skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stripe defines modern looking pages. I've been so pleased using their docs and it's a treat to use their services as they always look incredibly polished. Many companies try to copy their look and it ends up looking like a poor clone purchased from a themeshop and gets lost in the startup ocean but Stripe seems to do design in a very precise way. I can't really explain how they do it but major props to their design team for keeping consistent quality.
Thanks for sharing that, it gave me a lot to think about. Always good to see things from another perspective.
I would assume the margins are crazy on this. I guess this is how you do profitable hardware
Title seems aggressive, yes?

I spent an hour trying to remove all of the advertisement connections, have no idea how far into it I got. Mostly realtors and car dealerships
Being Fit May Be as Good for You as Not Smoking
reusable filters work great - just dump the grinds in the compost.
What's the best way to hear from your audience? Comments on the blog (e.g. disqus), or Twitter? Managing spam is such a burden that hosting your own feedback facility is risky.
There is also no DRM.
There will always be people who want to eliminate all risk, even if it's impossible to do so.
Hope this puts to rest the claim that zfs on bsd is better maintained and integrated than zol!
By server management - do you mean VM? Sure, you can outsource that. I mean that what and how a home-grown application uses a database tends to mean that database (software/schema/optimization/whatever) management cannot be application agnostic. So if you outsource this, you're either effectively hiring a consultant that still needs to deal with and learn details of specifically your application, or you should assume it's going to cost you some time to do yourself.

I'm sure you can get advice or buy know-how; but they're too coupled to think you're not also going to need to spend some time too. (At least: assuming your workload is large enough and complicated enough that naive brute force isn't an attractive option).
It's worth using. I do science things and use Go. It doesn't require much more mental overhead to write than a scripting language (possibly less once you're into it), it's pretty fast without arcane knowledge, it's easy to maintain, binaries are easy to deploy, and it has a super fast startup time unlike Julia, if you care about that. Overall, I'd highly recommend it.
I just use SUN. MVEMJ is so ingrained into my memory, but the more distant gas giants I forget! :P
There are a few reasons you might want to use our version of these images:

- If you're running on GCP, pulling images from GCR will likely be much faster than Dockerhub given network locality.

- Content Trust. DockerHub images are maintained by a large team of upstream maintainers and volunteers. These images are fully managed by Google, and you can examine and audit the full supply chain from source to built image.
It's not a matter of whether I trust them. It's a matter of whether any misuse of data actually occurred, or whether this is a lot of innuendo with no evidence that any harm was, or even could be, done.
IIRC, they've transitioned (or are in the middle of transitioning) to recyclable cups.

I believe you can green bin the contents (if you have that service where you live), and recycle the plastic container, with the foil seal being the only thing that goes to landfill.
a.) Yes, which is why they're targeting enthusiasts first.

b.) When I am talking GTK, I mean GNOME here, as that's what the Librem 5 will run out of the box. There's all the APIs GNOME exposes for your dev pleasure + any other that you can utilize on standard desktop Linux, including bluetooth, contacts etc. [1] [2] [3].

c.) The majority of devs that are on iOS and Android, sure. but since there's plenty of Linux desktop applications already, I suspect the initial set of apps would be these, optimally ac customized to a mobile screen.

That'll give them a functional edge from their Android/iOS equivalents pretty much from the get go. which is also the major advantage of this effort compared to Ubuntu Touch/Firefox OS - the fact that if you're on Linux. you're already on the Librem 5.

d.) This is very much ideology-driven at this point. It is very important for efforts like this to exist. It probably won't ever be as big as Android/iOS, but it's important to do for the smartphone what Stallman set out to do in the 80s for computers. And few believed in him then. I don't see how "being skeptical" is furthering any cause.

I believe in a free, open-source, privacy-focused smartphone, in the post-Snowden age and an age where war on general-purpose computing is heating up. If this ships, even in less than ideal state, I'd welcome it with open arms. I realize that others may not be so inclined, but there must be people who push the boundaries in order to preserve free computing. I count myself among them.

1 - https://developer.gnome.org/references

2 - https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-bluetooth/3.20

3 - https://developer.gnome.org/libebook-contacts/3.10
Telepolis: https://www.heise.de/tp/

Also, the list above lacks the FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) as a source for high-quality journalism (politically, I would describe the FAZ as open-minded conservative.)
It's a high end, full frame, high resolution (36+ MP) SLR or mirrorless. Nikon d850, Sony A7R3, etc.
> Once they do so, pip will break, and it will not be possible to construct a working environment except by hand. Or using manually packaged modules e.g. from the FreeBSD ports tree or the Debian archive.

Or by explicitly specifying versions in requirements.txt (yes, it can be pita for dependencies inherited from other packages). Pypi does keep the old versions, no need to scour fbsd or debian archives.
The law of non-contradiction is valid for mathematics and propositional logic, not politics and ethics.
>I believe that the only effective solutions to these sorts of problems are legislative ones. See CFC's and the ozone layer

There's still at least one factory in China using CFC-11, with zero regard to the environmental impact or international stance on use of CFCs.
San Francisco Bay Coffee makes some: https://www.sanfranciscobaycoffee.com/index.php/onecup-for-k...
I think it depends on the audience. Looking at your blog I can see how ads may not work as well. My blog is focused more on dining out, shopping etc where viewers think nothing of ads and I think they would even think it weird if there weren’t ads.
Peak power is at high rpm in piston engines, but peak efficient power is at low rpm (generally between 1000 and 2000 rpm).

The reason car makers are stuffing so many gears into transmissions now is to keep the engine at peak efficiency far more often (to meet emissions and fuel economy targets).

Trying to hit top speed needs power (mostly due to wind resistance going up by its own square law) not efficiency. So the transmission will use the tallest non-overdrive gear (6th) for top speed and the overdrive gears (in this case 7th and 8th) for efficient cruising.
This right here is why ex-felons should be allowed to vote. Because you still have opinions that matter.
Why not have if/else be an expression in the first place, like Kotlin?

n = if(expr) trueVal else falseVal

No need to learn a separate ternary operator.
Invent a better one again then. Biodegradable filter plus reusable cup.
> Nespresso sold me though on their recycling program

I don't get this. If this is important to you, why not use a system that didn't require recycling in the first place?
I think you can still have a high-activity blog that publishes infrequently, if you're able to get them to sign up for email notifications.

I don't know if people really check blog websites daily anymore. Stuff like news, sports, Reddit/FB/IG are an exception; people expect there to be updated content daily.
That's where they recruit from.
I've had issues with several of the reusable cups. Metals ones would let some particulate through, the paper ones would end up tearing.

Plus my experience when I owned a Kurig was not pleasant at the end, with exploding K-Cups.
> I just don't understand how the risk/reward ratio plays out in their mind.

For the most part, the same as in most people’s minds for most decisions—if it plays out at all, it does so only as a post hoc rationalization for decisions not made based on risk/reward calculus in the first place, which conveniently juggles facts to support the action already undertaken.

Rational choice theory is a nice model that has some use in modelling behavior in some domains in broad aggregates, but has little to do with how individual decisions are actually made.
It seems nearly everyone always believes that a recession, big disaster slowdown, market crash, Etc is "right around the corner." And for the last 10 years they have been wrong in the macro sense :-).

That said, this was from the article: "Many of the tech companies that listed shares in the U.S. were based in China, including some of the largest IPOs of the year, such as online-entertainment services company iQIYI Inc. and Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo Inc."

The Chinese economy is reacting in all sorts of ways to its new larger size, pressure from the US in trade wars, and pressure at home to spread some of the prosperity around. If you take all of the Chinese companies out of the list, the IPO statistic is unremarkable.

What I find most interesting is the Unicorn do or die issue. Which is that many may find it impossible to go to the private equity trough again, that bubble does seem to have deflated. Valuations aside, when you have raised over a billion dollars that is real money that somebody is going to miss it if you just roll up the carpets and go home.

It felt to me that the collapse of Theranos woke up a lot of 'stupid' money (that is money from people who are investing in a fad but without research). And those folks have said, "Hmm, ok now I'd like to sell my equity in this company you guys say is worth $X, that means you will pay me $Z for my stake right?" Only to find it doesn't work that way, there are no buyers, no liquidity as they say, for those preferred shares. But they can vote and they can tell the CEO, you're not getting another penny from us, we'd like to sell our shares. And that leaves the public markets as the investor of last resort.

So it does feel like a Unicorn reckoning is to be had. Where companies will have to prove that a cruel and unemotional market will agree with their lofty valuations. They won't all make it over that hump. As the Vikings might say, "There will be songs sung about these days."
>Whereas data collection currently has only one visible consequence on the individual level: what kind of ads & spam you get, and how much.

The key words are "visible" and "currently". There are less visible consequences like identity theft, scams and all kinds of sneaky profiling that affect you without your knowledge. And no one really knows how this data will be used in the future.
Physical waste is not a real issue. A landfill 10 miles square and 250 ft deep could hold all of the US's waste for the next hundred years. Twenty of these (Which could fit without people taking notice in any rural area) can hold the whole world's garbage for next 100 years.
:,)
It's practical and the proof is that people are more than willing to pay the insane markup. How could it be the worst invention of the last few decades?

If the problem is waste, that's something for the government to sort out.
Unlikely. My understanding of the gravitational breadcrumbs we have seen indicate a much larger body (~10x Earth's mass, like a smaller ice giant similar to Uranus/Neptune), one that would almost certainly clear out the area around it through accretion. It would be very surprising to see something with that kind of mass still sharing an orbital neighborhood of other similar bodies.
Thanks for sharing! That's an interesting point regarding simplicity of design and how the complexity of vaping can actually create a hobbyism that keeps you in the realm.

If you don't mind me asking (and you sharing): How long did it take to stop smoking? Can you describe the weening process?
Also of note is the specific SoC used by the Omnia -- Marvell A385. It's a really neat chip that you can fully bring up not only without vendor binary blobs, but even using strictly the mainline versions of u-boot, and linux.

https://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=configs/turris_om...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I think something shady was going on with the company formally known as Axciom:

"On May 14, 2014, Acxiom announced that it had acquired LiveRamp, a data onboarding company, for $310 million. LiveRamp was founded in 2011 as a spinout of RapLeaf, a marketing data and software company founded in San Francisco, California in 2005 by Auren Hoffman and Manish Shah.

In May[2017], LiveRamp announced a consortium formed with two other ad tech companies, AppNexus and MediaMath, to compete with Facebook and Google in the area of programmatic advertising, the term used to refer to the use of automation software to buy advertising.

In 2016, LiveRamp acquired two data and identity-matching startups, Arbor and Circulate, for more than $140 million combined. The company also announced the launch of IdentityLink, a method of anonymizing consumer's identities as they are tracked across multiple platforms.

In February 2018, Acxiom announced a reorganization from three divisions into two - a Marketing Solutions group and its LiveRamp business. In May, the company announced international expansion into Brazil, Netherlands and Italy, and released Global Data Navigator (GDN), a portal for identifying available data elements by country. In June 2018, Consumer research firm GfK MRI has partnered with Acxiom."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveRamp#2010s
I turned off comments and allow people to contact me through Twitter or email.

That seems to be such a high barrier to entry that the contact I do receive is almost always because someone disagrees strongly or because they are very thankful for something they learned.

In either case, it stops pointless crap like 'first'.
Yep. One of the reason school administrators are particularly concerned with Juuls is that they produce so little vapor that students can inhale and hold for a few seconds, and by the time they exhale no visible vapor emerges. Kids are even doing it during classes.

Speaks to the 'lack-of-unnecessary-chemicals' but unfortunate unintended consequence.
I wish somebody would ask Facebook and other media companies under oath what type of other data they collect from users. A few specific examples:

1. Does your app collect anything on a mobile device's clipboard and transmit this information to your servers?

2. Does your app send thumbnails of every image accessible from a device, even if the user hasn't explicitly selected the image for upload?

I'm sure there are other examples, and perhaps device permissions prevent these in ways I'm not familiar with but it'd amaze me if companies weren't grabbing every bit of data they could, including the above two scenarios.
Funny you should say that. I bought in at the beginning of the frenzy last September, and sold ten minutes after I read in early December that Wall Street was about to open up futures trading. I guessed that meant that the likes of Goldman were about to vaccuum up cash from the normal folks on my Facebook timeline with no technical background suddenly posting "I should buy Bitcoin!".

Nailed that one.
Relative to planet #9 we're right next to a giant nuclear fusion powered light 700,000 km across. If it isn't lighting up the surface of planet #9 well enough for us to see it already, then we're not going to be able to construct some laser that makes a difference.

That's before you get to the problem that space is ridiculously big, and sweeping it across the entirety of the surface of the imaginary sphere that might contain planet #9 would probably take millions of years (citation needed).
Hmm, nobody pays attention... So let's give the government even more power... Maybe that will wake everyone up.

And it doesn't really matter how involved you are in local politics. The federal government can already take your land with emminent domain.
The crash has already begun, a global recession will follow after but that won't be till later next year. We're in a correction and entering a bear market.

https://finance.yahoo.com/chart/%5EIXIC

Stocks like Amazon and Apple have lost up to 30% in the last few months, and Nasdaq has seen steep declines since the summer. So yes, earlier this year was a good time to IPO. Talking about exiting now with an IPO is definitely a little late, and I pity companies like Uber which have one scheduled for next year.
They settled on Condorcet, a method almost unheard of outside of electoral/political theory, and your criticism is that they didn't make use of political theory?!
IDF Tampers Video of Strike That Killed Two Teens
It's really easy to rack up multiple crimes when you can't afford a good lawyer because they always throw the book. A lot of times "doing X while committing a felony" is also a felony.

People also forget that tons of petty crimes that are misdemeanors have felony equivalents and which one you're charged with is often up to the discretion of the prosecutor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427259
Ask HN: Is there a biological compiler?
I keep hearing people say it would be super useful to have a design environment for biology, where the output is either a genetic circuit or some other implementable design, but I never really see anything that comes close. Cello and the folks behind Asimov are an interesting attempt, but I’m thinking more along the lines of Michael Levin’s talk. Does anything like that exist?
This is such a relief to see purely for personal reasons. I was there as a child, and had some memory of 'buses with little wheels on the side' -- and had eventually convinced myself it was a dream. No one I had ever mentioned it to thought it was real.

With adult eyes it seems over-engineered, but I still want to ride it again just because I want to support whoever thought that was a good idea and managed to convince enough people to build it.
Genius would be finding a way to do it without the environmental waste.
I assume it's because they evaluate the products they buy based on more than one criteria?
There seems to always be fear mongering by people who benefit from the "opportunities" created by the suffering of those most vulnerable whenever there is a sufficient amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt pumped into the public mind to create an economic pull back. Or maybe they are Russian agents attempting to attack the US economy? Either way, the best advice is generally: don't read the comments, there's too much toxicity, manipulation, and disinformation
Clojure 1.10's Datafy and Nav: grokking it.
>makes opportunistic authoritarian governments around the world think thrice before invading their neighbors

This can only have been an ironic or tongue-in-cheek comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Generally, having enough humility to recognize that you might be wrong, and enough compassion to care about the little guy would go a long way.

For example, they could notify the owner of the account after deleting it. And allow them to download their data. It's not hard to do, it does not open them up to social engineering, and it does not incur per-customer cost.

Nor does it facilitate continuation of spam, in fact it hits legitimate users way more than spammers - spammers bought their lists and have copies, while users who legitimately grow their lists through sign ups usually don't make copies.
I once had a job where I eventually figured out this was implicitly was I was hired to do, be the guy who gets lied to so it's not a lie when you tell the customer. I didnt last long.
I usually need to see some reason for turning on google-analytics. I didn't at first ... empty page. After I did that, I have no idea what block-stack auth is (why should I trust that?), no idea what Gaia is. Guess I'm not the audience.
Convenience, obviously. Why own a car when you could ride a bike? Sure, it will take you 10x as long to get anywhere, but you can always just leave earlier.
He's a pop philosopher and a genius at cultivating followership, but he doesn't really have productive ideas (at least not ideas whose results you couldn't explain in 5 minutes to a 12 year old, to borrow Chomsky's language).

Take a saying of Zizek and route it through a robotic voice (to eliminate his accent and mannerisms). Do the same to the negation of same. Play the results to a random population. The genuine saying of Zizek will not statistically stand out as being any more valuable than its negation.
>> If the problem is waste, that's something for the government to sort out.

Do you mean that they need to manage it via regulations? Or deal with the externalities of all that waste? Because in the latter, government = us.
This is why I also have an automatic orange juicer, a soda fountain, and whole vending machine at my house--God I hate getting beverages for my guests.
I was also going to mention Nespresso's pods. As far as I can see, they're just some vacuum packed grounds between two foil membranes. The amount contained seems a bit smaller than what's in an Aeropress scoop, but because of the square/cube law, the amount in an Aeropress scoop wouldn't be that much larger.

What about an automated version of Aeropress that forced the same amount of hot water and hot air/steam through a Nespresso-like pod? It could have adjustable temperature and press times, and should make coffee indistinguishable from an Aeropress. This would eliminate the one disadvantage of the Aeropress: it's quite easy but not quite as convenient as putting in a pod and pressing a button.
While instant coffee has a negative stigma I'm happy to see the speciality community stepping into this space as a way to possibly move people away from these machines. While the cost value is still not great (~$4 a cup) it's far less waste and the coffee (to me) is much better. There's currently three companies leading on this: Sudden, Swift Cup, and Voila. James Hoffman did a video on the three and discussed their pros/cons (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuLWwZiIcl0).

I've tried all three at various points in their tenure and agree with Jim's points in the video.

* Sudden was the first to make the splash and for a while I was subscribed to them, but I never felt like the coffee tasted right.

* Voila is my preferred option right now because they offer a good variety of roasters as well as feel the most consistent in taste.

* Swift has had some of the best tasting ones, but it's slightly less consistent than Voila for me. Their best one I've had is the partnership offering they have with ReAnimator.
The Guardian example was heavily used by MongoDB as a case study to pitch their database to others in 2011:

https://www.mongodb.com/customers/guardian

https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/mongodb-guardian

https://www.slideshare.net/tackers/why-we-chose-mongodb-for-...

And reupping my previous, three-part series on MongoDB:

On MongoDB

NoSQL databases were the future. MongoDB was the database for "modern" web engineers and used by countless startups. What happened?

https://www.nemil.com/mongo/index.html
Googling this: "law minor energy drink" shows that many places are considering it, although I have not seen any that actually passed such a law.