skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your complaint appears to be about the rate of your taxation and the return on benefits from taxation but not on the concept of taxation. This is related to but not the same thing as a fear of taxation. A number of people in the U.S. have taken your stance further and declare taxation as theft. Such people tend to single mindedly vote for anyone who says they’ll lower taxes and not consider someone who says they want to better spend what taxes are used for.
Date-fns supports 46 locales currently, so it's not nothing.

Regarding local times, if it's always local, why worry about it? Just store it in "UTC" without conversion, with the understanding that it will never be converted. That's what the Postgres "timestamp without time zone" type essentially is.
UHK is shipped from Europe.
Are there any atelic activities (for humans!), taking a walk with someone doesn't have a destination but it does (always?) have a goal. If you set off for a wander with someone, not having a walking goal, but that person is called away then you fail; if you finish the walk together then you succeed.

In fact people will often have more solid goals to "a walk together" seemingly goalless activities.

Chilling out, is spending time, is cementing a relationship through familiarity -- you can fail to chill out together, so I consider you can also achieve "chilling out" despite it being a relatively vacuous term.

Perhaps the analogy is just flawed and he means things like "love someone" or "get exercise". But then I think they're just abstractions for categories of activity that are completable.

It probably doesn't matter, as the important point is whether we generally perceive the activities differently; psychology trumps reality here. It's a compelling analysis.
I find them worse than cumbersome.

Take this from Bloomberg - https://i.imgur.com/A8xSnRA.png

I can't work out if that's set to allow functional and disallow advertising cookies or the other way around. And that's Bloomberg who presumably think they're somewhat reputable.

Still, I'm sure there's a UX guy somewhere swimming in material for a talk on dark patterns. Every cloud, but ffs.
You are making it difficult for us to assume good faith. What is wrong with the explanations that have been provided to you?
How many hours do I need to master Microsoft Excel?
Isn't Apple hosting iCloud on Google infrastructure? Technically if I didn't trust G, I wouldn't trust A either.
The CTRL's predecessor, the K-Type, also featured hot-swap socket.

There are a few others (like the GK64 and the Ergodox EZ) that also feature it!
The concept of entropy pushes one to think of binary trees. Huffman coding used in real compressors use Huffman trees [1] that express the prefix code used to define entropy as in Colah's blog http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-Visual-Information/
Entropy is the expected lenght, so it's the weighted sum of the lenght of the paths from root to leaves, weighted by their frequency.

[1] https://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/vide...
Just to clarify most common things:

1) This is a 60% keyboard - an accepted standard.(https://www.keyboardco.com/blog/index.php/2017/08/full-size-...) If you want arrows, F keys, - get a 75%, TKL, or fullsize board.

2) No ESC key? This board is fully programmable. You can make ALL keys to be ESC at the same time! Settings are saved ON THE board , so even if you go anywhere else, you can still use your ESC key.

3) This board is actually shipping. It’s not a Kickstarter “we will make it someday, maybe” thing. Guys did a great job keeping every backer updated on current status in their monthly blog. Read it here, it’s amazing: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blog
None of this is really that new, and I wish this article was longer, because apparently not a lot of people know about any of this.

It is already known that a wide range of disorders, inside and outside of the brain, are linked to inflammation and also should be categorized as mitochondrial disorders.

Unfortunately, when these two are put together, you end up with an inability for doctors to tell patients they have an inflammation problem: all the tests say negative (I've even met people where this is true, yet they clearly have obvious symptoms of it). However, when you put the patients on a strict anti-inflammation diet and lifestyle, the symptoms go away, as if by magic (and since doctors never recommend regimes that work, patients themselves have to go out and do it themselves; without proper guidance, this has mixed results).

That said, surprisingly common advice works for a wide range of people: avoid foods that interfere with your body's ability to engage autophagy (such as grains and sugars; for some people this means a strict but clean keto diet), regular one-meal-a-day intermittent fasting (helps maintain a state of regular autophagy), stop being overweight (the first two help a lot with this), regular sleep cycles and enough sleep (the previous three help with this), and regular exercise (HIIT is most effective for the results required to prolong life; and all the previous suggestions free up time and energy to fit this into your lifestyle, where for many, it wouldn't have fit before).

I've never seen a doctor in the field ever recommend any of these, yet the past decade of science has been entirely focused on these because of how effective they are to treat common (and dangerous) diseases. There is a disconnect between what we know and what is practiced.
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Not the buffering.
Texas Pickup Truck Crash Shuts Down the Internet (2007)
There's nothing stopping you starting your own tradition in your own family, before your children get too old.

When my daughter was younger, and got her own phone we made a point of telling her (and observing) that there should never be a phone out while you are eating with people. And that it was rude to ignore people and be on your phone when in company.

She's now in her early 20s, and is hardly glued to her phone at all. She'll arrive a a persons house (or back to our house) and just dump it and her keys etc. on a table and ignore it unless it sounds a notification. It's so refreshing to see that when you know that most 20-somethings are welded to their phones 24/7.

Everything you teach kids shapes their view of the world going forward. Make Sunday a quiet day again. Create quality family time. Your kids may protest now, but they'll thank you when you are older.

NB. Also from UK, and I too miss the quiet Sundays we used to have.
Traditionally, PUDN -- but it has never worked for me.
Otherwise libgen comes to mind.
SpaceX has signed world’s first private passenger to fly around the Moon
I was thinking the same thing. ^__^;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Isn't DARPA investing in this space? Seems like the kind of thing they're usually interested in.
Let's be honest though, if someone's copy-pasting from Stack Exchange, they're probably not reading or understanding the whole thing they're copying either.

My rule in code reviews is if you're basing/copying something from the internet, you better be able to explain everything it's doing, and if you're pulling a dependency you better be able to explain why we need it and why you think it's trustworthy enough to put in our application.
Unfortunately, what the article described sounds a lot like a thermometer coded delta-sigma DAC or other similar design.

How these are constructed and used are well known, and they're probably lying about "closely guarded" to make sure people don't realize it is just a clever usage of an off the shelf part, and none of the magic is in-house.
I agree with author prediction, however I propose another solution: Plan9. It's devs foreseen today's problem and start to solve them, far better than actual partial solutions.

Oh, of course, Plan9 imply user independence and sovereignty a bad things for today's "industry" so Plan9 solution rest buried in the past.
> Allowed to be bald?!

Allowed to be bald and keep their job.

> What are they supposed to do? Straighten it?

YES. Again, from the article:

>> But dismissing certain styles as “distracting” can also amount to discrimination, especially when it comes to women of color in the industry. “You’ll do better with straight hair,” says Brittany Noble Jones, a digital and broadcast journalist who is black and who relaxed her natural hair for years. For many like her, the expectation isn't just that you'll conform to a certain anchor bob — it includes replacing your hair's natural texture with something else.

Also, the business doesn't pay for the chemical relaxers. That gets expensive on a local news anchor salary (2017 avg starting pay: $29,500).

> The same standards exist for men. All newscasters look the same.

They obviously don't, but I suspect it's difficult for you to see this because comments like this suggests a limited, biased experience possibly due to Survivorship Bias[2]. Yes, all newscasters look very similar! That's exactly the point of the article! You don't see many women, people of color, LGBT people with the hairstyles they consider natural (or, in the some cases, are natural due to genetic differences). Men are allowed some additional variance, but a lot of people - especially women, and doubly so for women of color - are being forced to damage their hair at personal expense to maintain a look that “is stereotypically heteronormative, not overly sexy, and predictable.”.

How many men have lost their jobs (or were never hired) because they didn't pay for weekly treatments to hide their growing bald spot? Probably a few, but it isn't even close to almost every female news anchor having to go to extreme lengths to keep their job.

How many men have to chemically damage their hair to remove it's natural curl/roughness if they even want to be considered for the job? Because that's the current reality - and another example of systemic racism - for some people of color.

Pretending these groups are equivalent contradicts reality (and this article).

[1] https://rtdna.org/article/rtdna_research_salary_survey#TVSp

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd3erAPI9w
People keep saying eInk is better than reflective black and white LCD, such as that found on calculators.

I’m unconvinced, but (obviously) to test this I would have to actually get a monitor sized black and white reflective display, and I can’t find any of those — largest I have found so far is 320x240 for about £200
It's possible because people have different theories of what will benefit themselves. In a functioning marketplace, different suppliers will explore different options. With a monopoly, which is what patents are, you're stuck with whatever notion the patent-owner has.

One perfectly reasonable theory of self-interest is to keep prices very high. Yes, they could drop the price and possibly make more. But they could end up making less, and they'll certainly have to do a lot more negotiation work.

As an analogy, look at Apple. They have less than 20% of the smartphone market, but make 80% of the profit. [1] They were way ahead of everybody and could have captured a much larger share of both the phone and tablet markets. They're using a different theory of self-interest than the other players.

[1] https://www.investors.com/news/technology/click/apple-rakes-...
The war between Los Angeles and its mountains (2015)
The Causal Revolutionary – Interview with Judea Pearl
> It’s minimal, easy to use, and works as advertised. Good software

It sucks that these are rare nowadays.

Maybe I could start a suckless list :)
Watch Plants Light Up When They Get Attacked
Funny that you would recommend their blog, I was going to do recommend the blog[0] by the people behind keyboard.io[1] for the exact same reason.

[0] https://blog.keyboard.io

[1] http://keyboard.io (If anyone from keyboard.io is looking, please consider enabling TLS on your main domain.)
I would like the OS to have 1 messaging app, 1 email app, 1 calendar app etc. Then underneath, each provider has their own interface to their backend. Then we can integrate everything into one system.

Now this idea still needs a lot of work. But, IMO we need to get away from the app model onto some new paradigm. Present us with our information /data directly without having to open apps. Think android widgets on steroids. Windows phone actually had some of this, with letting you create tiles that where contacts or other info.
My argument was that cutting funds for education (even if I understand that it's a state-level prerogative to handle education) while raising funds for the army is a bad signal.
Insurance policy, Security checklist for Bitcoin exchanges
What is ETF?
So now it’s a bad thing that Apple chose to support an industry standard (AAC) instead of a proprietary Qualcomm only protocol?

But if you aren’t satisfied with the Apple wired headphones, up until the 12th Apple bundle an adapter, you could choose any wired headphones you wanted. After the 12” it would be $9.99. It’s still not forcing you to buy AirPods.

As far as Bluetooth, there are other non Apple/Beats Bluetooth AAC headphones. Nothing forcing anyone to buy them from Apple.
This. My website traffic picks back up in September as well. So does the vehicle traffic on my commute.
If you’ve ever seen an OG Pebble, you’ve seen that display. It looks like a better resolution gameboy display. Very little space between pixels.

Some models are different, though, and basically turn into a mirror when their pixels are turned on, rather than become matte black.

Adafruit sells a dev board for 25 bucks. Perfect for low power wearables, much better than E Ink.
Most banks suck at doing software and are being outcompeted by startups that have made building good software their core business.

E.g. N26 in Germany is rapidly growing marketshare in Europe (and soon the US apparently) with products that are modern, user friendly, and 100% guaranteed cobol free. There are a few similar examples of bank startups that invest primarily in R&D and UX to grab market share from old banks that are simply not competitive. Their marketshare is melting away rapidly.

N26 bootstrapped with way less funding than most of these dinosaurs spend on keeping their old crap on life support. Per year.

I had a fun incident at Commerzbank here in Germany a few years ago where a request for some older statements that I needed for our compmany taxes was first impossible and then turned into a "we have to send get somebody into an archive to make a copy of the microfilm; this may take a few weeks". This was this century. This decade even. No joke. A major German bank is storing customer records on microfilm. Incompetent banks like this deserve to go bankrupt. They are sitting ducks for any kind of competition willing to simply show up. We took our business elsewhere after that incident. I will never do business again with that bank.

The real problem is that zombie banks like this have no in-house competence left to do anything productive when it comes to R&D. They are running on automatic pilot run by incompetent idiots. They outsourced all their core competence to consultants that happily come in and pile on more crap as long as they get payed enough. Mostly they evolve simply by copying what other banks do via expensive consultancy projects.

They tend to not have CTOs or anything resembling a technical strategy. Kind of odd if you realize that modern banking is essentially a software driven industry.
How to Sell an App Idea
Unfortunately the U.S Army is not just about "defend the country".
The United States spends more on national defense than China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, France, United Kingdom, and Japan combined.
I believe a great part of those funds would be better spent elsewhere.
Isn't the concept of a weekend at least as old as Sabbath, ie thousands of years?
Packnback: asymmetrically encrypted backups
Emissive displays don’t generally match the brightness of their surroundings; even with automatic adjustment, most are physically incapable of being as bright as a newspaper in daylight, and many cannot be as dim as a newspaper lit only by one of those small book-reading lights without being switched off entirely.

There’s also the spikey spectrum, which looks the same consciously but I’ve seen claims [1] that is messes with our circadian rhythm.

[1] I lack the skill to tell if this is real science or neo-mystic woo.
The number of authors doesn't seem unusual there, and a high number of authors doesn't have to indicate anything problematic.

There are many valid reasons why author lists can get rather large on scientific papers. Anything that is even a bit interdisciplinary will usually multiply the authors because you need collaborators with the right expertise and can't do everything yourself.
Why we millennials don’t care about your marketing campaign
Your deadline is now Waydev Video
Bash combined with utilities is like a swiss knife of scripting, you won't be doing any major woodwork with it but it sure is a heck of a useful tool.
It depends on what part of IT you are looking at, and what your objective is. If you need money now - then get a job and use what you have learned. The more you have a passion for the topic the more likely a degree is needed. Because after you get a bachelors, you are likely to want a master etc.

Programmer / Database - definitely - I have been developing code for a long time, I have worked in many positions. When I work with people I can usually tell if they have a degree in CS or some other topic. Part of it is the mind set of the person, and their ability to comprehend issues. A math or engineering major will understand recursion when explained. Most math majors will be able to do recursion after an explanation. A history or business major will nod in agreement, but still have no idea what I explained. That being said I use recursion to distinguish better programmers who can / could be great and those that are on the B team.

Like others have said, not all CS majors are great programmers, and many are just bad. But the chances are better, but I think it has more to do with passion than anything else.

If desire to be a systems administrator, a CS degree can help, especially in scoring the interview, but is often more helpful to have certifications.

It is easier for a boss to justify a raise / promotion for someone with a degree than not. Take this extreme scenario:
you have 2 developers, one with a few programming certs and one with a CS PhD. A manager slot opens up... whom do you promote? How hard would it be to explain either promotion to upper management? If they screw up in the new position who will they blame (if its the PhD person they blame them. The other guy they blame you for promoting him beyond his skills).

If you want to do web pages, then I think the learn it on your own is the best tactic.

I would avoid a CIS degree. That appears to be a degree for people who cannot do CS but think a computer degree would be real cool. Last I looked there were a lot of unemployed CIS people.

The one advantage of starting work now, is you might be able to get the company to pay for your CS degree. But they almost never provide a good pay raise.
No tutorial, just organically grown (thus ugly) scripts for games, that I own.

The gist is to prepare the directory structure, icon, .desktop file, flatpak metadata, appstream info, add dependencies not provided by flatpak runtime (for games, libGLU for example), put everything into ostree repo (flatpak build-export ...), and then either install from that, or export the content into .flatpak file (flatpak build-bundle ...).

The last step can take a while, .flatpak files are lzma compressed and the compression during export uses only one cpu core. For 20GB game, that isn't exactly quick, to be diplomatic.
IEX whom I would say for the most part is very reliable, although I would only base actual trades off of your brokerage’s data and leave other sources like Yahoo and Stockdaddy for real-time portfolio tracking.
"Such people tend to single-mindedly vote for anyone who says they'll (sic) lower taxes..."

Proof, please. A cite or three to peer reviewed studies will do.
What's the size of your house? I found it pretty hard to have a girlfriend or friends over in a small place. You have your own schedule and need for intimacy as an adult, it's hard when parents are always lurking behind the next wall.
And then someone puts "=" in your key value.
Tarsnap: open source
I suspect many careers and projects were started by copying the event loop out of Programming Windows.
I said Bible not New Testament. The Old Testament has most of the health directives.

You might want to look at the ‘they thought the earth was flat’ thing. There is quite a lot of data to show that a lot of people didn’t think that.
Leakage-Resilient Client-Side Deduplication of Encrypted Data in Cloud Storage [pdf]
Model based test generation is making structured testing easy
Siddhartha

It is the one book I always re-read every couple of years.

I first read in high school - it is a fairly short book.
I use EXWM so not much conflicting problems, at maximum coherence problems for non Emacs apps... My main problem is not remapping but to few single physical keys.

I love to have notmuch open with a single key, notmuch-mua-new-mail with a single key or at maximum S-$notmuchSingleKey, a single key for eshell, a single key for a featured terminal emulator, a single key for a browser, single keys for windows manipulation/buffer killing or switching etc. Split, tilting etc are nice layout but I need 150%-200% keyboards, possibly with backlit and custom-printed caps. In the past I love Sun keyboards (type 6 and 7 for most), now I'm struggle to find good o possibly better alternatives.

I do not look for "fast typing", I'm not a machine paid to write fast, but keyboard that enable me to use a real keyboard-based UI with comfort. Software "solution" (like hydra, evil etc) are not good enough.

On remapping: why the hell anyone try to offer application for that. What's wrong with a dirty-cheap flash storage on-board and a text files or few text files and dir in witch you can flash a new fw, remap with simple text config etc?

That's why I say no actual keyboard OEM really use keyboards...
I found this command that works, so far, on all my Linux laptops, to give much greater control over backlight intensity.

sudo su -c "echo 200 >/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"

Replace 200 with another number for different brightness.

Haven't found a Windows nor MacOS equivalent though.

I've used it a fair bit in conjunction with Redshift to get a screen that's reasonable for reading ebooks in low light.

I'd buy an e-ink laptop tomorrow if there was one.
Book review: The Doomsday Machine
so we should build machines to tell the truth quicker and then verify the machines told the truth by using methods that do not include using machines... when machines are built to determine the truth but cannot be trusted to do so - it's (more or less) a negative sum game.
> There's nothing stopping you starting your own tradition in your own family, before your children get too old.

We kind of do. Saturday has emerged as the "getting things done around the house" day, and for individual stuff. Then we eat together in the evening (something that isn't always possible Monday to Friday) and play board games or watch a film together. We try to make Sunday a day for family, go out somewhere or do things together at home. Doesn't always work out that way - children's homework, the weather, internet distractions, etc. But I agree that it is important to try.
Plan9 sure is a marvel of engineering because all interactions amount to reading/writing a specific file, but it doesn't solve the issue that is interoperability: it merely defines a way to connect to the remote service, but it doesn't say what the functional interface is.

- what "files" should I read from or write to ?

- what format should I use ?

- when should I interact with said files ? Is it ok to tail -f it or should I reopen it every time I want to get some new information ?

XML in itself didn't solve anything, it's the standards over how to define a grammar and validate it that made all the interoperability.