skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Size isn't the first thing I'm willing to forgo, but until there's another phone (Android or otherwise) that eschews the user-as-a-product model I'm sticking with the Apple ecosystem. Before Apple, I had a BlackBerry Z10 which I liked quite a lot. Unfortunately my friend's kid broke the screen.

Of course I'm not convinced Sony's learned anything from putting rootkits on their music CDs either.
Backblaze is great. But their desktop backup solution for $5/month is not available beyond Windows and MacOS. Their B2 storage is via duplicity, but that quickly exceeds $5/month with typical storage cases.
I read the domain name as Tyre Tool.
I spent some time in Eagle Alaska and it was much like this. The nearest cell tower was 4 hours away. The only internet access was via satellite, and it was extremely slow, expensive, and latent. The only feasible way to get any work done was by mosh-ing into my DO droplet. You start to really miss music and podcasts. Such an adventure tho, would do it again in a heartbeat.
Over Christmas, I backed up all my stuff to a 3TB external hard drive that I took with me when I visited my parents and intentionally left the drive on a shelf at their house.

This is what I call a poor man's offsite backup.
Social Security is incredibly efficient from an administration cost perspective.
I'd love an SE with a better camera and a "weekend long" battery, meaning I can go camping or whatever Friday evening, come back Sunday night, and use it a fair bit for photos and music and stuff while away. Give it a tough exterior and I'd settle for it being twice as thick as current, and all the associated weight, and pay a premium for it.

I miss having tough phones that lasted for days. All the current tough phones have really really crap specs and run Android that's multiple versions behind, and Apple hardware these days needs to be treated like a newborn baby.
Progress proceeds in fits and starts, but i'd say we're making very good progress.
If open source them trust me someone may take that up and use it. I did. Try to learn something and dig github and find something similar to start with. A basic old turbo bridge program. Just reading it now.
And here is all began....
While True: learn() – Simulator of a machine learning specialist
I can't remember who said it, but someone once compared the outrage over how tech companies use data to Yellowpages. There used to be this free book that had everyone's name, address, and phone number and the only way to opt out was to pay. This is much more egregious act than Google and Facebook; the only difference is the scale.

At least Google and Facebook only take what you give them.
I'm sorry, but I believe you're quite mistaken with the definitions, at least as they are conventionally used (from Bloomberg [1]):

> Active investing is what used to just be called investing — buying or selling individual stocks or bonds.

>...

> Passive investments track indexes, which are groups of securities that are alike in some way.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/active-vs-passive-invest...
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/02/portrait-of-n00b.htm...
This point reminds me of "Portait of a Noob".
For people who understand what the codebase is doing, it's more effective to have as much code on screen as possible.
For "noobs", since you don't know what the code does, less code on screen is better.
Additionally, these 'noobs' like more meta-program stuff like type declarations (or unit tests) which don't actually contribute to the program itself, but provide a safety barrier to prevent things from going wrong.
(Whereas, if you know what the code is doing and it goes wrong, you can just fix it).

It's fair to say "a program not covered by unit tests can still be good enough to get the job done" (& to suggest that this is under-appreciated), but not having sufficient test coverage significantly raises the barrier to entry for those not familiar with the code ("noobs") from contributing.

(EDIT: I wrote my comment before parent's edit)
Link to the paper: https://www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(18)30567-9
TreeSheets (hierarchical spreadsheet: http://strlen.com/treesheets/) has a simple visual programming language that is part of the sheet (doesn't hide formulas): http://strlen.com/treesheets/docs/images/screenshots/screens...
I mean, money is money.

It still makes sense to work at one of these places that pay twice as much as everyone else.
The circumference of Mars is 21,344km around the equator [0].

[0] https://www.universetoday.com/66605/circumference-of-mars/
Hume would have a fit. All scientific knowledge is inductive!
I've never specifically used a Li-Ion pack in my car PC setup, storing it in the heat would worry me a bit, but surprisingly, operational temps in a car aren't bad: If he's using it after he drives it, the car has likely been cooled or heated for driver comfort, and it'll take time after he parks for the temperature in the car to return to "outdoor" levels.
Birds have been observed to eat each other's brains. This article blames it on climate change, but nutrient deficiencies make much more sense: https://www.popsci.com/great-tits-murder-climate-change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4oEM0W6mhM (possibly NSFW/L)
Nuclear power doesn't look that great from a cost standpoint once you factor in decomissioning of the plant after use, storing the waste from both fuel and decomissioning (some of it basically forever), etc. A lot of those have been externalties payed by the government, making it profitable for the operating company, but that shouldn't cause us to build more.

If you used modern cutting-edge designs things might look differently, but anything that is actually being built are updated versions of designs from the 70s. Nobody wants to spend lots of money on research and take the risks with building more radical new designs.
New York state has pumped hydro storage facilities. Any other gaps will be filled by natural gas until utility scale battery storage comes down in price.

https://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/43242.html

https://www.nypa.gov/power/generation/blenheim-gilboa-pumped...

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/12/17/new-york-ups-its-ener...
> But how will they reach critical mass?

Tildes prioritizes quality over quantity.

> How to avoid being popular driving it into trash like most other aggregators?

It's currently invite-only to limit its growth and keep its userbase from being polluted. Later, a trust system will be added for active and trusted users to help moderate it. When it gets opened to the public, it might also limit signups to prevent overwhelming floods of users taking over.

Also see https://docs.tildes.net/overall-goals.
Super interesting. Makes me wonder how much history we'll miss from areas that never freeze. Layers of sediment seem so much more fragile than ice.

On the off chance the author sees this, I enjoyed the article but the overuse of commas did make it a little hard to read.
Microsoft couldn't even get their phone app store to a point where people trusted it and could get the apps they wanted.

I'm cheering for Purism as much (probably more) than anyone, but I think they seriously need to make sure they get this right, and give it the appropriate resources (technical, and people).
You can add custom functions to Excel (e.g., the ribbon) and other Office apps using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). There’s almost nothing you can’t do once you have C# or other .NET languages in the mix (I like to use F#).

One of my collaborators (Ben Zorn) is one of the people featured in the linked article. We’ve been working on visual debuggers (and other things) for non programmers in Excel for a few years now.
>>In a democracy, there are elections where the people voice their opinions and then the elected carry out the policies expressed during the vote.

That would be a democratically elected representative republic, not a democracy.

The EU is not a democracy any more than the US is a democracy, there are democratic elements but it is not a democracy. This is the fundamental lie people tell themselves, that we (either the EU or the US) live in a democracy. We dont.

> Maybe citizens should make a lobbying fund to fight on the public's behalf ?

here in the US we have many such organizations, they are often demonized as well for being "special interest" and are point to as example of problem with "money in politics"
I use Arq to backup, and it’s a lovely little program that isn’t a resource hog, and handles the encryption. I use it to back everything up, a copy to a removable drive, a copy that gets updated every day online, and another once a month online on a seperate server. It seems to work well, and it really is painless,after the initial seeding.
There are two kind of life - swim in the sea and walk the mountain.

Swim in the sea you enjoy but nothing left behind. We call the people good at this guys with wisdom.

Walk the mountain you left a path. If the steps repeated made a path to ease late comer. But if not continue walk the path will be covered and gone.

When you walk you follow path not known who made it in many cases. Or create your own. We call them people of righteous.

Are you a swimmer or a walker?
I have to say that most "Rust is fast" articles I read stop at comparing microbenchmarks written with not much care on performance. I really want to see some comparisons in highly-optimized cases like linear algebra library (Eigen) or game engines with things like stack-local allocators or even using alloca() built upon EA STL/Folly.
The zoning reform that would legalize compact mixed-use neighborhoods could happen right now if people wanted it. One of the main objections is that car infrastructure is already oversaturated. After reducing road capacity, proposals to i.e. legalize shops and offices in currently residential zones would become even less politically viable.
I assume you either told them what it is or are reasonably confident they won't throw away the random thing on their shelf that neither of them know about.

I've seen a few cold backup setups like this, but I would both worry about the significant gap in coverage between the drive you left at Christmas and next time you update your backups. And also the shelf life of mechanical hard drives not in operation is poor.
Are you seriously proposing that having an inner monologue is a side effect of psychosis caused by excessive dietary iron? O.o
Refute the critics, not sue the critics.
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visual studio code and browser are about 50 mb each. That brings a complete web dev setup to maybe 300-400 mb. Oh and I can build desktop apps and mobile apps too with web tools, still never coming close to 10+gb.
One factor is the defense that "XYZ is doing it worse!". Microsoft justifies telemetry by pointing at Google. Amazon justifies 3rd-party sellers by pointing at Alibaba, and sponsored product ads by pointing at Google. Google says they are better at security than other adtech vendors. Each enables the other group members on a collective downward spiral. Where are the incentives for competing in a positive direction?
This is literally what I want, badly.

I recently upgraded my 7 to an 8 because my 7 was too easy to damage - even with a rather rugged case (a simple drop shattered the screen). I'm really uninterested in things like camera upgrades (male, early 30s). After this phone, this will be the first time I seriously entertain a non-Apple product for my computing hardware.

At the usual Apple price point, a military grade phone is what I should expect.
Google Maps will now display speed limits for its Android and iOS apps
Being familiar with the state of women's clothing, you need to bitch at them to increase female pocket size, for that general complaint.
I'll second this. It's not very friendly to beginners, and many people dislike "batteries included" frameworks, which Angular tends to be more than React or Vue does. I use it at work in an Enterprise setting and it's worked well for us thus far and have seen great improvements between Angular 2 and 7 (latest as of writing).
To be fair the approach taken by MIDI for optoisolation (and getting essentially differential interface for free with that) is in fact one big ugly hack.
Would be interested in the fraction of consulting activities that are devoted to maximizing the returns in zero sum games.

Also, have you heard the phrase ‘consultants are hired when the firm needs to fire someone.’ The most important implications are not the firing.
I'm also on an iPhone 7, and don't even really want a premium version of the iPhone SE, I just want an SE-sized phone with water resistance.

If it had nicer specs (e.g. hardware on par with iPhone 8 and a better display) that would a bonus. However, I wouldn't want a high-res display necessarily. I think they should keep the pixel density of the current SE. What I would found after briefly using an SE is that the low-res display coupled with the CPU/GPU from the 6S resulted in amazing UI performance -- much better than the 6S and maybe even the 7. Getting rid of the bezels would be nice, though that might detract from one of the advantages of the SE, that you can firmly grip the phone while being able to touch any part of the screen with your thumb, but it would be worth the trade-off I think.

I spent a week with an SE, after having used the 6 and the 6S before doing so, and I found I quickly adjusted to the smaller screen, and could even type faster since there was less finger travel needed (relying heavily on auto-correct).

Battery life on the SE is also great (at least it was for me), and I'd like to see that replicated on a newer small phone, with whatever tradeoff is necessary to accomplish it (e.g. low-res display, thicker phone).
a smartphone equivalent of a nokia 1110.
I switched to Linux about ten years. I basically got tired of having an OS I paid for (in buying a computer) not really be "mine". Lately, I have had few problems installing and running Linux on the various cheap laptops I've bought.

Ubuntu with a Mate GUI "just works", has all the software I need and lacks BS like the Windows 10 interface.

I don't really think there's any objective barrier to using Linux for a significant percentage of people - people who don't need Adobe Creative Suite or similar monopolies. But this is the same population who probably won't both doing something unusual given they have no strong motivation.
> If you’re a serious gamer, Linux won’t satisfy you (yet).

That's moot. Linux gaming today is a lot better than ever before, considering advances in graphics APIs (Vulkan), increasing amount of native Linux games and rapidly improving support for Windows games through Wine, dxvk, vkd3d, including projects like Proton integrated into Steam client and etc.

Many former Windows gamers find it acceptable to switch. So at the very least, give Linux gaming a try and see for yourself.
> religious zealotry

This describes the entirety of the libav initiative from birth to death. Good riddance.
Not surprisingly, for a long time (and to some extent even today) it is often highly classified. That is because the original use was for nuclear weapons which carried more than one warhead and could hit multiple targets (or one target really hard).

That said, these days its somewhat standardized (see this brochure :https://www.moog.com/content/dam/moog/literature/Space_Defen...) Basically a kinetic mechanism, sometimes a spring, sometimes just gas (aka compressed air), is used to give each satellite a 'kick' when it is released. Once the satellite is unfolded and oriented it can use an on board thruster to move itself to the proper orbit.
i work as developer with mainly with nodejs, mongodb, mysql, reactjs and i dont have a degree. Most of the developers i know have no degree either. Have a degree is a really good plus for interviews but is not required.
Leave the books, though. Maybe organize them on shelves, but don't go tearing out pages, and don't throw them out.
PlowTO Map – real time visualization of Toronto's snowplows and road conditions
How many kill by miliary weapon vs car? Can car kill? Can car be a weapon?

Would car used by x to kill?

Can car be remotely controlled — randomly, by target or massive used ... to kill?

Would anyone interest to hack then ?
So all we had to do was label housework spiritual, call it by another name, and it's cool again?

Neatness re-branded, I suppose.
That's a pretty good and useful point. I don't sell software (just use what I write), so I'm not worried about encrypted binaries at the moment. If I was actually selling software though I probably would be. The GPL has always been a double-edged sword to me. Sure it is nice and free as in beer and freedom, but it can also essentially mean that it is a complete no go.
"His core defense: That massive, unexplained increase in hydropower capacity wasn’t a modeling error; it was a modeling assumption. He assumed that the U.S. could simply add turbines on existing dams such that they could deliver 15 times more instantaneous capacity, even though total flows for a year would remain constant"

This seems like a pretty big error. Enough for me to be unsure of the paper linked here.
Connected car tech is eroding personal privacy (2016)
I’m actually really tired of people acting like the world is ending because ML algorithms can be tricked. The only time this will result in actual danger is self-driving cars, and military applications, hardly a world ending crisis. Other than that it’s a user sending bad inputs to a search algorithm or natural language classifier, neither of which will actually result in anything other than a wrong result for the end user. Adversarial examples are an interesting research area to make ML more robust but hardly the world-saving pursuit it’s proponents make it out to be.

Edit: the real security crisis is the massively non-secure web which our entire society depends on and which we are going to connect everything to
>1. Pick a distro.

>2. Put the distro on a thumb drive or DVD so you can boot to it from there.

>3. Create a partition big enough for the Linux distro.

>4. Install the Linux distro in the partition.

>5. Configure Linux so you can use it on a daily basis.

I think there's a critical step missing from this list, which applies to the 'non-techies' reading the post.

(At first I wasn't going to post this, thinking that the article was only for technically-minded people, but the author calls out notes for non-techies at various points.)

The critical step is: Tell your support person, and your other users!

Many people have a support person. At work, this is your IT person. At home, this may often be a family member. For example, I am the support person for my father.

If you have a support person, let them know what you would like to do. Point them to the article, and to the other pages that you're looking at.

Be respectful of your support person's time. It will take at least an hour to go through all of the above steps; longer if something doesn't go exactly right. If you do this out of the blue, run into a problem, and have to lean on your support person unexpectedly, understand that you will be taking them away from something else unexpectedly.

Be prepared for your support person to say "If you do this, I won't be able to help you." If they say that, then accept it. If you need to go back to them for help, don't be surprised if they say "You're going to have to wipe everything and reinstall".

Back up your stuff! Do this before making Step 3. Make sure those backups are good.

You may also have other users. If your family shares a machine, then your family members are other users.

Talk to those people. Let them know what is going to happen. Even if you are just adding Ubuntu as a new partition, you must assume there will be a time when you have to leave the computer unexpectedly, another user will come in, and be presented with a weird lock screen or login screen. Walk people through at least the Ubuntu login and lock screens.

Let your other users know, if the machine is locked, restarting into Windows may mean that anything still open under Linux may lose data.

Again, be respectful of everyone's time. If you're the parent, then you can certainly say "I'm doing this tomorrow at 3 PM; come to me first before you try to use the computer after that time.", but if your child then comes back with "I had planned on working on $PROJECT at 4 PM tomorrow", responding with "Well, you should've planned your time better." is BS.

If you're interested in running Linux on your desktop, then you can definitely do it! But please, recognize that (most of) you have people in your life who fulfill either the 'supporter' or 'co-user' role, and they deserve to be brought into the loop.

(Source of rant: I once had my Dad upgrade several versions of macOS in one single jump, on some random weekday. Of course the upgrade took longer than expected, and also the jump of several versions caused lots of UI things to change. That led to multiple unplanned hour-plus-long phone calls in the middle of my workday, as this was my parents' only computer.)
Sony cancelled the XZ4 compact :(

I'm hoping to get the Sharp Aquos R2 compact announced back in November; but it doesn't seem to have hit the market yet. Probably will during MWC 2019?
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I have been using Ubuntu on and off since about 2005. Last year I switched from OSX on a dated macbook to Ubuntu on a newer Dell XPS. On the whole I am happy with the switch: with many of the apps that I use based on electron (slack, atom, mailspring) or directly in the browser (google docs), it is hard to notice the difference. I do most of my work related writing in latex, so this has also not been very noticeable.

I don't like latex slides and I give presentations frequently for work. The only thing that has proved consistently annoying is that LibreOffice Impress is nowhere near as good as keynote.
I heard the XZ4 compact was cancelled. https://www.androidpit.com/sony-cancels-xperia-compacts
Go to Korea or China and you'll see there's no particular correlation between hand and phone sizes. It's mostly cultural.

North-America, Europe and Japan are over-saturated. Markets that are still growing drive the demand for bigger phones, it's really as simple as that.
"Passive investing methods seek to avoid the fees and limited performance that may occur with frequent trading. Passive investing’s goal is to build wealth gradually. Also known as a buy-and-hold strategy, passive investing means buying a security with the intention to own it long term. Unlike active traders, passive investors do not seek to profit from short-term price fluctuations or market timing. "

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/passiveinvesting.asp

Besides, it doesn't make much sense to call someone an "active" investor who literally did nothing with it for 20 years. He wouldn't have even had to account for it on his taxes, as AMZN hasn't paid any dividends.

With the Vanguard index fund, the IRS is going to come looking for their cut every year.