skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the comparison. I'm wondering what the benefits of mu4e are over notmuch (your comment doesn't list any - which makes sense because you preferred notmuch).

The reason I ask: When I look around, I tend to see a lot more references to mu4e than to notmuch. Is it just easier to start with, or does it actually have some nicer features that notmuch doesn't?

Not sure if it's relevant, but: I download all emails and do not want to sync with the server.
I just like being here because I don't feel like I'm crazy for the thoughts I have. You guys make me want to be a better human by pursuing things that really matter and steering me away from the BS other people get dragged into.

Things of value added were

Deleting my FB when other people are flabbergasted by the thought and I feel so much better for doing so.

Always looking for constant ways to automate my job to free time up to think/rest.

Realizing that working 80 hours won't get me some amazing outcome at a company because pursuing that game(the rate race) is completely out of my control.

Learning about stoicism and really realizing no one cares about me and that's not a bad thing, but a good thing.

I love to lurk here because people hold each other to a high standard of information. If you say something that sounds false, someone will call you out on it and ask for your source. I don't know any of you, but you are some of the coolest f###ers I have never met.
You can't teach someone who doesn't want to learn. Most people in this situation don't want to learn and actively tune you out. They just want you to fix their problem and if they have another problem (or the same problem again), they'll just call you over to fix it again.
awesome!!!!! Can't wait to use this.
It's amazing what scripting allows one to do. If I was in charge of hiring any technical roles, any non-developer job would still require basic coding proficiency, or at least a candidate who agreed to seriously give it a shot and try to learn.
Ah, the good old “b-but VS code” argument.
And a majority of Azure runs on Linux, and the major selling points for Windows now is it runs Linux and works with Kubernetes/Docker. Containers still run poorly compared to Linux though and mounting volumes is mostly broken from anything but PowerShell.
Internal development is very different than externally facing development. For example, generated API docs are a horrible thing for purely internal code, because you need a documentation build and deployment system that inevitably breaks and nobody wants to maintain and gets out of sync and suddenly the documentation is stale and there's some engineer on the brink of rage quitting if someone pings them to manually rebuild the documentation pages one more goddamn time.

Having it just in the repo as a set of Markdown docs or something is much better, and "the website" is just URLs to those files in GitHub. Same risk of becoming stale as anything else, but no overhead of documentation build and deployment.
Funny you should mention seeing a book recommendation on HN that changed your life. I have experienced the same thing, but with a different book.

A month ago I read a comment[0] about the book This Naked Mind and how it helped him/her with their alcohol consumption. Getting serious about my alcohol consumption has been on my todo list for a while, so after seeing it had 4.7 stars on audible I bought it. I listened to it in its entirety in 3 days during my commute and haven't had a drop of alcohol since.

To give you an impression of my level of drinking. I'm not a heavy drinker, but I am a habitual drinker. I drink either 2 or 3 high alcohol beers or a bottle of wine almost daily. I've always been worried about the sheer amount of empty calories I'm consuming and if just by cutting out alcohol I'd lose weight for free.

Today is day 25 since I've had any alcohol and I'm just so pleased with the outcome. Maybe the book can help you too!

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17834081
See also: this old essay about "Uncleftish Beholding" (Atomic
Theory) - English without the non-Germanic words.

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language...
>horrible hardware, lower-quality apps, and lack of support

The latest pixel (if you want to use that as a comparison) has better or equivalent specs in almost everything other than CPU power. Lack of support? Well look at how the Nexus 5 still has the latest android version available.

And for me the clincher. Can I install an alternative free OS (like you can install Lineage in the pixel)? If not, then into the trash it goes.
I physically removed the F1 key from my keyboard. Particularly useful since I use F2 to edit cells.

I mess up a lot when I help other people on their computers though.
the best i've seen is a woman who did corporate financial planning and analysis. i could ask a question and she would have a pivot table spit out the answer as i finished the question.

i consider myself a good* (but not great) excel user, but she was amazing!

* having done complex financial modeling incorporating monte carlo simulation for predictive what-if analysis
Oh cmon, it’s not as though German doesn’t have adjectives. Maybe we in English just use them more freely because for us they’re not a total pain in the rear to properly decline :)
How to photograph a black hole
You're saying you're not free to change the licence of open source software, rather than not free to change the source code to it.
I've talked to the devs on Twitter, yes.

I'm more trying to correct misconceptions around GC than anything else.
> The default on iOS is to not send any telemetry data to Apple.

This is actually the default on Android. I showed a specific case of data acquisition that iOS does that you can't opt out of. On Android, that data acquisition is opt-in.
So, yes, there is content that exists. What does not exist are real-world examples of problem solving a la open source. As I said in another comment, debugging Excel is incredibly opaque (#NA) and most people will never find what they are looking for when they Google "=GETPIVOTDATA #NA error."

There is no GitHub for Excel workbooks where people build and extend generalized solutions that people can read, understand, and learn from. There is also a total lack of comments in Excel formulas (short of VBA custom functions) so good luck deciphering the 5 line SUMIF in the 10 year old model you inherited.
Like Windows Hello?
In other words, ‘just trust me’. Your business is not self evident
Sounds perfectly sensible, rather than "paranoid".
As a foreigner living and working in Germany for a number a years, reading succinct explanations of German grammar is actually quite refreshing.

Personally, grammatical concepts in English for me are quite challenging. Now try and learn a language that has complex grammar rules when you don't _actually_ know your own rules is quite imitating.
When I say "hatemongers", I specifically mean the type of people who call for people to "gas the Jews" or "exterminate all trans people", that sort of direct unequivocal hate and incitement of violence.
Agreed and also, maybe it will support other languages in the future - just not at this moment.
We were comparing iOS to Android. What the cell phone companies collect affects both equally. AGPS collection makes iOS more invasive than Android, and you can't even opt out.
I found whipping through the grammatical logic trees in German, and exceptions, were like the grammatical equivalent of composing a Fuge, or writing a Lisp function on the spot. Eventually the elegant form of the language can be see after struggling with the details. Arthur Schnitzler’s short stories helped me see a soring elegance in the language that wasn’t obvious to me for a while after becoming fluent.
IIRC, the original XBox made the assumption that the main bus was secure due to its high-speed, which turned out to be false. That was one of the few things that was unencrypted, and it offered a way in.
Google cannot block Gmail and YouTube. These are and will be accessible through web browser. What Google can do is not spend engineering time to build a special version of mobile app to support the platform, and block other apps that access them that don't conform to Terms and Conditions.

(disclaimer: I work for Google on GCP)
MS already makes billions every year on hundreds of existing Android patents.

I hope they can give themselves a price break.
There used to be a Nortel Division up there that had an electro scanning microscope for this sort of thing - I imagine they´re still there under a different name.
You don't need to blatantly lie to author a rebuttal that doesn't actual rebut the claims against you.

You accuse me of selling pink and purple unicorns to gangsters. I reply that "I have no knowledge of any contracts or agreements relating to the sale of unicorns, horses or horse-related animals from my firm, regardless of the colour, breed or condition of the animals. I categorically also deny having any business dealings with any entity which has been charged on racketeering or any other gang related offenses.

The reality being that I 'rent' pink and purple unicorns to Don Corleone for absurd amounts, then don't revendicate when payments stop.

My rebuttal looks sweeping. I put in language to make it look like the scope of my denial is wide ranging and complete. In fact, I intentionally disclaim things you didn't claim to make it look like the moat of propriety surrounding me is vast.

But it isn't. I did what was claimed. And I didn't lie in my rebuttal.
Are you guys running bots to promote your service? What's with the new accounts saying overly nice, but shallow things about your service?
Separating parts of compounds by spaces prevents ambiguous decompositions, but allows ambiguous groupings. (Like "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.", which would be less confusing if "fruit flies" were written "fruitflies" or at least "fruit-flies".)

I'm not sure which is worse.
Exactly, if everyone was held to this standard, there would be much less projects out there.

Hell, I've thrown some undocumented projects out there with the intention of cleaning them up later or if it gains traction. I have so many side projects that I couldn't possibly reasonably document them all.
So, once everybody owns a self-driving car or at least one with auto-breaking, nobody would have to use the egyptian "pick a car"-method as people would just cross the street knowing that the cars would just break/stop on their own.

Traffic might come to a stop in a big city (as they are today)? Or will "good habit" prevail? Or, will it be a grey zone?
I have friends who do audio transcription and medical data entry. Ive heard some customer support centers are also hiring people to field calls from home, which has been corroborated by interactions with some financial providers’ customer support.
> For instance, the fact that you need to manually specify so many details about indices sounds like a failure to have a good theory around indexing

Real life isn't about theory, it's about what works and doesn't work in production. These are not flaws, they're features. I don't need a bitmap index on my primary key, nor does it need to be selective because it will include every row. But having these features and the ability to customize based on the needs of my product is paramount.

If you were not using an RDBMS to store your data, you'd still have these same problems and you'd still end up with optimized secondary indexes based on the lookup criteria.
I disagree with you on many fronts -

First any business should ask for metrics on past performance and that is how you should judge the performance and not by assertions or business models - Case in point -- Taxis were fully controlled they all looked the same, the drivers were all trained the same way -- yet the consumer experience was bad. Then Uber/Lyft came in and they don't drive the taxis but they are able to orchestrate demand and supply and offer visibility and a better price to customers. So going by your analogy Taxis >> Uber. But I think it is settled that Uber/Lyft >> Taxi. Judge Uber/Lyft with their metrics such (a) time to get a taxi (b) on time delivery and (b) cost to consumer. And businesses and consumers are smart enough to do that.

Second - marketplaces are in business of connecting buyers with sellers; laying out rules of engagement so trust is built for discovery and transaction. They are enablers. But a merchant participates in many markets and not just one. You cannot ask each marketplace to do fulfillment for the merchant because that will mean the merchant will have to predict and send inventory for eBay and Walmart and Shopify separately which is not efficient for anyone in the market.
Contemporary MS are trying to lock you into their hardware, software, development and deployment platforms.

They are doing this while making the tools to do so Open Source.

You are not free to control your computing in this ecosystem, but hey that's a small price to pay.

And people are eating this up. Precisely because they aren't worried about history.

As for how embracing Android fits into this, it's not clear how it doesn't.
A neat feature, though it'd be really nice to get the sort-of opposite and be able to easily download our droplet snapshots or backups to be able to store or run locally as needed.
SD cards have the raw IC die buried in the PCB. If you crack open a cheap SanDisk card, you will see that it is a marvel of engineering. Instinctively one thinks of advanced manufacturing as being reserved for high end goods, but in reality it is used widely in cheap mass produced things to bring the cost down.
The hardware failures that hardware-based HA systems solve without software assistance are extremely unlikely on any modern platform (eg. CPU failure). In this regard it is somewhat remarkable, that original Pentium supports glueless(!) high-reliability redundant CPU mode (2 cores execute same instruction stream and you get NMI when the results diverge). It is somewhat telling that probably world's first 2 votes out of 3 HA implemented in hardware computer (SAPO, first Czech computer) was motivated by the fact that used CPU implementation technology (mechanical relays) was highly unreliable.

Both Tandem and Space Shuttle Flight Computer relied highly on software support for HA.

And it is my experience that most approaches to bolting on redundacy on system that is originally designed to run on single node are actually detrimental to the resulting availability. Either because it introduces additional failure modes that have to do with the fail-over mechanism itself (too eager failover, various byzantine generals failures of the control layer...) or because it depends on global consistency assumptions that are not in fact met (case in point: one high-reliability soft-realtime system with redundant application CPUs I was involved with is built with the assumption that you can reboot the application CPU at any time and it will catch up with system state as long as at least one other CPU is still running correctly. This ends up to not be a case as there is initialization phase that has to happen for the CPU to know the overall system state which interferes with the overall system operation as it involves injecting test patterns into global system inputs.)
Cradlepoint 4G modem/routers (several models) use the last/first 8 MAC address digits as the default password.
Care to elaborate on this?
"You wouldn't steal a car..."
To become more focused, state your intention before you unlock the screen
This seems to be the case.

It takes a mass tragedy to unite people. Look at what happened to GWB's approval after 9/11!

I worry it will take another war or mass terror attack to get us out of this divide we are in.

If only I were Ozymandias planning a fake Alien attack on New York to bring everyone together...
Playing an instrument by ear requires a well-trained ear. You should strive to gain perfect "relative pitch", because "absolute pitch" is not realistic for most people unless you acquire it at very young age.

The free app, Functional Ear Trainer (iOS and Android), has been an immense help for me and people I know. Use it for 10 minutes a day and sing along with the notes. Soon you should be able to recognize and sing certain intervals with 100% confidence, regardless of the key.

The most important intervals for songs in a major key are: Octave, Perfect 5th, Major 3rd, and Perfect 4th

It helps to learn songs that you can associate with each interval (going up and going down). Just google "songs for each interval" and find songs that work for you.

Training your ear is the first step. Then learn how to reliably find each of those intervals on your instrument.
Primary author and maintainer here! Happy to answer any questions anyone has.
It was like the September burst of freshmen that never ended? LOL. (Not that I'm disagreeing, exactly.)

And before #MeToo, there was "Me too!" :-)

Maybe the world is just a better place when almost all of us keep our mouths shut almost all of the time.
How is this better than cereal, which is already mature and very easy.

https://uscilab.github.io/cereal/
They don't need to form the OS, just replace Google Play services.

Just is definitely a 4-letter word here.

Although personally I'd rather they target getting the x86 phone chip manufacturing restarted and get us full win10 handheld devices.
That's just one issue facing the Danish tax authorities. The last 10 to 15 years have seen the politicians implementing numerous saving plan for SKAT. Among other things implementing new software and firing the people it would be replacing, before the software was even written. The software alone costed 260 million USD, and the project still failed. As an added bonus SKAT had to give up on collecting 300 million USD in old debt.
Has anything replaced Flash as a productive way to build animated games?
> Note: This is not an officially supported Google product at this time.

Why is that? Is it kind of like the other project that was here recently, where it was created at FB but now independently maintained and not a corporate sponsored project (anymore)? Or is it deprecated and no longer recommended?
I think the problem (for consumers) is usually the lower selection. Walmart focuses on the best sellers in any category, and the "long tail" that specialty stores can provide goes away.

(Well, that and the problem that Walmart sometimes drives out all the mom and pop shops and then closes the Walmart a few years later, leaving the town with nothing but the next closest Walmart 30 miles away.)
Tesla just released a new software update – these are the new features
scrcpy : https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

This application provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB (or over TCP/IP). It does not require any root access. It works on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Did Microsoft have a choice?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266136/global-market-sha...
I'm pretty sure that this strategy won't hold up in court.

If you have a sign that indicates that a secret event have not happened, the intent of removing the sign is to indicate that the secret event did happen.

The intent is particularly obvious to the originator of the secret event, so you won't be able to argue in the court that it was entirely coincidental.
But Copyleft license significantly increases my freedom as a developer. I can develop software for customer#1, then use same software with customer#2, and so on. It's free.

It's like "those people told me that they are free, but I cannot sell them, so in reality they are non-free".
"You haven't completed any of your assignments while your co-workers all exhibit improved productivity. For this reason, I'm giving you a poor performance review."
Apple has been making hardware with sub par durability for quite some time. The only things they made more durable have all been at the expense of repairability. The whole bendgate thing? Yup, apple actually went against best practice and stopped using proper underfill. The result? The touch-ic chip came off. Who would have guessed that a bendy phone without underfill would have flexion damage? Everybody. Even apple themselves, in official, leaked documents.

Apple has been extremely successful at denying problems up until there is a class action lawsuit. Then they silently release a pretty hostile repair program with the words "a small percentage of iDevices ...".

I used to be the biggest apple fanboy, but after having not one, but two macbooks fail on me was more than I was willing to stand. The last time I had to chose: leave the device to them in an official repair programme and have it wiped OR saving the data on it and void any apple repair programme (they later changed this
policy though). Why? Because some sort of catch-22 where they would not do data recovery on a device with a faulty logic board (onto which they had soldered the SSD!) and the fix was a new logic board with a new SSD with the old logic board and SSD sent away for refurbishment. Think different!

Don't take my words for it. Take this repair guys words for it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8&t=0s&list=PLkVbIsA...
Most likely the product of some number crunching: what does seem to provide a competitive advantage at a relatively low cost? Giving tons on points on travel is a bad idea, as business accounts tend to spend a lot on travel. But giving 4x points on ridesharing isn't as bad idea (nobody spends thousands of dollars per month on ridesharing on a single card).

I'm pretty sure the fees are not necessarily a factor in this calculation.
If only there was a way to obtain a game without doing that...
Most are "tough luck" ones, a few are expert-help required.

The most common way to solve a pivot table problem is to add a column to the underlying data. Kind of a "manual pre-pivot" in a lot of cases. There aren't direct solutions to the list of problems, but there usually is a workaround.

Some of the problems (like being unable to format dates when grouping by days) are just "tough luck"

I don't know what's going on with the inability to filter out the last item of a pivot table. One of these days I'll chase that down. I can't be the only one.
> I use a system-wide ad/tracker blocker (1Blocker X)

It only blocks ads in webviews, unlike ad blockers on Android, which block ads and trackers in native apps as well.

> and Signal.

I specifically said you can't set it as your default, which makes it significantly less convenient and therefore much less useful.

> vs. Google mining your data at every opportunity

This happens when you use Google apps on iOS as well. There is no difference.

> Google/carriers dropping support for phones as soon as they can get away with it.

Buy a phone that gets support. When you buy a car, you don't judge all cars by the worst manufacturers. When you buy an Android phone, doing the same is equally nonsensical.

> I'll take iOS.

Whatever floats your boat. At least now you have enough information to make an informed decision.
I think this disregards the fact that it is very hard to sell an app outside the play store.
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Yes, yes, but to my ear, "zeug" feels closer to "thing" than "stuff" in these examples. That's no less funny.
The podcast 99% Invisible had an episode[1] earlier this year that featured some of these passive innovations like India's stepwells[2]

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell