skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Completely disagree. I want the facts, backed by people who know the situation. I do not want “fair and balanced.” Not all sides have equal grounding and I’m tired of this false equivalence.

However, it's more subtle that that. It is a fact that so-and-so holds this-or-that position or belief, even if that position is wrong or incorrect. Those kinds of facts should be reported on, especially when they encode the beliefs and position of a major politician or political faction. A reporter also cannot outright contradict such a person, except in very clear cases, without seeming partisan, so they have to juggle with the prominence or try to inject a more authoritative counterpoint.

It's a hard line to walk, even when newsrooms were fully staffed.
Another example of how flexibility can hurt a platform, from the Android world, is Samsung's Knox, which creates a very Command and Control "IT-friendly" layer for work purposes on Android, and in doing so kills the platform's usability because all apps from the mail client to the keyboard were selected by IT with no thought towards usability.

We have Knox on work Android devices, but because our IT team also offer iOS, people just choose iOS, because it results in a nicer experience.

Letting other people root your system to accomplish something is great for flexibility and gives you short-term wins. But it can result in massive damage to the platform if left unchecked -- kind of like how OEMs turned Windows into a hellish experience with pre-installed apps like WildTangent Games and the like. End-users won't blame the IT department or the OEM, they'll blame the platform.

This is already happening on Android today. There's a reason Google's Pixel marketing hardly ever mentions "Android".
I would love to live in a tiny house because I don't need much space and it seems like such a waste to pay for a big house to heat and cool. Plus, as someone who bought a house in 2007 right before the recession, I don't really think of a home as an investment. It can be, but the timing can also be risky. So I'd rather have a small house and invest my money elsewhere, and not waste all that energy and money to maintain a big house I don't need.

The problem is I also want to live close to work. So it's all about trying to find that balance of cost, space and proximity that makes it all very difficult.

But the issue just isn't as simple as people "accepting lower standards of living".
I shared because it's the only thing I've seen that approaches the port density in the article.
It's also a French habit of pretending things are french. Specifically in the context of comics, it's at least Franco-Belgian (there's also a large culture of comics published in Dutch, which warrants its own genre these days).

Anyway, I leave it to the Germans to set the record straight on the smart-card.
(and to the Polish to set the record straight about Marie Skłodowska)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_comics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
I moved from the UK to [redacted] last summer (yes due to Brexit before you ask) and they do indeed take comic book and related things very seriously.

You are never far from a place selling comic books, graphic novels, trading card games, action figures and such.

Another thing I find different to what I am used to is how they all still buy DVDs and Blurays. Not just the odd one here and there but regularly and have a pretty impressive collection. What I find interesting is that they have good internet here. I got 1Gbit fibre with a whole host of extra (TV package, landline, SIM with 50GB data) for €55/month. And it has been perfect since I got it installed a few months back. I would have thought with such fantastic internet access they would all be using streaming services but nope they love their physical discs!

Edit: And not just movies but full TV show boxsets. Those are like €100-200 !!

I sat down to work out the value difference between a few streaming sites and how much they pay for physical media and streaming is way cheaper as DVDs and Blurays are not cheap! I know you can sell it on but it seems nobody does. They are often given away! It is quite alien to me.
Woody Allen, Aziz Ansari to an extent, Brett Kavanaugh, Dr. Luke.

Derrick Rose lost over a million dollars in sponsorship dollars, Kobe Bryant lost over a million too. The list goes on and on.

All those people lost a large amount of money, and reputation was seriously hurt by one accusation.
Hikikomori
Are you in the US? We have Sudafed with pseudoephedrine in the UK.
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Apple apologizes for FaceTime bug, says server fix coming next week
> The problem with the large catalog on sites like Amazon is that it's impossible (at least for me) to sort through it if you are just browsing.

That could have something to do with Amazon's sorting/searching features, which are so bad that the results are often comical, with random unrelated results intermixed with the thing you're looking for.

Default sorting is by the "Featured" variable, which probably means 'makes most money for the seller', rather than something that actually benefits the searcher. This is a guess, it is not defined.

I think they maybe, finally, let you sort items when you're searching outside of a specific category now, but that's a relatively recent development.

It doesn't help that less than scrupulous Amazon sellers are constantly changing products around so that reviews don't line up with the product description. That widget you've found with 100 five star reviews, well, it turns out that the reviews were for a different product, but you can't tell unless you go read enough of the reviews to figure that out.
Good article. So many armchair "physicists" in the comments it's hilarious.

I'm rather confused by how many got thrown by her comment about dark matter & assuming an unspecified "fluid", somehow they didn't realize she was just making a reference to the formulation of the original definition of "dark matter".
They're selling rights to data. They're not producing work or materials for hire. Anywhere I or anyone else has made this point you haven't responded.
Unrelated: Why the hell is it so hard to find somewhere in the US that sells an Arzach tradeback? It's the most famous work by arguably one of France's most famous comic books artists, and it's almost impossible to find outside of France.

I saw it once at a Virgin Records store in Beirut, Lebanon, and I'm kicking myself that I didn't grab it then.
Japan's modern-day hermits: The world of hikikomori
huh, in the US they added PE to the phenylephrine type.
Since Google has a much larger bankroll than you, if they decided that they wanted prickledpear.com, wouldn't you have to sell it to them, or any other party with deep enough pockets?
Didn't Trump complain about FED raising rates and hurting the stock market?

Wouldn't the gold standard tie down central banks ability to do quantitative easing/low interest rates thing that they did after 2008?
Thanks! I need to look into that.
You can still get Sudafed with pseudoephedrine. You just have to show id (if you are in the US).

https://www.sudafed.com/adult-products/congestion/sudafed-12...
So "real world" is an apt description, huh?
It also underestimates the difficulty of finding such pairings to begin with. Most people seem to have trouble finding a 1:1 pairing that is long-term stable and desirable. Four adults, as depicted in this story, would presumably require at least twelve long-term stable pairings. That's ... incredibly unlikely. Not impossible, but hardly something I'd expect to become a widespread social trend.

There's a reason this traditionally happens in situations of consanginuity: there are strong per-existing bonds that are considered non-negotiable due to existing social structures.
> The appeal of buying books online is not just the price, but the available of a larger catalogue.

That's part of it, but the price is a lot of it, too. I rarely go to bookstores anymore, even for books that I know I'll find there, because the books are more expensive than at Amazon.
The problem is that suspending one's ability to think clearly by preventing them the silence to do so can have as great an effect on mental illness as isolation.
> Increasing and broadening the base of the estate tax would be a good move.

> Increasing the highest bracket of the income tax would be a good move.

How many times do we have to go over this? This would just make more companies and very wealthy individuals move their operations overseas or evade taxes. Income inequality is often a natural part of a large, growing economy like the United States.

Furthermore, I don't even view income inequality as a problem. Poverty is a problem. People having more money than other people isn't. We should focus on eliminating poverty, not eliminating rich people.
This seems fantastic!
Is it true that when the magnetic field flips suddenly, plane autopilot systems can become confused and crash out of the skies, killing millions en mass?
America Plans to Withdraw from 1987 Nuclear Treaty with Russia
Hmm, I never get this reaction, I suspect it has to do with the thousand-yard stare that fairly clearly conveys, "I'm way too sick to care about your judgment cuz I ran out of Sudafed and now I'm dealing with you."

I can't imagine one giving me any actual lip, but my escalation strategy there is to look them dead in the eye and ask them whether they're going to give me my perfectly-legal cold remedy or not.
Amp rendering maybe? https://youzicha.tumblr.com/post/181657051514/my-favorite-pa...
But the GPD Pocket have the trackpoint. There is also a Pocket 2 and a new one still on design.
I seldom use my Kindle anymore but I bought Infinite Jest a few weeks ago and immediately regretted not having dusted my old Kindle and bought the digital version instead. These large books are cumbersome to handle and carry around.

For shorter books I agree that paper is superior, I don't have to worry about damage, battery level or theft, I can easily borrow and lend them (I think you can do that with Kindle nowadays but it can't be as convenient as lending a physical object).
Some of us (I assume OP is one of them) think that since your screen won't be large anyway, there is little point to having a screen bigger than your preferred keyboard size.

And since your battery won't be large enough to support compiling LLVM in reasonable time anyway, it's better to just get used to do CPU-heavy stuff by ssh-ing to a rackmount somewhere use the laptop for terminal-ish tasks.
What links AI and elephants?
Cycle time is a hugely useful metric - how long does it take the team to go from idea to the user being able to actively use your change.

This can be bracketed if needed - if you have issues with product you can just take it from the time the team pick the work up to when it it delivered. If you are bound by a release cycle - then you can just take it until the code is packaged up ready to release - but both of those brackets hide inefficient parts of the flow.

I'd steer away from developer commits etc - and look more at other measures of quality - how many bugs do you have (live bugs) in your various priority types an how long is their average age.

Some starters for ten.
The location-based filtering is easily evaded. It doesn't check your IP address, just uses the HTML5 geolocation API, which is client-side. In Chrome, it's very easy to spoof your location. Open DevTools, click the three dots, click Sensors, input coordinates of a valid location (Lat: 40.7128, Long: -74.0060 works for me), hit enter, and reload. Chrome will then spoof the location to New York, and I have been able able to watch New York videos despite not being there.
Global Wealth Report 2018 [pdf]
When there's a hurricane incoming during the season, I check more often than that, at least every time the NHC has a new advisory. I imagine severe weather events cause huge surges in activity, it's probably not normally distributed throughout the year.
I signed up for NYT and canceled the next day.

After becoming a paying customer they do not remove the ads from apps, pop ups on the website, etc etc. I was annoyed so I decided to cancel. The cancellation process was also quite annoying. Couldn't just do it through a form, I had to chat or call. I was on hold in the chat room for 35 minutes before someone got on and asked me what I wanted. At that point I was quite annoyed.

The person in chat was perfectly friendly and handled the rest of the cancellation process swiftly.

I am happy to pay for content but I'll be damned if I am going to pay and still be subjected to popups and ads between every paragraph.
I have no idea what that site is, but this is the introduction:

This is a shift of the earth's crust with respect to the earth's core generated north and south magnetic poles. Earth's magnetic poles are created by the flow of ions in the earth's core and is somewhat closely aligned to be parallel to the axis of rotation. We expect about 90 degree shift of the crust as planet-X passes earth's orbit on its way through our solar system. The new North Pole will be off the coast of Brazil and the new South Pole is off the coast of India. It is associated with lots of other earth changes before, during and after the pole shift. See the following description for more details.
Ha, I love that you were a childhood product designer for home computers. I used to do similar for cars, lots of arrows with text descriptions of what the "novel" parts were.

Wonder what things other people did? I know of people who were obsessed with inventing dinosaurs, and monsters/aliens.
Replacing Heroku Review Apps on Non-GitHub Projects
Lol, ok nyt as you post state depatment propaganda to support us military action in Latin America. I hate the NYT and their sanctimonious bs while they support coups and dictators around the world.
Hey, that's a great project – thanks for sharing!
A viral video and pet lemurs on Twitter
The article doesn't mention it but surely the fears disappeared post-Challenger with the abandonmnent of thoughts to use Vandenberg as a high inclination launch site and the refusal to ever again fly with the Centaur upper stage in the cargo bay.

As an aside my first boss in the computer industry retired USAF detested Shuttle because it wasn't fulfilling a military mission that he thought it ought to fulfill. Strange times. Was great living in Indialantic and viewing the launches.
One more sin I would add here would be using too little paddings in general. If you have enough space, try to double (or 1.5x) all of them and you will probably see an improvement.
My guess is there's way too much stuff in terms of I/O for this form factor to even be feasible.
There's no denying that the "online" catalogue will always be larger than what a physical bookstore can have in stock.

My point is rather than in France the advantages offered by the physical bookstores (namely, its friendly employers) outweighs that, in part because the online marketplace doesn't have a price advantage. Of course, in the end it's a matter of sensitivity to various criterias, stock definitely being a relevant one !
Had the same experience.

Side note, taking pseudoephedrine HCl has been an absolute lifesaver for me when I have terrible sinus pressure on planes. If you Google for "relieve sinus pressure on plane" or something similar, most of it is stuff that won't help when you're already in pain. I always take an ibuprofin and the real deal sudafed to open up my sinuses and relieve the pain, it works pretty well.
ForecastWatch, a company solely dedicated to analyzing the accuracy of weather forecasts, has a good study available: https://www.forecastwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/High_Temper...

You can also check accuracy for your local zip code (in US) at: https://www.forecastadvisor.com/

tldr: for the best US consumer weather forecasters the mean error on high/low temp for 1-5 day forecasts is around 3F and they hit within 3F within 70% of the time.

7-day has declining accuracy and 10-day is not much better than statistical analysis on historical trends.
> Toting a kindle is as big a pain as a book

A kindle is 0.36" (9.1mm) thick. It has the dimensions of a tiny 100-page book I have right here on my bookshelf. Fair enough if you only read books of that size, but even Harry Potter gets massive.

It's also much less fragile than a book. It seems indestructible. Meanwhile my backpack alone turns out to be a book-cover destroyer before we even get into lending books out.

I think most people here would agree that books are bulky and fragile, so it's weird to hear someone suggest that books have these advantages over an e-reader.

One killer feature for me is that e-readers have a backlight so I can read anywhere. E-ink lets me read in the sun. The backlight lets me read without an external source of light. It's a massive convenience. And the battery charge lasts weeks.

It's fair enough if you don't think e-readers are worthwhile to you, but it's in your best interest to figure out why it's not "a solution in search of a problem" for the people who buy them. A better angle is just to ask people why they like something and they'll happily illuminate the mystery.
This is beyond creepy. Words fail me.
You can use this site to compare the different models using statistics.

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/STATS_vsdb/
So don't use Google? It's their website, they are allowed to remove whatever they don't want from there. The beauty of the internet is that you can build your own blog, your own social network, your own ad network, your own congresists. We have the tools to do it. If there exists such an article then that means there's an opportunity to build those things.
Got it, that was the main missing link that I was looking for. Devices are frequently phoning home to get an updated certificate revocation list.
> The US has passed 40% of births to unmarried mothers [1], so we're approaching a default family of 1 adult.

The parents being unmarried doesn't mean that the father is out of the picture.
I love the thought experiment however putting all those connectors in there + a decent battery is not going to be simple (if even possible at all).
People who looked at these gravestones also bought these zombie movies.
During holidays, I typically read a book every 3/4 days, so a 2 week break means 4-5 books read, and having a kindle-like device is really helpful for me ^^
Net neutrality heads to court today. Here’s what to expect
Do they still do that? I thought that was a 90's thing.

Also known as a "Squash Match".

If pro wrestling can move on from them, maybe news media should too!
I'd vote for getting a disposable laptop with good enough hardware to do most sysadmin things. A 2006/7/8 macbook isn't a bad choice IMO since it has all the standard ports. It supports two disk drives and the keyboard works OK.

If you poke around you can usually get one in the $20-40 range. No USB-C or large processing power, but if you're mostly networking into other computers it shouldn't really be a bottleneck, right?
I actually took the time to calculate this a while ago - basically, angular resolution drops off pretty much exactly as 1/(angular distance) from the center of focus, and the total angular size of the human visual field is only so big (and is measured). The actual answer is closer to 1 megapixel at any given time.
How to Install Armbian on the Asus Tinker Board
How to Be Successful on Etsy: Effective Tips for Taking the Cake
These are not the robots you're looking for. You can go about your business.
Suddenly, after 25 years, that message makes sense! Thank you!
What’s keeping drone startups from taking off?
It seems widely accepted that drones have significant applications in package delivery, health care/emergency response, site mapping, etc. So why aren’t they widely used today? Is it because of regulatory barriers? A lack of profitability? Are there technological hurdles that are yet to be resolved? Ease of use problems? What are your thoughts?
SpaceX simplifying Mars rocket design, aiming toward lunar tests first
This scheme has the advantage of it not mattering if something is active. Instead you pay fees based on what it's worth to you.

If someone is squatting on a high-value domain, they will have to pay high fees or sell the domain to someone who can make better use of it.

This prevents someone else from squatting on google-search.com and allows it to go to the highest value use -- protecting Google's brand.
It's not that simple. I just recently switched back from Android to iOS, and it's so much more convenient to have Amazon forced into the App Store than to have it constantly asking for me to temporarily change my security permissions so it can sideload its apps.

I did my best to never upgrade it before, to hopefully send some kind of signal to a PM somewhere inside Amazon, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What money did Brett Kavanaugh lose?

For that matter, what did Woody Allen lose? He has still been making movies.
Yes, that is the problem I mentioned in the original comment that I'm not sure how to solve :)
Sounds like an interesting model for an agency. Have you written about this?
How do you finish big side projects?
the gold standard is going to wreck havoc for most Americans. this isn't a good thing.
It's not the 100k hours. It's the very large odds they will have been for nothing, and picking up whatever is left of your life after.

That's an interesting take. But my experience is that there is a non-negligible set of people who would see a lifetime spent working on their chosen problem to be well-spent, even if they don't eventually succeed.
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Yeah, I was going to say that, they did changed the nome (sort of) in the US and you can still get the real stuff, you just have to submit to all sorts of privacy breaches and uncomfortable interactions.
If you have a chance, a few of these satellites are on display at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, OH. Last time I was there I took a few pictures of the KH-7, KH-8, and KH-9.

https://imgur.com/gallery/P89GME7
Feds secretly ship plutonium to Nevada to meet South Carolina court order
Occasionally to the "thanks for your service" I sometimes reply "it's fine, I volunteered for myself". Just to see their reaction to the honesty, especially in the face of their lip service reply. (Rather how off norm replies to "hi, how are you" are treated).
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I'm on one right now, it has magsafe (good), 3.5mm (good), 2 usb and a thunderbolt

I'd rather it was a little thicker and had two ethernets and a second thunderbolt, but aside from that it's a great alternative to a chromebook. I wouldn't do real work on it though