skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the "disgruntled" characterization in this case is quite accurate. I'm not sure how the ad hominem fallacy would apply since Jack Poulson is actually the source and subject of the article and thus the object of discussion.

But the real point of my original comment was that this article is subpar journalism. The implication of the article, at least to my reading, is that there is a trend of declining morale at Google and dissatisfaction amongst the rank-and-file with the company's senior leadership. As evidence we are given... one guy's opinions.
ah, yes. I also never buy phones that dont have an easily swappable battery or an expansion slot. Since I started looking up drop rating videos my phones have lasted a lot longer too :)

I've not personally had an issue with buying one but of course its as much luck as anything.
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Mystery of the ‘Blast-Proof’ Material
is there an EU friendly source?
Lying with charts 101
Kind of hard to make that argument when The Intercept was on the list.
Most Android One phones tick none of those boxes except maybe for the headphone jack.
In that specific case it's related to Judean tradition. Jews also eat that sort of bread for Passover.
It's a great option for people obsessed with pseudoscience I suppose.
No, more wealth means someone will buy the beach and turn it into a business. Only the wealthiest will have enough to pay, the rest will envy and waste money in illegal tan cabins
Why would that decision require free will?
I don't think there's much reason to upgrade these days. Years ago I would instantly notice the crisper screen resolution, the nicer photos, and overall snappiness of a new phone. Granted my current phone (Pixel 2) is only a year old, but I can't imagine what I would upgrade to or for what reason.
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It would be pretty difficult to cut off your own right hand, but impossible? No. It just takes a considerate amount of willpower.

This kind of discussion leads down a path where we try to quantify something that's incredibly hard to quantify in a vacuum.

The question of willpower is also only relevant when you try to find an appropriate punishment for immoral offenses. And because this is hard, every country on earth has courts and trials - which can take forever for good reason. Because it's already hard on a per-case basis, let's not try to find an answer that would be applicable to every offence ever.

Once you're through with your offender you should give them a probable path to redemption and back into society regardless of whether they lack willpower or not - especially if they lack willpower. Punishing someone for their lack of willpower and then closing every door in their face is a sure way to make them a criminal for life. And it's also petty.
Apple as the world's leading health tech company is currently underrated and not widely thought about.

Despite a confused and unfocused introduction, the genesis of the Apple Watch came about when Steve Jobs was ill and had to experience the issues with the healthcare system first hand. It's been documented that the watch project came about as a result of this experience and the true goal for it is to contribute significantly to improvements across health and the broader healthcare system.

The biggest issue with introducing a new wearable product is having users happily wear it. In recent times, only Apple has been successful in doing so. This shouldn't be dismissed as it will give them a market advantage for decades to come.
For me the highlight was the ~15:14 mark, building up on the the diving buddy example. First he mentions that creative process needs a buddy (in "pioneering conditions"):

- buddy must be passionately curious

- buddy needs to be kind

Then he explains that all creators create in a cycle, and that long-term creation must be fun, since there is no quick payday. The cycle:

- ideating

- experimenting

- exhibiting

He explains that the exhibiting can (should?) be done to audiences that "get it" and are able to consume the content even in experimental form.

This resonated for me. The most creative and long-term work I did was in this very cycle. I was able to produce things that were immediately consumed and the feedback loop was very quick. This allowed me to stay motivated and sustain "the creativity" for > 2 years.

The obvious question is how to create this cycle artificially, and how to sustain it from an employer point of view.

On the subject of motivation/meaning, it's worth noting "The nihilist's guide to meaning" https://meltingasphalt.com/a-nihilists-guide-to-meaning/
To clarify a bit, the first (passive) feature only uses data from the wrist. The ECG app requires both the wrist and the crown.
Startup monitor is a program that I still install on every windows computer I own and it mostly still works but it hasn't been updated in years and years. https://web.archive.org/web/20131113154828/http://www.mlin.n...
Basically, when you install a program that tries to have something run at startup it Startup Monitor pops up a window saying "this program wants to run at startup. Do you want to allow it?" Startup Monitor has no settings or icon or anything. It just works.
Unfortunately, because it is so old, I worry that each update to windows will break it. Additionally, because it is so old, it doesn't catch everything that tries to set itself to run at startup so I have to run Autoruns from time to time to turn shit off.
My 2 favorites are
1. BERT - easy to understand, SOTA results on most NLP tasks, code and pretrained models readily available. What more can you ask!
2. ULMFit - transfer learning for NLP, have been waiting for something like this since a long time.

Both these mean getting better results/models for most NLP tasks with lesser training data, effort and time.

Here is another link explaining these topics in a little more detail (a must read if you are in the NLP field) -- https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-bert/
Just living the longest.
I agree it's not exactly the same, but it can be pretty close. If that is one's lone objection to driving an electric, it's a pretty weak one. It is a very solvable problem.
Environmentally we should stop using gas, import and export. It’s been said for 40+ years and instead we’re celebrating these news
> In late September, a Waymo spokeswoman told Ars by email that the Phoenix service would be fully driverless and open to members of the public—claims I reported in this article.

> We now know that Waymo One won't be fully driverless; there will be a driver in the driver's seat.

This reminds me of this famous Radio Yerevan joke:

> Q: Is it true that Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov from Moscow won a car in a lottery?

> A: In principle yes, but:

> it wasn't Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov but Aleksander Aleksandrovich Aleksandrov;

> he is not from Moscow but from Odessa;

> it was not a car but a bicycle;

> he didn't win it, but it was stolen from him.

Because smart people have invested billions of dollars into this technology and because even smarter people work on this technology the general public must pretend that it's all going according to plan, that everything is damn serious and that the emperor still has his clothes on.
You're really reaching here.
I'm by no means a tree hugger, but seriously? "Outdoor" cats, whether feral or otherwise are absolutely decimating birds and small mammals.

Of all the low hanging fruit on the "stop destroying the planet for no reason", keeping your cats inside or on a leash requires basically 0 effort.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/moral-cost-of-...
WTF is a "tech pro". Lots of people are depressed, we are living through some wild times right now. Part of the problem is that it is a pain in the ass to find a therapist and many don't accept insurance:

If a patient’s insurance company finds a reason why it shouldn’t pay for treatment, the psychiatrist cannot bill the patient separately. The time spent seeing that patient is a sunk cost.

For all of these reasons, therapists make patients pay out of pocket. But, this means that many potential patients can’t afford treatment. In 2011, a report (pdf) from the US Department of Health and Human Services found that of the 45.6 million American adults with any kind of mental health illness, fewer than half received treatment. The most widely cited reason for not seeking treatment was that—insurance or not—patients couldn’t afford it.

From: https://qz.com/684475/theres-a-reason-its-so-hard-to-find-a-...

Granted, these are "tech pros" so I think they probably can afford it but you never know. Spending an extra $400+ a month on therapy is a lot for most people, even "tech pros".
Have you tried helminthic therapy by any chance? Also would you care to share your current treatment protocol? I am in a similar position with lots of dietary allergies and I am considering doing helminthic therapy because it seems to have a lot of success stories.
I wonder how does Pivotal new framework compare to OpenWhisk? https://openwhisk.apache.org/
To summarize this very long article:

Essentially smartphones are entering the laptop stages of ubiquity and market saturation and making people wonder whats next. Smartphones are also losing their wow factor and just becoming another "commodity".

People are also finding less reason to replace their smartphones and replace cycles are getting longer.

The only double-digit growth is in the lower priced segments in developing nations and whats stopping Apple and other giants is their reluctance to dilute their premium branding.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18621820
Web servers for embedded or otherwise constrained systems, bolt-on embedded api servers for your existing apps, or just any high perf app/gateway. All the reasons you would otherwise do it in cpp except nope.
Oh right, I forgot about that but, thank you!
I'd say that in all the talk of Rust being a C replacement, what gets lost is that it is also a very expressive, modern, functionally flavored language, perfectly suitable for higher-level programming.

If you want type safety, speed, expressive language & native binaries, Rust is a good choice.
As compared to 30 years ago. if you follow the graph on the article that I assume you are referring to that was on the front page a few weeks ago, the number of sexual partners in the 1900s was 2-3. Its predicted that number of sexual partners will be 8 for this generation compared to last generations 9. Not a big jump in my perview.
Not the parent poster, but I learned about S Boulardii from some German studies of probiotics. Boulardii at one point was one of the few that showed benefits in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. That was a while ago so don't know what the state of the research is now.
GitHub-drama: a curated collection of “dramatic” GitHub interactions
Midori, the secret operating system incubation from Microsoft. Midori was based on Singularity (written entirely in M#), but went so much farther. It was twice as fast as Windows, had capability security, Rust-style borrow checking, a full GUI, browser and even Windows compatibility. But there was no future - the OS wars were settled - and now the code languishes inside rather than being open-sourced.
The items mentioned above should be done periodically, not just once. Perhaps there are some giant files in there too?
Lots of other languages have postfix conditionals.

On the readable boolean ops, all the Perl people recommend shying away from them except for a few specific constructs (do or die, eval or do, etc), since the weaker precedence rules make it really easy to shoot yourself on the foot:

$a = $b or $c;

Where $a will never be assigned the value of $c.
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I've been using a 9.7 inch cellular iPad as my primary mobile device for 6 years or so. It works very well for my use case but I do understand why more people don't do it.

In my arrangement, the tablet replaces a phone, ebook, paper notes, and a laptop. I primarily use the machine for messaging/email, maps, reading (books, websites), writing notes, and using terminals. I use desktop computers with many displays (and clouds/racks of servers) for anything "real work" like. A laptop doesn't cut it.

The bigger screen is significantly better than a phone (even a big one) for most of those things. Especially multi-tasking use cases where I want slack+a terminal visible at once. The bigger keyboard is far more comfortable for taking notes and using terminals.

I make/receive very few phone calls, and the ones I do use a headset and a Voip app. If you use the phone a lot for holding up to your head and talking to people a tablet works poorly. Most of my camera use is for things like scanning documents, qr codes, etc where the size/awkwardness is less an issue. I have a single purpose camera that I take on photo heavy trips like vacations. These are both trade offs that make sense to me but I don't think make sense for a lot of people.

I have a case with a hand strap that makes it safe and easy to use the tablet while standing/walking around, something that is hard to do with a laptop. I don't own or use a car so I tend to carry a messenger bag with me everywhere for general storage so adding the tablet to that is straight forward. It is easy to take the tablet in and out of the bag while standing if I need to look something up. Because I primarily use public transit I am free to actually use the screen of my device while in transit. Again, the more common use case where your car stores your stuff and you can't use your screen while in transit likely pushes the common case towards phone sized devices.

I pay $17.50 per month for Verizon cellular data with no contracts and no funny business. LTE data plans for tablets are priced assuming you have a smartphone already. Especially with today's $1000+ phones, a tablet + LTE plan can be drastically cheaper than a smartphone.

Finally, I like the friction of usage balance. It is much easier to grab the tablet (especially while standing/walking) than to deal with a laptop. It is a bit harder than pulling a phone out of your pocket. This leads me to avoid wasting time on my mobile device when with other people, in meetings, standing in line, etc, but makes it much easier to deploy computing power when it is necessary (standing in the data center and need to run one terminal command quickly).

The one thing I would change would be to add a watch that would help with turn by turn walking directions, basic message checking, and NFC payments. I look forward to the day that Apple Watch will pair with a tablet (or work with no tethered device).
May I prescribe you a daily dose of Lactobacillus reuteri ?
Yes. Doing all according to a dogma is not freedom. Doing all against the dogma is not freedom either.

Doing what you choose, be it against a dogma or in agreement with it, is more of a freedom.
You can also cause segfaults, the point I think is more that it is hard to do this instead of easy as it is in some languages, like C.
From .vimrc to .vim
I really liked this one too. I still use the idea, just don’t have as smooth of a UI to execute it.
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Don’t have a problem with that either. Try the tips in my other replies.
MyScript Nebo [0] on an iPad with an Apple Pencil is astonishingly good. I have a Newton and Nebo beats it hands down. (With almost infinitely more processing power and 20 years one should hope so, but it’s not always the case.)

[0] https://www.myscript.com/nebo
SCMP
Andrej Bauer maintains a “programming languages zoo” of languages like this: http://plzoo.andrej.com

> The Programming Languages Zoo is a collection of miniature programming languages which demonstrates various concepts and techniques used in programming language design and implementation. It is a good starting point for those who would like to implement their own programming language, or just learn how it is done.
Ask HN: Any native open source text editor for Mac apart from Emacs or Vim?
Australia has an unstable federal political system, with elections every three years or less (this is baked into the constitution, so it will be hard to amend). Imagine the US House of Representatives with the equivalent of Speaker of the US House of Representatives as the Prime Minister of Australia as you won't be far off. Unlike the UK, there isn't a strong civil service, and unlike the US, the Senate, states and courts are weaker, and there isn't a separate executive branch.

This leads to a revolving door of occasionally unsavoury characters getting into positions of great, and virtually unchecked power. Giving these figures enormous power without judicial oversight is deeply problematic. Checks and balances are not a big thing in Australia.
The chairman of a local chamber of commerce had to introduce the speaker at the organization's annual black-tie dinner...

"The man who I am about to introduce," he said, "is someone I know you'll enjoy listening to. He is the most gifted businessman in the country. He has made one hundred million dollars in California oil."

The speaker, embarrassed, came to the podium. "Thank you for your kind introduction, Mr. Chairman," he said.

"However, the facts need some clarification. It wasn't oil; it was coal. It wasn't California; it was Pennsylvania. It wasn't one hundred million; it was one hundred thousand. It wasn't me; it was my brother. And he didn't make it; he lost it."
Full disk encryption and individual encrypted DMGs ("vaults") have radically different use cases! Most encrypted DMGs aren't mounted (or "unlocked"), most of the time. They address a threat model where an attacker might have file read access to your running machine.

At Matasano, standard operating procedure was just to have the whole Mail.app library directory inside a Knox vault, "locking" mail cryptographically until you explicitly unlocked it.

Apple's existing tooling for encrypted DMGs is very cumbersome. I script around it, and that's OK, but Knox had a much better UX.
In this case, we'd be talking about hormones or toxins that get into the blood flow which distributes them to most cells in our organism.

By extension, most if not all molecules that are present in the plasma.
Worth noting that the very same Guardian is running a propaganda campaign against Assange, despite them benefiting handsomely from WikiLeaks.

Just recently they published a story[1] that has yet to be verified by anyone else and seems completely made up at this point.

At the same time, they did not have problems with running ads for when MBS was visiting London.

1 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...
> What cryptocurrency best serves is international trade

I fear the day we go to war because of some clerk's off-by-one error in a "smart" contract.

Honestly though, I'd think programmers of all people would be first to realize that using code to represent law affecting anything in the physical reality is a dumb idea. Think of any time you had to write a program to conform to customer's requirement document. Does anyone here had, even once, done that without discovering holes, inconsistencies or unintended consequences in the document? And this is essentially the same exercise as formulating a "smart contract", except the code can now ruin someone's life.

(There's some middle ground to be had here, though. A way of optimizing the "long tail" of legal problems, without trying to do the near-impossible thing of codifying intent.)
Just like the Old Testament is “hardly cryptic” for someone studying it since the 70s. Doesn’t tell you anything about it’s validity or relevance today.
Chunks of the Arctic Alaska coast are falling into the sea, but why?
Moto E4 might come close, although it's $100 instead of $250.

Moto doesn't modify AOSP very much and the one app it has provides some nice features (shake for flashlight being my favorite).
I tried 3-4 before finding one that works for me too, but unfortunately I didn't keep track of all of the failures' names. Looking through my rough notes and gmail, I found Now Foods Probiotic-10 and Ethical Nutrients Inner Health Plus. The one that ultimately did the job was California Gold Nutrition's LactoBif, which you can buy on iHerb and has a surprisingly large volume of positive reviews on the site. I started with the 5B CFU and ramped up to the 30B. Hope that it does something for you as well!
Minecraft is pretty much a technical phenomenon. It's a decade old, it's not fancy, but even now people are still playing it and modding it and taking the game to wherever their imagination will go. It's become part of many people's childhoods and even my closest friends, approaching their 30s, are still heavily invested in building their world in there, using various mods to basically recreate Civ and build out each stage of evolution.

You couldn't create such an inspirational game, or even an accidental ecosystem, by actually planning for it.
YouTube game videos were viewed for 50B hours in 2018
> See above: it's true, but at least FOSS born and evolved projects may be known by "early" devs that see project evolution during it's time, on contrary when a company release million SLOC no one really know anything...

Do you know the history of Blink? It was forked from Webkit, which was forked from KDE's KHTML and remained open source all the way. So you argument also explains to Blink.
If you really want something like Heroku, you could try Dokku, though that's not really a control panel. Digital Ocean provides a droplet image for it.
So this is basically a search engine for font piracy? There are already good databases for free fonts.
Is there a crash course in typography I can get somewhere? I have trouble deciding whether slim fonts are better or wide fonts are for legibility. And what other factors matter more.
(1) That the narrative of Apple Watch saves lives is a totally false premise.

(2) That if you don't see that's the premise, you're being naive. Why would otherwise anyone care about some Redditor's doctor visit?

(3) That the underlying public health issue isn't the lack of Apple Watches.

The overwhelming consensus is that men don't see out health help as much as women do. Peruse through this (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:y2_y94H6XCwJ:sc...) if you're not persuaded.

It's not worth speculating if Watches and other gizmos make men go to the doctor more often or whatever. This is not the first nor the last gizmo. Blah blah blah, some benefit, but not a huge one. Otherwise some other gizmo would have long ago radically improved men's health, but the difference in mortality between men and women and men's fewer encounters with medicine persists since decades ago.
Historically, google has been open internally but closed externally. I as an employee could expect transparency from leadership about a lot of things. If something was interesting you could expect detailed, technical answers. This is no longer the case if the thing is controversial (but for many non-controversial things, there's a lot of transparency still).

One way of putting it might be that historically, employees had enough informayto generally keep the company in check. I'm not convinced that's the case anymore, and I can't blame the leadership when their attempts to be transparent result in live leaks to the nyt.
If you want to set up your own server, why do you need a control panel? Just learn to configure all the services. Command line is all you need.

If you want ease-of-use, running your own server is not the way to go. You can get pretty far with AWS/GCP/Azure free tier.
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