skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an admin of a 500 user instance I'm having mixed feelings about Nextcloud. Sure it's GPL and free and it got a lot better than the old owncloud mess that broke always but it's still somewhat a gamble. My install is just a no-warranty, non-commercial use case and I wouldn't use it for any large commercial installation without having at least one dedicated and skilled PHP-dev on-site.

I came to resent their marketing blog posts. If you look it's just an alpha version that just got hacked together, often with problems, often not fixed long after the release. There still lot's of serious bugs in end to end encryption for instance.

There does not seem to be a lot of work to improve the base features. Syncing, ACLs, User Mangement leave a lot to be desired. It's not easy but they are in a position where they really could be a perfect solution for a lot of people and probably also charge good money for it - but at the moment it feels like they just build alpha-grade fancy addons.

Me and probably most users would love a no-feature, we just fix the most serious bugs on our github issues release-cycle. I'm fine when it's called Nextcloud 16 and takes a year, hell take your time, but basic functionality should be rock solid.

I also don't get why they ignore the existing open-source ecosystem. Make it possible to integrate SOGo for Calenders and Mail - it's all webdav in the browser anyway. SOGo at least has somewhat working ActiveSync. Same with SAML/Shibboleth/Kerberos - some things got fixed, very late. No deployment story for Active Directory or even Linux.

User management is a mess - the Circles app is a good idea that is crippled by usability and functionality bugs... that possibility to have self-selecting groups and decentralized management is a huge win for them, but they don't seem to realize that this is an important use-case.

Nextcloud is very close to what would be ideal for a lot of smaller organisations, but they somehow are unable to polish what they have but decided to pile alpha-quality on alpha-quality code (and ignore the bug reports)...

That beeing said, it mostly works but your users won't be happy.
Just to be clear: There is no aspirin in willow bark. Willow bark contains salicin which metabolizes into salicylic acid (which is still different from aspirin, ie. acetylsalicylic acid).
Prions are one of the things that makes me go, hey wait maybe we do live in a simulation. They're basically corrupted code (which we've yet to figure out how they get that way in the first place) that corrupts other code... what is that?!?! Reminds me a lot of the WoW 'corrupted blood incident'.

I understand how something like bacteria or a virus enters a host and replicates, but an anomalous protein corrupting other protein is just so strange. I'm sure science will adequately explain it someday but until then it's a pretty WTF anomaly to me.
>It's this shifting landscape that makes travel for the non "me too" crowd interesting..

Forgive my naiveté but I'm not sure I understand what you mean? Are you talking about the "partying" travelers who tend to bar-hop and hookup?
If you feel like breaking your wrist, then yes, you can try.

The problem is that if it misfires while you crank it (which is very easy because you are revolving the engine very slowly) then it will kick back against the direction of turn. Alternatively, the hole and the freeing mechanism will be so rusty that once it does catch it will continue to turn with the crank it. 2 chances for $1. It is supposed to free up once it starts running by pushing the crank forward against a slant cut into the receiver on the engine but that works as often as it doesn't.

I've done it, once. Even if you know what you are doing it is still dangerous and I would definitely not recommend it. Young, stupid, and so on. The good part is that the sleeve is long enough that it likely will not throw the crank out the way some other cars will do, it goes in quite far.

As for pushstarting it, that will work with the manual gearboxes, but it does not work with the semi-automatics.
This guy must have been doing this at exactly the same time as me. I used shairport-sync and whilst I eventually got it working last week it wasn't plain sailing. Getting the service setup to start upon powerup was a real pain in the ass. I've also had to move it onto a separate wifi network as an RPi camera was hogging the bandwidth which caused audio dropouts on the shairplay-sync server.

Also as many of you will probably comment, the Rpi audio out stage is awful. I'm waiting for my Dad to return my USB soundcard so I can use that instead of the headphone socket on the Pi.
Graphics are so often intentionally manipulated to convey the authors intent. I don’t like graphs that show large differences until I realize that the origin of the graph is at say (0,1000) instead of (0,0); this can make a change from 1001 to 1010 seem huge.

(One little edit to your comment, I think you meant quadratically instead of exponentially.)
Seems like a good idea, but I find it hard to correlate between low-detail and high-detail versions.
> What possible justification is there for this?

If I had to guess, I'd say games. Browser games just refuse to die. I thought they'd die with Java applets, then with Flash, but they just keep coming back...
Awesome :) Hope this gets solved soon as I think it's important to keep Aaron's thoughts alive
I don't doubt it. I use i3 & arch at home and have for almost a decade without problems. I use i3 and debian at work and enjoy it far less. I'm merely stating that your exactly the kind of person that likes to tinker with things and is likely not just going to accept defaults.
> [...] Nameservers responsible for archive.is (ben.archive.is, anna.archive.is) are returning answers tailored to the IP address of the requestor [...]

From this thread https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
There has never existed a "free market" in the libertarian ideal sense; markets are only able to exist under the system of a government.
Thanks for such a detailed insight.

Westpoint paper in this case appears to be clearly hiding an agenda. Don't courts have some sort of checks and balance to minimise this type of influence from expert witnesses?
That's what the work I mentioned above does- it beats benchmarks and shows impressive results. The work by Evans and Grefenstette in particular is all out of chewing gum [1].

Somewhat depressingly, your comment makes me guess that you really think that none of that work has actually been done, that it's somehow all theoretical or speculative, or just a lot of twitter talk by Gary Marcus. That couldn't be farther from the truth.

It's really the case that many people have no idea about AI beyond a quick article in the popular press here and there, and despite this, they have already formed very strong opinions about it.

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[1] Here:

https://deepmind.com/blog/learning-explanatory-rules-noisy-d...

Note that the above overview of their paper is published on DeepMind's website (the two are DeepMind employees). You can rest assured that DeepMind in particular, would never support the publication of a paper that doesn't demonstrate impressive results.
What's to stop Netflix from overnight coming out with "Netflix Communities" which'll just be their community-edition YouTube + Patreon and/or ads, similar to how YouTube is moving into Netflix's and Amazon's space with YouTube Originals?

There's a lot of disruption potential there given how large of a percentage Google keeps for itself from YouTube ad revenue.
> biologics are the top-sellers in 2018

This is true, and big pharma will continue to invest very heavily here, since these medications contain living organisms and are much harder/more expensive to make into "generic" versions.
Voyager 2: Nasa announces pioneering spacecraft has left the Solar System
Gave it a read, and the distinction between previous incarnations of entry middle classes and this new category still do not seem to supplant the originals. It's interesting, and recommend it.
One could.

But let's suppose Google provides the contributors making up the bulk of the people with key responsibilities on the project for five years and then decides to withdraw them.

It's possible for the project to continue and be healthy, but you are going to face a large disruption. You're suddenly going to need to fill a lot of key positions -- developers, designers, managers, etc. The direction of the project could change radically as the new people controlling the project don't share the same vision for it as the old ones. All-in-all, it is likely to prove fatal or cause a radical transformation, and the resources for enhancements are likely to be much more modest.
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Np, he would have noticed this thread sooner or later anyway, maybe this makes it happen a bit sooner.
Boasting about how many hours you work is a sign of failure
The problem is many times you end up with tickets like 'create a runway' when there are already four perfectly good runways but the person doing the breakdown didn't realize that.

And if your developers don't have a bigger picture understanding then they also won't know that there are already runways they should be using.
So in some recent version of ios 12, Apple changed the way they resize photos and manage applications on screen to get around Qualcomm's patents.

It would be fascinating to see just what features on which devices are missing due to patents as opposed to the manufacturer not wanting to do it. Sure, most of the time the features can be designed in a non-infringing way, but that takes additional resources that might make the feature have a worse cost-benefit to some other less user-friendly feature.

At this point, it's really hard to see the public benefit of these types of software patents.
> oil products have energy density that batteries are barely starting to be capable of

"Grandpa, tell me again about combustion engines."

"Well, they burned gasoline in a series of tiny explosions, and they were set up so that the timing of those explosions would generate motion."

"Haha, that sounds like a Rube Goldberg machine."

"Yes, and the worst part is that fire is hot. So even though gasoline contains a lot of energy, the process of turning it into motion was fantastically inefficient. They turned so much of the energy into useless heat that they needed whole separate systems just to throw it all away so the darn things wouldn't melt."
I really dislike intellij, so I've not spend much time trying their rust plugin. If memory serves according to the rust survey, vim or vscode are the most widely used environments.
I also saw one with an offset custom mouse cursor so you can’t trust what you’re clicking on.
Not at all strange - convicted terrorists convince people that the threat is being met.
The threat of unknown terrorists keeps everyone anxious and biases towards granting more police powers in order to curb those unmet threats.

PsychOps 101.
In the other hand, as a home user I like to be able to install only one base system (Nextcloud) and use it for all of my online life. This will free me up from setting up yet another system (Mastodon etc) only to host my social networking needs.

And this is implemented as a separate app, so you can dismiss it if you don't need it.
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Absolutely. I'm the article author and yes, adding a DAC is definitely recommended because the output from the audio jack is terrible.

I'm intending to do a follow-up article on this, but so far I've tried IQAudIO Pi-DAC+ with an RPi 3A+ and HifiBerry DAC+ Zero on a Zero W. I was extremely surprised by the good quality of the HifiBerry.
Or extremely easy if you believe the UFO reports... the only incorrect assumption is that they would initiate contact. Even Dawkings knew that this would be a stupid assumption:

https://www.richarddawkins.net/2017/11/we-just-sent-a-messag...

If they show up every couple thousand years and don't say anything, would we even notice?
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You can also just buy an old Airport Express base station and repurpose it for AirPlay. The old 802.11g ones can be found for about $10 or so and even have an optical audio out.
Based on the sidebar here ( http://predictioncenter.org/index.cgi ), the explanation is apparently that CASP1 happened in 1994 and there has been one every two years since then.
Didn't we saw the same narrative when Uber was trying to capture the market?

The emotional stories about a long lost relative found on Facebook?

The single mom who started writing a blog and thanks to the wonders of AdSense she's rich?

and the small mom & pop store who found huge success with Groupon? ( How that went out? eh?)
That feeling is false. No one is safe from sudden illness and death of themselves and their loved ones.

Access to medicine can help, but it is not going to eliminate the problem.
Theres a degree of philanthropy to free software contribution. Yes, there are often hacks and workarounds for problems in code that don't require dedicating the substantial time to learn a codebase and fix the problem forever, but if you do fix it you aren't fixing it only for yourself, but for everyone else who encounters that problem.

I've made dozens of contributions to esoteric projects - from music players to game emulators to HTML template libraries. It does take a ridiculous amount of upfront reading of code to become comfortable enough with the environment to make the change, but I at least only try to fix problems I see as impacting more people than just myself.

Sometimes I wish it were easier to just sit down, take the highest rated bug on a project, and spend all the time it would take to fix it. Its a shame I wasn't lucky enough to be born into wealth so I could just do that all the time. So instead I hope to get there sooner rather than later, where I can amass enough wealth to stop wasting my time on CRUD apps for some business interest and actually do something meaningful.
Thanks, I was looking into that earlier today but postponed it exactly because there was no element with an id, so I'd had to look up stuff to write it.
And yet we have the Nordics with the highest tax pressure in the world (has been for a while) which do better than most. Like Hans Rowling said, if you want the American dream (with max class mobility), you should go to Denmark.

But hey! Why not throw around some more claims without some proper sources/references.
The spec [1] says:

> Richly interactive web sites, games and remote desktop/application streaming experiences want to provide an immersive, full screen experience. To accomplish this, sites need access to special keys and keyboard shortcuts while they are in full screen mode so that they can be used for navigation, menus or gaming functionality.

But I guess it will be used by scammers as well.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/keyboard-lock/#introduction
I'm on masto regularly and the community is much more pleasant there (than say Twitter). A lot of users attribute that pleasantness to decentralization. I call BS. It's because it's a tiny self-selected group that wants the opposite of what Twitter provides.

You're absolutely right: once this tips, and people join because that's what you have to join to talk to people and not because they're looking for a real change, then it'll be unbearable.

The best thing that can happen to fediverse is that it will continue to grow incrementally, so that at each step they can see the missing moderation tools and build them before it all blows up.

Personally I think we'll look back on these massively open networks where everybody can reply to everybody as an anomaly.
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Maker here. Thanks for posting! Let me know if you have any questions about the methods or insights here, or if you just want to talk shop .
You've probably heard of Satya Nadella on HN, he's the CEO of Microsoft
> There were also human cases getting reported at a rate that some suggested matched the pattern for the early days of an epidemic.

An epidemic is by definition a statistically significant deviation from historic baselines.

Every single upswing within the normal rates of variability - all of the sin curve living above 0 - looks like “early epidemic.” We have one every month.

That was scare-mongering, too. Everyone loves to report an incipient disaster, at least until people get numb and the ratings fall down.
Nice work. What's your stack and did you do the site design yourself? It's quite nice.
This is a cool project, and I think it can be a good addition to an existing home media server.

For the use-case they describe however (wiring up an existing home stereo) it would probably be a lot easier and better supported to just buy an Airport Express.

You can still buy them online for ~100, and they support Airplay2 as well, which is much nicer for multi-room audio.
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You mean I will never learn how to karate-chop stock in order to break it into a dozen perfectly-machined repeats of the prototype I just made? D:
its really just minecraft 2.0
The thing is that every system is multifaceted and may effectively have "phases" when it was beneficial and later winds up detrimental and surplanted when a better adapted solution occurs and displaces it. Take the ancient basics of kings - ruling and becoming rich on extortion essentially but a monopoly on force kept violence in check. Later warrior elites ended up losing power to merchant elites - especially with the industrial revolution. Merchants were once above only Burakumin in the Japanese caste system - they later won the right to wear one sword.
I believe that writing off large debts for effective titles were involved.

Capitalism like everything else must adapt or die when circumstances change. As for attribuitable to capitalism a dirty secret is that the USSR was worse environmentally without the greed. It might excaberate some but it is fundamentally the wants and needs that drives consumption.

Haiti's poverty is why their border can be seen from space via deforestation. Humans hunted megafauna to extinction back in ancient times and they weren't exactly morbidly obese.
We do live inside a simulation... of particles, called... the Universe.
That’s correct. But when speaking or writing in English, the English conventions should be used.
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> Import Ban

Why not just ship locally?
That isn't what I meant. I wanted to say that I feel like people are focusing on democracy for the sake of having democracy instead of using it as just one tool to achieve maximum freedom like it was supposed to.
I won't waste time fighting trolls. This is the latest snapshot where we can always reset to:

https://colab.research.google.com/gist/ontouchstart/9acd0280...

I think the community can clean it up when things get out of hand. Let's see how it evolves.
But they do so voluntarily. Do you have to ask permission to the state in order to play football with your friends?
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No, it quoted the speculation.

> them may then become contaminated, the authors write. They recommend single-use instruments or the adoption of new decontamination procedures for opthalmological equipment with better effectiveness on prions.
Oof. I listen to this essay regularly but this part has never stuck out to me in particular before.
On taking feedback well: Things I tell myself :)
Same for me but world of warcraft lore, lol
I’m not making any mistake that I’m aware about from reading what I wrote. You’re implying unknown knowledge about me and when I haven’t even shared my opinion. Simply, I haven’t stated my view on if morals & ethics are ever cared for by people in power. I do believe humanity fundamentally relies on them and to reach the highest divine status for society in functioning and when the universe is without free will to everyone. Fundamentally I observe that important to the majority of people and who are religious. They are conditioned to see it as after death though.

Anyway cost of society is something I don’t even believe is worth pursuing a discussion about with me anyway. I have witnessed from my own personal experiences with how medical treatments are handled completely irrational to fixing my issue. I’m not fully aware to understand why but I assume some unknown agenda. I’m doubtful in any case, the persons going into professions from the start want that to be so.

China is interesting and I wouldn’t be surprised to find out their leaders operate with the knowledge of free will being an illusion. However it doesn’t mean they’re doing it how everyone would and with the same knowledge. Some people will treat the misfortunate as praedamnation and not care to make that go away. Believing birth into royalty of some sort is all that matters and shouldn’t change. However the deterministic universe has been progressing in the opposite direction of that.
I was able to see all pages except for "3. Look at yourself objectively"
Ikr

>Flutter will enable full cross-platform development across iOS, Android, desktop, web and beyond with one codebase.

I’ve seen desktop development mentioned a lot as well and was pretty excited, but right now it does not seem to support shortcuts, tabbing, drag and drop, multiple windows etc. Still, could be a very different story a year from now if Flutter starts to gather market share.
> Some people just want to write a book...and have it be read as a book, not a sociopolitical statement. Call it the "craftsman ethos", if you like.

I've read My Brilliant Friend. I liked it a lot (I'll probably read the other three someday), and I'm not curious about the identity of the writer.

At the same time, Elena Ferrante gives interviews. It's one thing to write novels pseudonymously and have them published. It's another to give interviews - when you do that, you're taking on the role of public intellectual, and you can't really blame people for being curious about who you are.
I at least get a substantial value add to my life having Google track me everywhere. It might be overly sentimental but being able to see everywhere I've been in the last ~seven years on Maps feels to me like one of the great innovations Google has made. If people accept Google will sell that data to subsidize the cost of persisting it you get a permanent record of everywhere you've gone. I think its cool to have.

Its something you can probably build off the shelf - log position with durations, draw vectors on Open Street Maps. But Google has already given me the convenience in exchange for my privacy. Its one of the rare times I'm alright with that tradeoff.
As Churchill said, the strongest argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. The voters are getting what they voted for.
Apple servers in China are accessed by the same clients as Apple servers in the US. They don’t get to see the things Apple servers in de US don’t get to see.

They get to see a lot and what happens with that is up to the Chinese government, just as it is up to the US government what happens to what the US servers see.
Is there any details on the patents Apple violated?
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