skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I worried about the walled garden but to be honest it's been pretty benign since it was introduced. If I look at the software I've bought in recent years its nearly all been outside the store.

The only downside for me is the cost although you can mitigate that by avoiding new and selling on carefully when you have finished with it.

I did try quite hard to switch to Linux but it lacks the polish of macOS. It was better than Windows in most respects though.
my grandma had cats, who wandered anywhere in village but i guess that's normal in village if you have your own house, but my neighbor nearby has cat which they let wander outside here in the 1.5M city, i am a bit surprised they are not afraid of some teenagers killing their cat, biggest issue AFAIK was that many people didn't like the cat walking around sandpits with toddlers/infants paint littering there, though i have never seen it and just let my child touch the nice cat

so sorry for not finding article revolutionary in any way, you might as well let them roam free which is much more natural than cat on leash, personally if i would be cat owner i would use GPS tracker to know cat's whereabouts
These days windows + Ubuntu 18 on a virtual box are a great substitute.

Some might consider it better if you need to use excel (one of the greatest pieces of software ever)
It sounds enormous until you consider their population size and urbanization rate. At the rate of 0.75% per year, it equals to 10.5 million people a year. Assuming 40 square metres per person, the stock only lasts about 5 years.

In addition, real estate is the preferred investment vehicle among the older and on average wealthier segment of the population.

"Urbanisation in China increased in speed following the initiation of the reform and opening policy. By the end of 2017, 59.4% of the total population lived in urban areas, a dramatic increase from 26% in 1990."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_China
That’s what the author said, but it seems suspect to me. I’d like to read the rejections and understand if this is just the authors interpretation.

But looking at what was done, it doesn’t seem novel. It’s just combining two datasets, and while journalistically important, doesn’t seem to be sufficiently novel for publication in most journals.
Everyone who works is selling their body in some way. That's all work is. Anything else is rent-taking.
All that because the android-media-player-service has a bug.
> I think in terms of the internet, you get what you pay for.

I'm coming round to this perspective. After years of reading "free" news sources I decided to experiment with paid sources. I subscribed to the Times (UK newspaper) and the Economist. The difference in content-quality and design is immense. I particularly like the Times's website compared to the Guardian and other free online newspapers.

As an example, the Times publishes stories in daily editions, much like a traditional newspaper. They may be updated throughout the day, but, as a paywalled publication, there is no pressure on it to publish a constant stream of hot takes and low-grade commentary (as you find in The Guardian) throughout the day to get eyeballs on adverts.
Depends who your peers are.
It’s almost impossible to buy the standalone (non-subscription) version. When I (re)checked a few months ago, there (still) was no link or support article about how to buy this. AgileBits follows a dark pattern of keeping this hidden. If it wants money from people who like the standalone version, it shouldn’t make it next to impossible to figure out how and where to buy it or upgrade to it.

As far as I’m concerned, this version might not as well exist.
Yeah, but what really gets under my skin is that every other company out there is okay with producing garbage.

Meanwhile, Apple produces things that work comparatively well, doing what you expect and then, claims that reasonable functionality is premium. And then catches shit for being pretentious.

So, let's step through that once more:

- garbage is normal
- functional and interoperable is premium
- premium is pretentious
- also, add $1,000 for the name brand

The author simultaneously complains that nothing works, but refutes using the only thing that works because it represents training wheels that are too fashionable and ostentatious.

We can have nice things because that's for babies, and also too overtly glamorous and bougie.

I just want shit that works out of the box sometimes. I also don't need X-Files alien logos and red backlit Hunt For Red October themes everywhere. And oh yeah, let's not get started on OEM spyware masquerading as harmless adware. (Cough! Lenovo! [0] Cough! Intel Management Engine! [1] Cough!)

[0] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Security-Malware/Malware-preloa...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Securi...

Will someone other than Apple please step up to the fucking plate and not just dump trash onto the shelves at Best Buy?
I have the IBM rebrand on my desk. It still works absolutely flawlessly and you can get new ink ribbons fairly easily.

http://mos6581.com/pictures/5170-canvas/new-blinds.JPG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9vzMVK5kV8
(And the fact that only 2 MPs voted against it tells me there's almost certainly some back-door dealings that resulted in this bill being passed.)

Not really, that's just a consequence of the Australian Parliament's history of very strong party discipline. It is highly unusual for all the members of a parliamentary party not to vote the same way on a bill.
Here is a list [1] of current authoritarian regimes. There is a pattern or rather multiple patterns. They're poor, hostile and struggling in all aspects (pick your favorite ranking metric) with only one exception - Singapore. The world doesn't need authoritarianism. Human psyche, at the top and at the bottom of the societal hierarchy is fragile and barbaric without education, science and free thought.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism
The model applies to university classes too. There is variation by school (just like with elementary and high schools) and by subject area (unlike elementary and high schools), but the typical case is as I described.

Once I received an exam back, saw that a question had been marked wrong, and went to ask the professor about it. He explained to me how I was wrong, and then changed my score as if I had been correct, even though I wasn't.
Yeah, I know this is becoming common and online markets are a race to a bottom, but in stark numbers like this...it really feels like there isn't a good ending to this story.
One sentence is missing a word and I didn’t edit it in time because I took a break.

Basically the gist of it is whatever is destined will occur. However long until the social norms adjust for people to understand & see the illusion of today. How the belief is a substantial impact in how society functions but doesn’t even have any backing such as from science/reason. It’s similar to how the times are shifting of belief towards a god existing and how life must be played out from text associated with the belief. I even compare it to when humans all believed the world is flat. The possibility exists of the time to never come where the majority realizes free will is an illusion but I think contrary because I can understand from my experiences the positives. I can also imagine benefits from the realization of the majority understanding it and how the majority would need to function to still keep humanity as the highest regard.

You cannot take the stance that an illusion is how people in society needs to live under and seem rational to me. Similar to the stance of writing it as “in complete denial” and assuming likelihood. The topics on hacker news that have something to do with free will belief are my favorite because

I enjoy replying to everyone. It was destined for me and with others that reply. The main difference between me & others is probably how I have positive emotions towards the understanding because it made me able to not break in a very low time.
I'm surprised the author was able to determine (and remember) the names of all the drugs they were getting during this perceptional rollercoaster ride.
This guy is both smart and stupid at the same time.
Since you have two channels that source current (L and R) it makes sense to have two parallel op-amps for the GND pin to have the same slew rate & maximum current, as both L and R channels return current through the GND line (I would assume).
Or is the on the face purpose of the legislation really a lie like so many others?
Perhaps we frequent a different set of subtests, I don't recall seeing anything like this.
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you will give up after few years if it's majority of society around you, you don't really wanna spend life in society where you are not accepted and always seen as outsider even after decades while you may be bigger Beijinger than most of new Chinese arrivals
What is his current email address? The one at symbolics-dks.com?
Thanks for that. I should have said I am in the UK. Everything else in this thread rings true!
That means, nobody outside Australia can afford to let an Aussie anywhere near a computer, since Canberra will send them to prison if they don't spy or say anything about it.
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Is it actually open source in that you can actually submit a fix though?

Judging by the awful 'random' I would suspect not. (I havent used it I some time so it might have been fixed, but you used to get clustering of tracks from a given album)
Plus, most Apple products are actually great value if you factor in their lifetime cost.
I bought a used iPad two years ago. It must be four or five years old now.

It just got iOS 12.
I've had this problem a lot with sensitive in-ear headphones. I guess it is a problem of dynamic range - the same amplifier has to drive insensitive and sensitive headphones, so to avoid being too quiet on the insensitive ones (definitely noticeable) they make them super-loud at the cost of easily audible noise when you're using sensitive headphones on low volume.

I actually bought Google's active USB-C audio dongle to solve this for my Mi A1. It works, but I think USB-C is not a good port for headphones. It isn't robust enough - if you wiggle it around as if it were in your pocket you easily get glitches.
well it's known fact Japanese are even bigger racists than Chinese, although i would not call it for most of the Chinese really racism, more life ignorance and lack of knowledge or just curiosity, for sure I experienced more racist/xenophobic behavior in few months in Prague than in years in Beijing, so in hindsight Chinese are not really that racists, which still doesn't negate fact that you will be always outsider not accepted and feel uncomfortable after few years
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It is such a shame isn't it. I don't do Facebook, so I don't get to read their sites
Yes, it's called 'drive yourself' or 'take a cab' or 'ride a bus' or 'ride a bike'.
Well, I'd much rather spies from the 5 Eyes read my emails than spies from the Communist Party of China..
I don't know about re-inking, but can't you loosen up a dried ribbon by using a light machine oil?
At least the world is dealing with Trump. He'll soon be replaced and there's reason to believe that a lot of the damage he's causing can be repaired. As for Xi Jinping, Tibet is gone, Xinjiang is gone, Hong Kong is all but gone, Taiwan and the South China Sea is next. This should be obvious to everyone, the only question is who will be the next to suffer, and how many territories and countries will be conquered, and how many people must die, before the world take action.
This article (clearly you didn't read it) is actually about data privacy and social manipulation.
Since when autistic spectrum disorders were redefined and reformulated? They used to be genetic brain structure/biochemistry related disorders with certain impaired social behaviors (which could be diagnosed using DSM) as their symptoms.

How it is possible to "study" anything about human genetic disorders in a such unrelated model as mice, which does not have any cortex and other major areas, including language related one?

Why treatment of the symptoms of unrelated disorder (any poisoning or radical gut disturbance surely affects behavioral patterns) is considered to be related to autism in humans, which has different causes, and manifests itself on a different brain structure and is unrelated to any gut bacteria whatsoever?

Why this crap is considered to be a respectable science?
It's huge, especially considering how much pushback Apple gets for charging app developers "only" 30%. Really shows how little leverage book publishers have today.
The Internet is not the web. The later is part of the first one.
> Which is why UNIX shells are a poor man's REPL quite far from what a Xerox inspired user/developer interaction aspired to achieve.

Unix shells are quite good for their purpose. It's not a full-featured programming language. Can you explain what is "poor man's REPL"?

> Pipe based interactions work properly only across CLI based applications

Yes. If you want to find something in logs or looking at any other text data pipes is a good solution. In any other case(like binary data) it will be better to choose GRPC(or any other RPC). I never have seen GUI apps on servers, sorry.

> PowerShell or other Xerox inspired shells don't need kernel support to achieve their workflows.

Good for them :)
He's getting rooked in some way I don't understand. If he published with amazon itself you can see the prices:

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201834340

For example, here's how we calculate the minimum list price for a 300-page black ink paperback sold on the US marketplace:

$4.45 (printing cost) / 60% (royalty rate) = $7.42 (minimum list price).

I don't know about color, but it can't change it that much.
Hasn't the FBI already done this years ago?
I'm not offended, I'm bemused that you couldn't resist attacking me while making your point.

And no, talking about the avarage human being's ability to operate a specific machine over the course of their life is not painting any individual with a broad brush.

Also, an individual can be a good driver. People in general may not be. That's not a contradiction or an insult. Heck even a "good" driver can drive badly.
> But as we have seen today, the base class setState() implementation has been an illusion all along. It doesn’t do anything except forwarding the call to the current renderer. And useState Hook does exactly the same thing.

This is worded a bit weirdly. The fact that there is some indirection and the meat of the `setState` is in the renderer and not in the component doesn't really make `setState` an illusion. A call to `setState` still does exactly what we thought it did.
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No. The author here is cherry picking a timeframe [2012-2018]. Nice cherry pick. Unless you were smart enough to buy in 2012 that is gone: forever.

Home prices have barley hit their 2008 prices. These are prices ten years ago. If a stock hit its price from ten years ago I wouldn't consider it a "boom".

If you are a zillow user, look around at normal cities [Not manhattan,SF, or LA] linked below. If you have a minute, look at "Price / Tax History", and see what they sold at 2006/7/8. I see this pattern all over the US. I could add 20 more if you need.

To me we are almost back to normal. Sure this is anecdotal but, averaging all US home prices with a cherry pick is just as silly.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5435-White-Heron-Pl-Ovied...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6241-Gobernadores-Ln-Carm...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6600-Sutter-Ave-Carmichae...
All of this is done while pursuing a computer science PhD at Stanford, teaching, and other life activities. Sergio has been digging deep for a really long time. It is great to see that others are helping to advance Rocket's mission but as with most open source projects, the primary author moves it forward. This release isn't just about new features or rewrites. It's about passion for one's work. It's about grit. It's about uncompromising commitment to excellence.

While there will ever be only one Sergio in the world, there are many others in the broader Rust community who are signaling many of the same positive qualities. The signal is only increasing in strength as new talent adopts the language for critical path work.

I am more optimistic than ever about Rust as a tool for general use, not just because of the tools but because of the leadership in its community.
So many double standard to the legal system from US & Canada.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1130954.shtml
That's sexist.
Google Books seem to pay 55% for each sale (Source: https://www.quora.com/For-an-ebook-sold-on-Google-Books-how-...)

The book is being sold from the 10th on my local Google Books store for around USD 19.
This assumes that people aren't using Edge because the engine isn't good enough. I don't think that is true.
They obviously meant selling physical parts of your body, not selling your time or expertise in the abstract sense.
> And that's the current experience.

Maybe that's your experience? I haven't had any of those problems in moderately sized on-prem k8s clusters.
Canada’s treatment of Meng Wanzhou in violation of human rights
I'm super curious…

a. What in these files triggers the explosion of noise (and whether other people have run into this or the author would mind sharing a representative problem file).

b. Whether an output attenuator (or "resistor") would work to quiet the noise (edit: the hiss, not the explosion) without a powered circuit.
Boy does this person need to look at the ‘good headphone’ market.

I paid (a very reasonable) $2k for a set of reference headphones and a suitable amp/DAC to drive them.

I could have spent a lot more.

It is hard to drive a set of headphones with enough SQ to make them worthwhile.

You cannot plug a set of headphones into an Android phone and expect anything good to happen. And lots of DAPs suffer from software problems as well (lots of them are Android based...).

Getting good sound from a portable device, without software issues, is really only solved at the top end of the market ($700 - $4000).

It’s a bit easier if you want to use a computer as a source but far from cheap.
Probably there's some contract attached to it that says he can't do that.

Otherwise, yeah, he should go down that road.
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I'm not proficient in Haskell, but how would the compiler be able to statically type that expression?
> "A type system is a syntactic method for enforcing levels of abstraction in programs. " [1]

> What syntactic methods are used in dynamically "typed" languages?

Interesting. You may have unwittingly provided one of the best justifications for the term "dynamically typed" I've seen so far.

That's because operations that violate a (safe) dynamically typed language's chosen set of abstractions (built using bits, church encoding, whatever) are syntactically inaccessible.
The music industry robs classical of its power
I guess people really plug this much stuff into a computer, but I must be a low-end exception. Things that gets plugged into my Mac:

1) USB-C to lightning cable to charge headphones and backup phone
2) USB-C to Displaylink at work for screen and networking
3) TB3 -> TB2 (dongle) to Thunderbolt display at home
4) USB-C power cable

That’s a total of one dongle for my entire work and home life. Everything else is wireless by now.
The price in Denmark matches the price in Japan, so it looks like pricing is similar.

Since the book doesn't launch until Monday, there is also a prerelease price that is a few dollars lower.
No, you are selling your labor - the work your body does. Not your body parts.
How about we take a bigger-picture view than the implementation flaws of this super-rushed law and ask what is to be done about encrypted messages that allow many serious criminals to circumvent traditional police powers of search & surveillance? I think society as a whole will not accept criminals having such an advantage. So I think alternative laws have to be suggested & promoted, otherwise potentially really bad ones are likely to get passed everywhere..
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The understanding of free will is an illusion has brought clarity and forgiveness into my life; towards all the persons who wronged me. I became aware to how it would be irrational to seek revenge of some sort against persons who deeply wronged me to disfigurement.

Short summary: I’m transgender and couldn’t transition when needed and to live a life of less pain because of others.

Arareness towards understanding people are who they are without any control brought me to realizing “who the best me would be” in the current situation. A person who cannot blame directly the person who wronged me. I might end my life by suicide though. So the impact of what others did to me was great and I still trumped it.
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”It improves sound quality by taking away the hard work of driving the dynamic load of the headphones from the device"

Can anybody explain that please? What is this dynamic load whose driving is hard?
More likely the company at this stage is evaluated on earnings growth, not absolute earnings. Or more nebulous, $/user. But it's a way to mentally check whether the valuation is reasonable. Will the earnings growth grow into a stable earnings fit for its market cap? A mature best of breed company (S&P average) gets something like 22 P/E right now, but historically that fluctuates as well based on earnings outlook and interest rates (which are still historically low).

The last point on interest rates is overlooked by casual investors. Interest rates drive valuation, because the risk-free Treasuries rate is the ultimate comparable to other investments. Not only does it cause the P/E of mature companies to blow up as people chase yield, it forces hot money to chase earnings growth as prospective returns get miniscule. It also gives funds massive borrowing power.

Basically, consider the risk of the whole thing blowing up even if the company does not.

The last line sounds scary, and it could be, and if you don't know it's the thing to really consider. Risk versus reward. Selling half seems like a brainless way to make a decision, but the benefit of this is that it actually lets you make a decision (you win psychologically both ways).

Companies do not do stock tenders all that often and it could be a good sign. But it also happens that companies buy during good times when cash is flush.
I don't understand the point of selling a DRM free eBook. It's going to be pirated, wouldn't it? What could be some reasons behind him doing so?
The Zen 2 line is definitely looking interesting to say the least. I think where the Ryzen is going could be interesting in the server space as well. Ryzen 3600G rumored for example having GPU and CPU cores through the common IO interface. It wouldn't surprise me to see similar approaches in the workstation/server space. Wonder if there's been consideration for ARM compute units even.

It's definitely an interesting approach.
>166

Yikes!

Does anyone know where I can get an overview of the entirety of rocket's dependency graph. Crates.io only lists 11 direct dependencies.
Let's not kid ourselves, Chrome is better than Firefox, and that's why it's gaining market share, while FF is losing its. That alone should be enough to justify the choice.

What worries be is FF falling into irrelevance, and we will have zero options. But it's Mozilla's fault. You can't expect people to choose an inferior product just because of some potential consequences far in the future.
> If you are gonna work as an individual dev, then you can evaluate both. But if you're in a team, then choose whats best for the team.

This is very important. Resources can often be more important than tech.