skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday the $35k Model 3 was 3 - 6 months away. Now it is 4 - 6 months away. Situation has not changed much for those buyers that were waiting, but now they have the option of a midrange model they can order today and could qualify for the full tax credit.
I am starting to think that companies from a certain size on should be broken apart automatically. Or we should find other ways to disincentive growing a company beyond a certain size.
1) There is plenty of evidence to suggest that people find it easier to navigate and remember from the printed page.

2) Yes we should all seek to learn about other cultures and expand our horizons. But that hardly makes all of Western thought 'small' and 'provincial'. You are simply aping the view you are complaining about, only in the diametrically opposite direction.

Seriously learning about how the great minds of the past understood their world is, often, just as good a way of expanding our horizons, as reading from other cultures in the present. We are stretched by space and time.

Finally, I don't think you're taking seriously the limits that language places on our breadth of reading. Very few professional intellectual historians - let alone everyone else - know enough of the European languages to engage with anything but a small part of 'Western' thought.

I agree that we should strive to read more in non-Western languages, but it's very tough going.
Just one nitpick: the anti-democratic nature of the Senate (and the Electoral college, while we're at it) is very much seen as a problem by a lot of people living outside the sparsely populated rural states;

For those of us living in urban areas, we're simply vastly underrepresented in federal government, and quite a few of us don't like it.
Presumably she still needs to interact with other English-speaking people.
> The power cable was magnetic. Instead of sticking into the laptop, it connected to the side of it. If someone tripped over the cable, the cable would harmlessly disconnect from the laptop.

Worth pointing out that there are third-party MagSafe-esque wrappers for USB-C like https://www.snapnator.com/
> Perhaps having 47,000 clones

It's not 47,000 clones, that's off by 46,999. It's one organism.
It's funny because often the stories about small talk in the US center on how vapid it is. People ask, "how are you," and most people are conditioned to say, "good, thanks" (or some variant) and leave it at that. Then you're trained to say, "and how are you?" and often it's the same reply. Then it's onto the weather, news, sports, or other topics. Despite that it's formulaic, as an American, it's comforting and within the norm.
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Apart from the SVM-like attempt to find some strange characteristics that separate the rights you happen to like from those you don't, I fail to see how this little tale relates to a private publisher setting its own policy.
Like the author of this article I tried to like it, and just couldn't do it. I use non-touchbar MBP at work, but now only use an iMac at home. Thought I'd miss the portability of a laptop but a year later I haven't missed it at all.

A small but noticable benefit is no longer having an internal debate on whether or not to bring the laptop traveling, since I can't. Being on vacation without a computer (iPhone aside) is the way it should have always been.
> They found a [recidivism] rate of 14 percent over a period averaging five to six years. Recidivism rates increased over time, reaching 24 percent by 15 years

That paragraph supports its own opposite conclusion, and actually makes me reconsider my opposition to sex offender registries.

You are telling me that the subset of the population that has been convicted of a sex crime once has a 1 in 7 chance of doing it again within just a few years, and a 1 in 4 chance within 15 years. And these are probably very conservative numbers - they are the rates for those who are actually caught and convicted again, which is a fraction of those who hurt others again (considered the oft-reported statistics that the vast majority most sex crimes go unreported).

What is the probability of committing a sex crime for adults who have never been convicted of any crime? I suspect it is hundreds of times lower than the rate for adult sex offenders.

EDIT: Wow, way to cherry pick you numbers. The very next paragraph is this:

> ...sex offenders had a total recidivism rate (for both sex crimes and nonsexual violent crimes) of approximately 36 percent over a period of five to six years...The 15-year recidivism rate is 13 percent for incest perpetrators, 24 percent for rapists, and 35 percent for child molesters of boy victims.

And further down:

> When recidivism rates for sex and nonsexual violent crimes were combined, 51 percent of untreated and 32 percent of treated subjects reoffended.

You are extremely dishonest for failing to include this additional data in your post.
Actually 'Making Tax Digital' means eventually the manual tax submission will go away. They're pushing all tax returns to be completed via API from accounting software.
Oh. I see now. Thank you for posting this.
I think this is why MySQL had such success compared to PgSQL in the past - compare "show tables" with "\d".
And 75% of them learning their lesson should be treated the same as those that don't? Identification and tracking of them is doing nothing to prevent them from re-offending.
They have already been prosecuted and convicted. You can't "expunge" a crime off your criminal record unless you've been convicted of it. It's ok to publish people who have been convicted of a crime. That's public info. It's NOT ok, to still have it published when it's expunged from your record. The article is specifically discussing expunged crimes.
Worth noting for folks who don't use Siri that the TouchBar contents are customizable. I was in the same boat as the author, accidentally activating Siri non-stop, and then I figured out I could just remove that button.

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> "Customize Control Strip" button
Class Action Settlement Regarding Optical Disk Drives
I feel that fdroid ought to be split up into two different projects. Their client and all the user facing stuff is terrible. What they are good at is compiling good apks. That should be their primary focus. ie., Building high quality apks that are free and reproducible. Someone else should do the client
Google to charge Android OEMs as much as $40 per phone in EU
A guide for building a stronger startup brand by understanding your competitors
> Why would one even need such a term?

Like any word, it's shorthand for a longer set of words.

> The difference is the direction of the pointy end in the comparison operator...

That's not descriptive of what the thing is, that's descriptive of how one part of it will be implemented.

I get that you don't think it is important, but I am surprised that you are acting defensive about the fact that it's a term practitioners ordinarily use. It's the first thing someone who looks up a binary heap is likely to see in Wikipedia, captioning the top two illustrations in that article. It's not just Stanford-cult algorithmic knowledge.
I don't think that's technically correct; I think it would be more correct to say that, for a given natural-number N precision, a Turing machine can calculate sqrt(2) to N precision, and there is no upper bound on N after which a Turing machine can't do it anymore. That's not the same as computing "the exact square root of 2" (only Chuck Norris can do that, of course).
I’m making a permissively licensed json/whatever encoding you’d like English dictionary by parsing Wiktionary. There’s a beta demo type thing at https://www.mostaccioli.club if you’re interested.
Well, there is another factor, the actual push to renewable energy sources and the fact that the cost of the next trillion watts of renewable energy will cost half the first https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-02/green-ene...
"Tax the rich" seems like a decent starting point.
> Because what are the odds that the place which incurred the expenses of educating you, out of the hundreds of competing muncipalities, large and small, near and far, naive and sophisticated, meibutsu vs trips vs gift cards, high or low, will give you exactly the right thing and win the competition, and this will happen in almost every case and produce the same net flows as simply sending the rebates to, say, people's registered birthplaces?

I would estimate those odds as near 100%. I assume you can choose what services you'd like to receive, simply because not everyone needs a grave maintenance service -- and if you do need one, there is no way to get it without specifying the particular grave you want serviced.

The OP explicitly states as much:

> A number of cities in Japan, including my adoptive home town of Ogaki, have made this offer: for a no-cost-to-you donation of $100 or more, the city will send someone out to any grave in the city limits. That person will clean the grave, make an appropriate offering, and send you a photo. This is a beautiful thing.

> Most of the gifts are more prosaic. Locally produced food is very popular. If you miss the taste of home, they’ve got you covered.

> Cities partnered with local firms to handle the e-commerce aspect, and eventually with platforms to bundle many different items into a single donation; think of it as a shopping cart you could fill with donated money.

This isn't a system where you have to buy a poorly-optimized bundle from the town that happens to offer something close to what you want. You send a donation and you can choose the return gifts you'd like to get back from among the services that town offers. And in the steady state, all towns will offer cash equivalents for people who want them, as well as more hometown-specific services (which have a higher profit margin!) for people who want them.
Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode with Robert Klein called Wordplay.
History?

I'm kinda lost on the question here.
Not even sure how draconian enforcement would work, unless you forced every country to do the same. I could just set up a service that makes a copy of every document/record that is set to be deleted, and host it in a country that doesn't have that rule.
If you own property that's not part of a HOA and your neighbors decide to form one, you can just choose not to join it if you don't want to. If you're buying land, you should find out whether or not it is part of a HOA before buying it, and if it is part of one make sure that it has rules which are acceptable to you.
The article doesn't say he took a sabbatical to re-teach her English -- it says he took the sabbatical to support her. It also doesn't say he didn't work on improving his German during that time.
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The red states are not a monolith. You might get a majority of support for some entitlements in Georgia or West Virginia. You won't get that in Wyoming or the Dakotas. Maybe those aren't the entitlements you're talking about, though. This "right people" entitlement: which one is that? Which entitlement goes to white males but not minority females? If you mean some boondoggle for rich people, I already mentioned the military and Drug War spending upthread. Besmirching all entitlements by association with that crap would be dishonest.
I imagine there could also be some hope that through "exercise", the brain and nervous system could try to rebuild its former capacity. Physiotherapy for the brain. I imagine that would be a good thing for her health in general. I've read a lot of articles over the years about the possibility, but never read anything conclusive. So it's just hearsay, but I can imagine hanging onto this kind of hope if I were in his shoes. It wouldn't be about communicating with her, it would be about helping her heal and preventing anything from getting worse.
This is you: https://i.imgur.com/vFVtVSV.png
He is also known for bringing life to Big Bird, and, by extension, Granny Bird!

Not exactly hacker news, but Sesame Street stuff is pretty closely tied to hacker ethos...RIP.
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I was originally on board for comments like "If a person buys a MacBook Pro and iPhone, that person cannot connect their iPhone to their new MacBook Pro without buying an adapter or cable."

But I can't remember a time I've plugged my current iPhone into a computer, ever. I had the original iPhone, where I had to plug it in constantly to manage music, sync contacts, and update the OS, but it hasn't been like that in my experience for a while.
In this case, the title is exact in a subtle way: Pando is the largest known organism by mass, but there are only estimates on the mass of the fungal colony.
> Juniper does

I hope they didn't. But if they try, triple check, or better rewrite :)
What is your explanation of for the ancient spacefaring journeys through a distant galaxy found in the works of the modern sage Lucas?
Dunkin’ Donuts Is Powering a Tiny Home with Coffee
I wouldn't mind having the power indicator lights back, I guess... but I'd rather just not have to worry about the battery at all.
> “Laura,” she told me matter-of-factly when I asked why we had bonded so quickly, “The Finnish don’t believe in talking bullshit.”

I believe this is characterizing the sentiment of the article much better than what the title conveys. In my experience there are different types of small talk. The infamous kind found in the US is not the only definition of small talk. In many cultures small talk simply means talking without getting too personal - in the US this seems to be accomplished by exchanging what the Finnish girl refers to as "bullshit".

> With two million saunas in the country, which are enjoyed fully nude (generally gender-segregated, although that rule tends to be thrown out in the company of friends), the Finnish seem to have no problem with getting up close and personal. But when clothes are on, the bets are off.

Also an exaggeration in my experience. You can very well talk to strangers in Finland. Just that talking too shallow stuff is maybe not that popular.

> Thanks to television and films (which are mostly broadcast in English) she was already acquainted with non-Finnish communication styles.

That is such a dumb and sad thing to say. I really love the downtoearth friendliness of Finnish people. There is really no need to educate them - and certainly not by means of television.

> When asked for an example of how she wishes Finnish society were more open,

Now we go from talking less to a claim that Finnish society should be more open. It couldn't be further from the truth. If you have been to Helsinki you will have noticed that the society is super open and embracing refugees as well as people with handicaps. Almost everything is accessible to blind people or those using a wheelchair.

> There are more hypotheses than answers for why Finnish culture has a veil of silence permanently stitched in place.

And that is a good thing. Silence and the ability to maintain silence when there is no need for attention seeking behavior is such an important thing. It's awesome.

> “When I was [back] in Finland, I was almost offended when I went to get a cup of coffee from a coffee shop and they didn’t say anything,” he recalled. “It was just ‘what do you want?’. How can you say that? Are you not going to ask anything before that? Oh, yeah. This is my home country. This is just the way things are.

That is just half of the truth. They just won't pretend to be your super-nice new friend like it can be observed in Starbucks for example. But they will be actually very friendly.

In no country I have been treated consistently exceptionally friendly by customer serive in shops or bars than in Finland / Helskinki. It's absolutely stunning how authentically friendly Finnish people are.

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I would rather tend to label typical Finnish communication as "healthy" - and there is a simple reason for it being like that. Finnish society itself is super healthy - just take a day-trip to Helsinki and you will feel it immediatly that Finland is doing something very right with regards to equality in the society and presence of culture.
It's $159 a month. It says that in the middle of the article, but you can decide how much you want to read once you know that.
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> Why did you decide to leave Intel?

> Overall, the job wasn't exciting to me. I didn't have to work that hard, and one day I had this realization while sitting in my gray cubicle (I was in a sea of gray cubicles surrounded by gray walls, listening to white noise and all alone): I'm like, “Man I am so tired. I need to go home and take a nap.” I went home, but as soon as I got there I realized, “I'm not tired anymore.” Working at Intel was a draining environment, and I knew I wanted to leave.

I had a very similar experience at Intel. The best analogy would be like being in a sexless marriage.
So you want to reduce the representation from the "fly-over states" so that all elections and all federal government decisions are decided by California and New York?

That's not going to work very well, and would lead to the secession of about 90% of the states, and then you'd find out that your urban paradises depend absolutely on the rest of the country to exist.

The founding fathers set up a pretty good system, and they specifically did not set up a democracy for a whole bunch of relatively obvious reasons. Straight democracy doesn't work.
I wasn't aware Germany did that, but that is great.

Right now an accusation can ruin your life even if later corrected. It's not how society should function.
Positive rights and negative rights often clash, as the tension you correctly describe shows, but the implicit premise of your post is that all negative rights supersede all positive rights.

I do not agree. The very conceptualization of negative rights was in response to a feeling that the positive rights guaranteed by earlier liberal thought were insufficient to secure a just and free society.

It is far from obvious to me that there should be an expansive and universal right to be forgotten. But the position that there obviously should not be strikes me as ignorant to the changing balance of power between those two conceptions of the good.

No one asked for a right to be forgotten by erasing 30 year old newspaper coverage. And they ask for it now not because the list of things people wish were forgotten has changed; rather, it because technology has driven social change in terms of what forgetting occurs and what the consequences of that are. I think it naive that we would pre-assume the balance between those two rights would not change in light of that.

I also think it is possible to have a richer discussion about the issue if we do not immediately get bogged down in the contractualism that so often swamps out discussions about "rights".
I have a slightly different opinion. Start with a mostly monolith, sure, that makes sense. But also start off with just one separate microservice for something important. It's important that you establish good patterns for integrating services in to your codebase early on. Its really easy to write a monolith without any thought of external service abstraction, which makes it WAY harder to do down the road if you decide you need to.
I know plenty of devs without even a BS at all. I think you should go for it, and try for a job and only go back if you really are having issues. Just make sure to prepare for the interviews.
It's not going to be slower vs an unordered heap + a separate index that includes all the columns. Hence MS SQL implementation is superior. If you don't want a PK, then MS SQL offers you an undordered option.
>Having power does not make a company evil.

Sure it does. It's predicted by games theory, preached as gospel by capitalist economics, and proved by history.

We even have an axiom for it: Power Corrupts.
Right. I think this is the real reason for teaching her English.
My concern is whether this integration with CF will make its way into default FF install.
If you wanted to know "can you use rsync?" (a technical yes/no question), perhaps you should have asked that, instead of asking "why use dropbox?" (a subjective preference question)?

To answer the question of "can you use rsync instead of dropbox?" - yes, it is "technically possible" to use rsync to transfer files between multiple devices.

I don't understand why you would ask this question though, because everything is "technically possible" if you ignore all the constraints that stop it from being possible...
If you got to the end of the article you'd know that's exactly what happened. The central gov stepped in and limited the quid pro quo gifts to 50% of the donation amount. so now that's become the defacto standard for the return "gift".
I'd say if you are looking for a visual sign of it, intense focus is a good proxy.
Without those courses your foundation in CS is badly lacking.

CIS is not CS, it's IT.
This looks like a fascinating approach. Unfortunately I’m not well versed enough to intelligently compare it to alternatives.

Any plans to have Jepsen / Aphyr conduct a rigorous test and write a report on the results?
This is pretty much exactly what the EU asked for—Google to unbundle so that handset makers could pay for what they want and Google would pay them for what Google wants (Chrome and Search), rather than just offering one take it or leave it package.
Developers could be held accountable for publishing code that is misused
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Is the urban revival over?
Entirely anecdotal but my one experience of Finnish "flirting" consisted of telling fairly rude stories over a large bottle of vodka at the kitchen table (at the house we were both lodging in).

When I felt it was time for bed, we both went upstairs. I went to go to my room, on my own, and she said "no, we'll use my room". Or words to that effect. At no point, up till then, had it occurred to me there was anything between us. Just friends getting drunk.

No idea if this is typical but it was a very pleasant surprise to my teenage self.
> I doubt a sexual degenerate can be "cured".

What is your definition of "sexual degenerate"? Because that particular turn of phrase is rarely a good sign, in my experience. If you'd just meant "pedophile" you'd have said "pedophile."
Also brains can remap themselves over time so if pathways are broken, sometimes new pathways can be built.
It's far below the rate overall, which is 60%: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Recidivism_rates

There's also the problem that stigmatisation helps more or less no one, because it's unlikely that parents can (or should) effectively supervise their children 24/7. And even if they did, it may protect their children at the cost of others, leaving the overall rate of these crimes unchanged.

To use an example with less emotional baggage: "Watch out for terrorists!" is a similarly useless warning.
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I lost my sense of smell and taste after a head injury. I remember walking into a Starbucks and it wreaking of fish! The hardest part was when I first bit into a cookie, post injury, and I couldn't recognize the taste :(

Took months to get it all back.
It’s absolutely viewed as a problem in the US. For the most part, those who don’t think it’s a problem are those who benefit from it, and those who do are those who suffer from it.
Same here. Actually I like the fact that I can now plug it in to power from either sides.

I do miss the Escape key though..
Yeah, I would refine that definition to "point a concrete problem that can provably be solved by [some] humans, and provably not by a TM".

Concretely, that problem might look something like:

"Given N non-communicating humans, each of whom see the same 1000x1000 b/w grid. Emit the same answer as 99% of the humans to the question of whether the grid contains a Q."

That would be a problem where, if you could prove that humans can do it, but TMs can't, you've refuted the CTT.

Do I have that right?