skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the US well. Bicycles are cheaper than cars, which both depreciate and steal time while removing opportunity for exercise. Don't drink. Cook more at home. If all else fails, change jobs or marry money.
I recently posted on HN complaining about Nix and Guix.

For myself (and I suspect many people) when installing GuixSD, before I even have the system running, I'm going to need to figure out how to package the Linux kernel with firmware for my wifi. Otherwise my ~$3k laptop is basically a brick. That is a big ask right up front. Glancing at the mailing list it seems like discussing non-free software is discouraged. Even if there is some well maintained Linux package on Github it would be difficult to find and evaluate before having any experience with Guix.

It is your project and you can obviously have whatever rules you want. It just seems that Guix and Nix made some odd choices that are going to keep both projects in a very small niche.
True, people forgot that 40% of Azure VMs are running Linux.
Compatibility mode applies to processes, though, which raises a problem with batch files (or scripts) that use those things, as you'd then have to make cmd always run in compatibility mode (or Python, or Perl, etc.).
You do sound fairly exceptional. Would you rather not be?
Exploitative algorithms are using tricks as old as haggling at the bazaar
I think you're right and I was wrong. It does violate freedom 0 and probably will not be approved for that reason by FSF.
They're just buying more time. German automakers are quite risk-averse but usually they have the details sorted out before they go to market. Porsche already has hybrid cars and they're working on the Taycan. Audi has the e-tron in production. Daimler has the EQ concept which will go into production by 2022. What they don't have yet is the charging infrastructure. It should be standardised amongst all German automakers if they're smart.
I don't follow p6 closely, I randomly catch up from time to time.. Maybe it's just me, but the naming seems to have gone out of hand?

> Larry Wall has created a second name for the language, an alias or a "stage name" if you will. That name is "Raku". It can be used interchangeably with the original "Perl 6" name or even be combined with it to form "Raku Perl 6". Pick the one that works the best for you and use it consistently.

So it used to be 6.c for "Christmas", now it's "6.d" for "Diwali", it used to be "Rakudo Perl 6", now it's "Raku Perl 6". At this point I have to ask, are they trolling?
Over 20,000 Google employees participated in yesterday’s mass walkout
Trying to solve problem that I don't have (feel). But like the website and UI of the app.
Sure, but Sci-Hub is not a sustainable long-term solution, still relies on the traditional paywalled publishing system, and doesn't legally make works available under an open license. arXiv and other preprint servers are limited in their reach.

We're certainly not in Open Access utopia yet, and anything that brings that closer should be commended, in my opinion, not criticised for not achieving other goals such as improving the system of peer review.
Precisely. Any reasonably survivable creature varies its behaviour depending on its current condition.
Yep they're pretty similar in goals, (and syntax?) except for that nix has built in support for derivations as a language feature. Nix is a language for derivations first a language for configurations second. Jsonnet is only a configuration language.
Excited to see Connect being actively developed. It's already incredibly useful for me, but I can see it reaching a whole other scale when librem5 phones will be out.

Something I wonder more and more often, lately, is if Connect should not be responsible to manage notifications.

I've seen that a rewrite of the notification system is on the table [1] to be on par with android's one, and indeed, I would love to have grouping and persistence in my notifications (I currently put the notification widget on my desktop ; it's good enough, but I need to click it to see notifications history and it quickly gets floody, without grouping).

The reason I would love to see it being part of Connect is to make it easy to handle shared notifications between several Plasma installs (currently, I spend a long time tweaking the send and receive notifications plugins in Connect, this works great with two devices, but starts getting ugly with three). I can see this being a killing feature, on Plasma mobile.

I guess users who don't use Connect wouldn't love that much to have a dependency on it for their notification system, though. But since the discussed rewrite seems mobile focus (IIUC), both systems could co-exist : the classic desktop style notification system currently implemented, and the mobile friendly one in Connect, with an option in system settings to select which one we want to use.

[1] https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Notifications#Crazy_Ideas
It's not much of a paradox surely.

Those countries introduced equality systems because the imbalance.

Now of course those same countries with the imbalance have those introduced systems.
I've explained this to people a couple of times who make the "faith in science" argument. The difference is that you -can- verify it, not that you did verify it.

Your terminology of trust vs. faith is great. I will incorporate it into my arguments in the future.
I guess the argument against would be that it adds complexity for a use-case which is probably infrequent. How often does the average HTTP client request the same resource multiple times concurrently? In what subset of those cases does it actually matter if requests are redundant?

Why waste your user's clock-cycles on an edge case?
I tend to feel about my life like that comment about democracy: It's the worst thing ever... Except for all the rest.

Also: Hell is other people.
When most ancient philosophers were theists and believed in libertarian free will and an immaterial soul, was that a convergence to the truth, too?
My guess: they already knew 80% about you before the interview even started, but they needed to obtain your DNA for the remaining 20%.

The interview was just a diversion.

/s
I was on top of a mountain once, and a new person that I met there said "I hate your president" right after asking name & where I'm from. Same thing happened to me in a beach when I was borrowing fins from a German couple, and in North Italy when I got off in wrong bus stop and had to hitchhike. Turkish? Erdogan! What a time...
Sorry to say but from my perspective you seem to live in a bubble as well, to use your words.

What apps do is add eas of install (app store), and usability (cache, use device sensors, do some offline tasks)

For a webapp the installation is "Add to homescreen" on a webpage. It then behaves like a native app, no address bar.
Usability is tackled by modern browsers that allow webapps started like this to:
- cache the entire webapp, and some/all data it requests.
- run webworkers in background, (get push notifications, etc)
- provide sensor access via APIs, (camera, etc)
And to conclude, todays webapps respond FAST. They do everything the same way a native app does.

Ofcourse if your webapp does video transcoding or uses some specific OS feature it might profit from being native. But even then, its unbelievable easy to wrap your webapp in a shell that adds these functionality.

How do you think FB and other popular content consuming apps work nowadays? You are basically looking at webapps rendered in a shell that provides the few APIs a browser doesnt yet have, like share button and contact/calendar integration, to get/set data specific to/on your device.
Alternatively, and to show that you know your own market value, you respond back with your salary expectation.
> might just be a shortcut to some website

For the longest time it was. Because $newsCompany was subscription it had to leave the apple store, or give apple ~25% cut. To get round this we had a fully offline HTML5 webapp.

it was very good, but despite mega optimisations, it was slower than native, and had limited storage.

Users were constantly asking for a native app, In every customer council/survey. Bear in mind that these people were not techhead, they were babyboomers who struggled with tech, they knew enough however, to know that native apps were faster. (for example the times, grauniad and telegraph. )
I just read Wellcome's announcement [1], which has this interesting bit:

> We will no longer cover the cost of OA publishing in subscription journals (‘hybrid OA’). We previously supported this model, but no longer believe that it supports a transition to full OA.

Whereas Plan S, IIRC, explicitly stated that research funded by them could not be published in hybrid journals, Wellcome merely states that they will not cover the cost - implying that well-resourced researchers are still allowed to use other funds to publish there?

Another interesting part of their OA policy is that they require organisations they fund to commit to DORA, i.e. to work towards not judging researchers on the names of the journals they publish in, but on the inherent quality of their work. In my opinion, this is the largest problem that is currently holding back the transition to open access and many other problems in science. (Disclaimer: I work on a project that hopes to solve this problem as well.)

[1] https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/wellcome-updating-its-open-acces...
I did not say it was wrong, merely that I was sceptical which is a good attitude in science. I am trying to understand how they did the study. Does not matter how many people took the study if the study is flawed: are the metrics they use sensible to measure gender differences e.g.

I don’t think it is wrong to use anecdotes as a rough estimate to decide whether you accept the study at face value or not.

If I told you 50% of Americans are illiterate based on a study of 90 000 people you would be sceptical of that claim based on your own experiences which run counter to this claim.
Ars Technica had a longer article on this: https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/1859s-great-auroral-...
There is an active fantasy map drawing community over on Reddit in /r/Worldbuilding, Maps range from truly amazing... to quite awful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/search?q=flair_name%3...
>>It is not easy to always distinguish what is due to obstacle and what is due to preference.

That's because even without the role of society, a person's preferences are made out of mental outlook they have developed over time. What one person finds to be impossible, the other person might find it to be perfectly easy to do. There is nothing you do to fix that. That largely depends on personal enterprise and what the person wants to do in life.

I have seen people throw away perfectly fine opportunities while in position of advantage. I have also seen people run though opportunity famine, move mountains and earth all to create a small opening some where.

Ultimately its just on the person. And most importantly You can't fix people against their will.
Plenty of people have been harmed due to their wealth. Does that mean you would rather be poor than rich?
RPCS3 Progress Report: September 2018
Gab, fake news and metapolitics
ETLs, physical data modelling and data marts/warehouses used to be handled within database admin's task in small to medium sized companies and largely with ETL tools or just SQL.
There is misconception that all radiation and all patterns of it is the same. Comparing output power is largely useless because what is really important is how it affects body and this depends on very many factors, not all doses are the same.

For example, standing in full sunlight might not be a problem normally unless you stand for entire day and get burned (extended exposure without allowing the body the time to repair) or maybe the sunlight gets concentrated by a lens and burns your finger without changing total exposure to sun (concentrated in space) or maybe gets somehow converted to UV (concentrated to restrict wavelengths to hit specific molecules reacting with UV) or stored as energy in the form of oil and released quickly when burning (concentrated in time).

The first cellphones where much larger devices placing the source of the radiation further away from your body. They were also omnidirectional making sure that the maximum density of the field was low. New devices use beam forming which means it sometimes hits with a dense wave travelling through your body as if it was a sunlight concentrated with a lens.

Also, new cellphones are much better transmitters with much better control of the spectrum to maximise the power at a specific frequency. It further exacerbates the effect meaning if the beam interacts with something in the body it interacts much more strongly, again, akin to the concentrating lens. With old cellphone everything would be getting warmer a bit, with newer ones it may come into much stronger interactions because it may do it much more selectively (in space, time and choice of a molecule it interacts with).
Probably the same reason why Guile or Scheme didn't get as wide-spread as other languages in general.
It's not a national problem, in fact it is extremely regional. It has to due with unnecessary restriction on building in those regions -- primarily to benefit current property owners.
IMO the interesting point was the approach:

- First thinking what could lead to progress.

- Then progress in the form of 2 lists that answer the question if women should be allowed for the highest political office.
You might want to go back and enjoy what "Wort, Schrift und Bild" means a bit more.
Do you think there is something innate that changed genetically about women that led to them being much less likely to be computer programmers now than they were in the 1970s, but much more likely to be biologists? If not, there is probably some other factor at work leading to these changing "preferences," even though as far as I know women have had no legal barriers to working in either field throughout that period.

Or, to bring up a very timely example: currently there are no legal barriers to coming out as transgender (in the U.S., anyway). I still think it's reasonable to say that people are not "free to choose" to transition, because in many cases they will be ostracized or (legally) discriminated against for it. This is similar to the status of homosexuality (though it is a less direct analogy since there were many more laws explicitly prohibiting homosexuality).
And who is going to challenge Microsoft on this in court?
Spectacle, Attention, Counter-Memory [pdf]
What’s Hiding in Your PDF?
I don't know. You jumped on me out of the blue with this. I have about a week to answer before comments will be closed here and, frankly, I do not have enough free time to think my answer through.

So here I am: I don't know.

On contrary, Watts, who spend several years thinking his fiction through, should have better answers than what he presented to us.
People would be talking about the eGolf if they had significant production. The problem is that they simple can not make profitable EV and that's why they don't do it.
> Technically, as long as objects aren't exchanged between modules, it would be possible to use ClassLoader isolation to have two libraries each load their own incompatible dependency at run time. It's on my blue-sky TODO list.

Not only technically, this also works practically. We've done this for years in a POS application in order to be able to load different incompatible versions of vendor-provided hardware drivers at the same time, with the decision on which to use (one, the other, or maybe even both at the same time) being done at runtime. It's based on OSGi for modularization, which also provides other benefits besides classloader isolation, like allowing to bundle multiple native libs for different OSes and bit-nesses within a single jar and automatically choosing the right one to dynamically link into your JVM process that is needed for a particular platform that the application finds itself running on.
You said "People who aren't looking at all don't show up in the statistics."

Why would a reasonable reader assume that "statistics" means "specifically U3 unemployment"?
Just a tangent, but it might make your life easier (and other being's lives, too): You get B12s not only from meat, fish, eggs and milk but also from fermented food like sauerkraut, kimchi, tempeh, kombucha, some seaweeds and fermented tea.
The issue is not 'mostly' it's 'extremely'.

Basically when a system is 98% absent of something, it can be hard for some to adapt.

I'm not one for quotas but we should be aware of this.

A startup with all dudes might have a hard time hiring their first woman. Maybe they might want to hire a few positions at once.
Yeah, same for me. The only apps I have are the ones where the web experience is either non existent (Camscanner) or extremely sub par (Spotify/Google Music)

I do have apps for all the shoppibg platforms I use, even though the performance isn't substantially better
Apple screen lock bug Bypasses passcode to see contacts and private information
Everyone is not open to being aquired by Facebook until they get a $10B offer. Even if they say no now, that’s no guarantee for the future.
Woah there, you can't say that! That's what Damore got fired for!
Could be as I have read reports from men in predominantly female fields (as child care services, nursing, etc.) having a feeling of being outsiders and not really included in the workspace. I don't think we have enough data to imply that though.
I don’t necessarily reject that possibility. But I feel it does not capture the full extent of differences or similarities between genders. Can you really say genders are more similar because they have more similar jobs?

Also I would caution agains making conclusions from Eastern European countries. Communism was very much into gender equality in some regards. Very high percentage of communist women worked.

You see this in communist guriellia which often have a lot of women. The Kurdish women’s fighters were a result of various socialist ideologies which is quite feminist.

I just don’t think this issue can be represented on one axis alone. There are more similarities son some axis and less on others it seems in more gender equal places.

Gender equality itself isn’t a number on a single axis either.
Covered Wilfred Owen in some depth in Secondary School, although his poetry is quite depressing compared to say, Rupert Brooke, I was always fascinated with him due in part that I share the same surname with him.
2) You are the one making people laugh here :P
What a troll this David is.
Perhaps this article will show you what your interlocutor means: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nich...

It is not a new phenomenon for women writers to be taken a shade less seriously than their male counterparts.
Gravitational force
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They seem to be working for him pretty well.
Few thoughts:

1. It sets a frontier between your “true” friends and others. What if I don’t like someone anymore but don’t want to offend by removing them from my Millow? What if someone wants to add me but I don’t think of them as close enough to be on mine?

2. I personally do this on Line and WhatsApp. So I really don’t feel like adding yet another social app

3. The reminder part is weird, if they really are close friends, I don’t need a reminder to call them. So this feels more a “remember to call grandma”.
Swiping right gets me a half finished profile page. Is that supposed to be visible?
What amazes me even more is that John spends so much time here on HC chatting with us hoi polloi.
I was just giving an example how you could destroy something if you were so inclined.
The most persistent critique I have heard about Google is that the experience can be very uneven in everything from recruitment and workload to even salary for the same job. Even if Google entirely stopped with brain teasers, people certainly seemed to have expected them on account of unpredictability up until a few years ago.
5-6 years ago, I went for an interview in a real estate company. The introductions lasted all of 2 mins. Then they took me to a computer, showed me a bug in the code base that I would be working on, if I got hired. Then they said "please fix this". Took me about half hour or so to hunt the bug down and fix (it wasn't hard, but it wasn't a cosmetic bug either). Then they asked me how I found the bug. I explained, they told me I'm hired, and the paperwork will follow in a day or two. No other questions were asked, they didn't look at the resume at all.

The entire experience lasted less than an hour - from the time I walked into the reception till I walked out. Best job interview ever!

This codebase was probably 0.0000001% as complex compared to Google's (I can only imagine). Still, there is no reason more companies can't follow this style, at least for one of the several "rounds" of interviews, instead of whiteboard, trivia etc.
Mathematics and logic are more of a study of concepts than philosophy, highly contaminated by language and imprecision, could ever warrant to be.

(These are earliest branches out of philosophy by the way.)

Use of natural language makes most of the ideas entertained by philosophy highly ambiguous until they get formalized.

Even ethics can be strictly formalized in a more advanced logic system, making the ideas and applicability clear.

Or are we trying for something more complex, such as creativity?
You should publish it to the web to make it easy to use, but give it an obscure filename to make it secure.
"the expressed preference may actually be something they loathe, but don't feel empowered to reject"

But we can ask them, right? We can ask e.g. nurses and computer programmers whether or not they loathe the choice of their profession. If there is e.g. relatively more computer programmers loathing it than nurses then you have an evidence of culturally pushed preference (towards computer programming, in this case), regardless what the gender ratio in those fields is.

"it matters a whole lot for purposes of an individual figuring out how to create a good life for themselves"

I already responded to that, basically I don't think it matters for an individual: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18381148
Youtube TV is not free and had the same outage. They did issue a partial refund for customers though
The "new microsoft" provides a baseline operating system riddled with spyware, an update system that takes over the control of your system and pushes random content to your drive and a closed-as-ever groupware suite. Nothing has really changed except some developer allure, which seems to be working.

But I don't want to be tracked when I paid for their stuff. I want control over my system. And from a developer perspective, I'm still 1000% more productive on any nix based system where the tooling is (and has generally always been) years ahead.

There are very few areas where I need to use windows, and it's only due to vendor lock-in. Embedded development tools and professional RE tools are stronger on windows, sadly.
0.2.3 released 4 years ago.

I don’t know, a last release that long ago doesn’t inspire faith in the health of the project.
underground is somewhere...
Yes, their executives often testify before Congress about how there’s a shortage of STEM workers for them to hire and Something Needs to Be Done.
IDLE is an old extension. Unfortunately Thunderbird is a crappy client.
Is Jordan Peterson any better in person than he seems in his book? I read it after a friend recommended it and he seemed completely insufferable and possibly mildly autistic based on what seemed like a real lack of understanding of the internal lives of others.

Lots of people seem to like him, but I can't bring myself to watch him speak in person since everything I see just traversing the internet is framed as him "destroying liberals" in some fashion, which just affirms the insufferable idea.
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