skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I mistaken, or was it that lichess was actually in PHP a couple of years ago? I seem to remember that I was surprised to learn that it is Laravel+Vue. But maybe I'm mixing things up.
How is this not a simple case of barratry?
So, simple question, but: what is the legal reason I, not a customer of Bird and having never signed an EULA in their app, can't just take a Bird scooter off the street and just keep it in my house, even as decoration without modifying it? What law protects a business model that relies on leaving property all around town, completely unencumbered? (I know about the police auctions, but that's not the question here.)
My bad, it was Skype, not LinkedIn: https://www.businessinsider.com/skype-scandal-silver-lake-20...
I have had a similar recent experience with Fi after having used their service for three years now, and I would also no longer recommend Fi. This is very disappointing because Fi's customer service was once fantastic.

I had many time consuming and useless interactions via phone, chat, and email with Fi's support reps over the course of a month to solve a simple issue. After growing increasingly frustrated, I requested that the issue be escalated to an employee with actual sway, but the reps refused to escalate it beyond one level up to a "specialist" who was of no help. I finally tracked down on LinkedIn a Fi higher up who works at the mothership in Mountain View (all contacts thus far were with what was clearly an offshore team). I DM'ed them directly via LinkedIn to explain my issue. This action resulted in a complete resolution of my problem within 5 days. This absolutely shouldn't be necessary to address what was a very straightforward problem, and does not augur well for Fi's future.
Moon Jae-In’s term started in May of 2017. There is not a lot of data in 18 months to parse here, so also not many conclusions to make.
The 57 and 67 story I heard from older heads was that the 57 wing used then-new computer modeling for the wing design, while the 67 was more traditional for risk management. The 57 wing outperformed the computer models, making it more of a “hot rod” in some respects.
I skimmed this and see two big problems.

First, this idealistic idea that "we" are going to take back our data. Who is this we? Only the smart, high-agency people who have time to spare. The commercial web is increasingly tuned to the normal user, who is low-agency and easily led around. Who will win a battle of user acquisition and retention? Facebook or the rebels? Facebook of course. So any solutions proposed here are just for a tiny percentage of users who will then be isolated from the real and useful social networks. Or more realistically use both.

Or maybe if the infrastructure is built, a layer of savvy entrepreneurs can emerge to monetize it? I'm thinking of reaganemail, selling an anti-google email account to the AM radio crowd.

Second, the idea of somehow eliminating censorship. De facto censorship will always exist, even if you sugar coat it as Twitter has tried - "your content is still there, but only if someone explicitly looks for it". Any platform without censorship will just be flooded by every marketer and political zealot, for starters.

Also, I think he is conflating filter bubbles with centralization. Without centralization, wouldn't we still have filter bubbles as people self-select into their online communities?
Project Bitfl1p
In the cases where the video is static, there are relatively few video bits. An MP4 on YouTube that just displays the album art is about the same size as an M4A.
As an Xbox developer, Microsoft support is actually pretty good. They reply to questions pretty quickly and when needed you can even speak directly to the engineers responsible for the parts of the system. But then again, I imagine Xbox development team and their number of customers(developers) is tiny compared to the rest of Microsoft, so they can allow this kind of tight support.
I’ve just adopted Google Wifi (love it) but I’m afraid that they will get bored and discontinue it.
A strange observation to make, seeing as the non-college educated reproduce at a greater rate than those who do

You've misinterpreted his use of the word "reproduce". It's not about birth rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproduction_(economics)
Yes. :-)

There are a lot of different ethical systems, but almost all of them consider killing people to be evil. Sometimes people quibble about whether killing people in self-defense or defense of others is evil, eg. "Would it be evil to go back in time and kill Hitler?" But note the asymmetry: it may be debatable whether killing Hitler is justified, but everyone save some very fringe movements believes that Hitler himself was evil.

We put up with nation-states because of survivorship bias. There are two kinds of people: those who live under the jurisdiction of a modern nation-state, and those who are now dead. From the surviving individual's POV, it's better to be the person for whom's benefit your country kills, than the person killed by them.
What are good gmail alternatives? I have fastmail, but to be honest - it's not as good as gmail used to be (although it's better than the "new gmail) is.
The tricky thing is that ISPs have traditionally offered symmetrical service, but only as "business class". So they would protest that they already sell that, customers just need to pay (double, triple) to get it. That said, my (just residential) fiber connection consistently tests slightly faster upstream than down.
FTA “Google says it’ll continue to support Chromecast Audio users for the time being, so if you have already invested in this ecosystem, you should be set for a few more years.”
Pairing inkjet printing with real-time image analysis for cosmetics and farming
My bad, I meant something else. We have two lines and we pay for 10G max (beyond that it's free but beyond 15G it becomes slower (only data on the account that goes beyond 15G becomes slower)). If we use less than 10G we pay less. What I meant is that for people who reach the cap it gets expensive. There are cheaper unlimited plans with other carriers.
Wouldn't that be the same legal reason you can't just take any scooter off the street and keep it in your house?
It's about the stupid trend they kill things which have not enough interest. That's why we can't have nice things...
> I'm a Russian citizen. I can tell you firsthand that the US is as bad as Russia,

Merely being a Russian citizen is very much an insufficient basis for claiming sufficient expertise and neutrality to be taken remotely seriously making this claim with no supporting evidence or argument.

> Russia is honest about what it is

Russia pretends to be a representative democracy, too, with parties and elections and even some power transfers. So, no, even if you were right that Russia were merely just as far from that ideal as the US is, Russia wouldn't be any more honest.
I like this list enough that I intend to read more by Meadows, but it seems to me that tax policy isn't just limited to #12, but can play a notable role in #11 down through #5. Particularly #5 and #6. In fact, a lot of the items on the list aren't entirely distinct from one another.

That doesn't mean the list is bad -- I think it's powerful enough to try and articulate as many semi-distinct inflection points for a system as one can. Just that I'm not sure that the ranking is pure.
I love my Synology NAS server :)

Though its not really simple enough for non-technical people to set up.
Is it not still a diesel ICE, at least sometimes?

I pass through Nørreport station fairly often, and I notice the train to Hamburg if it's passing through.
> I would not buy anything from Google at this point.

The only consequence here seems to be if you wanted to buy one but now you can't, but I don't see how not buying something gives a lesson about buying things?

It's not like Chromecast is going away.
Driver wanders into incoming traffic during Bird Box challenge
> I understand your point, I just don't think you've provided the evidence to back it up. From where I'm sitting, it looks like you started with the conclusion ("I don't like CA policy") and then rationalized it from some personal experiences ("people like me are moving out of state"). [1]

I certainly did not provide much evidence to back anything up, you are right. I'm mainly just sharing my anecdotes: namely that I have made major life decisions based on the relation between tax policy in particular and policy more broadly, and the effect that that has on quality of life.

I do take a bit of issue with the implication that because no particular correlation exists between policies of the last eight years and emigration, that there is no measurable relationship between emigration and policy. I know in the most concrete sense that there are at least a handful of people who primarily justify their choice to avoid or leave California in terms of the direct or proximate impact of policy (and the cost of that undesirable policy in terms of taxes).
> I don't hear much about Ruby and Groovy lately

They've been overtaken by Python and Kotlin, respectively, as developers' first choice of programming language. Kotlin even runs on Android and natively, whereas Apache Groovy is limited to the JVM.

> I ran into trouble with Ruby's handling of unicode

Ruby's developed mainly in Japan, and Japan's the last holdout in the world against the widespread use of Unicode.
I work at a large organization. My worldwide impact here is literally six orders of magnitude larger than what it was when I was working in a small team in grad school. Large institutions are powerful. This blog post is crazy.
How is that not freedom? Each site owner has the freedom to use google analytics or not, no one forces them to. And each user has the ability to block requests to google analytics if they want, or avoid sites that use it.
This won't happen, because Congress has done its best to try to limit action against corporations by trying to define everything under the sun as 'frivolous lawsuits that are clogging up our courts'.
I’m pretty sure you mean the defense industry, the military industrial complex isn’t the defense industry, it doesn’t make anything ;)

And the solution is far more simpler than you think the domes for the sensor packages are simply better rated, as they are rated for true 99.999% absorption for both UV and IR (beyond FLIR ranges) some of them also have an inner layer that would darken if the light penetrates that deep creating a dark spot that would block the light completely since replacing a dome is cheaper than replacing a cryogenic IR sensor array.

But beyond that you can blind the sensors with most pen lasers as well as damage it with visible light, the reason why it’s not much of an issue is that due to simple physics you won’t be able to focus a beam narrow enough to hit the sensor even atmospheric refraction alone would prevent that from happening and any laser capable of damaging the sensor at the point would likely be able to damage the drone.

The IR dome protection was mostly implemented to protect the sensor if the drone is painted with an illuminated.
It sounds like his main concern is the product disappearing, and Gmail is one of the least likely to disappear.
in this case, the correct conclusion is probably "it's too early to tell". economies can take a while to equilibriate, and the article mention a 1-year timeframe from which they draw their conclusion.

i'd also guess that south korea, while more developed than many countries, is not quite developed enough to extract surplus value from the various value chains its economy participates in. that would matter because their businesses would have less profit leeway to absorb costs like a higher minimum wage in the short term.
In an interview with the New York Time by their chief of HR at the time: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...
I think the point isn't who is really to blame here, but it's that no matter what cell service or tech you use, there are situations where they will stop service because of payment disputes even if you're in the right.
There's a more technical takedown of DNSSEC linked at the bottom of that post.
Holy smokes, that's a pricey modification.
Here is the opposite of that from Netflix's Daredevil. An extended hallway scene. Perhaps a nod to Oldboy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV1Vzn6xwqQ
You could easily filter the media of your choice and find multiple stories similar to this:

>Americans Want To Regulate AI

>AT&T says it’ll stop selling your location data, amid calls for a federal investigation

Both right and left, in the USA, want regulation. Each one challenge that the other's regulation is unnecessary. That doesn't change the agenda over time.

> it's clear Americans seem to favor less government

And the sky is plaid? Some Americans pay lip service (it's easy to trust when you've never been a victim), but the media entertains with court room drama and mockery precisely because citizens, when harmed, expect regulation to prevail.

The history shows the exact opposite and the legal field is orchestrated to be layered (compare the housing code in any city from the 1800s to now, not to mention how land rights are judged). The federal government has dwarfed the local governments. It legally (and in practice) overrides it every day.
> It sounds like his main concern is the product disappearing

but it's a physical product and a service that isn't going anywhere...
I've never been much in to trends like TDD, and just now heard of TCR but it reminds me of a bug that once happened in the GHC Haskell compiler: if your code failed to type-check the source file was deleted. There was some discussion on whether this was a bad thing.

I'm all for things that make you reflect deeply on possible bugs (habits from the days of cards and batch turnaround) before saving/committing, but TCR seems pretty far out there for me.
But, why not? Let's say a (regular) scooter or even bicycle has been sitting on the sidewalk for a couple of days. Is it illegal for me to consider it abandoned and just take it? Consider the case of an item that actually is abandoned. Don't property owners have some amount of legal responsibility to not leave an item in public unlocked? Granted, "unlocked" might be the key. You can't ride a Bird scooter without the app. But it isn't exactly locked in the same way as a bicycle.

[Downvoters: I'm not saying that I think I should be able to grab a Bird off the street, I just want to hear the legal explanation of how this works.]
A Chromecast retails for ~$25. Even if the presiding judge decided to award 100x in 'punitive' damages, that's still $2500, which is far less than what it would cost Google to bother addressing the claim in court.
Bell Telephone Company
> Lower taxes and the growth will somehow give these people more money? Really?

Lowering tax rates can actually increase a country's total tax receipts. Having more GDP not only means more stuff per person, but also more stuff to tax.

That said, the goal of a country is not even to maximize its tax receipts in the first place. Taxes are one way that a country achieves its goals. A country's goals are going to be a mixed bag, anything from redistribution wealth to the poor as you've said, to reducing tax burdens on its citizens.
Funnily enough I happened to read an O Henry story today that is exactly about this:

http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/221/714/17033/1/frameset.html

As is usual with O Henry the sting is in the tail :)
Nobody is arguing that a poor person should be punished less severely for breaking the law.

Instead, the point I am trying to get across is how it feels to be a poor person that receives a more painful punishment relative to a privileged class and the kind of sentiment that would breed among the poorer class.

I am not French so I will not presume to know what the purpose of the Yellow Vest movement really is but it sounds to me like there are economically disadvantaged classes that are tired of being left out in the cold.

This is a matter of empathy, not lawmaking.
It’s not really intelligence, so much as selection pressure in the direction of high margin. Evolution isn’t “intelligence” either, but still leads to interesting or highly honed solutions to problems.
The top post about taxes not mattering references changes that happened in ~5 years.

Changes happen over the scale of decades.

You don't want to make bad policies today that turn your country into the USSR tomorrow.
Looks like they need to send Marie Kondo to outer space!
Is it comparable to almond milk or the other... milks? For lack of a better term. I'd be interested in trying it.
Try Cloudron. https://cloudron.io/blog/2018-04-13-home-server.html
> I worry about that when I die, my domain will expire, and then someone will register that domain and set up email accounts with it.

The good news is that you will be dead, and so you won't be worrying about anything at all.
Golang is garbage collected. I thought due to this, system programmers don't like it.
I agree this can lead to inflation, but the 90's kept it solid even with the boom, right?

The problem with this cycle: wage increase -> cost of labor increase -> goods increase -> wage increase -> inflation is, and here's where I get all Che, a fundamental problem with capital. Unless only some people see their wages increase, it keeps a lid on inflation, because there will always be exploitable labor.

So I go back to the late 1990's: why did the economy boom and wages rise without inflation? Simple: the notion of labor increases driving inflation ignores the fact that very very rich people are taking the bulk of the profits and if they weren't so intent on taking every last penny, then labor costs would NOT be passed on to the consumer.

As long as CEOs feel entitled to unlimited pay, there will always be inflation.
"You'll never get them to fix it."

And, quite honestly, why would they at this point? They have millions of other customers they can ignore, that are still paying. Where are they going to complain? And how would other users in the same boat find such complaints?

It's certainly not right, but there's no strong incentive for Google to change how they're doing business right now.
Unix epoch: the number of seconds passed since 1 January 1970 and storing it as a signed 32-bit binary integer

The minimum representable date turns out to be on 1901 and zero is a valid value (1 January 1970)... I wonder what problems people with that birth date have? Similar to the person named Null, or Bobby Drop Tables?
People share offers all the time on Blind
Sprint support was incompetent, but they were at least as likely to make an error in your favor as not, so you could just call a couple times until you got the result you wanted.

Verizon's support was mediocre, but it idn't take too much persistence to escalate things to someone who could actually make a decision.

The recent stories I've heard of Fi's support make it sound like when something goes wrong, the easiest thing to do is to just open a new gmail account and switch to using that, which is a bit mind boggling.
The response to both dramatically increased taxes (as in South Korea), and dramatically decreased taxes (as in Kansas and the US), would seem to point to the fact that taxes as they affect growth mostly don't matter.
That... that is very ironic. Makes even more sense that growth wouldn't respond to wage increase. Huh.
Good idea. I may have to try that.
Big Pharma shells out $20B each year to schmooze docs, $6B on drug ads
At the very least, they should figure out how to empower somebody in the support structure. This happened to me with that silly Cash app from Square (the Twitter handle is very cutesy in its interactions with people). It seemed kinda cool in how it let us come up with our own handle for people to send us money for our wedding, but left such a terrible taste in my mouth when everyone told me it wasn't working and Square shut down my account with no explanation. Why do millions of people depend on that? I want options like that to exist, but if I really need to depend on people being able to give me money, I'm just going to tell them to send it via my Chase account since for all its problems, Chase is a mature business. Maybe I'd use an Emoji app from Square just to share some giggles with people, but a money app from Square??? Nope, their brand lost my trust at the worst possible moment.
No, it's humans at Google deciding that the financial trade off is worth it. The CEO has the power to change it, but think it's an okay state of affairs.
This is an odd ordering, mostly because of things like devicetree's are pretty arm/linux centric. In which case if your doing arm/linux just find a module you can unload or fail to build into your kernel. Real embedded programming is more like grab a cortex-m0, avr, etc and start bit banging.

OTOH, there is a danger that I've seen frequently that embedded systems guys don't seem to be able to make the conceptual leap to fully paged, SMP programming. Having sort of come up this way myself (via mircocomputers without MMUs and just a single processor) it doesn't make any sense to me, but it seems common.

People who have been exposed to a more common multi-threaded and virtualized environment seem to be able to pick up those pieces easier.
Chromecast Audio is discontinued, not regular Chromecast
AI can diagnose some genetic disorders using photos of faces
I think you more accurately framed it than I did. I threw “basically” in there because it wasn’t 100% nonfunctional, but for my purposes it was significant loss of functionality.
Erupting Black Hole Shows Intriguing “Light Echoes”
The feature that Chromecast Audio had was added to Chromecast just before Chromecast Audio (but not Chromecast) was discontinued.

Be funny if they soon release a new Chromecast that has HDMI and AUX outs; the thing that always confused me about Chromecast Audio was why it needed to be a separate thing, especially after they went to the hockey-puck with a tail rather than stick format for the regular Chromecast.
Suprised to learn that. What can be the rationale for that? Honestly, it doesn't seem to make any sense, if you've already decided on how to proceed, it should be your right to do so (and your problem if you blunder).
This is somewhat interesting, I find it equally interesting that since the 1900s we have exponentially decreased the pollution , especially such particulates such as magnetite with the obiteration of the steel and manufacturing industries. Certainly we need to remain vigilant making certain that we are being responsible.

The most interesting fact in which I came across after following the links and the looking at some miscarriage statistics is that the US (at least) performs more abortions than the reported number of miscarriage.
TABS!!!!
Regular Chromecast outputs to HDMI, Chromecast Audio outputs to 3.5mm analog stereo audio. This (the 3.5mm analog stereo audio) is very much superior for hooking up to speakers around the house.
Why are you judging?
Totally gutted, these are amazing devices and great value. After ‘enjoying’ years of hackery with Squeezebox, I eventually plumped for Chromecast Audio as the hassle-free way to get Spotify plus BBC iPlayer radio controlled via native iOS apps. I can also verify they are capable of bit-perfect optical audio out from appropriate flac source files etc, so perfect for the big speakers. RIP.
Birth of a black hole or neutron star captured for first time
You can't outrun drinking soda all day.

Soda will also give you a 200+ blood glucose spike within minutes, which isn't really possible with other types of foods. That means it's only a matter of time until you get insulin resistance and then diabetes.

Soda is much more harmful than just some extra calories. There's a reason half of America is pre-diabetic or diabetic and it's not because people don't go to the gym enough or don't work in agriculture anymore.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2434682