skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, my experience is different. I mean, I had the same mentality, shaving off 20-30 minutes of commute daily with 0 carbon footprint, just a smooth cool ride into the sunset (or sunrise). On paper many scooters looked fine for my use case (100kg allowance, 25kmh max speed, 25-30km reach). Since its a new technology, I didn't went for the most expensive trendy ones, rather something much cheaper, in case it turns out not-there-yet.

Well, it turned out not-there-at-all. Brand is called V-Max, not sure how popular they are. First one lasted 3 months, then broke down. Mail back to eshop, got another brand new in a week. This one lasted 2 weeks, suddenly battery started giving maybe 50% of the power, it became uselessly slow. Next round trip to eshop, brand new one lasted like 4 days. It just stopped responding to power button unless plugged in. Another round trip, now it works, unless its below +10 degrees Celsius, then it randomly shuts down after 2-3 mins.

You can say, buy something 5x as expensive (meaning good brand). Well, I am not going to shell that amount of cash on just a scooter. For me its a nice to have, nothing more. These things are fragile (imagine cheap electric bike ridden hard). Pavements are often not in good shape (in Switzerland!), so ride is bumpy. Manufacturers lie like hell on real range - its probably 25-30% in real world, on normal +-flat sidewalks. I've seen complaints about this all over internet. With modest uphill, many will crawl slower than walking pace.

One thing I noticed - it is properly dangerous to ride it. My gut feeling says much more than regular bike. People love to just pop out from behind the cars into sidewalks, even small dirt can throw you off balance easily. Breaking distance is way too long. You have to have both hands on steering all the time, if you get a fly into your eye, or sneeze, you need to stop. You don't need to drive fast to make it dangerous - people just don't expect you. Driving on the road is forbidden here, and this is frankly not something that belongs on the roads (apart from regulatory requirements).

Overall, cool idea, one day maybe, unless they will be regulated to hell beforehand.
Then make it optional preferential voting. You can number as many boxes as you want.

It works that way in New South Wales. Apparently in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Malta, too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optional_preferential_voting
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Does usenet have points? That's what I find missing in most forums, except Reddit and HN, where best comments flow towards the top, instead of being present arbitrarily deep in the timeline.
What is a better business model then taking something that is free, and renting it at a premium ...
It's not wishful thinking. RedHat could have remained standalone.
What are the mideastern states?

If you mean the Midwest then I regret to inform you that Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan are all in the top 10 most populous states.
Where I'm at, property taxes are based on the previous couple years "qualified" sales. So what happened last time, property values tanked, so no one was willing to sell. No sales means no comps. The only sales happening were foreclosures and/or short sales, which weren't considered qualified sales.
Just a personal anecdote, I gave a talk about D. C. Engelbart last week to my research group and none of them knew him beforehand.
The most interesting part of this is their use of user data. Traditionally, it seems like there isn't a great way to judge demand for a restaurant until you open it, so it makes sense that user tracking (to gauge interest) and the ability to operate out of an already profitable space (reduced upfront cost) gives establishments a significant advantage (although the article doesn't exactly comment on number of failed online restaurants, so selection bias cannot be ruled out.) I wonder how competitors like GrubHub use data to gauge interest...
As a gay man, I have no words to describe how frightened I am right now - and will be for the next 4 years at least.

May God have mercy of us all.
Altera has the cyclone iv & v chips sold by terasic. Id start with one of those boards.
I'm not impressed with the demo gif I've seen basically the same results from the 90s era software elastic image. (Motion Image morphing)
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I don't have a Ph.D and I'm not pursuing one, but when you say "It doesn't take you further or deeper into your chosen path of study"that says to me that you don't understand what a Ph.D is...
Thirded. It reads like a ~500 page technical manual for the mind. I don't know of any other book that states things as plainly, or in as much detail.
I’m guessing the word “internal” has a lot to do with it.
> Anyway, people have a right to vote. It is not a privilege.

Actually, in US, it is a privilege. Look up the Constitution - the original one doesn't define any right to vote at all (which was a necessary component of the 3/5th Compromise); all it says is that the states must have a "republican form of government". And all subsequent amendments specify what can't be used as a basis to deny the right to vote. Aside from the ones that did so explicitly, there's also the catch-all Equal Protection Clause - but even that does not amount to a full-on acknowledgement that voting is a basic right of any American citizen.

This is why the states can e.g. deny the right to vote to felons - some doing so for the rest of their lives, and without any ability to reinstate it. And why all challenges to voter suppression have to be coached in anti-discrimination language (i.e. that they deny the right to vote to some protected minority specifically, as opposed to a generic right to vote).

It's a very unfortunate state of affairs, and we desperately need a constitutional amendment that instates the right to vote as one of the fundamental rights of a citizen.
> Is there evidence of a well-defined psychological mechanism rather than merely a symptom cluster common to autoimmune diseases and various other immune system disorders?

Are you asking if all autoimmune diseases can be detected by a single test. That doesn't really seem relevant. To my knowledge, all of the diseases that are confidently attributed to an autoimmune disorder do indeed have corresponding physiological evidence, with higher degrees of confidence when there are independent pieces of direct evidence. (One can imagine a case where there was overwhelming circumstantial evidence instead, but I've never heard of it; maybe you have an example in mind?) Autoimmune diseases generally have multiple common physiological features like excess inflammation, responsiveness to steroids (which suppress the immume system), or antinuclear antibodies (ANA).

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/ana-test/about/p...

The rest of your comment was much more helpful. Thanks! (Except for the part where you said I made accusations. I didn't.)

> Lupus was known about for centuries, but only conclusively proven to be an autoimmune disease in 1948-49.

Right, there are obviously lots of physiological diseases whose underlying causes aren't understood for a long time. But Lupus had objective (non-self-report) symptoms, giving doctors confidence in it was physiological. They were correctly unsure it was autoimmune until later evidence became available.

> The medical community is at a consensus that there's an organic cause,

Could you link to a consensus statement? I looked around a lot and all the documents i could find that reflect a consensus of experts like the CDC (rather than the opinion of individual researchers) were careful to never endorse a physiological mechanism, even an unknown one.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-announces-...

https://www.cdc.gov/me-cfs/about/index.html

> ...they just don't have enough data collated or a good enough understanding of the immune system and its interaction with the disease process to know what it is

Sorry, are you saying there is a consensus it's autoimmune, or just biological? There appear to be lots of non-autoimmune theories too.
The kooky mark of the beast people heavily oppose everything from RFID to social security cards... the real mainstream opposition would be from gun owners and the NRA.
I probably can understand the motivation from IBM side. Most big/great companies have a long term vision and strategy. I did not get Redhat, is it good to join IBM?
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I hate the poisson distribution because it completely against the naive instincts of how random behaves.
Welp, there goes Fedora!
There are no penguins in the northern hemisphere TIL
Ditto, I can almost guarantee I'll be in a meeting in the week or two where my directors will want to discuss the possibility of moving off of Redhat, at least as a contingency plan.
I think that before going into ML and AI it's worth to understand how to perform the quantitative analysis end-to-end. ML/AI would be just one of the process steps there, but without the bigger picture, you miss the value of it.

One of the good books to understand the quantitative analysis is "Keeping Up with Quants" https://www.amazon.com.au/Keeping-Up-Quants-Understanding-An...
The article assumes that the Euro has failed and goes on from there. I would like to see what realistic scenario could have produced the implied Utopian vision the author implies is the only criteria for success.
Absolutely. I'm happy to see Nisargadatta's name here. For some reason self-inquiry hasn't taken off in the US like Zen, TM, or Vipassana has.

These are also gems:

* The Truth Is by Papaji

* Be As You Are by Ramana Maharshi
Pretty interesting! Although a bit easier than one might expect.

For example, the author notes that they figured out the author owns a dog and is lactose-intolerant. Seems impressive, but the author has dog treats and Lactaid milk in their fridge - a bit of a giveaway!
This just in ... man bites dog. Sports and weather in 10.
He probably had it for over 15 years with high calcium tests every year on his physical. No doctor ever mentioned it as a problem as his health just degraded year after year. He figured it out himself and called Norman. So at least you'll have your 30s to enjoy!

Let me know how it goes afterwards. I'd love to hear how you recover!
You could automate these sorts of processes using data collected live, just in aggregate. Rather than say, a simple light sensor on a street lamp, you could note where cars are on the road, and illuminate a series of them ahead of any given vehicle so they can see in front them. Or a road could dynamically reconfigure itself based on traffic flow, rearrange lanes around accidents, etc. These are processes that would require data collection, processing, and automated control of a equipment along the road.

My point isn't in the specific examples but that there are smart, computerized features that absolutely could be built that may improve lives or create efficiency that don't involve personal profiling.
It may be strictly wrong to call them a "cloud" provider, but they've bet big on on-premise cloud-like systems, which carries a lot of potential for future growth.

If you want enterpricey Kubernetes, scratching those auditing and authorization itches it carries, Openshift is probably on your short list.
Ugh I hate their sales. There was a day they decided to spam my cell phone number constantly while I was on lunch. Not even sure how they got it, but I finally answered and got super angry with the other end. I didn’t even know it was Red Hat because they didn’t even bother leaving messages. Just back to back to back times 4 calls. Even if it were my work number, if you didn’t get through the first time, spamming my line isn’t going to get you there either.
I think when you figure out why Amazon is currently losing to Microsoft you will also understand why Red Hat, just like Docker, was completely crushed by Google, and why IBM, despite trying super hard, wasn't even a player until now.
Seen plenty of these, they're super easy to tell because they're loud as hell because people usually remove all of the muffler.
Is there something like this for computer desktop icons?
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“Rates of identification-ownership are highest among White individuals, while other ethnic groups disproportionately lack necessary photo ID. Thirteen percent of Blacks, 10 percent of Hispanics, but only 5 percent of Whites lack photographic identification.

“Lower-income individuals are less likely to have photo ID. Twelve percent of adults living in a household with less than $25,000 annual income lack photo ID, compared to just 2 percent in households with over $150,000 annual income.”

From http://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AMERIC...
Direct link to the forum:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FridgeDetective/

The article is an interesting summary, but in my opinion doesn’t add much value over “there’s a forum that does this”. So you might want to check it out directly.
I just assumed it would be a more Orwellian version of the old “Company Towns.” In addition it would be a big laboratory to test what people will accept and how much personal information can be gleaned from those sensors and related analysis.
It's time travel and superposition of interfering multiverses all the way down :P
Weird; in the two cities I've seen them, all UberEats drivers use mopeds, they don't drive people as well. How does that even work? I don't think the apps let you coordinate the delivery and ride.
The Euro didn't fail. It has flaws (as did many European currencies that existed before the Euro), but no EU member state has abandoned it, because the upsides outweigh the downsides and the costs of leaving would be enormous. Even Greece didn't do that, although they did come close.
Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil. What are his policies?
you probably will not be able to complete that sentence without being called racist, xenophobic or both.
I really don't understand the point of this anecdote.

This is standard practice for almost every acquisition. If the startup didn't want to be part of the IBM way of doing things they shouldn't have agreed to be acquired by IBM.

In fact the rare situation was the Facebook "acquire but treat more like an independent subsidiary" model. And even that didn't last all that long.
For mindfulness awareness in the moment I would recommend Mindfulness:a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world by Williams (Oxford University). It takes you through a course in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. MBCT is aimed as anti-depression. I like the standardised approach used which means that clinical trials are possible.
Another interesting angle is Mindful Self Compassion - best starting point Kristin Neff.
> You can never vote from home in a democracy, because people might force you to vote a way you didn’t want to. I don’t really think groups would show up at your house to force you to do anything, but we frequently get husbands ask if they can vote for their wives, and if they could do that from home, no one would be there to stop them.

The states that implement vote-by-mail in US (which, coincidentally, uses paper ballots), ensure that the person casting the vote is the person to whom the ballot was mailed by requiring a signature. To implement secret voting, the ballot is enclosed in two envelopes, and only the outer envelope has any personally identifiable information, including said signature. The signature is checked against the one in the voter registration database, and if there's a mismatch, the election department will contact the voter to ensure that the ballot was, in fact, theirs. Once the check is done, the outer envelope is discarded, and the still-sealed ballots are transferred to the people who will actually count them.

This doesn't preclude forcing someone to vote in a certain way, or paying them to vote in a certain way. But that is just as feasible with voting booths with modern tech - you simply demand that the victim records filling the ballot with their smartphone or a similar device. Some countries are banning camera phones from voting booths for this reason, but enforcement is usually impractical.
"Because when you say it out loud, it sounds ridiculous to be a government with no idea who your people actually are."

In the US, one of the founding principles, different from all (almost all?) others at the time, was the people create the government to govern for them. Government was not suppose to be a system where the government (ie. the monarchy) rules and owns the people. I don't think it is such a bad idea that people are resistant to a national ID. "Show me your papers" and all that comes with it is something to avoid if possible.
It’s so surreal that people in the FPGA industry refer to libraries/components as “Intellectual Property”.
All it takes to prove a vote is a camera. Which practically everybody has in their pocket these days, even on the cheap $10 feature phones.
most projects on those incubators are there to die a slow death after being abandoned by the group you call "open source corporations"
You just cannot call it "politics and influence" when systemd was discussed thoroughly and adopted by Debian.
Assuming you are thinking of Thinkpads, IBM hasn't owned that since 2006.
Thanks for all the work you've done on express-vue. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of vue and only really use it at work, it makes me happy to know there's good libraries out there for it that do one thing well (a trait that's sorely lacking in a lot of JS libs).
> What are some techniques that folks use to convince themselves to only worry about their shit and not dwell on shit from other people?

1. Just removing the sources of unhappiness can go far. Block all the websites that make you feel bad. Unfollow people that stress you out. Uninstall apps from your phone. Or go even further, and turn off internet entirely.

2. Mindfulness meditation can help catch these negative thought patterns and redirect them.
The timeline may be an infinite loop but your story still ended, with the revelation that the man is doomed to repeat his Icarus story for everytime. An author could play that as a sad or happy ending, as they like.
judging by the fact that you said computer desktop icons instead of browser tabs, you’re probably a developer
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That blog post from cormier scares me. Its so cheerleading and the use of "we" like any one besides the employees at RedHat get a piece of that buyout. "Opensource is here to stay." ... Im not holding my breath. But I am bullish on the possibilities. If IBM doesnt F this up I hope they realize that people dont have negative feelings about them like Amazon and Google. People want a tech company that is more tech and less politics. IBM dont do anything special just have a simple payment structure with a product that works.
I understand. In the past I used plain Makefiles too. GNU make is powerful. But it can get unpleasant and unreadably verbose pretty fast.

For personal projects I use either meson, or if they are sufficienlty complex (targetting multiple architectures in a single project and other tricky things) and the environment is known/fixed, I genereate build.ninja file from a PHP based configure script and it's unbeatable as to the flexibility, predictability and build speeds.

The best thing is that I can change anything and I can be sure that the incremental build will be the quickest and the result predictable. No more need for "make clean all" after changing some flags/variables in a Makefile.

It's the benefit meson/ninja combo will give you too, but meson is replaced by an actual well known programming language like PHP in my case.

For known environment builds, it's really nice. Much easier than fishing around the web for random recipies on how to do stuff in m4/meson/autoconf/automake/whatever custom language someone invented.

I really love the intentional simplicity of ninja build.

https://ninja-build.org/manual.html
setting up a website blocker in firefox has been amazing.
yes I can easily turn it off, but I don't.
I still habitually type in time wasting distraction urls and it blocks them and I go "oh yeah"

so you could do something like block all news websites except on weekends or something
One emerging realization is that the essence of gauge theory [0] has revealed itself as an insight to some whom have learned to apply it beyond the realm of physics.

Eric Weinstein [1], managing director of Thiel Capital, has been advocating upgrading the current economic calculus with a quantitative model based on gauge theory that can better adapt to changing behavior and changes in consumer preferences across time (for example).

Eric has intimated that James Simons [2] discovered a secret (in the Peter Thiel sense of the word) related to gauge theory during the time Simons and C.N. Yang [3] (as in Yang-Mills Theory [4]) discovered the correspondences in what has become known as the "Wu-Yang Dictionary" [5], which later led to Simons founding Renaissance Technologies [6] in 1982 and is part of the secret-sauce in their mathematical models that has enabled them to dominate quantitative trading ever since. A quote from the 1975 paper:

...The mathematics of these results is in fact well
known to the mathematicians in fiber bundle theory.
An identification table of terminologies is given in
Sec. V. We should emphasize that our interest in this
paper does not lie in the beautiful, deep, and general
mathematical development in fiber bundle theory.
Rather we are concerned with the necessary concepts to
describe the physics of gauge theories. It is
remarkable that these concepts have already been
intensively studied as mathematical constructs.

See "Gauge Theory and Inflation: Enlarging the Wu-Yang Dictionary to a unifying Rosetta Stone for Geometry in Application - Eric Weinstein" [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5gnATQMtPg

[0] Gauge Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_theory

[1] Eric Weinstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein

[2] James Simons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harris_Simons

[3] Nobel Laureate C.N. Yang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Chen-Ning

[4] Yang-Mills Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang–Mills_theory

[5] Concept of nonintegrable phase factor and global formulation of gauge fields (AKA the Wu-Yang Dictionary) [pdf] http://www.indiana.edu/~jpac/QCDRef/1970s/Concept%20of%20non...

[6] Renaissance Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies

[7] The conceptual origins of Maxwell's equations and gauge theory, by C.N. Yang (2014) [pdf] http://www.physics.umd.edu/grt/taj/675e/OriginsofMaxwellandG...

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