skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This list sounds like it was written by someone who wants to use Apple but needs some justifications not to. I only ever needed one reason to not use Apple products unless I was forced to: They're mostly not good products. The parts that are good are completely obstructed by the bad parts.

For instance, macOS is a stable, supported Unix on slick hardware. That's great! But only at the cost of all the core desktop functionality being complete fucking garbage. The global menu is colossally stupid and it sucks, the Window management sucks, the Finder sucks and the Dock sucks. Everybody knows this except for the people who have made their computing hardware and software choices part of their identity.

That last one was also infamous internally for sucking at the time it came out except in one respect: It marketed well. Oh and that slick hardware that you're being forced to buy is probably outdated before it left the store. Also, you were probably steered directly to the most expensive version of that hardware due to the skimpy lineup that you have to choose from and the lack of upgrade-ability.

Same thing with iOS - you get some great stuff like long battery life and stability, but only at the cost of this little thing we call "freedom" to do what the fuck I want without having to ask my Apple parent.

Seriously - Fuck Apple. They've always been a smug bunch of assholes. If you have to use their products (since they have just enough market share to be annoying) - just buy it used from a non-Apple source. Don't give these assholes your money.
Well Stallman also hates the internet:

4th line on that page is

What's bad about: Airbnb | Amazon | Amtrak | Ancestry | Apple | Discord | Ebooks | Eventbrite | Evernote | Facebook | Google | Intel | LinkedIn | Lyft | Meetup | Microsoft | Netflix | Patreon | Pay Toilets | Skype | Slack | Spotify | Twitter | Uber | Wendy's |
DO visit quadibloc's color page,

http://www.quadibloc.com/other/colint.htm

It is one of those pages that has been around forever and keeps getting better. I was glad to discover it years ago (it had a grey background then, how old does that make me?) and its intriguing re-organizations of the author's own 240 hue color wheel loosely based on the Munsell system,

http://www.quadibloc.com/other/images/240ccf.gif

that is a mighty fine hue base for a color picker. It embodies the author's human perception of color. For example -- compared to raw RGBspace, the massive area of green is relegated to a smaller area, and the small area of violet is expanded. Also the space between red/yellow is expansive enough that once you branch off these hues into tangents of lightness and saturation, you can pick better flesh tones, more vibrant pastels, and fewer 'muck-yuck' tones such as the ones you get most often when you poke randomly into RGB space.
No idea about raw LaTeX, but with Org you can just include it as a source block, and Babel will automatically compile it for you when you do a LaTeX export.
> even for dict, it's just a matter or reading from the left to the right.

How's that? There's no defined "left to right" for a dict.
Contemporary video games are way more on rails and experientially constrained than players know. Basically anything implemented with fair odds will be perceived as unfair to the player. Real life is unfair and players play games to escape to a fantasy world where all that heroic luck you're used to seeing in fiction now applies to them.
>You need to remove the leading double quotes

Sorry, pulled an all nighter, didn't notice. Too late to edit it now.
I used to like these sites, but after doing a bit more design work I've realised they're never enough. You need a bunch of different shades for each colour, a set of neutrals, and set of complimentary colours too (and that's just the colours).

Give me a 30 colour generator then I might be interested
If you're wondering how articles like
"Woman smears menstrual blood on face to show periods are beautiful and powerful" are motivated and end up getting amplified, look no further than The Toxoplasma Of Rage (Slate Star Codex)

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

...

"So there’s a tradeoff here, with X on one side and Y on the other.

X can get everyone to agree in principle that Q is bad, but no one will pay any attention to it.

And Y can get everyone to pay attention to Q, but a lot of people who would otherwise oppose it will switch to supporting it just because they’re so mad at the way it’s being publicized.

At least Y got them to pay attention! They’re traveling up an incentive gradient that rewards them for doing so, even if it destroys their credibility."

...

"People talk about the shift from old print-based journalism to the new world of social media and the sites adapted to serve it. These are fast, responsive, and only just beginning to discover the power of controversy. They are memetic evolution shot into hyperdrive, and the omega point is a well-tuned machine optimized to search the world for the most controversial and counterproductive issues, then make sure no one can talk about anything else. An engine that creates money by burning the few remaining shreds of cooperation, bipartisanship and social trust."
Wasn't aware of that, looks like a nice program. I was pretty deep into some local efforts around opiod abuse and something like this could be instrumental in helping prevent meds pilfering by other people in the household.
Good luck with that: https://abovethelaw.com/2019/03/current-stanford-students-fi...

> You can’t really argue that your degree is not worth what you “thought” it would be, because the “worth” of a degree isn’t of an objective value anyway.
“AWS contributes to Elasticsearch and critics say it's kneecapping competitors?”
That is incorrect for EU countries. The EU, through Directive 2014/92, mandates that banks cannot refuse basic accounts to legal EU residents (unless they believe you're laundering money or financing terror groups).

I live in an essentially cashless country, but even countries where cash is still used would be very hard to live in without a bank account, so that legislation is important.
I had exactly the same experience and I was prepared to criticize because I normally think talk of operators in programming languages tends to add little but confusion and is mostly supported by programmers eager to do clever (i.e. incomprehensible) things.
Begging is a controversial issue in the UK. Our welfare system is far from perfect (and it has been substantially denuded by the current Conservative government) but there are relatively few people who need to beg to survive - primarily non-UK nationals with no recourse to public funds.

The consensus view among charities who work with the homeless is that a) most beggars aren't rough sleepers, b) most rough sleepers don't beg and c) begging primarily serves to fund drug addictions. Though by no means universal, many people in the sector are of the opinion that giving to beggars has a net negative effect by helping to perpetuate addiction. Begging certainly isn't a sustainable solution to the factors that cause homelessness - mental illness, addiction, economic insecurity and a lack of social housing. It is entirely plausible that the diminution of begging by a move to cashlessness could see an increase in acquisitive crime.
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However, this is more complicated if you're not a UK national, and if the Home Office decides you're an illegal immigrant (a process with a deliberate high false positive rate) it can get closed.

https://www.ukcisa.org.uk/blog/6538/Student-banking-Do-you-r... gives a decent overview of the process. It also mentions the unofficial national ID of the UK, household utility bills.
Python discourages using operators for things that don't have anything to do with their original use. If you try to be too clever with it, you run into issues. For instance, comparison operators are chained, so that `x > y > z` is equivalent to `x > y and y > z`, not `(x > y) > z`.

The most radical use of operators in the standard library that I know of is in pathlib, where `Path('/usr') / 'lib' == Path('/usr/lib')`, and I think that got a lot of pushback. It's certainly an outlier.

It fits well with Python's overall approach to readability. If the meaning of your operator isn't immediately apparent from its existing meanings, then it should probably just be a regular old named function or method instead. Python doesn't like DSLs very much.

Programmer-defined operators are certainly useful, but Python went in the other direction, which has its own advantages. C++'s choice to have a fixed set of operators but overload them in a lot of arbitrary ways is probably the worst of both worlds.
Google should put its actions where its mouth is: can I return the device and get a full refund?
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Let me give it a try, from an abstract/Emacs point of view:

Emacs is good for Lisp development, but both “raw” Emacs itself and most of the packaged customization versions (Spacemacs, etc) are fairly ‘opinionated’ about Lisp, and that opinion usually falls close to: Lisp is great, but Common Lisp is a little/some/much too much, so our choices often lean away from CL’s. (Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2, dynamic vs. lexical scope, etc.) This means that you’re customizing in a nearby language, but one that dislikes some of the things that you liked when you chose CL, so there’s some impedance mismatch going on.
That said, you can get a great CL dev environment from Emacs, but you’ll want to install a bunch of add-ons first, probably including a non-Emacs lisp interpreter and a package to bridge Emacs and that other lisp. True fans of CL would really like a full-blown Emacs with real CL at its core, and periodically people try to make those (Hemlock, etc), but they usually don’t catch on.
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The touchbar’s volume control on the new mac is pretty bad. You have to click the speaker icon once to bring up the bar, then look at it and drag it to the desired position.

What makes sense is really just a up and down, or a knob. Volume isn’t something most users can judge visually.
Mumbai is the new Cupertino?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupertino_effect
I installed the stable (not Electron version) and kicked the tires. Looks like a fun project if you want turtles all the way down Common Lisp.

I admit that even for Common Lisp, I usually just use VSCode to edit with a separate repl (I always define a function (ll) that reloads the code I am working on so this is not inconvenient). Off topic but I now also mostly use VSCode for Haskell, Python, and Julia. Still love Emacs, just don’t use it as my main driver anymore.
> it is amazing to me this guy is the creator of one of the most popular languages today when he is such a poor thinker.

This is unnecessary and a huge stretch given one blog post.
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Resolving security issues sometimes involves managing people's egos
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Italy's drive to join China's Belt and Road hits potholes
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I use emacs for Clojure but I've got two amazingly productive coworkers who use neovim. It is a non-issue for them.
How we/society/constitution stopping government from just create arbitrary number on some server to create money out of the blue ?
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I am in no way trying to deny that an advantage exists for Apple & Apple Music. Can you explain why that's a legal problem for them though?
Software not being bound by physical constraints like other engineering disciplines is a huge distinction. So much so that I think software development is closer to writing a novel or movie script than it is to building a bridge. However, I would say the closer the software is to bare metal the closer it is to "real" engineering.
What? Have you never had two dicts and wanted vals from one dict override the other?
Don’t disagree but would appreciate taking meltdowns outside.
The even more sensible thing is to take an optional argument: a function that is passed the conflicting keys and their values, and must resolve the conflict. If `None` is passed, then a documented default is taken.
You'd think so. In reality, only a vocal and miniscule minority cares about such things. The sweet discounts and price cuts sells their phones really well to the majority
That is probably not a statement of equality, but a boolean test for it.
It’s a static site, so perhaps S3 (or any static cloud storage origin) and any CDN are a better comparison. What is the total power consumption of 1/nth of a large pool of cloud resources compared to the power draw of the router they are using in the office that is powered by the grid?

Regardless, I must say I love the “offline is ok”, “slow computing” (ala slow food), “get off my lawn”, “sustainable beats schfnacy” attitude. Nice one!
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Governments already do this, it's called quantitative easing
>I suspect this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I still don't get the fuzz. People buy crap like Amazon echo left and right

People are aware an Echo contains a microphone though.

For consent to be valid, it must be informed consent.

Keep in mind pretty much any sensor can be leveraged via court order, so it's valid for people to be upset they were unable to properly threat model due to a lack of information.
I agree. If 85% is not fun, make it 90%. Don’t try to change what 85% means. If as a game designer, you’re finding that random isn’t fun, maybe you ought to consider dropping the randomness and coming up with something better.
Do if you're not a legal EU resident, you will be unable to purchase food/lodging/transportation?
“One’s mistakes.”
They disclose the speaker. And I'm willing to bet the vast majority aren't wired to be an input device. Your comparison is a false equivalency.
In which Android version Internet needs permission? Mine (7.1.1) does not have such a setting.
Possibly gp was referring to other, well known writing by the author? I assume all have seen GVR on tail call optimization.
I'm confused by the choice of image format. Why use dithered grayscale PNGs for these photos when a full color JPEG at the same bit rate looks a hundred times better. Are they just sacrificing quality for the sake of a low tech aesthetic, without regard for actual efficiency?
Poverty especially sucks when you're all alone like it seems this person was. Where I grew up, most of the people were poor, but we had rich lives for the most part. Lots of family dinners and outings. The people with more would let you take the leftovers home. You can't really train this and we all definitely need a social safety net, but I do think our closed off society prevents us from helping each other too.
Thank you for these instructions! I am going to try later this afternoon after some family stuff.
At some level of popularity, it might use less power on a CDN, since you would avoid a lot of routers and links. The math on power savings for Netflix local ISP cached content might be interesting, even though that's not really the point.
vlime/slimv exist for vim.
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Money just isn't as important as what real humans are doing day to day. So governments have no trouble fudging the numbers if it keeps people doing what they want them to. That's not an unreasonable thing to do.
> “worth” of a degree isn’t of an objective value anyway.

Isn't it >= to the bribe amount?
I assume you just copy-pasted from parent, but both of you have written `(* x z)` `(* y z)` rather than `(* x y)` `(* x z)`.
There can be multiple solutions to one problem, there's nothing wrong with experimentation. You seem to think it's OK to call any Emacs competitor crapware?
There is also a games version with quite a few games.
Marxism and Religion
So OP somehow inferred that OOP requires operations to only be carried out by 'ancestor' objects and fails miserably. What they call 'ancestor' objects also have nothing to do with OOP in hierarchy as it is not an is-a relationship by rather ownership/has-a that is common in many styles including composition over inheritance. Basically they don't know what they're talking about.
> One possibility is to take a Lyft to the train station and then an Uber to your office. Which is slightly easier if you've automated the cars so that you don't have to load-balance the wetware part of it, but it's not entirely necessary.

Sure. But you can do that already. There are already trains/subways/buses in cities and there is already Uber and Lyft, without any need to close interstates that still have other uses, like transporting bulk material. (Notice also that most interstate highways go between cities.)

Moreover, the original claim was that we should have more trains which would make it so we wouldn't need electric cars. But now we're back to at least needing electric cars for Uber and Lyft.

> A lot of people want that, but a lot of people will want to live in the big empty green space, and would pay the costs -- including externalities, if we were to price them in.

Which is fine. Let the people who prefer the suburbs to live there. You don't need 100% of people to live in the city, what you need is to make it so that all the people who want to live in the city can afford to do so.

And fortunately electric cars powered by solar/nuclear get rid of most of the "externalities" of that -- the only one really left is traffic congestion. Which can be solved not by making it more expensive to live in the suburbs but by making it less expensive to live in the city. Then more people do, even if none of them is you, and there is less congestion on the road because all the people who do prefer to live in the city can use its existing mass transit system.
No, you certainly wouldn't be unable. You would not have the right to a basic bank account in the EU country, but you could use one of many possible payment methods from your home country. If you're traveling to another country in the first place, you probably have those options available to you.
I think the recent decades turned us away from ~natural gathering/solidarity mindset. Consumerism drugs you thinking the best thing is to satisfy envy with things, and without a context of cultural sharing habits, many people end up alone struggling thinking people are selfish because today's mainstream is selfish and so it's hard to connect.
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Leaving aside the politics of a universal basic income, would a UBI have helped or hindered this person? Do most UBI schemes assume that healthcare subsidies would stop for instance, and the money be redirected to the UBI? Or would the income be on top of whatever healthcare subsidies already exist?
With all the hands out on that web page, I think it's The Guardian that's broke.
My impression from the author's description of her friends is that they aren't broke either.

>I often hear my friends say, “I’m too poor” when they’re frustrated about what they can’t have. Maybe it’s a trip they can’t afford, a renovation they want to start right now or a pretty pair of shoes they spotted in a shop window.
And this is in Canada, where the author's surgery and other medical care was covered in full by universal health care. Without that, her situation likely would have been far worse, and yet we can still do so much better.
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I agree that communicating things differently would convince more people, but on the other hand, the man is like he is, and I dislike when people try to mold you to fit their person stereotype, almost like you can't be different from the rest.
Very cool -- the widgets are getting a little out of hand these days, I prefer when they stay minimized or at least out of your face. Thank you-- will definitely try this out!

Also love the Cruip design, makes it very slick!
I doubt their parents care enough to pay for cheating at that point. The school name is what really matters.

(source: used to work in the seedy underbelly of Asian US college admissions consulting)
How much does it already cost the tax payers by paying these third parties like TurboTax to do it? It would be cheaper for the public to have the IRS do it since they are doing it already anyway.
This is a bit different as these folks are suing for being excluded as opposed to a devaluation. People do often sue for exclusion to things.
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I agree. Remember Amazon's little dash buttons they sold to allow quick reordering of products? They contain a microphone. I'm pretty sure they didn't mention that in their public documents, and it never seems to have been used for anything except an ultrasonic pairing procedure with some iPhones, but it definitely exists. HN didn't get mad because Amazon has never claimed to be a morally good company, so they aren't the current corporate bogeyman.
It seems to me like disclosing when I sell a product all of the nefarious ways it could possibly be OTA updated is a little bit of an extreme position, given that even a simple accelerometer can be used to track you and sometimes record sound. In short, if you think a company is actively working against your well being, don't put anything they make in your house. Otherwise, don't worry.
She is not real. Fakes and protocols
True, however it’s likely that exposure to older children helped accelerate things a bit, through imitation.
If you’re bored with your work it’s sign that you should be automating something, or else someone else will do it for you and you’ll be out of a job.
For private universities, I think you are going to run up against first amendment problems.
On the flip side, I much more fear poverty with a family than without. I didn’t need much to make it as a single person, but now I have responsibilities.
- Some people like to track their own movements

- Automation

- Location-based reminders

Just three use cases that came to my mind immediately.
Why are you citing the enterprise plan if your argument is that you don’t need most of what they offer?

It’s $30/month for lowest tier with more than 6 users. There’s no way it’s ROI positive for you to build and maintain this yourself until you have [many] hundreds of employees using PD.

The fact that it’s super simple to use while being highly configurable and reliable is a pro, not a con.
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I think the article is a good example of why universal healthcare would have to remain in place when UBI is implemented. UBI is unlikely to be enough to afford quality healthcare.
Cool. I read a few articles. Definitely bookmarking and returning for more.
They aren’t competitive in the sense of being an e-sport with ranking/ELO, competitions, prizes, leagues, paid salaries, etc.

Yes, they have some prizes in some events with popular players, but they aren’t really competitive in the same sense as, say, MOBAs, strategy games or FPSs.

The fact that a game has PvP does not mean it is competitive in that sense.
I'm not sure about the AMEX reloadable cards, but the Visa/Mastercard ones allow folks to have direct deposit. IIRC, they tend to waive the monthly fee if you do so.

Additionally, I know many employers in Indiana offered prepaid cards to their employees that did not have bank accounts. It has been 5 or 6 years since I lived there, mind you. These had fees involved as well, but it was better than nothing.
I was under the impression that Canada’s health system does have a yearly deductible for perceptions at least. $750 I thought.

Edit: Yes, this was for BC or Alberta and is still the case in at least one of those.
Complex numbers is one area where sine is very relevant.

Fascinating article about the geometry of complex numbers: https://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/
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Ahh, I see. Interesting.