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Recently some people rescued a kangaroo from drowning and gave the marsupial some mouth to mouth resuscitation. I shared this story with animal loving members of the family and we were all moved by it, reassured that humanity was out there in this cruel world.

However, was it news?

This was news in the broader sense of the word but really it was just a human interest story (and maybe a kangaroo interest story).

If we look at the divers rescuing boys from a cave story that Elon Musk got so badly wrong then the same criteria can be applied. Yet their rescue certainly was news. But we didn't give as much scrutiny to the thousands of people rescued in Japan from floodwaters at or around the same time. My Japanese neighbours could have done with less of Elon Musk that week and more of Japan. For them the good news of the rescue in Thailand was at a cost of hearing good (and bad) news from Japan.

Invariably there is a political aspect to the news beyond human interest stories.

For instance, if Donald Trump choked on a pretzel (heaven forbid) and had to leave office due to the calamity then some people would be absolutely delighted, for them this would be 'good news'. Same goes with news regarding the economy. If house prices go up then this is good news to the rent-seeking class but it is not good news for those that are not on the housing ladder and have to pay more money to the rent-seeking class.

Even sport has the same problem, if Burkina Faso beat Brazil in the World Cup then a lot of people would be absolutely gutted, it would not be received as 'good news'.

Given that you are not in control of the content and are stuck with what you have got in that aspect (copying from Reddit) you might want to do what others in this comment section have suggested - remove the 'not' and the 'depressing' from the title. There is a double negative going on there. My suggestion is to go for something where you don't have to limit yourself to mere human interest stories, take a side but leave the politics aside. If you went with something like 'underdog news' then you would be able to take the side of 'Burkina Faso against Brazil' without a problem, plus you could do a nifty logo. You could also engage with your audience on this basis, get them to mod up/down stories based on whether there was some epic struggle going on with a clear underdog. Small child beating grand master at chess? Clearly epic for the underdog. You can sidestep the Trumps/Brexits of the world with this type of a spin and not decide what is and what isn't 'non depressing'.
You want Memeorandum: https://www.memeorandum.com/
And where would you propose as an alternative, in terms of better rights to free speech than europe?

Surely not the US? Right?
Indeed, they are determined to milk their cash cow dry while they can.
We have some posts on medium around the subject. IE: https://medium.com/slite/how-were-building-our-remote-cultur...
Try writing left-leaning comments and see how long Voat respects your right to free speech.
It's a bit of a downer.

> A diaspora (/daɪˈæspərə/) is a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale. In particular, diaspora has come to refer to involuntary mass dispersions of a population from its indigenous territories, most notably the expulsion of Jews from Israel (known as the Jewish diaspora) and the fleeing of Greeks after the fall of Constantinople. Other examples are the African Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the southern Chinese or Indians during the coolie trade, the Irish during and after the Irish Famine, the Romani from India, the Italian diaspora, the exile and deportation of Circassians, and the emigration of Anglo-Saxon warriors and their families after the Norman Conquest of England.
This is a really interesting concept and a great idea – start at 5% ownership and slowly buy back the house as you can. You have three years funding, but what would happen if the company was unable to survive? Would the scheme be guaranteed in the event of an asset sell off?

Good luck finding your engineers by the way, sounds like a good and more importantly, compact, mix of tech.
Do you mean, like a GA of NNs, pretty sure that has been done many times.
Lol exactly what I was thinking
low. you're better to just use induction plate instead(which does not need any moving parts).
> Was it important to have a monoculture is what I'm wondering

Obviously this is just speculation but I would say, no. And the reason I say that is that Linux primarily took off on the server side. Mobile was quite a lot later.

On the server side it wasn't a monoculture. Sun was a huge player. When we were making the case for Linux, around 2000, it was presented as a cost play against Sun/Solaris.

Of course, it's fair to say that part of the reason it was a cost play was because Intel kit was so cheap and that was a direct effect of the desktop environment. But I'd contend that it wasn't a reaction to the Wintel desktop monopoly.
There are indeed a wealth of HTML to PDF solutions out there... In fact, I created yet another one.

https://fetchpdf.com

FetchPDFs focus is on the template designer, which can be linked to or embedded to allow customisation of your outputs at scale (e.g. if you need to provide all of your users with the ability to customise their PDF outputs from your service).
“where there is no right to free speech“

Yes, there is. At least in my experience as a happy EU citizen.

So want to cut the hyperbole and substantiate your claim?
There is no free speech in Germany, so chances are that someone will say something on Diaspora that the government of Germany won't like. Then, if the owner of Diaspora refuses to delete the "illegal" post, he will be thrown in jail, so he doesn't really have a chance not to censor whatever the government forces him to censor.
Nothing physical can keep growing forever.
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And they behaved as badly as today's super-powers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(history)#Swedish_invas... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prague_(1648)

> The main result, and probably the main aim, was to loot the fabulous art collection assembled in Prague Castle by Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612), the pick of which was taken down the Elbe in barges and shipped to Sweden
People are traveling more, not less. But bus service has to compete against cars, planes, and possibly trains.

In these rural parts of Canada, it's not that the average person is traveling less, it's more that there are fewer people there and more of those who remain have their own transportation.
> What does it have to do with living in Germany?

Americans are often "horrified" at free speech in Germany because glorifying Nazis and terrorists is forbidden there (as in France and a handful other European countries).

My take is that this platform at least probably allows posting pictures with nipples, unlike most US-based services.
I would argue experiencing that reality is also a choice. Unless I am doing research or actively in search of information, I read one of a very few web sites. HN, NY Times, WaPo, and Electoral Vote. I don't feel under-informed. I deleted Facebook and only use things like Twitter/LinkedIn/Instagram to keep in touch with an extremely small circle of people, mostly I just email and call folks. That is just how it is. I don't think our brains are meant to drink from the firehouse that is the Internet. It is addicting and counter to what most on HN want in terms of deep work and productivity.
It's not just China. At my German university all courses related to AI/ML/data mining/stats are oversubscribed by a factor of 2 to 5. One professor went so far as to stress that he didn't have any experience with deep learning and he'd only cover Bayesian statistics in order to discourage students. I don't think it worked.

I'm pretty sure that there's a similar surge of interest in all countries.
This is an interesting alternative to residential induction stoves that use AC to create the magnetic fields.

I wonder what the power usage difference is. This style of heating up the metal instead of using AC current to generate electromagnetic fields could be better for "off-grid" scenarios.
Really? Do you have a reference? This isn’t just a byproduct of a military project looking to find subs better?
Are you allowed to deny the Holocaust?
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Given that Samsung just reported a 33% drop in smartphone sales from the same quarter last year, Apple reporting a .4% increase in their smartphone sales vs the same quarter last year sounds pretty good.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/31/samsung-re...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13540/apple-announces-q4-fy-2...
Wordpress is under-engineering. It's what you default to when you don't want to do any engineering and just deploy the standard blog solution that everyone's familiar with.
For example - take a grid like this one: https://www.smartclient.com/smartclient/showcase/?id=gridHea...

Now right-click on the grid headers and change the grouping, add a frozen column. How many unit tests is that?

Now go here: https://www.smartclient.com/smartclient/showcase/?id=userDef... and edit some of the hilites - again how many unit tests?

Now, 90+% of websites and webapps don't need this type of function. Enterprise use cases (especially for things where users are coming off of Excel sheets and the like) absolutely need this sort of stuff.
I'm a native English speaker and most of the criticisms above are valid.
What are you basing these claims on? Any recent events in german history you could point to?
Which premium mobiles are getting growing volume right now then?
Do you have further info on this? It's not Android's reputation to say the least.

This sounds better, but better doesn't make good.
As a non-US and non-EU person, I can confidently say that the US has better free speech laws than anywhere else on this planet. I am open to being educated on this though.
> For instance, saying "it's not without issues" usually means something different from "it has issues".

Interesting that you go on to say that "it's not without issues" is milder than "it has issues". To me it's the opposite, like a short form of "Is it without issues? No way!" I guess it depends on context and, particularly, how much sarcasm can be detected in the tone of voice (if said out loud).

> In this particular case, "Not depressing news" puts an emphasis on the fact that most news is depressing, and that this site is different. "Uplifting news" does not communicate that as effectively.

In any case, I agree with this simple explanation.
stagnant /ˈstaɡnənt/ – showing no activity.

so they're selling 0 iphones? really?
Europe has a conditional right to free expression which is balanced with other rights:

"Article 10 – Freedom of expression

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary"

Yes, that's a lot of caveats, but if you have a substantive true idea or non-extreme politics you're fine. What you're not free to do is make calls for genocide etc.
How about unhappy EU citizens :)?
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People can't say 'fuck' on tv in the US or say 'fire' in a crowded theatre so I guess there's no free speech there as well

And don't get me started on the puritanism
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So I've been looking to switch jobs and been talking to some (software development) companies. This is what strikes me as a surprise - many of these shops use laptops exclusively. From talking to them more it turns out they don't really move around that much and effectively use their laptops as desktops. I am used to heavy duty gear (dual 4K 27 inch displays, top of the line CPU, 32GB+ RAM, comfy peripherals, etc) - I have pretty much identical setup at work and at home. I also have an ultrabook in case I need to be mobile (doesn't happen often). Am I missing something here?
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Some crops such as common bananas and sugar cane are sterile as they produce no viable seeds, so both have to be clonally propagated by planting cuttings.

Potatoes can be grown from both seeds and cut tubers but the former is usually avoided because the potato genome is very complex and sexually produced potatoes tend to segregate into multiple phenotypes which usually reduces yield,hence it is rare to grow potato from seeds outside R&D. A lot of fruit fall under the same category as their traits are rather unstable if reproduced sexually.

Staple food crops such as wheat and rice does not suffer from this issue because they have been selected for much longer and their physiology is much more amenable to plant seeds.
That’s not what happens in voluntary chapter 7 bankruptcy.

The Trustee takes the assets and auctions it. You are thinking of ch. 11
Surprised this isnt flagged by the censors, and its sad how many people think their talk show host knows more than scientists.
The real story is that from now on Apple will not be reporting unit sales for their products. Next quarter and from there on there will be just the aggregated sales figure for how much physical stuff they sold with nobody knowing whether that was phones, watches, laptops or dongles.

This is their choice and their business. I don't think this is fair on the people that have helped them get to where they are by writing apps, making accessories or even writing web pages that look good on Safari.

Why would a company invest in making accessories for the iPad if they have no clue as to whether the things are selling or not? How do you make the business case to invest in such accessories if you only have anecdotal evidence as to whether the iPad is selling or not?
If you can provide scientific proof that it didnt happen, yes. Otherwise no
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I wouldn't object to extensions becoming paid and verified - that is, an expert review team doing a code / security review for each update of an extension. Either paid for by the authors, or done for free by e.g. Google because they have plenty of money and they are directly impacted if their platform releases a malicious extension.
Which country in the EU?

Free Speech, in the USAmerican sense, seems to be strongly curtailed in the UK.
You don’t pay a telecommunications company of some variety for broadband access?
Isn't the latest Singapore to New York flight entirely business class?
There are always breaking changes waiting to go in (https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/semver-major). Often they’re edge cases or native extension things though. Although the choice on when is arbitrary timing, the major bump does mean there are breaking changes.

The nature of JS is that there are very few breaking changes allowed from an end-user perspective even between major versions.
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> for the protection of morals

that's the bit I don't agree with. it leaves room for a lot of interpretation. there was a woman in Austria who was fined for saying that mohamed was a child rapist (which you could argue it is true given that he slept with underaged girls).

I don't agree to people being fined if they say something about Mohamed or God. That is not free speech IMO.
I agree that is would be nice if they had a more positive sounding name. But at least for the moment it seems to be quite fitting for the G+ users...
the fire one makes sense though. You're not neccessarily directly forbidden from shouting fire, you're forbidden from creating mass panic which can lead to injuries and death
Diaspora is to Mastodon as FB is to TW.

Basically, a decentraliced "Facebook like" app.
Sure. UK crackpot David Irving has been denying the holocaust since the 80s. There’s a drama on Netflix about him called Denial
The most successful decentralized communication system - email as it turned out, people would concentrated to large free provider like Google. Decentralized server does not protect privacy for normal user because not most people could handle owning their server.

The most success decentralized service is BitTorrent. It is decentralized and it is decentralized in client level. Though it also caused uncontrollable piracy, since it is too easy to spread any data using Bittorrent. I think a true decentralized social network to protect privacy should be a p2p app, not server to server federation.
And discrete packets, in turn, are generated by discrete things.

At some zoom level, EM field will break and stop to be continuous. For example, Voyager found "magnetic bubbles" at the edge of Solar system, which may be caused by discrete nature of EM field.

I'm asked is we can reproduce macro-scale experiment at quantum level. So your answer is "no, we cannot reproduce this weird particle-wave duality demonstrated by oil droplet at quantum scale", right?
Of course it does, I'm just pointing out the 'free speech' people's complaints are not much based on practicality.
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Might be very noisy though, and you're spending extra energy moving the magnets.
Plenty of Kickstarters fail because the people creating the product realized too late how hard it was to create what they promised.
I won't entering the troll feeding game, but basically:

It doesn't matter, Diaspora is decentralized. You can host your own instance. You can enter an instance _living_ in your country of choice.
I would say map quality for someone living outside of the "bubble", map quality goes as follows:

TomTom then Google Maps then literally anything else, then Apple Maps at the very end.

Apple Maps uses TomTom data [1]. This is also our experience with driving in Germany and The Netherlands. Apple Maps is very complete and had better lane guidance than Google Maps (when we switched from Google Maps to Apple Maps when getting CarPlay). We never had problems with Apple Maps in these countries, nor Austria and Switzerland.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-tomtom/apple-rebuil...
Apple services definitely are on an upward trajectory for quality and breadth. Two years ago I thought Siri was a bit of a joke because the voice recognition and accuracy/usefulness of results was not there for me. Different now: about 4 months ago I deinstalled the Google Assistant from my iPhone and now just use Siri. Siri is still not as good but there is the privacy issue. Siri is good enough for me.

I still prefer Google for the Play Music + commercial free YouTube bundled service, and also GCP is my favorite cloud service.
Yes I think so. Apple Management had better data and tools to make the fine decision. Fact is that smartphone market saturates.
Funny thing is, as far as I can tell, logicallee is not misunderstanding OP's complaint, he is subscribing to it and substantiating it.

Some people, among them apparently map makers, argue that "users don't want too many labels". logicallee is arguing that it's virtually impossible to put too many labels (by putting in as many labels as possible and showing that it's perfectly legible, and totally fine functionally, even if it's not the most aesthetic experience).

FWIW, I subscribe to OP, that it's infuriating not to have streets labeled, and find logicallee's point rather convincing, that having more labels doesn't really distract from the functionality of the map (and I don't care that it affects the map's "beauty").
EDIT: As pointed out below, I probably misread the intent of the comment I was replying to as its exact opposite (because I thought the user was the same as GP). If so my apologies.

So you're saying a country that censors Nazis but not nudity has crazier stances on free speech than one that censors nudity but not Nazis?

Ever heard of the paradox of tolerance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
A Taiwanese company was also accused:

> Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co.

> and Taiwan’s United Microelectronics Corp.

> were indicted in California

> along with three individuals,

> the Justice Department said Thursday.
No, most EU countries have laws in some form that prohibit Holocaust denial. But as with any country that has the rights to freedom of speech, these rights are inevitably balanced and restricted by other laws.

This is a good thing, because while freedom of speech is important, the general wellbeing of the population and preventing people getting hurt is important as well. It is my belief for example that allowing racist remark under the banner of free speech, hurts more than it helps. It leads to an overall negative impact in the wellbeing of the population. I think the same balance was considered when prohibiting holocaust denial.

Question: why use a throwaway account?
Interesting this should come up now. I just bought Izotope RX7 which has a built in 'Music Rebalancer' and, according to their PR, this uses machine learning techniques. I've been playing around with it this week in spare time and have been quite impressed with how well it works on quite disparate sources from my music collection. It's extremely useful when you want to transcribe details from instrumental tracks that are hard to discern past the vocals in the overall mix. It seems to work less well on material that's been crushed in the mix/mastering, and material that has a lot of upper-mid content competing with the vocals. On clean, open material, it works remarkably well.
Maybe. But then there's a question of where does the content live? Most people don't have a desktop they leave connected all the time, and don't want to be hosting videos and photos off their mobile device.

So you're stuck with replicating that data out to all the peers, which means you've just lost control of "your" data again.
This is not new. ExtJS existed a decade ago.

But the performance was so bad that we threw it out of the window at evaluation time and wrote our own very light weight augmented view components which provided exactly this class of functionality.

For example, we render a bog standard table, then decorate it with some javascript which can collect a composite part of the table if there's a change of state. Basically a partial page refresh.

The code is tiny for this, the first hit is the view that the user wants to see with no RTT, minimal script load time (we use jquery to attach event handlers and that's it). After that we just suck the changed part of the page body down.

Fancy a 50ms RTT to a page hit? We do that.
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You can't do that, it's impossible.

You'd have to go with something like "show that the massive decline in the Jewish population of Nazi Germany was by means other than genocide".

Which is also impossible, but due to truth instead of poor epistemology.
> faster boarding as people aren't trying to cram their bags

Checking and loading baggage takes way longer, not to mention the unloading and waiting at the other end.