skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'm in the market for something at least very close to what System76 is doing. But there's a niche that I'm not finding in their product lineup (or anyone else's, so far).

The open hardware part is extremely appealing, and the reason I started paying attention to System76 in the first place.

What's missing for me is form factor. Rather than a desktop tower, I want to rackmount a machine in an AV cabinet and put it in my living room alongside other devices like an ethernet switch, UPS, maybe an AV receiver, set-top box, or other bits of AV/smarthome type gear. Like those home stereo racks people had in the 80s and 90s (tape deck, cd changer, receiver, record player, amplifier). But with actual rack mounting hardware like you get in modern server rooms.

I already shopped around for, and have, a suitable cabinet:
https://www.salamanderdesigns.com/racks-stands/hampton-317-r...

So when I look at their 'servers' page I see machines that belong in some company's server room, away from humans. The small height (1U or 2U) says "compute density" (which is one of the metrics emphasized on their product page) and also means small fans which need to move a lot of air, which means noise.

The servers offered go up to 28 or even 31.5 inches deep. The shallowest is still 22 inches deep. My aforementioned cabinet has 16.5 inches of depth from the front rails to the back rails. So while the rackmount hardware is the same standard 19 inch width with vertical hole spacing measured in U's, there is a distinct difference between what is built for a server rack and what is built for an AV-style cabinet in someone's home.

A chassis with 4U or more of height would allow larger, slower 120mm fans suitable for a quiet living room. I want something like that on sliding rails so it can be easily pulled out like a drawer for component changes.

That would be a great bit of design for a home server, I think. And if System76 or a similar vendor were offering this as a product category, I'd be asking them to take my money :)
And to facilitate the formation of insulated communities that don't interact with each other directly, without altogether removing any but the most toxic of communities from public search results.
I don't use any Apple services really, so I won't be sucked in to the walled garden. A lot of things I self-host and I've already checked that equivalent apps are available in iOS.
A late reply, it says I'm posting "too fast"...

> Forbid companies to outsource labor outside their target market country, or impose heavy tariffs, and voila.

This is nonsense economics, straight out of Donald Trumps playbook.

It hurts everyone involved in the process. If unskilled labor becomes too expensive, it's simply eliminated. Business looks elsewhere. This hurts the people in the rich country less, there are more opportunities for people there. The people in the poorer countries stay poor, because they don't get the kind of foreign capital they need to advance. You know, the kind of money that buys things on the global market, the kind of money that the US just gets to print.

> That will mean less cheap gadgets in said market country (e.g. US), but more actual jobs, and a healthier middle class (and thus economy), and thus better access to necessities.

Not just "cheap gadgets" will be more expensive, everything will be, because the whole economy is intertwined in subtle ways. This makes everyone poorer, but it especially hurts those people that can afford the least. They'll be able to afford even less. You're not helping a middle class by raising prices on low-end jobs. Those jobs will disappear when they become too expensive. They can not become middle-class jobs by fiat.

> This will also force third world countries to actually become competitive in quality and delivery, not just throw sweatshop-like labor (including from children and in some cases, slaves) and cheaper dangerous working conditions at the problem.

If you have sweatshop-like conditions, which I don't think is the case here, then that is still a better alternative than whatever other jobs these people could've had instead - otherwise they would do those. Remember, the government can't just decide everyone gets to have a good job. Isolating these third world countries from the global market doesn't help them become more competitive. It's not like it hasn't been tried, mind you.
Twitter took down thousands of accounts that discouraged  voting in midterms
As a Banhof subscriber I'm a bit saddened that they have to engage with blocking any sites at all, but since they do, I'm happy that I'm paying an ISP with some sense of courage and integrity.

As with all copyright related issues, the application of hilariously outdated rules onto modern situations never cease to amaze.
Messenger codes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scan-code-editor-for-messeng...
That's easy to say if you are rich because your food is only a small fraction of your income.
I used to have a Jolla when they first came out ditched it because of the crappy camera. I'm going to give Sailfish X another try next week.
Same here. Plus for some reason Yakov Zeldovich's books on calculus really sang to me, much more than American textbooks.
If you buy E-mini S&P 500 futures, your effective overnight leverage can be up to 22x. You could put part of your money in short term bonds to avoid such extreme leverage.

There are also 3x leveraged ETFs you can hold overnight.

Of course, this means you aren't directly owning stocks.
Simply install Firefox and your problems are over. That's what I do on my iPad, and what I intend to do on the SE when it arrives.
OTOH, maybe blocking sci-hub is for the best. Blocking sci-hub is a bigger inconvenience to scientists, who often take it for granted and use it as a cop out to keep publishing with closed access.

Oh , and maybe google should consider pushing Elsevier's websites down in their search ? I mean almost all articles are indexed in pubmed which even loads faster.
The claim is that it does change behavior, but only temporarily and it doesn't change the culture in a positive way / doesn't motivate people. It ends up feeling like a way of manipulating. That being said, according to this article, the entire incentive system would need to be dismantled. Simply adding more incentives wouldn't necessarily produce higher quality, at least not in the long run. So essentially the process of incentivizing new amazing research for funding is the primary issue and adding incentives for pointing out issues would just be a bandaid.
What a great way to fight back. I hope other ips take notice and block elsevier elsewhere.

If someone put another domain up could the court be unable to assess whether it breaks the law with the court blockage?

More interestingly could the isp put a rule in there terms forbidding anyone employed or hired by Elsevier from assessing the isp services so anything submitted by this company becomed null and void?
If you have a smartphone, people invariably have one or two messaging apps in my experience. If it is not Whatsapp then it is something else. You need to figure out what everyone in your circle is using and switch to it or resort to sending blurry SMS. I've found sharing google photos links is much easier since it backs up anyway.
>This is all true but it's not actionable. By that I mean, it's philosophically correct but not practically applicable. Yes, mathematical theories are merely a model of actual reality. But a model that produces accurate predictions is useful--even if we know it is not a complete model.

That's true, but that's not all the above says though.

It also says something else that _is_ actionable: don't just trust (or defend) a physics theory because it says it uses math or because it got its math right.

It could still be not just non corresponding with "real reality", but even get its predictions wrong.
It's all fun and "debate" until someone shoots up a synagogue.
This is fantastic.

From this, I learned that making your URLs uppercase makes for a more compact code! The links at the bottom are great reads as well, especially:

https://research.swtch.com/qart

I hope that QR codes become more widely used, now that iOS and Android both include QR capabilities directly in the native camera apps.
User- or sender- determined?

One of those never works.
That sounds similar in practice to a "condominium" in the US. You own your specific apartment and also a share in the whole building.
Anyone have a summary or better source? Paywall is strong with this one.
It brings to mind sorting food at the shelter. The bins of produce that don't have an organic label usually come covered in some sort of semi-waxy preservative goop -- but it washes right off and the produce is almost always good. The bins with an organic label never have the goop but the produce itself has almost always gone bad. Entire bins of mush. The waste is staggering.

That goop had better be poisoning dolphins or something, because the null hypothesis -- that it really isn't so bad and organic labels reject it on account of the FUD opportunity -- is pretty damning.
TCL/Tk is used heavily in finance/wall street.
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The smell yes! This may sound weird and is completely unrelated but I felt the smell of new Apple products comes very close to that of Misha magazines. Noticed it with every Apple hardware I bought so far starting from the 1st generation Macbook.

Science books from Mir, Raduga and Progress publications - https://mirtitles.org/
Children's books - http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/

Last time I checked, I couldn't find any sources for Misha other than a couple of them scattered across file sharing sites.
EF6 is part of .NET Core 3.0: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/10/04/update-on...
I think that's exactly backwards. I think you review data to use your intuition to form the hypothesis or question, and then look for empirical data to try to falsify it.

Putting intuition at the end of the decision making process is a pretty solid way to screw the entire thing up.
We use Racket to teach functional programming in the first semester of the first year at my uni and we never have such horrible feedback from students. We use it again in a compilation course in the first semester of the third year of the same curriculum and it works well. Could you elaborate?
Secondary source.
But the article is about 3D graphics programming, which is often performance-sensitive.
It's rather common knowledge that most vendors that aren't Google or Nokia put a load of crap ware on their devices that can't be removed. Duh.

He also hasn't really ditched Android yet, since his iPhone hasn't even been delivered yet.

I don't get the point of this blog post.
The rate of death by suicide have been going down since the 40s.[0] I think it is a huge mistake to interpret rising opportunities for emotional support as some mental issue epidemic. People have had it awful since the dawn of time, and I see it as a very positive sign that we are talking about it openly now.

[0]https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/6/1464/736597
The second a pure linux phone without googles bullshit (which includes allowing manufacturer and carrier bullshit) comes out, I'm switching. Until then I'm sticking with my blackberry android because at least I have a linux underside and a foss appstore.

Google had such a good opportunity with android, and shit the bed with it, abusing users and letting manufacturers and carriers join in on the abuse.

There should be a "Right to Root".
Article missed another remarkable thing about the 1932 Baba Yaga book - the text appears to be pre-1917 reform!

Communists did quite a hack job with the written part of Russian, purging many Latin letters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthograp...

I don’t know whether this would call the books authenticity into question or show some cracks in the state control, but the use of the old “czarist” print would definitely not have been ok. Anyone that was being taught the reformed orthography would struggle to read it. I’m guessing this was a major selling point - you essentially make all non-communist state controlled printed media unreable.
Did the students give specifics?
I hate how Google Contacts and Calendar are so much superior to any other offer. I can easily find alternative to everything google except for those two.

Especially true with Contacts I feel like I'm doxing everybody I add to it. I have tried many alternative, but nothing even remotely measure to it.
If you need performance and want to avoid the jvm, there are also lisps like Chez Scheme and various Common Lisp implementations (sbcl, in particular, can produce really well-tuned numerical code).
A world-class engineer is able to solve problems in an innovative, simple, reliable way.

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow

https://github.com/linpengcheng/fa

An accountant who does not understand statistics is not a good AI expert system software engineer. :-)
On my desktop, I tried installing TrueOS and FreeBSD but kept having trouble with the install, then the applications and KDE, then the drivers, things were wonkie. Installed OpenBSD a couple of times and it all (mainly) just worked. Eventually just stayed with OpenBSD and have been very happy, especially with the excellent documentation, ease of installation and ease of use. I heard the FreeBSD devs don't use it on their personal comps as much as OpenBSD devs do, and what kind of sealed the deal for me. Thinking back, it was even easier than most Linux installs I've done.
Correct. It wasn't really usable.
In a conventional mortgage, the proportion of interest you pay is frontloaded so that you're paying much more interest in the beginning of the loan. So in the first 7 years of a 30 year mortgage, you will have paid some principal, but the majority was interest.
Its not just a label, its a regulated labeling term. Practically all food labelled as organic in US, EU and other regions has to be certified organic. This "marketing BS" idea is pure meme.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/organic-labeling-s...
Fixed interest loan?
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Thank you for your feedback bshimmin. I removed the resize property and reworked the hover effect. :)
FB doesn’t sell your data though, never has!

What they sell is the ability to target you based on it. But the data never leaves FBs servers!

So if you remove the tags from your settings, advertisers won’t be able to target you with them anymore
Well, given the market size of that ISP, I am sure Elsevier has noticed and are running scared already ...

Sadly the only people being hurt by this sort of protest are researchers that happen to use the same network (i.e. Bahnhof's own customers) and now are unable to access neither the legit website nor the pirate one.

And no, as a researcher you rarely have a choice to not publish in Elsevier ran journals and conferences when your university/department is evaluated (and funding assigned) based on number of publications in these venues. This is often imposed by the government, the uni and even less the individual researchers have pretty much zero say in it.

I have worked at a uni in Denmark where the government literally had lists of "approved" journals and conferences. If you have published there, you have got a score weighed by the importance of the publication. If you have published elsewhere, you got nothing and were effectively working for free because the university funding was directly tied to those scores.

For some fields this was pretty much a death sentence because the "approved" publications were either stuff where most people never manage to get a paper in (like Nature) or most of their usual conferences/journals were not on the list (a lot of humanities and arts where otherwise producing an artwork or composing a piece of music counts as a publication).
Repair credit
I appreciate enormously what this Credit Specialist has done to provide a forum for those of us who have an accumulation of grievances against the credit bureaus. In my experience, Experian is truly the worst. I went to him at the beginning of last month because I was hoping to refinance my mortgage and needed to have my credit reports in best order. Issues that I had tried for three years to have removed were finally corrected by WIPE VIRUS within one week. You would consider giving him a text on his email (WIPEVIRUSE231@WRITEME.COM or through his direct number +17404860190), explaining your issues and asking him approximate cost. I think how much I paid him doesn't seem too much for the peace of mind I gained in knowing that there were no longer any outstanding issues on my credit reports, and that I didn't have to fall into a rage every time the Experian name entered my thoughts. The entanglement in your report can be cleared up and fixed within few days, with just a phone call or two from him. He knows what he is doing and how to accomplish what needs to be done.
Are you saying Jonathan Blow only prototyped his games? Because he didn’t — he also programmed the shipped game code. You can watch him program his new game live on his twitch stream or see the archived streams on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuoqzrsHlwv1YyPKLuMDUQ (which, by the way, he’s doing in a new programming language he created and made a compiler for)

It’s almost unbelievable what Jonathan Blow and his small team have been able to accomplish.
I can't go to Apple because it's clear they never again make a phone with a headphone jack, and I require a phone with a headphone jack.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://boingboing.net/2018/11/03/balkanizing-the-balkanizer....
An argument doesn't have to be reasonable. You have logos, pathos, and ethos [1] to convince somebody.

It's like a good sale, you identify what they want and then you show them a more social and friendly approach to reach their goal.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
Ask HN: Employee at a Stalling Startup, Should I Leave?
In the past month, the startup I work for has lost a key executive unexpectedly, done a complete reorganization with little communication, and amid all this leadership went to an offsite. We’ve also missed growth goals.

This is my first real startup I’ve worked for, so it’s hard to determine if this is normal. But it strikes me as concerning at minimum, and that I should consider other options. Thoughts?
> Or rather, prices rise with inflation but there is another much larger influence on housing prices - interest rates. When rates fall, prices rise and when rates rise prices fall.

Interest rates have the exact effect you describe on all prices, because they effect consumer credit at all levels (and houses aren't the only thing typically bought on credit), business access to capital (and thereby employment), etc., which drives the demand curve in every sector of the economy.

So, no, that's not a unique effect on housing prices. It's the reason monetary policy is a lever for effecting the economy broadly.
It is amazing how within an hour of this post the censors are already asking how to keep this from being taken over by racist/sexist trolls. The whole point of an anonymous open community is to allow for people to express their opinions freely, regardless of whether their views are "PC" or comply with the Vagenda of the vocal minority whos feeling might get hurt from some stupid comments. Suck it up princesses. From what I read there will be moderators to prevent truly hateful and criminal postings but beyond that these moderators will be held accountable for their decisions or lack thereof. Sounds to me like that should work just fine and if it doesn't the community will fail or be pushed out to the fringes just like all the previous ones.
> neither the legit website nor the pirate one.

Most articles are indexed elsewhere, and besides Elsevier's websites are mostly just a paywall. They are not missing much

> where the government literally had lists of "approved" journals and conferences.

Scientists can certainly lobby as a group to change that. I have not seen much of that, except from rhetoric, sadly. Sci-hub currently makes the most fierce case for open access.
Wtf..

Slippery slope fallacy.
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You can actually find out why you are seeing a particular ad bt clicking on the three dots on the upper right, there is a menu item called “why am I seeing this” which will tell you how the advertisers is targeting you.

It also gives you the ability to hide ads like that in the future
> “I don't agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Don't leave. Start applying to other jobs. If you find something more interesting or stable, then leave.
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For me the camera is the main thing: smartphone cameras have been getting really good. Examples of my phones:

2017, Pixel 1: https://www.jefftk.com/pictures/2017/20171228_091058.jpg

2017, Galaxy S6: https://www.jefftk.com/pictures/2017/20170312_123314_030.jpg

2014, Moto X: https://www.jefftk.com/pictures/2014/stevie-lily-ball.jpg

2011, Galaxy SII: https://www.jefftk.com/images/2011/all/IMG_20120115_202514.j...
A myriad literally (literally literally, not figuratively) is 10000 in English...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad
Check out this gem of a book on screw theory, geometric algebra and robotics. I keep it on my desk it's so useful.

Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics - by J.M. Selig
1996, 2005 2nd Edition
No, that's how we got here. We're already below that point on the slope. Fascist trash bins leak, into the real world.
Timelessness cannot be realized if your design philosophy is to try to stay "fresh".

And has anyone achieved timelessness? Ever? I cannot immediately think of any industrial design which does not feel either "current" or "dated".
OpenBSD is the friendliest OS I know of. That said... it seems to be picky at who it calls friend :)
> Yes, establishment economists all agree on establishment practices are good and want more of them. News at 11.

It's not the "establishment", economists from all sides disagree over almost everything except for this.

That's how you know there's something to it.
To some degree, a company that makes money of devices rather than ads will always charge more for the devices since they can’t really sell the device at or below cost and then make the profit from showing ads to their users.
The incentives for research absolutely needs to change, and I'm really happy that it looks like more and more people are both speaking up about it, and starting initiatives to try to improve.

We surely don't know the answer yet, but pre-registration of experiments/methods to get a guaranteed publication is one quite interesting.

But there are others, and I applaud any initiative in these areas, because it's at it core about the hardest problem of all:

How do we overcome bias in a large system under a lot of financial pressure?

It's such a worthwhile issue to pursue, but also usually quite thankless, so anyone fighting for it is doing something great even if it's in seemingly small ways!
I've been using KDE (via Kubuntu) for the past few months now on my work and personal computers. I liked Unity except for its occasional crashing. I would definitely recommend KDE or Xfce because they feel more like GNOME 2 or Windows.
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