skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is how I always reasoned about the "human-centric" focus in this context.

I can reason it fairly easily - I'm disturbed that I never even considered the questions
That is annoying. I really believe in a future tech world where you just use whatever device is near you (wall screen, screen on a table in a restaurant, devices in friends' and family's homes, etc. It gets old carrying around devices and chargers.

Maybe Apple won't be the vendor for this.
Quite a few HN threads on that article series when it came out:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=atavist.com%20points%3E30%20ma...
Yes, mostly crap.
While my eBook library is pretty something, the storage costs to rip my movie library onto hard drives would be cost prohibitive. I do keep physical discs of the movies I really enjoy, and generally only buy digital during sales. Most of the "value" in my digital movie collection comes from digital copy redeems.

Vudu does $5 sales all the time, and the way I see it, that's less than a movie ticket. So if I see it once, it was like going to see a movie, but with the theoretical hope of long-term persistence. The fact that MA insulates the risk of losing your titles across every major tech company adds to the comfort level now too, and as noted, nobody is losing their UV library when UV shuts down.
Their jobsite and contractor saws are expensive, but the cabinet saws are priced pretty similarly to other high quality cabinet saws (and SawStops are high quality).
The best thing for me was when I went to India for a week. Because the time zones are almost flipped, I slept while all my news sources were active and vice-versa. I basically just checked my news feed once in the morning and once in the evening and life felt much smoother, even though I was doing a lot of fairly stressful work at the time.

It's basically just a morning and evening edition paper.
> Practically speaking, the UK is completely screwed when it gets to choose who to trade with post-brexit

Despite the best efforts of whoever to run the country down the UK is and will remain a rich, advanced country, a world leader in many areas, still blessed with ample natural resources, one of the world's most attractive countries for inward investment, a significant tourist destination, and with a population that loves to spend its money making it an attractive marketplace. None of these things are going to change just because France has got it's knickers in a twist about no longer being able to bleed the UK dry to fund the stupid common agricultural policy.
NuCwa Metal.TRY IT [xperimental]
It's somewhat basic right now, but I developed a tool that you can use as an additional level of verification that your backups are working.

https://github.com/elliottslaughter/integrity-checker
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You can compile your own browser and install it. People act as if Apple is sending the police if they install an App that doesn't meet Apple's guidelines. Limitations are about the distribution on the App Store.
I certainly hope we don't.

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and the press, including the freedom to make mistakes and even outright lie. There is no godlike authority that can tell truth from fiction without fail, and having government censors telling people what they can say (especially w.r.t. political speech) would invert the relationship between the people and their government, making government the master instead of the servant.

Instead, we rely on an educated readership to identify bias and mistakes and call them out, as has been done here. People get the journalism they deserve. To the extent we're failing to teach our children critical thinking skills, we're putting our democracy at risk.

The NY Times and other resources currently considered "credible" have earned that credibility from the people not through government permission but by generally providing a useful service to its consumers, despite all the mistakes they make and biases they present.

The NY Times in particular has unfortunately been burning through that hard-earned credibility capital at an alarming rate, even long before the current last few years, with the result that there are large portions of the country that no longer trust it like they did, with good reason. More recently they have taken the bait proffered by Trump and his ilk and lowered themselves to his level, spinning most articles I've seen with more political or oppositional bias than in the past.

I can only hope this is a cyclical phenomenon, where the citizenry/readership becomes ignorant of the related history and its challenges, simply because we've lived through a period where the battles were won and we could take such things for granted. Just like our predecessors, this generation is going to painfully relearn that everything printed (or typed) should be taken with a grain of salt and cross-checked against multiple sources.
Perhaps a very naive, question, but:

If someone were smuggling a radioactive weapon into DC, couldn't they just shield it with a lot of lead?

I'm guessing that your small-dog example would have been different if it were in a thick lead crate.
It's a generally bad idea (due to auth options for the watch itself). However it's a great 2nd factor.
Which means...what, exactly? That OP is not allowed to complain about the previous company because he/she works at a different company with its own problems?
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I would make the hypothesis that mass sternly worded emails would have the same desired effect as mass service cancelling.

or to put it another way, I would say that an individual cancelling to telepathically convey their disagreement with a company is just as effective as an individual writing a sternly worded email

or even protesting on the street
You don't understand what parent comment is saying ... it complains Apple's closed environment not allowing of any apps to be installed in anyone's phone unless app is downloaded from AppStore.
Lots us are fed up with seeing almost daily posts about the dodgy behaviour that Facebook employees get up.

The solution would be for Facebook employees to stop doing this kind of thing on an almost daily basis.

If Facebook the corporation can't or won't control its behaviour because its first loyalty is to maximise shareholder value then it's up to various governments to get together and sort out some kind of regulation.
I just hope they haven't awoken a sleeping giant. Facebook has enormous capital and engineering capacity. If they decided to have their own app store and/or phone ecosystem, their brand might position them as a viable competitor to Google or Apple. But would we be better off for it?
A more prudent stategy, I think, would have been for the sniper to change position. As they say in the military - proper planning prevents piss-poor performance.
I would love to see as a sample a two week-old version of the deals so I could understand what I am paying for.
Canonical's Web and Design team use Kubernetes to deploy their sites
> Tanks began to fire 120-millimeter canister rounds (in essence, shotgun-type rounds that, once fired, open into hundreds of tiny pieces) down streets from their main guns.

Are the resulting pieces effectively flechettes but lawful?
>failing NYTimes casts FUD on vaporware
>Frontpage of HN
sounds about right
AIUI Intel TME sits in the memory controller, same for MKTME. Therefore memory protection as usual protects access, and any read/write requests made to the IMC will have it use the correct keys for en/decryption. The IMC doesn't care/tell where those requests came from.
It seems like there's something getting lost here. A lot of comments and even articles make it sound like Apple is retaliating against fb at random, which is not true. FB had an internal app agreement with apple to distribute apps to it's employees. Probably this one: https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/

They violated the terms of the agreement, and therefore the have lost access. They also probably violated the terms of the app store as a whole, but who knows.

Whether or not one should have to be part of that program to install Enterprise apps is a different issue.
Cold fusion is now possible?
>4. Almost every doctor i spoke to was afraid of ML/AI because it pierced their forced scarcity and threatened their wages. I might argue that Health Disparities are worsened currently because medical boards throttle residency programs and fellowships to create an artificially constrained supply and hence high prices.'

Thank god. The medical cartel needs to go.
I've yet to see it used effective to give us desktop-like GUI's. My experience is SVG lacks common GUI widgets, and text positioning is still inconsistent across browser brand/versions/OS-settings. Downloading tons of JavaScript to emulate typical GUI's gets right back to fat-client problems created by current browser "standards". Maybe someday these weak points will be solved, but so far it doesn't seem ready. SVG is meant to draw pictures, not manage GUI's.
I am prepared for this to be a minority opinion, but I liked FB when I joined and I still really like it. There may be many alternatives, but as someone who grew up with an acoustic coupler modem and an Apple //+, I do not take for granted the fact that I can video chat with friends around the world for free with Messenger. In a time of political and social conflict I am soothed by daily stories of the mundane: a kid doing better than expected on a spelling test, or scoring a goal in soccer; an unexpected meetup with an old classmate; or a selfie of someone going on a hike. I get great recipes on FB.

Many friends have quit FB and reported that they feel better, and almost everyone on this thread is reporting the same thing, so there must be something to it. Honestly though, I have a hard time understanding why looking at a FB feed would bother someone. If it is anxiety over privacy, then absolutely, leaving FB absolutely makes sense. I get the feeling that it agitates people for other reasons though, but I am not sure what those are.
I mean, off the top of my head Samsung is pretty huge and a daily part of life for a lot of people.
I love the touchbar as well, because it allows me to easily change volume (swiping a bar rather than tapping the same button) etc.

However, the ESC key is also on the touchbar, which makes using vim pretty annoying.
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Hi,
Please criticize and destroy my startup ideas.

I’m developing a project-based learning app to help low income students get access to high paid jobs by using a peer to peer curation and reward system then charge recruiters a monthly fee for connecting with students.
ReactJS Easy State (https://github.com/solkimicreb/react-easy-state) is a practical state management library with two functions and two accompanying rules.

1. Always wrap your components with view().

2. Always wrap your state store objects with store().

import React from 'react'
import { store, view } from 'react-easy-state'

const counter = store({
num: 0,
incr: () => counter.num++
})
export default view(() => <button onClick={counter.incr}>{counter.num}</button>)

---

This release adds support for the upcoming React hooks.
Just a note, there is a difference between setting fires manually to tracks and permanently installed switch heaters:

https://metrarail.com/about-metra/newsroom/the-signal/fighti...
Here’s one example: http://copleydc.net/copleydc_staff/Cantlupe/cantlupe_1-27-04...

Aside, google has gotten worse than useless. In a first ever I had to scroll through a full page of cancer treatment ads. Zero organic results on the first page. Even then it needed careful tweaking to get Google off the “treatments for cancer” train of thought.

Was not able to find the dog story I remembered. Google wants to show me either national security or cancer treatment but not the intersection.
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They already tried their own phone ecosystem. I'm not saying that they shouldn't/can't try again, but it seems like Facebook's hubris is their worst enemy.
I listen to audio books and pod casts using my Apple Watch and Airpods - I am happy to report that this works great.
>When it gets to be several degrees below freezing, the metal of the train tracks can contract to the point that it will pull up the bolts holding it in place, or even stress fracture.

This is bad reporting. This is nothing new, and happens every winter. It is only necessary to manually light them up with a kerosene soaked rope when repairing a piece of track.

As should be obvious, below-freezing temperatures happen every year in Chicago, and train tracks need to be repaired even in the winter.
Cadr city
I get the impression that most people arguing in favor of the 3 laws have not actually read I, Robot. There are many places in pop culture that the laws appear, so it's not impossible that someone might quote them devoid of context.

To catch people up: I, Robot is a collection of short stories largely follow either (a) robopsychologist Susin Calvin or (b) robotics engineers Powell and Donovan as they attempt to diagnose anomalous behavior by examination of the 3 laws of robotics, highlighting the logical flaws and traps of these simple laws. A secondary theme is the use of robots as a mirror or lens through which particular human behaviors can be blown up and examined, largely through the absence or magnification of particular traits.

In universe, the 3 laws are considered to be practical engineering safeguards (and eventually, over hundreds of years, a fundamental building block to the function of the positronic brain)-- even as they are shown to the reader to be the origin of many conflicts.
> Well, there’s the minor issue of Iran’s totalitarian regime consistently announcing their intent to destroy Israel and devestate the U.S.A, and taking actual steps to support the same.

Be wary of the narrative the media feeds you. There is a lot of spin on what is actually said in Iran and what is reported. For example:

https://www.quora.com/Did-Irans-former-president-Ahmadinejad...

This was later revisited by WaPo:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/did-a...
Hmm, really? I subscribe to the print magazine and I'd say every article has at least one worthwhile story.
Check out "How to design programs" (the second edition is said to contain significant improvements). Book is available for free online.

It's discussed once every while on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=htdp
The things I find really fun are things that my coworkers have expressed seem tedious to them. For example, I work in a very large code base, and I enjoy various refactoring and integration tasks. It forces me to debug and learn the code, and at the same time when you get a nice engine upgrade from the dev line in for a certain package/module/whatever it feels like an accomplishment which will make our life easier in the future. I like various other cleanup and test related tasks for largely the same reason - feels like you're improving stuff for the long term.
And... their stock is up.
The whole article is based on the x in Linux being wrong because Unix should have been called Unics seems thin.
The 2017 interview with Kernighan makes it sound like it was Unix from very early on.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7035
Let's apply modern interpersonal morality to this and see what happens.
Perhaps they've finally made it illegal, but I remember plenty of complaints from people about 800 numbers that were scams that charged to your phone bill when you called them, even if accidental. I remember being surprised at the time because I thought all 800 numbers were free by design.
> There's nothing deeper to uncover.

For me, at least, you're coming at it from the other direction.

I'm not really asking "why" in the "how did this come to be" - the answer to that is rather self obvious. I'm asking "why" in the "is this objectively actually correct? Is this how I want things to be?" - which have no answer, but the effort of trying to find one can uncover plenty of deeper ideas.
Jep, lot of shortcuts to make it run at 60 fps. It's most likely not very scientifically accurate.
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I don’t like Facebook either, but personal attack’s are not acceptable on this forum. Isn’t being able to talk to someone who works for Facebook better than not being able to talk to them at all? Why would this person continue to post if they know they will just be attacked?
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Dark energy is getting stronger, a study suggests
That's why I don't buy iPhone. But I keep blaiming so that I can use iPhone after it is resolved.
I think that the lack of capital investment you're describing can be thought of as a particular instance of the economy of scale (at least, broadly construed): larger and/or conglomerated companies, prima facie, have to depend less on capital injections.
> had to be targeted with air-delivered, precision-guided bombs or Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rounds that could penetrate the buildings’ layers of concrete.

Wow, I'm very not used to reading military text. They write "a concrete-penetrating option" but they mean "we blew up the building and everybody inside it".

I truly wonder how many innocent lives could be saved if military people would start writing honestly.
Describing this as 'radical' (in the actual title of the article!), 'impressive', etc. says more about the current worldview of western democracies on basic humanitarian solidarity than it says about Colombia.
Bit harsh dude. He admitted he was wrong and even wrote a post about it. That's very honest, and something we should commend.
> How would you manually test in a situation like that?

IMHO, You can't. We did in fact just hope it doesn't break in production.

But then, the article says just do it, so maybe there was a better solution we overlooked.
But that isn't nearly as exciting of a clickbait headline as "setting fire to railroad tracks on purpose".

I would be interested if any Metra folks could chime in as to why induction heat isn't used instead of open gas flames.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5389766A/en (rail snow-melting by electromagnetic induction heating)

http://indheater.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpQi0DEcGWs
Thank you, I appreciate it!

Part of the problem is that the media loves writing outrage stories. Training your own replacements is a perfect story for that. A journalist will write that story. Every. Single. Time.

Take the story "this 40 person team with 3 H1-B employees, is now a 400 person team". Each of those H1-B employees created 10 jobs + some extra jobs at other companies. This (roughly) has happened to me twice, there will never be a news article about that.

The original bit was just a plea to not use the intuition we get from news stories, and look to economists instead.

This kind of thread attracts people who are very easily influenced by outrageous media stories like that. They are very confused. It seems so obvious to them that we could just stop immigration and stop bad things from happening. They are super angry that no one is doing anything to solve this obvious problem. What they don't understand is that really no one is fixing it because when you look closely it's not a problem at all.

HN can be a place were people think about real hard problems and talk about how to solve them, I hope it can be more like that. (This is a fake problem.) The world needs people who face up to reality and try to improve it.

Your coworkers, company, customers, friends, and family are all greatly improved by your work and presence. Long term I hope that wins out.
Argentina is and always will be very welcoming of immigrants: it's in the introduction of our constitution.

"...secure the benefits of freedom, for us, our posterity and for all men of the world that wish to inhabit Argentinian soil..."
That's just not true though that a miter/band saw are any replacement for a table saw.

Let's say I pick up some 2x4 and want to get rid of the round edges so it's pretty darn square. Are you suggesting to run an 8 foot 2x4 through a band saw to remove the 1/4" edges? First you need a damn good band saw to even attempt this.. you wouldn't have any decently long fence really. And even if you set this up all perfect, there's no way it's going to be even close to a straight cut.

Handheld jig like you saw could kind of do it, but my god that would be an awful cut even with a straight guide.

Ripping boards is basically impossible to do well without a table saw.

I agree a lot of other stuff can be sort of done with alternatives, but no where near the speed/accuracy. And if you do any woodworking, you know how much that matters.. if you don't get good cuts you end up taking forever trying to fix everything.

Anyway.. I hate using table saws, and do try to avoid it. But there are some tasks where it would be ridiculous to not use one.
> you have to accept it

No we don't, we can choose not to accept it and to speak out against it. It's abhorrent behavior and shouldn't be tolerated in a modern society.

Many of the world's greatest atrocities began with apathy. It's so easy to look back and wonder how on Earth people accepted the behavior of the powerful that descended to tyranny, but looking into the future is much more difficult, and often, much more uncomfortable.
I don't think reddit is a primary channel for kids so probably not, unless you specifically go into a reddit where it is known that a lot of children frequent and advertise there.
I run similar services covering the Vans shoes (https://vaultexplorer.com/) and "parts to build drones with" niches (https://rotorratings.com/). I run them on $5 Digital Ocean droplets.
If you're on a list[1].

"Waymo One is only available to a small group of consumers who also participated in the early rider program."

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/281776-waymo-launches-co...
I believe the patent expires in 2021, however I'm sure their lawyers will likely find a way to extend it well into the future.
Regarding s-expressions, there are some perfectly reasonable alternatives ( http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html )

For example:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sweet/index.html

https://www.draketo.de/proj/wisp/

Although I prefer to embrace the s-expressions :)
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The Bosch system has been banned from the US for patent infringement.
a JAM sniper occupied and fortified one of the few five-story buildings north of the Gold Wall was being constructed and at a key intersection where he was able to engage the wall-building team. Direct fire placed on the building did not affect the sniper’s fortified position. 1-68 CAB’s solution was to drop the building using the GMLRS.

There's companies that are researching or selling very precise indirect fire weapons. Basically, they're like the smart naval turret guns scaled down to around 20 or 30mm. You can fire a shell through a window and tell it to explode just inside. One of these on an APC, perhaps? (For all I know, these weapons were present, but the building was also fortified against them.)