skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We bought out house in 2001 and it had a high-end GE Combination refrigerator from the late fifties or early sixties. Vacuum out the lint from the condenser coils twice a year and replacing one or two inside light bulbs is all I've done. Not even that inefficient according to my KiloWatt. This is what is possible but very hard sustain for a consumer product company. People can easily compare prices but comparing quality, just by looking at something, is hard to impossible.
If you feel this way at the most elite and prestigious employer in the world then I'm afraid for what you would you would think about working at a "average" company like Amazon, Cisco, or IBM these days.

Isn't it easy to change teams at Google?
A friend of mine used to work in Apple's account security phone department, and can confirm that they really do mean CAN'T. Support techs can view a few bits of information that aren't displayed to the user, but cannot change anything.
Go also has a non class-based OO.
It would probably be instructive to know how actual charitable donations are handled in Japan.

I have no idea, but in a highly reciprocal culture I could well imagine that effectively punishing reciprocation in that way would be a political non-starter.
Even more so than the sex offender registry, I think US news reporting is more problematic. I wish the US were more like Germany (I think?) in the regard that they don't identify people by name until conviction. By that time, there's less interest in sensationalizing a story.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair

The issue is that nearly every single one of these people are paid to believe big tech is not a problem. This isn't even a scenario where there were competing viewpoints: The deck was entirely stacked with paid supporters.

And as far as the fact that these companies were created in the first place: Today's giants only exist because we properly employed antitrust regulations against the previous generation of giants. Google would not exist without the antitrust case against Microsoft. And an innovative future depends on us applying antitrust law again, to the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

We should be proud of what our country has accomplished, but we must break them up on occasion to allow for new growth. Movement and innovation is what keeps us on that leading edge, and resistance to apply regulation against these companies will allow other countries to surpass us.
Freedom to go somewhere else is the most basic freedom there is. Saying you are free just because you have that basic freedom is a bit much.
Washing machines have lint trap for that. That and a vigorous shake when picking from the line works fine, in my experience.
I think I still have my BP6 with the dual Celerons somewhere... man, that was a helluva machine in '99!
You might buy it now if you think it will be more expensive in the future, or if you think it won’t arrive unless users send money to Tesla now, so that it has money to create it (a kind of Kickstarter, or an investment that may or may not end up being a wise one)

(If the latter, you probably are better of buying Tesla shares than buying the FSD option now. If Tesla reaches the point where it sells a fully self-driving car, those shares probably will be worth more than the price of that feature)
> If they're concerned about instability due to poor quality drivers and its impact on users' perception just offer an "approved supplier" program where hardware manufacturers can have their drivers verified and signed, as Microsoft have done in the past.

Riiiight. And how was the stability of Windows on that "certified hardware"?

No way in hell Apple want to degrade their experience that much.
I'd love to see a large scale survey where people allocate their taxes, and see what the allocation actually comes to!

The HN crowd might over-allocate $1000s per person to NSF, NIH and NASA and short Social Security while 100+M people contribute $0 to science, but depend on SS to survive. We might end up with the same budget but people feeling more in control.

We'd also see large scale advertising which is actually a good thing: ads are pretty cheap/efficient, make people feel better about their government and society, and employ an army of creative people. I imagine you wouldn't see branches of government running negative ads against each other - it would be more like the feel-good military recruiting ads today.

Sorry if this sounds utopian, I've had a rough week (in addition to everybody's rough week) and need something to feel good about.
I'm sure your app is quite more user friendly and inviting ;) but I thought I would share this one. It's kind of cool to mess around with if you're a command line nut.

https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook
FoundationDB cannot currently replicate its transaction log across datacenters, either synchronously or asynchronously: https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/multi-dc-replication/499

In the discussed proposal datacenter failure is considered an extraordinary event with major performance implications, which is different than a global "write anywhere, read anywhere" multi-datacenter partitioned log model like Fauna.
While new applications are of course nice, I think many would get some real peace of mind if we finally managed to understand quantum physics. At least those that were never satisfied by »Shut up and calculate!« I wonder if this would be a revolution or more or less inconsequential for all practical purposes.
Congrats Rob and Einar. Well deserved and big fan of the Startups FTROU podcast. Are you going down the indie.vc path?
> why Dropbox when you can rsync

I've been thinking about this attitude a lot recently, and realising how much it's holding back open source -

- since everybody said "rsync is good enough", we stopped innovating file sync tools in the 90's; and it was only when dropbox came along that we realised what we were missing, and now open-source is playing catch-up and is still behind (I'm using syncthing myself, but I still recommend dropbox to non-technical friends & family as it's easier to set up)

- everybody said "IRC is good enough", and so chat protocol innovation stopped in the 80's (except for XMPP, which was a better protocol that never really took off because the implementations of that protocol were a mess); and now Slack & Discord have come along and eaten IRC's lunch, and again open-source is trying to clone those

- "Mobile chat apps are dumb, don't bother creating one of those; you can just set up IRC on your phone, with ZNC as a bouncer on your server"... now closed-source closed-protocol whatsapp has literally billions of users, and no open-source open-protocol chat app has even 1% of that

- VNC got made the standard remote-desktop tool, and has recieved only incremental improvements since the 90's. Last week I discovered Parsec, which is simpler, faster, lower latency, higher quality, and includes sound - which are all objectively useful traits for a remote desktop system. Why did the open source community never come up with a tool that's "similar to VNC except simpler, faster, lower latency, higher quality, and with sound"? There's no technical reason that we couldn't have created that in a free and open source way a decade ago - but we chose not to, because VNC was "good enough"

Alas, I have no idea what can actually be done about this situation; and I have a minor fear that I'd be crucified for even suggesting "let's stop incrementally polishing all our 80's software, and use 30 years of hindsight to create something better" (witness all the resistence to wayland / pulseaudio / etc), but I'm open to suggestions...
Not every distro but different stores with different policies for including snaps. I personally am completely uninterested in using any of the security and usability disasters that are the new universal package types but that would definitely make sense.
Hey! I live in one of those types of places. If they are kept up with the times and maintained properly they are a nice place to live

http://www.rentcompass.com/Rentals/Guelph/1407/2-Quebec-Stre...
That's a much stronger claim than "they, or their firms/universities, have consulted for big tech".
The problem is that because it’s random there is a chance it will never complete, so the same input alternates between halting and non-halting, so the average time is infinite. Which is clearly nonsensical, hence it isn’t an algorithm.
From the perspective of a desktop user they are phoning it in. Gnome is upgraded to the latest release and they made some theme tweaks. The desktop feature list is humiliatingly short.

It's not entirely Canonical's fault. No one ever figured out how to make money off of desktop, consumer Linux. Mark was at least honest about it, they tried, it didn't work, server is a better way to make money, they aren't investing anymore.

But there is no one out there now who is investing in desktop Linux in order to win. Meanwhile Apple and Microsoft still invest in the desktop, but it seems like nowadays they invest to lose as neither of their desktop operating systems are really getting better. We live in interesting times.
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Quantum immortality says something concretely different than what you're describing; it says that you always have a subjectively high probability of continued existence. By quantum immortality's reasoning, that is not the case under classical mechanics or non-Everettian quantum mechanics, where there are many situations where you have a conscious future with subjective probability of effectively zero.

Of course I disagree with quantum immortality though I agree with Everett, and I think you are kind of restating my point: Finding outselves in the purple region is not surprising and is what we should expect.

But quantum immortality as I believe it is usually stated does not require you to be ambivalent about non-existence like you say. It promises future existence, which I think is invalid.
If you have to set your keyboard to not distract and annoy you, somebody somewhere fell off the good industrial design train.
FT8 is a signal encoding mode. My impression is that it is much more robust and therefore also reduces the required skill, luck, etc. in making successful transmissions under unfavorable conditions.

"DX" is an abbreviation for "distance", generally used in the sense of "making long-distance contacts." A "QSO" is a successful contact between stations, and "working" refers to the process of making / attempting to make contacts.

"Multi-hop Es" refers to this atmospheric effect using the E region of the ionosphere: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporadic_E_propagation

"CW" (for "continuous wave") typically refers to the use of Morse code over a constant frequency wave that's just being turned on and off, which has historically been one of the most robust modes, although it requires skill in encoding/decoding Morse by hand.

"73" means "best regards" or similar; it's from very old telegraphy abbreviations.
I don't have a super great understanding of real estate, so my example might be over simplistic and flat-out wrong. This article has better explanations for why vacant spaces remain vacant in NYC (although it applies more to commercial than residential):

https://www.brickunderground.com/rent/why-landlords-leave-ap...

Trust me, as a resident, this phenomenon is real. There are a number of stores in my neighborhood that have been vacant for literally the entire time I've lived in the area (~ 2 years).

As a general rule of thumb, renters (both commercial and residential) really don't have much leverage in NYC, except under extremely rare circumstances. It's hard to understand unless you actually live here, but the rule governing real estate elsewhere in the USA don't really apply here.
Exactly so, and moreover, during a solar minimum, when HF propagation is sub-par even in OK conditions. The weak-signal stuff is what got me interested in upgrading from tech to general, and then extra. Every new thing over the decades has been met with the same "this is killing ham radio" response.
"Zero sunspots but working DX on FT8!" I don't get it. I thought sunspots killed radio communications?
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> Nations as a concept didn't exist when those empires were founded

Nations as in "a group of people united by common descent, history, culture, and language, inhabiting a particular state or territory" most certainly did exist.

> Within the boundaries of the empire you had peace and prosperity.

Then you don't know much (or anything) about the life of people conquered by caliphates.
Silence is great, but there's something more to small talk than just filling silence. Small talk primes the pump for some good conversation. I can't tell you how many times I've come across great conversations and tidbits of information that I'd never have if I didn't chat up with some kind of nonsense to start the conversation. Or alternatively if someone else didn't. The initial part of the conversation is useless, we all know that, but it's a handshake of sorts to see if there's a possibility of a good exchange of something more. If the other person doesn't want to talk, then a quick canned response is the equivalent of, "Hi I acknowledge you, but I don't want to talk right now.". There's a protocol. If the person wants to talk they'll give the canned response, with an added tidbit that can be grabbed onto for further conversation. People are usually just going through their day on autopilot, waiting for a opportunity to connect with someone.
Then you need to provide a credible source which provides an explanation why FR was a revolution and other is not, not a Stalin's article from 1918 you provided which is not about that at all. Left-leaning historians often define (a real) revolution as a change in ruling class, based on that definition both FR and OR were the very real revolutions (one was about passing power to bourgeois class, another about passing power to the working class), but if you are using other definitions, please provide them.
Bonus, especially if electric dryer, you save a ton of cash not running it several hours a week. In AZ, it may take clothes less time to dry, IDK, I don't own/use a dryer.
What if you are already on Py3.6, don't need markdown-descriptions (not sure what that is btw), and been happily using setup.py upload for a decade?
So let's say an event is emitted, does this happen?

* "payment processing" handles it -> changes state -> another event emitted -> "restaurant approval" processes it -> changes state -> another event emitted -> "delivery assignment" processes it

Or does this happen?

* event emitted -> "payment processing" and "restaurant approval" handles event asynchronously, -> state changes -> event emitted -> "delivery assignment" handles event.
Booking an appointment using Facebook Messenger (2016)
It's a shame Redux uses the word Action instead of Event because I think we'd all have easier time discussing Event Sourcing right about now
Most "modes" like AM/FM and maybe SSB are like physical layer protocols, essentially just modulation schemes. A number of digital modes also maybe fall into this category as well as morse. FT8 is more of an application layer technology. It uses frequency shift key as it's physical layer but also has other abstractions at work like error correction and some session state management. It's not the only mode that could be described this way either, just the most popular right now.
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This article is entirely plausible to me. I have dealt with two relatives with brain tumors. Between disease and treatment, I have seen some incredibly weird stuff. It makes me realize how little we understand how minds work.

The best analogy I have is to think of your smartphone from the perspective of a normal user. You're used to it working fine. But suddenly it stops working fine. So a technical friend hooks up a cable and turns on debug logging and all you see is a wall of gobbledygook. [1] You ask what's going on and he starts describing an enormously complicated array of components and systems, and explains that he doesn't really know how most of them work, and that there are a bunch he probably hasn't even found yet. He can try this and that and the problem maybe gets better and maybe gets worse. You're forced to realize that the phone you trusted and thought you understood is beyond your ready comprehension.

Even that analogy fails in that a) minds are much more complicated, b) they aren't designed, so there's no expectation that they should make sense under the hood, and c) you cannot buy a new brain. If it's broken, well, maybe it'll get better and maybe you'll just have to get used to it being kind of broken and be grateful it works at all.

[1] https://logmatic.io/blog/a-how-to-guide-to-debugging-with-an...
Your criticism is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. The US prison system is not intended to rehabilitate anyone, and does not do so. Usually, criminals are even worse when they are released due to the time they've spent with other hardened criminals, being abused, forming criminal connections, and learning how to do crime more effectively.

As a result, it's perfectly rational to track those people and be wary of them.

The restitution angle is at least an argument, but treating the system as transactional in the sense that you break the balance by committing a crime then pay it back through slave work in jail is perhaps one of the few ways to make the system even more dysfunctional than it already is.
Many models exist in many formats that can be converted to CoreML. So that shouldn’t be a problem. Also there is always the option of training a new model from scratch or with transfer learning.
Hi, one of the authors here. We created this library to help developers on our product ease into the Redux ecosystem. One of the main challenges we faced is that our application has many entry points where we need to create a new Redux store, so it was important for us to devise a way to easily import and re-use common state, reducers, and sagas.
Let us know if you have any questions!
Perhaps a guide on moving from 12-factor to 3-factor apps would be more clarifying.
Probably because of the "Shame on Mozilla" bit, which is a trope of the online callout/shaming culture, which we're trying to avoid here. The rest of your comment looks fine to me, and you're obviously speaking from hard experience, which makes comments much more substantive.
While that may be true of this mode what it has evolved into is JS8CALL[0] which allows for something like IRC over HF (freeform chat).

[0]http://js8call.com
Not to make light of a woman's quite serious injury, but it reminded me of the short film Fluent Dysphasia where a head trauma causes Stephen Rea to only speak and understand Irish gaelic.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0431763/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_...
Rehabilitation doesn't always work. I doubt a sexual degenerate can be "cured". It's okay if they stay in prison just to be punished and are taken apart from society. It's okay if they can never be around children.
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Choosing where to have your brand is really basic advertising stuff.

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That said, it's a little weird to have a global NSFB tag.

Safe for what brand? NRA? Ben & Jerry's? NFL? Chick-fil-a? Planned Parenthood? Hooters? Disney? Communist Party USA?

It further coalesces a division between universally "acceptable, popular" and universally "unacceptable, unpopular" thoughts.
Please don't do flamewar here.

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> If you very understandably don't trust Facebook with your data, simply get off it

Facebook compiles shadow profiles of people who have gotten off Facebook [1]. Their lack of platform security affects users and non-users alike, particularly when those actions spread violence and political misinformation.

Facebook bought WhatsApp and promptly broke its promises to WhatsApp's founders and the EU. Facebook bought Instagram and used its heft to copy Snapchat's product. Using incumbency-resulting scale to copy and destroy competitors is inefficient. It's a market failure. It's why we have antitrust law.

When people say "break up Facebook," we mean "update antitrust law to see user data as capital."

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/shadow-profiles-facebook-has-infor...
What you're looking for to research is WSJT - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJT_%28Amateur_radio_software...

In a nutshell, Joe Taylor (K1JT) created a program that features novel modulation schemes that solve a few problems that other modulations didn't, like fast meteor scatter modes, modes that are better for Earth-Moon-Earth communications, and modes that work better in very low-signal scenarios with a lot of signal fading due to the ionosphere.

The result are modes that are very slow - only sending something like 13 characters every 15 seconds for FT8 - but far more reliable than other keyboard modes like PSK31 or Olivia. The mechanization means QSOs are stripped to their bare necessities - callsign, location, signal report, and that's it. It's shifts the idea of a QSO by forcing quick, scripted, nearly automated contacts, which is a very well-received change since a lot of HF ops are only interested in the contact, and not the person.
> If you very understandably don't trust Facebook with your data, simply get off it.

That might work for Europeans protected by GDPR, but in the US I don't think you can get Facebook to stop building a profile of you.
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Yep, this is why I'm much more inclined to go with something I know on the front end. I'm not against learning a new framework, but fighting the tooling is one of the more frustrating things.
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Because it's the polite etiquette, not because they are programmed like robots.
My brother in law had something similar happen to him recently: He was playing golf and suddenly lost the ability to speak. Turns out he was having a stroke. He had no other symptoms, no loss of of motor ability, nor the ability to understand language, nor the ability to write. He didn't even realize he was having a stroke. He drove himself home where his wife recognized that he was having a stroke and drove him to the hospital. Fortunately, they arrived in time to get a TPA shot and he made an almost full recovery. He seems completely normal, but every now and then he will still make an odd word substitution completely out of the corn flake. (Yeah, that's what it sounds like when it happens.)
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Please don't do flamewar here.
Perhaps because as the article states, Pando is considered a keystone species, because of that, if Pando ceases to exist, it will take species dependent on it with it.

While as you say other organisms will fluorish, we must consider the change in biodiversity and not just abundance
Agreed. I once joined an engineering team as junior engineer at the same time they brought in a new principal engineer. He had lots of experience, but not on this specific project, so we were both on equal footing regarding the project itself.

I noticed the big difference between me and him was that he was very good at asking questions, whereas I fumbled around and tried to figure things out on my own.

Sometimes figuring it out on your own is exactly the right thing to do. But sometimes -- and especially now, as the newcomer in the group -- asking questions may be a better strategy.
Am 36yo American, lived here all my life. It still feels dissonant not to give a substantive answer to "how are you".
Please don't start or perpetuate flamewars here. They're tedious, nasty, and predictable, and therefore off topic on HN.

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