skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alt+Up in Windows Explorer navigates to the parent directory. And Alt+L/R does browser-style forward/back. These combined with typing the file name to select it makes it pretty easy for me to navigate. One nit I do have is that when you first go into a directory the selection is a bit funky; nothing is selected by default so enter doesn't do anything, but if you press Down it selects the second item, so if you need to go to the first item (pretty common in practice) you have to do this awkward down-up-enter to get there.

Edit: Reading comprehension is hard.
I've worked in this industry a bit, and MOOCs rarely use "course completion" as their primary success metric. One reason is precisely what you mentioned - that many people simply take the course for as long as they need to get their desired value out of it, then leave. Another was that the team I worked with found that, by far, the single biggest factor in terms of course completion was that a third party (usually their boss) incentivized them to complete it, and of those people, they were more likely to find ways to skip sections, get the minimum scores required to pass, etc.
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It's funny how a study on a few hundreds of negative tweets on Star Wars TLJ, directed to M. Johnson, from which half were from bots/trolls/people "not interested in Star wars" give headlines like this, as if any critics of the movie could be dismissed as irrelevant, because of the origin of a few tweets.
And setting an impossible to implement date of 2020 is a great way to ensure they donate their money to whoever's running against you.
I see! In your opinion, if I am trying to track various parts of my life. Like a schedule, todo stuff. Should I just code it as a programmer, instead of using excel?
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Also moved from Mac to Surface, 2 years ago. Used iterm2, which I believe is one of the highest quality pieces of software ever made. Before that gnome terminal pn various Linux OSs.

I regularly check out ConEmu, Hyper, Alacritty, etc for their current state on Windows (cmder isn't a terminal, but it includes ConEmu which is).

Most have major bugs - see https://github.com/mikemaccana/powershell-profile/ for links to specific unresolved issues.

The current most stable modern Windows Terminal is absolutely: Terminus.

https://eugeny.github.io/terminus/
> How do you feel about cruise control? Or automatic transmissions?

Cruise control is great. I still control where the car goes though. I still have to be 100% attentive to what the vehicle is doing. At no point am I relying on the vehicle to keep me safe.

Automatic transmissions are great too, except for very specific use cases.

> I like semi-autonomous systems because they still take some of the cognitive load off of driving. Paying attention is still easier than paying attention plus constantly having to adjust speed/steering/etc.

I think I would be more open to 'smart' information systems - beeps when leaving a lane, back up cameras, etc. Anything that takes piloting control is a step too far for me at this time. Cruise control is largely proven to work. I never worry about it failing when I use it.
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Because this does exactly that, and more. The gov have effectively committed to buying only elecrtic fleets because thats all that will be sold.
He describes his nationalist policy as "America First" [1] and takes explicit action to disengage from global governance, foreign aid, etc.

IMO this marks a retreat from many previous administrations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)
Then ban the VOIP providers. Maybe they'll adjust their policies accordingly.
I'm sure their lineup has improved.

My Thinkpad Carbon X1? My cold dead hands is where you'll find that, not some Surface nonsense.
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YouTube is another example of gross censorship.
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So the original proposition was that "America has always been a nation of middle class people, even back in colonial times."

I'm not sure exactly what they meant. i'm not sure if "middle class people" and "working class people" are the same thing. I'm not sure if a "large working class population" contradicts "a nation of middle class people."

I interpreted the original claim as suggesting that the U.S. had _more_ "middle class people" than European nations, and had much much fewer people who were not "middle class people" compared to contemporaneous European (or other) nations. I am not sure how we define "middle class" or compare the U.S. and Europe "even in colonial times". I am sure that enslaved people were not "middle class" though.

But where I found my data that at some points ("colonial times " and shortly after) up to 20% of the entire U.S. population was enslaved people (who were obviously not "middle class" and to me present some serious problems with considering the U.S. at those times "a nation of middle-class people") by googling, and finding this: https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/statistics_on_slavery.htm

The last line is total U.S. population. We can see that in 1750, 934,340 (white) + 236,420 (black) = 1,170,760. 236,420 / 1,170,760 == 20.1%. "colonial times". 1790, specifically breaking out free vs enslaved Black people now, also roughly 20% of the total population was enslaved people. The percentage starts to go down after that, by 1860 down to "only" 12%, which is still enough people who are clearly not middle class that I'm not sure I'd want to call it a "nation of middle-class people".
Keith Johnstone has a nice passage in his book Impro where he likens adults to atrophied children (which applies to hobbies of a more artistic bent):

"If he believed he was a transmitter, rather than a creator, then we'd be able to see what his talents really were."

"We have an idea that art is self-expression - which historically is weird... Once we believe that art is self-expression, then the individual can be criticized not only for his lack of skill, but for simply being what he is."
Actually I just switched from a Surface Book to a Macbook Pro and the mac is a huge improvement, both from a hardware and OS perspective.

Biggest complaints about Surface Book:

- Its battery management is horrible. I don't know if the hardware or the OS are more to blame for this. The worst part: I can pretty much expect that if I close the lid and open it some hours later the thing will be dead. Whereas the MacBook (so far) seems to be at the same percentage each time I close then open the lid.

Other complaints:

- Windows' split brain approach with fullscreen metro apps vs traditional windowed apps continues to annoy me.

- The pencil is a gimmick to me since the apps (like OneNote) are very poorly designed for serious work with a stylus.

- Windows is still considerably behind on multi-desktop workflows.

- WSL still has some serious gaps and isn't as productive as Linux / OSX for *nix-style programming tasks. It's getting better though.

- Windows update continues to be a bad experience. Whereas I actually look forward to macOS updates. (EDIT: My updates are managed by MSFT IT which is more aggressive than normal Windows Update so my experience might not be representative. But I'm not using the Insider or beta builds.)

- For example: My Surface Book just updated and now it's stuck on a Windows 8 looking home screen and I haven't yet figured out how to get back to my "normal" desktop.

- Windows continues to advertise "Bubble Witch 3" and "March of Empires" etc. in the home screen. This is unacceptable to me.

Other observations:

- I haven't noticed many BSODs with the Surface Book, so that's improved.

- So far I actually like the touchbar, large trackpad, and keyboard. But I've long ago remapped my keyboard shortcuts to never depend on the fn keys. Esc is still easy to hit on the touch bar for me, in fact the hit-box is bigger than on the Surface Book. If you need it frequently, remap caps lock.

- For MS hardware, there isn't bloatware unless you count MS software which I generally don't.

(Disclosure: I work for Microsoft in the Azure org.)
I think the claim is fine if you disclose you're an employee or somehow related to the project (as you have done), but this really looks like astroturfing.
Maybe you should name this JohnnyDep so it's more an allusion and less the actual person's name? Dep makes more sense anyways, as dependency has one p.
> That insider trading should be alright?

Not commenting on the specifics of this case, but some economists argue that insider trading should be legalized:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#Arguments_for_...
I disagree. I was a Linux guy before I was a Mac guy and now I find myself a Windows guy.

My Surface Book is solid hardware with a great keyboard, all-day battery, etc. WSL is to the point where there is less weirdness building libraries in WSL than there is on the Mac.

Its not perfect, but the perfect machine doesn't exist.
What domain registrar was that?
When you have a project, you learn by necessity.

When you are taking a course to expand your abilities, you learn voluntarily.

I find learning via projects is the fastest and most useful. I am unsure if I will take courses ever again.
He has been very vocal about a "US-first", isolationist policy. You can't be the leader of the free world by saying "I only care about my country" and expect others to follow you.
If someone came up with a more stable store of convertible value, then it will likely gain traction; however, alternatives like the Yen, Renminbi, and Euro have so far failed to become international currencies for trade due to various reasons, but primarily stability and being relatively more free of manipulation.

The article is mostly a scareticle warning that americans focusing on america endangers the “special perch” thd dollar enjoys as international currency.
What you think or don't think doesn't matter, the fact is that being an anti-zionist is, by definition, being pro Israel destruction. If it is not a Jewish state it is something else.

Religion has a say in politics, stupid or not, Hamas which controls Gaza is a religious organization, there 57 countries that identify themselves as Islamic nations. The Jews deserve one such state as well. That being said, Jews is a religion as well as people. If it was only a religion (convenient yet false argument) the Nazis would let them convert instead of exterminating 6 million of them.
Since WSL debuted, this is a rather debatable claim. WSL provides a really nice interface and I never had issues except doing the most obscure things (which were buggy on nix too).
I was that way as well, but all the juniors I encounter now are the other way around.
Less and less anymore. I tried to make a graph in excel with like 5k? data points and it froze every time.
While no serious injuries here make it easier to be objective about it, I think it's actually good to see one of the suspicions about self-driving cars actually borne out in real life testing: that this is an area where progression/safety isn't a smooth linear progression but more of a step function or something with a valley before rising. That means that Waymo's approach is in fact the best one: either stick to level 1, maybe a bit of level 2, or bite the bullet and go directly to 5 and figure out how to bring statistical rates there combined with the positive utility function to a point where they're flat out superior to human drivers, and then sell that. This is actually kind of unusual for a lot of the history of tech I think, where the (not unwarranted) common wisdom tends to be more that gradual improvement and live testing and maturing over years is more effective then aiming for big leaps all at once. But there are exceptions that prove rules and this seems to be one of them: that overall safety is a combined function of human driver quality to car AI quality, but they're non-linearly inversely linked in that the more the AI takes over the more the human loses ability to stay focus and practiced, and furthermore has to deal with context shifts which are inherently slow and would inherently be required exactly when it's most serious. So it's a lot more all or nothing.

None of that should take away from the value of pursuing it however. Humans are in fact bad drivers, and have large numbers of failure modes like getting inebriated or sleepy or angry that a system can simply avoid entirely. But arguably even more important then safety, which is what tends to come up most, is utility (after all we put up with vastly less safe cars and driver practices for decades and decades before the present time already). Personal arbitrary-point-to-point mechanized transportation is effectively required for full participation in much of the modern world, it's just the danger and expense that makes it a quasi-right rather then a full one. The young and elderly being unable to take advantage is already a suboptimal state of affairs, and it's frankly a waste of everyone's valuable and limited human brain time that they're required to act as uncreative biocomputers in that role. It's all been worth it anyway because it's just that valuable, but removing a human having a required role is really just fulfilling what the tech should have been like from the beginning if our synthetic mechanical development didn't far outstrip our synthetic information collection and processing development. A certain amount of ongoing casualties and damage is entirely acceptable to achieve a societal improvement of that level of value, even if it wasn't much safer at all.
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Being a monopoly isn't the problem. It's when monopoly power is abused that the government steps in.
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Scrapping TPP (ceding huge geopolitcal area to PRC / Silk Road), reducing NATO support, initiating trade conflicts, enthusiastic support of PRK/Kim... do those not all directly move us away from that role?
Source, for a lot more details: https://medium.com/@JigsawTeam/introducing-intra-a-new-app-t...
Isn’t “dark matter” just a way to account for an unexplained behavior? It bothers me that its existence is treated as a given, when it could be a case of mistaken assumptions. If calculations say the universe is acting as if it contained much more mass than we observe, we should also consider the possibility that our method of calculation may be flawed.

I’m not claiming dark matter doesn’t exist, only that I fear the human tendency to run with a hypothesis too eagerly and discard alternate options.

Similar to how everyone seems to speak as if Hawking radiation is a given fact, when it is thus far completely unproven and nothing more than a suggested idea.
Out of interest, I searched for the Waymo tag in TechCrunch, and they seem to start the related articles with the following:

> Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet, ...

Didn't look through all of them, but couldn't find an instance in which Waymo is represented as Google's Waymo anywhere, let alone in the title.
These considerations are exactly why we started Thinkful and why we emphasize expert mentorship and accountability so much.
Enforcing it is going to be quite simple.

The "DMV" or equivalent will have a very hard time explaining why they are still giving out license plates for new vehicles that are not electric if the ban is made law.
It seems to me, from the article, that the USD has a net-neutral effect on the US and a fairly positive effect on the rest of the world. Banks don't want to deal with volatile currency, even Russian banks make out mortgage loans in USDs. The world just needs one currency that everyone can depend on. Thankfully, given the US's general stability and investment into their military, the USD fits the bill quite nicely.
I just came back from a run and the website was down. Sorry. It's up again.

Utility: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/browser...
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It isn't just a huge hint, most of the time it tells you exactly what the damn issue is. This discussion is blowing my mind.

I am honestly speechless. IT GIVES YOU THE LINE NUMBER AND THE FUNCTION CALL AND THE REASON! Why would you ever even attempt to debug without parsing it?
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Incentives are to be anounced next week. If they follow the so called “climate panel” they will be horrible.. a Tesla will actually go up in price..
This might be something we look back on like the move away from the pound, or Nixon taking the USA off the gold standard. Hard to say at this time if it has any real possibility of being a huge shift in power structure. It could just as easily be a fizzle as the world breaks apart from the last 50 years of consistent policy choices...
Wikipedia claims there are over 50,000 invasive species in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species_in_the_United...
It's hard for people to have recall over events and (again not always malicious) what one person may consider a "big deal" to have done (or not done) will influence whether they remember and how they remember it. I've been pulled through changes I was opposed to (in my opinion, it made less sense to make the change) and eventually conceded to the change. 1.5 years later everybody (both those who agreed with me at the time and those who disagreed) was all about changing it again (back to the way it was). I had the email conversations and remembered what previously happened and was able to (re-)inform people about why the decision had been made (no, I did not want to revert all the work I did even if I still thought we shouldn't have made the change).
I have a surface pro 3 right next to a x1carbon, often my wireless goes on on the surface and it is increasingly frustrating. That being said, I like the surface, not a fan of the keyboard but it is very portable and powerful for its size with great battery time. the keyboard is becoming more and more frustrating but I am a very picky person (I've had it for 2 years now) I run a couple vms at the same time to do some work as well.

because of the keyboard I will likely get a dell latitude or xps series next if I need a new laptop. otherwise, I am sticking to my full desktop keyboard :-)
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Is your reference advocating for S-expressions or assassination of the American president?

"And
now the one-time freest nation of the world has turned dictatorship
with a dangerous moron in charge, set to attack Iraq to revenge his
father's loss. Those who laughed when I said that stupidity is the
worst threat to mankind laugh no more; they wait with bated breath
to see if the world's most powerful incoherent moron will launch the
world into a world war simply because he is too fucking stupid. But
what really pisses me off is the spineless American people who fails
to stop this madness. Presidents have been shot and killed before."
The implicit social contract is that some charities (churches, Habitat for Humanity, various food banks) pick up the slack where the government blind spots are - food for the poor, housing, etc.

It also feeds into Americans' general belief of government's inability to deal with local issues swiftly - democratic process sounds fine and dandy, but it's pretty unrealistic to require extensive legislative processes to address one-off issues in every town - families losing income, escaping abusive significant others, needing help while transferring jobs, etc.
That's a great suggestion. I'll add that to my list of todos!
I keep hearing about changes to US foreign policy dictated by our self-sufficient oil drilling. The US is now a net oil exporter and has fewer stakes in maintaining order in certain parts of the world since WW2.
I've been a technologist in academic and industry online education for almost 20 years.

Life is not linear. Why are traditional education and MOOCs linear and monolothic? Career paths are no longer linear, but so much education continues to be linear.

The pace of innovation adoption in education is very slow, partially due to the lack of technological abilities of leadership and management in education. There is often little vision, and where there might be, there is fear.

MOOCs do not represent all, or the best forms of online learning. They represent the best of what non technical educators came up with.

MOOC structures are clearly late 90's/early 2000's, I know because I worked on a platform to deliver high school education. Little has changed. Education has moved forward very little, the devices, connectivity, and videos have gotten sexier, but it's too often more of the same.

If anything, MOOCs are a concoction of academia working to deliver traditional lectures digitally, but not using the digital medium as well as it could be.

MOOCs have a place in the world still to be effective, it's just not a gold standard or a silver bullet.

70% of learning is informal and outside of the classroom. MOOCs generally do not address this well.

Self-directed learning is going to be a real thing, because it already is. We search constantly for answers on mobile, to construct new abilities.

Academic Institutions are losing a lot of money and it's estimated at least 1/3rd will close in the next 10 years. Many simply cannot keep up with the rate of change in today's world of disruption in a few years. Most existing curriculum is for positions that don't change often.

A completion percentage is a poor metric because it does not measure comprehension and competencies/skills.
I've screwed myself multiple times by not being sufficiently anal with the followup emails.

I've also screwed myself multiple times when I did.

It's hard to know when to do it.

Instead of continuously second guessing myself, I've settled on preferring trust-based relationships.

Alas, I've only experienced that twice. It was heaven.

Anything short of that is torture. I hate the "Guess what I'm thinking?!" game.

TL;DR: Miscommunication is the norm. Learn to persevere.
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> I like the idea of emergency braking as one last backstop. It can react faster than I can, and if prevents something I’m happy. It’s not like I’ve given up the brake pedal to it.

This is an example of something I might be open to, but I guess because I write software I have a million 'what if' nags worrying about edge cases.

> Lane assist is similar. It’s very useful in high crosswinds, but it’s reliable enough even on well painted roads that you get used to it and end up relying on it. It feels a bit like power steering: makes the job easier but you never stop doing the job.

On this I disagree. If you're not controlling the vehicle enough to keep in your lane, you're not paying enough attention - except in the high crosswinds scenario. I don't drive in high crosswinds, so I guess that is not a use case I am familiar with.
I remember using this 8 years ago. Lazy loading is awesome and way to go!
Hihi,

So, pick your battles. SimpleNote is the solution to Keep. FireFox addon's are getting better now Chrome and Firefox agreed a common format so wait on that one. Protonmail is great, but simple so don't expect the bell's and whistles you're used to.

Photo's is still the best product around so personally I'd stick with it, same for Drive (although Dropbox does work and is solid).
> Range Rover has a model with a whooping 1 mile(!!!) of electric range, but of course it has an electric motor so it qualifies as a hybrid

"Just 1 mile of electric range" is true for most hybrids that don't plug into to charge (from Ford, Chevy, Toyota, etc). Obviously more miles would be even better, but this isn't a terrible thing on it's own.

The base non-plug-in Toyota Prius Hybrid has had "just 1 mile of electric range" for over a decade now, that hasn't stopped it from getting 50mpg ratings (a full 50% decrease in emissions from the current average US fleet MPG at ~25mpg).