skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have one of their SBCs. On paper it has pretty good specs, and it was cheap, but in practice the driver situation is a disaster and all of the good documentation is written in Chinese, if it exists at all.

I have avoided the company ever since.
Windows has also had dark mode for apps for a while, so I wouldn't be surprised if Edge picks this up in the future.
Absolutely - In the US anyway, it's illegal to void a warranty because you modify the product.

They don't need to cover any damage done by the modifications, but they can't deny warranty coverage to anything else.

I'm not an expert, but I think the relevant law is the
Magnuson-Moss Act.
I have the same feeling with my MacBooks. They are so perfectly tuned to the software they come with they are nearly unbeatable.

But nothing other than Linux will ever be installed on my other laptops. I moved away from Windows as my main OS in the early 2000's to never look back.
SOG I suspect typically comes in through the skylight :)
In the article they referenced if you want a brick stronger then a 40% limestone brick you just have to let these bricks grow a little longer. So they can be at least as strong as a limestone brick if that is any sort of reference.
I, for one, am tired of web pages being able to know things about the environment in which I view them outside of their sandbox. Orientation, battery, point:pixel ratio, user-agent, referer- now UI display preferences.

I should be able to turn all of these off and make my browser indistinguishable from any other save for IP address if I so choose. This stuff just keeps rolling down the fingerprinting hill. Pretty soon they won’t need cookies at all.
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Well in this camp. I know there's evidence to suggest that black on white is better for reading comprehension, but I honestly find it straining.

To me black on white is just a hangover from old skeuomorphic design principles.
Referring to https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2018/10/04/305-car-registrat...

Which is kind of a feel good story, point and laugh at those Russian idiots bungling things again.
You are probably safe if you drink about as much Matcha as people who regularly drink Matcha. That is a cup or two a day. Drinking Matcha is supposed to be a ritualistic action, its preparation takes a bit of time and it should be drunk in a mindful manner. It's not a drink where you prepare a large amount and drink it throughout the day.
These kinds of tradeoffs can be handled better, though.

It's worth taking a look at how Windows Presentation Foundation does things, for example. It places the decision of whether to size individual elements according to their content size, the size of the container they're being placed into, or their total width front and center, in a way that, IMO, leads to less head scratching and compromises.

I think the issue here is that CSS was originally envisioned primarily as a styling tool, and layout functionality was bolted on as an afterthought, through a design-by-committee process. So, yes, it works, and anyone can learn it, but it would be nice if the overall effect were one of a technology that had a clear plan all along.
An easy one is to start with Human Japanese (Windows, Android, or iOS). The 'light' version is free on Android and gives you the first chapters (seven, IIRC) to give you a taste of it. After that there are lots of resources.
It's not just software engineers. This also happens with skilled labor, like machining.

You used to be able to get hired and taught on the job, now the employers expect you to pay your own way through a technical school for several years before applying for a minimum-wage job. So you've got (a) lower wages (b) you need to pay to educate yourself (c) you need to pay to support yourself during those years of training and (d) you're guessing which job skills are going to be in demand after N years, so after spending the time training and taking on debt there might not even be a job waiting for you.
> When was the last time `apt dist-upgrade` did delete all your files? Oh... Never ;-)

On the other hand, I have had it brick the package manager to the point that only reinstalling the OS from scratch would fix it, or break perfectly functional existing applications by replacing their libraries with incompatible versions.

I think if you look around you'll find that Linux Desktop users are also remarkably tolerant of shenanigans. Editing poorly documented text-based config files by hand, having to compile some applications from source to get an updated version because it isn't in the repo, having to containerize applications because of the interdependency mess, setting kernel boot parameters because of strange driver behavior, etc.

Modern OSs just kinda all suck and it's more or less subjective which ones suck more than the others.
Some secrets:

- use a VPS (throw away IP)
- rate limit yourself
- cache all the things
Yeah but they do it in a weird way. You never get that "just cut" look.
I don't have integrated graphics on these machines, and there is no room for additional cards, and if there was, I would either be putting in another NVIDIA card, or RAID, or 10Gb or the many other things that will actually improve our use of these machines. Also, these are company/org machines, I can't just go putting random ass hardware in them because someone wants to use a window manager.

What you're suggesting may be fine for casual desktop users at home, but in many cases it's simply not possible.
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I believe they were fairly light handed in that regard, and respected the cultural independence of their people. Grain of salt though, vague memory.
It seems to me like the potential for abuse is relatively limited. Or maybe I'm just not creative enough.

What's the worst that can happen? If a maintainer starts blocking things that shouldn't be then it's easy to complain publicly (as we see in this GH issue) and get the change reverted. If it becomes obvious that a given maintainer doesn't play by the rules then their list will be dropped.

If a list fails to block some ads then people will complete it or create a new one.

Since as far as I'm aware these block lists can't inject or replace content I can't really imagine how one could take advantage of it in a non-obvious manner.
iOS 12 adoption and performance
From what I've read about it, it cuts (nearly) every day, so the clippings aren't long and are essentially "mulched" without using a specialized mulching blade.
Ah, yes, but my package manager covers every piece of software I use. No specialized update services. It seems like a small thing, but it's more pleasant.
That's AI's problem.
Not using an alarm clock.

I used to set an alarm for when I wanted to be up. I would hit snooze like a fiend, and end up getting out of bed an hour or two after the time I set the alarm for. I finally realized I could just not set an alarm, and I'd probably get up well before I did with all that snoozing. It worked; I started waking up much more refreshed, and usually a little after the time I used to set my alarm for but much earlier than I was getting out of bed with all that snoozing.

I'm 45 now and I've been waking up this way most of my life. The only time I really set an alarm is if I have to catch an early flight somewhere, or if I'm going on a hike and want to be up well before sunrise. If you're a snoozer, try ditching your alarm for a week when it's not critical if you oversleep, and see what happens.
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Absolutely amazing piece - also, great content on the website, even if the website itself is a little wonky.
Adblock plus is a client side plugin, the issue was that the blacklist was maintained by someone who wanted to block more than ads. Perhaps there needs to be reviewers from multiple sources for when changes are made to these sort of lists.
Maybe it's got to do with the chipset? Not sure, I don't have any other Ryzens to compare against. But `iommu=soft` is strictly required on my system, otherwise the screen just stays black after the boot manager.
> The federal government increasingly relies on policing through tech innovations — including big data analysis and cloud-based storage

Ok.
haha, I guess I am not. My "knowledge" comes from history books about the USSR, so I guess I expected them not to be total xxxx ups.
No, actually. Even before GDPR, it was illegitimate to use a pre-checked checkbox, or any other process that required out-out from the user.

This requirement was generally respected–I actually don't remember a single instance of it not being followed by European organisations.
Surprising rhetoric in the comments. Serious question, at what point does working on a car become irresponsible? Does changing the brakes or tires count? How about changing the power steering fluid? Both of these examples can kill yourself or others if performed incorrectly. Should only mechanics be allowed to change this then? I wonder what is the threshold for "common sense" modifications and what is "an easy way to kill him and his wife"?
Sounds similar to Repose (http://www.openrepose.org/).
I'm envisioning an offshoot of Paleo where you really do spend all your time hunting and gathering.
Agreed on that. Bloggers have left for hosted solutions, Medium and the like. But still most small business content editing is predominantly basic text and images, so editing experience needs to be tailored for that.
I forget where I saw it, but I thought this was a good test of whether it is legitimate interest. It went something like:

"Would a 'reasonable' person be surprised if you told them about how you were using the data?"
> It regularly astonishes me how easily people are willing to accept scientific malpractice with such excuses.

I get that. But the other side is that we pump up a lot of kids about science, then filter for very ambitious, very dedicated people and shove them into a resource-constrained environment where some kinds of results are much more strongly rewarded than others. It's absurd to set up a system like that and expect that science will be done to the level of frankness that you (and I) want.

I know some really smart, hardworking, very honest PhDs who have shifted to the tech industry because the roll of the research dice didn't come up right for them early in their careers. They are far from happy about that. I wish they could have stayed in science.

And I'd note that the person you're replying to is not "accepting scientific malpractice". They're saying they can't blame people for trying to survive in the system that they're caught in. If you want to be mad at somebody, be mad at the people who have set up the system, who could change it but don't.

It's unscientific and illogical to expect humans to sacrifice their lives on the altar of your belief: statistically, that's not what they're like. Especially in a system that filters out the most honest, least career-focused people early on.
Edit, wrong parent reply, but I hope their market isn't entirely memecoin based, should let resources decide on the payments they want to take

Golem uses Intel SGX (specifically a modified Graphene-SGX libraryOS) for trusted execution if anybody is interested [1] https://software.intel.com/sgx
You remembered to mention the coffee cup but you forgot to mention the team from the NSA that visited you to confirm the authenticity of what sounds on the face like a story of you getting scammed.

I'm sorry this is utterly beyond belief.
What do you mean?

“Dog” and “cat” have different pronunciations in English, and therefore mean different things.
The backbone topology is mapped here https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

I linked to it in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18300309

The backbone cables loop around the coast of Africa. Cape Town is on that coast. So is Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria, the most populous country. But the most populous area and economic hub of South Africa is around Johannesburg, which is far from the coast.

We assume that AWS took the decision that the South African economy today was more important than the Nigerian economy; this data centre won't be much closer to Nigeria than European data centres are. Or maybe the double distance, double lag time at South Africa is a bigger reduction to eliminate.

This press release https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2018/10/an-aws-region-i... says "The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will ... provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa" We can assume that this statement is truer the further south of the Sahara you go ;)
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Be real; you didn't actually read my comments at all, did you? Otherwise you wouldn't bother posting such an inane response; so void of any critical thinking you just post buzzwords you think will shut people up.
1440x720 seems like a pretty high resolution display for $100 device.

The laptops would be perfect for me if they had longer battery life than 6 hours. Make it 12 somehow with expansion or something and I'd buy one immediately.
GDPR says explicit consent is enough for data tracking. FB gives a really clearly written prompt on, "By using FB I...". Pretty sure they are compliant, regardless of your moral judgments.
If the original experiment was large enough to do that, then somebody was given way too much money for the original experiment. So I'd expect that's a very rare case.
Time-lapsed video of what this looks like once it's in the mold would be interesting. Some more technical specs about the time involved and volume of materials would be interesting as well. Maybe there will be a follow up article?
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Just practically, anything that's going to have a political effect seems like it would stand out and get your meddling noticed.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/90/ed/6990edbfa88b72dcd72cb32f9...

[edit] : slightly better quality at http://www.village-ginkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bon...
I'm going to go out on a limb, just to be contrarian, and say that no amount of perfluorodecalin is poisonous. You can immerse yourself in it, fill your lungs with it, fill your entire digestive tract with it, and replace a significant amount of your blood with it. It is completely inert to biology, and is readily permeable to atmospheric gases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorodecalin
You can make money the old fashioned way, by selling stuff someone wants, and then use it to hire staff.
It’s using the title of the article directly. Go yell at Forbes for being click-baity.
I was admitted before that, but while on the ward I had a few breakdowns (or "episodes"). I think the psych ward made it worse in some ways and better in others. It was safe, there was a routine, and other crazies to talk to, which made me feel like I had a community. But sometimes the nurses were condescending, rude, or lacking any empathy, and despite how safe it was I also didn't want to give up my freedom. I felt "bad" for being there, like the universe was punishing me because I didn't follow the "plan", so in that way it was even kind of traumatizing, especially considering that I witnessed other people on the ward having episodes and going through a really hard time. Sometimes it was like hell and sometimes it was the only place I ever wanted to be.

It depends on what kind of breakdown and what the problem was to begin with. Some people hurt themselves when they have an episode, and those people usually get another week or two tacked on, sometimes more. I didn't hurt myself so I was discharged on normal time (about three weeks). It also depends on how well you respond to treatment even after an episode. The main thing is showing signs of recovery and having an "action plan" that you draw up with your doctor and the nurses for figuring out your life after discharge.
Yes, one of the most frustrating things is reading peoples rants about how 'bad' CSS is, it's clear they don't understand it, and they think it should be easy.

Sure it's nuanced, and maybe imperfect, but I love it.
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Oh yes! We solved that problem in the early 2000's.
That scale slides around every day. And 'being surprised' and 'being happy' are very different things also.

I'd prefer to have hard limits. No collecting any info from my computer about me that aren't explicit in the interaction itself (asking for email is ok; scraping installed apps while doing that to gauge my interests is not)
Last time I looked at it, it's the largest industry after the 'adult' industry.
What? That doesn't make any sense at all. Someone goes through the trouble of developing a network adapter and doesn't provide a Windows driver??? What DO they provide drivers for then??
Or it could be the reason they've said they did it - this was a primary vector for malware authors to compromise user's information and devices. Not everything is a conspiracy.
About the CSwitch project
This isn't the first time bad-faith alterations have been made to filter rule lists. The maintainer of a popular porn site (can't remember off the top of my head which one) famously requested a special exemption for the ads on his site.
You shouldn't need a Samsung; if your phone supports MHL, you can plug a screen and a keyboard, and you can use GNURoot (not rooting required) + XServer XSDL to run a full GNU/Linux desktop.

There's also a packaged version: https://maruos.com/ | https://github.com/maruos/maruos
PECR is still in force.
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Works for http/s only I believe.
French and Spanish aren’t mutually intelligible with each other, despite both being dialects of Latin.

That’s a better analogy.

There’s no scientific reason to say all the Arabic dialects are “the same language” whereas all the modern Latin dialects are “different languages”.
At least several hours per day in a lot of nebulous work. Looking at news, looking at technical analysis, it's a pain :)

Actually placing trade orders and closing orders is only a few minutes of work and a lot of waiting/thinking, like chess!
He just talks into his watch and the cars nearby surround him in a circle.
> philosophical debt

Perhaps, not so much philosophical...
Sicilian is still spoken a bit in the New York Metro area - a lot of New Jersey Italians that speak fluent Italian have trouble communicating with people in Italy, because it's Sicilian!
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Gives a whole new meaning to 'move fast and break things'.

But seriously I find the backlash so interesting and I think it is mainly for the reasons you describe. We all know how bug-laden much of the software that's shipped is, but it doesn't really matter because (for the most part) it's easy to iterate, issue an update - to the point that people who run un-updated software are considered foolish, etc etc. I think we should remember that actual _engineers_ are out there who design and make the bridges, cars and buildings that keep us alive who don't have this luxury. This guy seems like one of them and is clearly skilled (you can see that his workmanship looks good and he's taking care in these photos) and should be respected in my opinion.
Indeed. And of course some of what was Greece has now became Turkey, and for which enough Turks must have shown up to switch the language... I don't know the current data here but I'm sure it's improving rapidly.
Ether is planning on moving to proof-of-stake rather than proof-of-work some time in 2019, which should help with the power consumption.

https://www.mangoresearch.co/ethereum-roadmap-update/
You pull down the back seat and get into the trunk from inside the car of course.
Snark aside, if your phone is dead, the only way to get data out of it will be to get to the "disk" on the device, if that's even possible.
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Reading the Golem website, I'm no longer sure that I 'get it'. Is this just a decentralized AWS or supercomputing service which is payable using $ThisWeeksHotCryptocurrency? Her description made it sound less like a marketplace for spare cycles and more like a thin-client sort of thing.
I don't remember when was the last time I had to edit a config file on a workstation or compile a program from source or set a kernel boot parameter (other than because I wanted my console to default to green on black). I'm pretty sure the last time was before 2010, possibly before 2005.

We containerize apps for a multitude of reasons, one of which is for ease of integration. Security is also an interesting reason for that. And, once you get the API stable, it's conceivable to replace it with VMs or off-board processors.
Or about most of the hobby software projects that show up on the HN front page.
It reinforces the notion that libraries are just self-service book warehouses, complete ignoring the role that curation plays and ignoring the essential services that a traditional library provides (reference services, interlibrary lending, etc)
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It's a big problem though that when pain points are brought up the response is often to just point at one of the other OSs's pain points and dismiss the criticism. Unfortunately we can do very little to make Windows or MacOS better other than complain to the deaf ears of the companies that own them, but theoretically Linux Desktop could be better if complaints weren't simply dismissed in this fashion.
What does CSS have in it that nobody wanted to do? There are certainly plenty of cases of things being done which only made sense for those targeting print, for example, but I can't think of anything that nobody wanted?
I don't think there's ever been a computer that meets that specification. Maybe the Apollo flight computer?
That script is used in several languages that are unrelated to Arabic though, like Urdu for example.
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Since we're talking orders of magnitude...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...
In retrospect I'm really glad to have lived where I lived. Once I was old enough to get to school safely in my own pace sleeping until 7:30 to get there on time just before 8 was so much better than having to wake up at 7 :D
Do you not touch the brakes or engine? Those are far more safety-critical.
In addition to icholy's points, stronger typing means one traps a whole class of errors at compile/build time, as opposed to runtime.
I had something similar happen with a CentOS install. For some reason, the keyboard layout of the installer was in UK English, but rebooting after installation set it to US English, causing my password to not work.
Not if people keep voting to cut funding to public services. If people see libraries as value-less book warehouses, they're going to be voted out of existence.
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I mean I guess I don't know, and some people have disagreed with you. But how do Arabic dialects compare to all the English dialects. I mean U.S., U.K. and Australians can all understand each other mostly, but there's all those little differences too (that I personally enjoy). And even within English speaking countries there are dialects.

So are we talking almost different languages, or minor differences?

As for your other criticisms, I mean they sound a lot like English criticisms. Because English has a lot of those problems too, at a greater or lower scale I can't say. But I wonder.
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