skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Apple really wanted to put its cash to use, it could build its own cellular network. Privacy focused, no surprise fees, integrated billing for desktop/laptop/iOS/watch devices.

There's enough bad will against the existing ISPs/mobile carriers that Apple could swoop in and gain a lot of market share very quickly. And customers could save money by combining their home internet with their mobile plans. The future is a singular wireless data subscription without any routers or modems.
The easiest method is fixing the phone OS. There is no need to depend on Google or Apple services for anything. A decent Debian-like free software project could be organized to build a solid phone OS distribution; they could start with the Android OS as a base. There have been a few half hearted attempts at this but none have really taken root. This should definitely be a major goal for anyone interested in recovering our economic, social and political autonomy.

With sufficient energy other portions of the stack could be attacked - we don't need Google or Apple to provide us with map solutions, or email, or whatever.

Solving the problem of cell providers just selling your location just seems impossible, on the other hand.
why am i seeing ugly background-colors with rxvt-unicode https://imgur.com/a/qkzAkqR instead of the good foreground colors I see in xfce4-terminal https://imgur.com/a/LY6bPn9

i do seem to have 256 colors in urxvt
my $TERM is rxvt-256color and i have rxvt-unicode-256color installed
You are correct, Tinder is designed keep you on hook, sustain finger-swiping reflex, and all that.

But I've been pondering from a zoomed-out, conspiracy-ish perspective. If FB merges with dating apps, I bet there will be no premium accounts at all, as revenue from them won't matter much. Because, having FB's stat-models of social groups combined with dating app leverage, they can be forced to gravitate towards or divided not only by superficial forces such as personalized news-feeds and ads, but your children potentially will become a content for you and the product for population, recycle.

The biological function of love is to reproduce as many DNA of yours as possible, or support closest neighborhood DNAs as well. It is interesting what it will be like when we'll have substituted natural love with statistically predicted one? We've been doing this already with politics and culture, only this time it will be more real-time.
There is no way that 90% of their traffic is blocking both GA and Mixpanel.
Sounds like Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, etc, where tons of capital flight from China has poured into real estate that sits vacant
> But distributions often say that it's the only way to keep the whole "ecosystem" of a distribution stable.

In practice, it doesn't work. I did a Debian Stretch `apt-get upgrade` and it pulled in a new version of firefox-esr that did not run on my Rockchip Chromebook. Debian was forced to do it because it was end-of-life for the older firefox-esr, and Debian's security backports policy doesn't scale for projects like Chromium and Firefox.
Of course, his comparison shots w/ LaTeX and LibreOffice are misleading. While it's understandable to show what CM and the global style template look like, I don't think I've seen anyone - save for people writing package documentation - deliver using that formatting.

Tl;dr, That is ugly.
wow, I didn't know about jhipster, this is nice!
Sanctions are often an attempt to curb aggression and prevent war.

Take the sanctions against Russia or Iran. Sure, we can be against those sanctions. Then Russia will invade the rest of Ukraine, killing many thousands.

It's the easiest thing in the world to say "I'm just against any sort of killing". Makes you seem benevolent. However, in reality we must choose between alternatives that are often all bad, some just a bit more so.
It always seemed so incongruous to me that the Ruby language community could be so nice, while the Rails community (following the self-aggrandizing example of DHH) would be so aggressive to anyone with unorthodox thoughts.
> For example, I don't get particularly excited about all the damn weird DVI cables I have stashed in my drawer but I've realized if I toss them, I'll need them in a hurry and it really sucks having to buy new ones.

I think this is the exact thing that she's trying to help people overcome. It's the thought process that a lot of hoarders have. "Well, I don't need it now, but I will in the future."

I think it's important to ask yourself if you will actually need those DVI cables. How often do you replace them? When was the last time you looked for one? How much time do they take to find?

If you haven't needed a new DVI cable in 6 months, a year--what makes you think you'll need one in the next year? These are important distinctions to make.

For me, I find that my whole cart of misc tech pieces and cables are rarely used, to the point where just getting rid of almost all of it is a huge relief. If I need another X cable, the mental tax of storing, sorting, and finding that cable is not worth the $10 it would cost to just order a new one when the need arises--if it ever does.

It's very easy to rationalize the the prepper mindset of an item's utility. Yes, I MAY need this in the future... but if I don't, I'm just going to continue collecting things that may never serve any purpose.

I find her approach to "sparking joy" to be a lot more than just marketing. She's trying to hone in on what we really should keep vs what we think we should keep. I have a stash of plain white t-shirts that I can justify scenarios for all day--but when did I actually need more than one in the last year? Maybe it would make sense for me to keep one on hand, but clear the others, because they neither bring me joy nor have a utilitarian purpose that's actually being enacted.
he's taking a different approach when it comes to cutting the cruft in the code he is working on. :-)
Microsoft AI “Zo” Is a Novel Inspiration
Think pad is still doing it better.
With LaTeX, you can track your changes in git, collaborate in online platforms, use your favorite editor, perform diffs/merges with your favorite editor. With word processors, you are stuck with 1 editor and few live collaboration options like google docs and word online which have a reduced feature set.
I can’t wait until it supports Vulkan and thus runs on Nvidia.
So many studies like this end up being unreliable because of improper sampling. It wouldn't have been difficult to have a proper control group for this study.
MariaDB: The Software That Might Save or Break Open Source
There is an LG G7 with Android One. That seems like it could be a great mix of flagship hardware with stock android.
AES Completes Record-Breaking Solar and Battery Plant on Kauai
Do you want to read For Who the Bell Tolls? Neither do I!
The U.S. has some privacy laws, but at the same time, the U.S. (along with Canada) also obligates carriers to gather and store location data. A law saying they can not sell that is not a major step, it just takes an act of congress, and if the whiners and complainers would get off their ass and actually select their congresspeople based on policy, they might get things like this. For the time being a couple percent of the electorate selects your house member because almost nobody else even knows that a race is under way.

Hyperbole "The U.S. has no...", and tribal bashing "especially Republicans", is probably part of why the handful of people who have even heard their chosen congressperson speak, still choose based on tribe.
In the Tesla, you have the time required till your next step on a long trip.

So, you don't charge until you're fully loaded at 100% but if you're following the instructions, you'll get at your next stop with around 20% left for best charging conditions. You even get the info on your mobile as a notification so you can know you can go back on the road.

I really mean it's a pleasure to drive.
Once took a History of Economic Theory course that completely ignored the Austrians. Nice to see them included
We know the answer: Jackie thinks it was worth it. I'm unconvinced... as much as I like him and I'm glad he can enjoy his success.

Yes, the children in Africa who become slaves or child soldiers and end up dead have it worse. I'm not sure what lesson we can draw from that :)
Google plans a new 584,000 square-foot campus in Los Angeles
There's hexl-mode for emacs that's pretty cool as well:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ed...
"Not cool, Facebook, not cool."

I mean, yeah, but what about the device makers? It's not like FB can force them to do this..
Though I have strong Austrian sympathies myself, this tree drastically overemphasizes their importance (and misclassifies Tyler Cowen, who hasn't been an Austrian since his first year in grad school if I remember correctly). There are a dozen economists who should have been listed on the other side before Pascal Salin, and many dozens in the modern era before Reisman and Salerno. As much as I love Boettke, he's influential primarily as a teacher, which sets him apart from the rest of this group.
As a rider, I need to trust the app to do two things: give me a decent driver and provide me with a reasonable estimate of the cost of the trip. By first making the reservation with Uber, I can get both of those from them, making me much more willing to use the local app to do the actual transaction.
That's what I thought too. Bought a Nokia/HMD android one phone, not through my carrier. After I put my SIM in and booted the phone it started downloading crapware my provider offers...

Luckily downloaded regularly through the play-store, so I could just immediately delete it afterwards. But it still seems there's deals going on there even if you don't buy the phone from your carrier and it's android one.
Microsoft Word's equation editor has improved a lot over the last years. I'm not saying it meets LaTeX at its strenghts but it is very unfair to call it "hell".

Also, I haven't used it but newer versions recognize handwritten equations and formulae and automatically transcribe them to the equation format.
This needs to be the top-most reply.
What about those of us who didn't go because we knew we wouldnt be able to pay it off?

Do I get a credit of some sort and how large should that credit be?

I have debts too friend.
I like the idea of switch to "I've amassed all this knowledge, I should do something with it."
I was hoping that it's written in Rust. I wasn't disappointed either.
E911 is the data set. It's just the triangulation data from the cell towers. There's also GPS data which is more accurate but the carrier doesn't get that data but apps can get it.
> Books are more like a fluid than individual objects.

Hm, this is an interesting idea.
> The easiest method is fixing the phone OS. There is no need to depend on Google or Apple services for anything.

Location tracking happens at the baseband level, sometimes even without cooperation from your phone. Whatever you have running in the application processor, your carrier is legally obligated to at least try to ascertain your location.
Reading the entire Bourdain book gives a lot of insight.

The restaurant business is high-pressure and low-margin. It's a cutthroat world and if you're not aggressive enough you'll get eaten alive...literally.
Storybook 4.1: Need for Speed
>Turns out producing and installing batteries produces a lot of CO2,

That is counter to anything I've ever read on the subject. Can you source your claim?
abetterrouteplanner.com finds a round-trip route for her journey that requires 2.5 total hours of charging, while never dipping below 10% charge or above 61% (subject to assumptions about what exact model vehicle she had). The screen in the Tesla will show you in real-time which stations are open, and even how many spots are free, although I don't know how well they indicate future closures.
Tesla's navigation interface will also do automatic routing through superchargers, but I personally like the web interface better.
Rare Japanese Orchid Found Growing in Pennsylvania (at Longwood Gardens)
Read the Ext-VOS paper linked there, then go read the WinRT implementation MSDN documentation about IInspectable, WinRT type libraries.

Don Syme is one of the researchers responsible for .NET and the implementation of .NET generics. F# was a follow up project on his career.
Where would “Pirate the content” lie if pirated content had advertising value which in itself led to sales?

And what if those sales were DRMed content?
It's really easy to make C++ code that's slower at reading or writing files than Python if you go about it in an innocent way.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30197068/why-is-my-c-tex...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9371238/why-is-reading-l...

So I wouldn't be at all surprised if you could make the same mistakes in Nim. But of course it would be unfair to claim that that means Nim is slow in general.
I have had the exact same experience as the OP and if you can convince several PI's with better things to do than reinstall a new version of Word, people at other institutions without MS Office licenses using Libre Office and others who don't use either and convert it back and forth to a Google Doc (thereby breaking all the hyperlinking), I would honestly be baffled.

Now, in collaborative work I use Overleaf so there is no configuration problems with installing LaTeX (Google Docs for LaTeX), and give everyone write access if they want it, I sync it with my Dropbox and have a working LaTeX distribution if I want to edit without access to the network. Those who don't know LaTeX (which is a small number, especially if they don't want to learn the basics to edit the .tex file in the appropriate place) I can convert a version to Word for their edits, which I then incorporate, or they can just markup a PDF. The Overleaf document then has a complete history of edits, Overleaf supports Word-style comments and track changes, and I can be happy in that the other authors aren't going to break something in the Word "backend".
Don't think pad still has Dell beat hands down
Nobody gets to live completely by their own rules. No matter how much you want to, everyone is constrained to live in the real world (physical, even if not social), and the real world imposes constraints that we don't like (entropy, if nothing else).

Then, the social world can also impose constraints (such as prison, as zunzun pointed out).

The best you can do is try to arrange things so that the external stuff you can't avoid pinches as little as possible.
ah, yes, i can see the problem.
Kappa architecture at NTT
The market is unlikely to shift that much in a month and prices are still near an all-time high. It might be more difficult to get it to sell, but that doesn't make it a bad time. If the real-estate market does take a real downturn and the economy follows, it may take 5-10 years to regain its current value.
Don’t fall for the doomsday predictions
I dropped out of college at 22 with a huge amount of student debt to start a business while traveling through Asia & the US (am from Europe).

After the business took off and the money, countries or the countless short-term friendships stopped providing enough meaning for me I started looking for the next thing.

Now, I'm back on the same path that others never ventured off of. Close to my family & a handful of very good friends, with a great partner and a lovely daughter as of a few months ago. It's simple, it's beautiful.
Yeah! -- Because prejudice rocks and JavaScript sucks right?
Quantitative Comparison of the 2018 Cryptocurrency and Stock Market in 4 Graphs
My point is that if she stays married she has no control over the company, if she divorces and gets 50% of her husband's stocks she gets a lot of control. Close to $50 billion last time I checked. That's a legal contract that makes no sense, why would anyone stay married if they could gain $x billion from a divorce?
oh.. interesting.. Maybe I'll remove it or try to fix the link.
I'm trying to figure out if you didn't mean that literally literally or if I should buy the book to find out more....
I started much this same way. I started at a local college taking just Mandarin I. I bought a bunch of books. I spent 2 months in China too. This was really worth it.

I do practice for an hour each day writing in Chinese. I also keep my day planner in Chinese and make notes in Chinese. I mean physically writing characters out.

WeChat is great.

Pleco is a great dictionary. I have it open all day long.

Google Translate is good. WeChat Translate and Google Translate differ on translations quite a bit. Bonus that translate.google.com is available while inside China.

Take a look at the "Chineasy" books. I found them great for gaining history of characters and therefore an understanding of why the characters are the way they are. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FNvW19GbA

There is a good TED Talk - 3,500 characters vs 26 letters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LvhjgW9zh0

I actually was going to start a Discourse forum for learning Chinese. I have it ready to do basically just need to get a domain name.

Edit: Added YT link.
VR's Next Conquest: Your Car
It is good to see there IS a specification; I - and I think some others (see the Temple OS comments) - had concern Red/Rebol might actually be too ad hoc (throw things against the wall and see if they stick).

Is there means to access the lexer directly as a means to explicate how, exactly, Red is interpreting? The use of blocks in Red, and the layout in general, did remind me of Smalltalk but in Smalltalk I could at least rely on really simple syntax rules including some really useful grouping tools to break things up into more human friendly chunks (parens; semicolon; and period).

The spec says "*

As a first operation of the toolchain, the text file will be subjected to lexical analysis which will break the text up in a series of lexemes, i.e. textual representations of Red single values, interspersed with grouping tokens. The grouping tokens should occur in properly nested pairs, and are the following: ( ), [ ], #( ), #[ ]. A sequence of lexemes enclosed in matching grouping tokens represents a Red grouped value of a certain type, and this construct may again be enclosed in grouping tokens etc. Note that the token pairs " ", #" ", { }, #{ } and < > each delimit a single value, they are not grouping tokens...As a rule, lexemes must be separated from each other and from grouping tokens by one or more whitespace characters.*"

Anyway, I think trivial access to the lexer output, so one might SEE exactly how the Red interpreter is viewing things, would go a long way toward dispelling the "Temple OS" concern and providing that on-ramp that IMO is otherwise missing.

Any help on this front?
Fascinating.

I have a two week vacation planned in August to Galicia, Spain to visit the hometown of my great-grandfather. Will have to add some of these small towns to our list of places to visit.
Paris to Mannheim is only 3 hours by fast train! Why take the car? Or if money is an issue, it is 7 hours and US$ 25 by bus.

This does not make the authors point invalid. I am just pointing out the good public infrastructure. Even so I have a Tesla, I still prefer public transport if possible. It is an sooo much more productive use of time.
I can store anything you give me; that you exposed me to it is consent, it's not your data unless you keep it to yourself. When you walk around a public space, you don't get to control who looks at you and logs it. The products of my labor are mine, and that includes whatever I log in public spaces.
It's comparably slow though :p

xxd `which hexyl` > /dev/null 0.12s user 0.09s system 99% cpu 0.219 total
hexdump `which hexyl` > /dev/null 0.19s user 0.05s system 91% cpu 0.256 total
hexyl `which hexyl` > /dev/null 1.69s user 0.39s system 95% cpu 2.175 total
So all those hundreds of thousands of new Tesla owners are having this same bad experience, hate the brand, and tell everyone that?

Oh, wait, Tesla has extremely high ratings from owners.

If you'd like to have an electric car, you owe it to yourself to gather information from more than a single Bloomberg reporter.
>To be fair, what are our options, exactly?

This is key. This is how citizens will lose their expectation to privacy. I fear that in the near future there will be no 'safe' option and you will be forced to forfeit your privacy rights to participate in the digital world.
What's your reasoning for this assertion? If the user is a European citizen, I was under the impression that GDPR was applicable. The location at which the user is at does not matter one iota.

US companies need to understand this, or risk losing trading abilities with citizens and organisations in EU member states.
You're assuming people don't sell their RSU when they get them, which is reckless behaviour.
The current situation in Germany is actually like this. Some kid doxxed a lot of politicians, musicians and jounalists and they found him within a week and now we suddenly have a discussion about data theft. It's insane.

edit: eg see here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46793116 The kid was annoyed by some politician's statements. I had hoped he was aiming for this effect, but maybe not.
My face is red. I'll continue to strive to be more careful in my biases. Thank you for the reminder.
Hmm. Good examples, but I note that they're both concerned with what the rules call "sensitive" personal data rather than the ordinary kind.

The To/BCC one is both very important given the sensitivity of such data and a horrifyingly easy mistake for most organizations to make.
FYI: Slideshow (S9) is another free (open source) alternative offering themes / template packs for reveal.js, bespoke.js, impress.js ("prezi-style"), s5, s6, shower, and more. See http://slideshow-s9.github.io and https://github.com/slideshow-templates
Is reliance on fossil fuels really a lower hanging fruit than serving ads on websites? I think I get the point you're trying to make but lower hanging fruit isn't really the right phrase.
My impression going off what I've seen and read of the culture is you're right. But I've imagine a lot of us have worked with the dev or manager who seems like he'd fit right in that environment. And if you were to make a reality show about software development, I imagine that guy would be getting a lot of air time.
What ere your circumstances? I also have a different background, and question everything.
Even the us is super cumbersome. They should just support ApplePay, Google Pay and a credit card and be done with it.

Remembering the password for some finicky app just makes the quick fill up too much trouble.

Even better would be if the car had secure handshake so once you’ve registered once for a network, you can just plug in and be done.
Mutable strings: That depends on the type of application you're doing. In my area, gamedev, it is better that everything is mutable by default and you optin for immutable, since games normaly deal with structures the mutate every frame. In that scenario it is normal to have immutable things getting in your way more than the other way around.
Reducing a methodology to a single phrase is bound to be... reductive. But if memory serves there was an example her book where at one point she did, in fact, get rid of her hammer and either used another object or borrowed one when needed.

Speaking for myself: I have more objects that have utility than I have space to put things away, so there's got to be more to it than that if I want to avoid clutter.
Are there any known ways to obfuscate cell location data? There are sim addons that can change IMSI to circumvent carrier lock[0], would IMSI obfuscation be a viable option to defend against cell tracking?
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_SIM
Imagine truth in advertising, if the phone/laptop said "price reduced $17 due to included crapware!"

Probably still wouldn't dissuade most buyers, unfortunately.
Bendgate: Why some iPad Pros are bent, and what Apple is doing about it
That seems awfully annoying (having to plan a road trip rathe than just driving). Cars should be meant for driving, not planning.