstand a cold, wet night. Sometimes folks are in pain (a variety of things can cause this, from tooth decay to sore feet to serious issues). If you cannot afford psychiatric medications, alcohol is a way out. It might not be ideal, but it is available. More available than health care in many cases. After all, you are speaking of folks that don't have actual shelter, a proper toilet, sanitary conditions, or a place to store or cook food regularly.

I'll add that simply being homeless can be a deadly condition as can a myriad of things that you might go to the doctor for. Seriously, if you simply couldn't get anything to treat your condition, what do you think your options would be? What if daily life made you absolutely miserable and you couldn't find a way out?
NCSA Mosaic 2.0.0 (and all versions prior).
What happens when I lose my key?

What happens when I drink too much before needing to go home?

What happens if my car gets hit in the parking lot or broken into and I need to deal with calling the cops and trying to obtain the security camera footage before leaving?

The truth is no solution is without problems.

The transportation as a service model has more pros for me than cons. Plus it would mean fewer cars on the road overall and less need for parking spaces when autonomous vehicles can take us places and no longer need to be parked to wait for us.
The wikiepdia article on body temperature is interesting. You can get different numbers depending on the language:

- Arabic/French/Polish/Turkish: 37 °C

- Chinese: 36.8±0.4℃

- English: 36.5–37.5 °C

- Italian: 36.5 °C

From my own experience, people say:

- France: 37 °C

- Korea: 36.5 °C

source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_temperature
Welcome Alan Davidson, Mozilla’s New VP of Global Policy, Trust and Security
Not being interested in rehabilitation isn't an excuse to let folks starve on the streets. Go ahead and make sure folks have a room with a lockable door and food available to them. Keep folks as safe and healthy as possible. Keep offering ways to improve life.
I am a PhD student at UT Austin in mechanical engineering right now. The MS does not require a lab class in either case. In my division, thermal/fluid systems, you can take either a class on experimental methods or a class on numerical methods (or both if you want) for a MS. Both are required for a PhD.

http://www.me.utexas.edu/graduate/areas/tfs/courses

Multiple lab courses are required for a BS in mechanical engineering at UT.
I swapped from Evernote to OneNote for all my note taking needs years ago. I can dump all of my random notes and thoughts into one notebook then structure them better than I ever could with just tags. Not sure if that's changed on Evernote, but lacking the option for both structured and unstructured notes is what drove me away from it initially.
The key bindings are definitely a thing to deal with when switching between keyboards. My brain had gotten used to the differences between an Apple keyboard and my ThinkPad, but I recently Lubuntu on an old MacBook and that was a mental fiasco to get things right. I’m looking to either configure or find keybindings to get around this personally.

I think the WSL has been a great boon for developing on Windows machines, and I hope it gains more traction among developers.