skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Currently, I just dd my block devices

That's actually not a good idea at all.

It's very fragile, the slightest problem and you may lose the entire backup.

Silent corruption may get backed up for months and you won't notice until it's too late.

Doing a restore means having space for the full file, just to restore a single small file.

If you don't know when your file changed you may have to do that multiple times instead of just being able to check when that single file changed.

In short: don't do that. Copy the full directory structure, sure. But not the disk image.
Nope. The universe is infinite, according to the model. We see observe galaxies speeding away from us in every direction - and it seems unlikely that the earth was the exact center of the Big Bang.
I have a similar setup to ryandrake (GP) where I just keep my phone on silent 24/7 (not DND, not sure what the difference is, maybe DND also stops some notifs from coming through at all).

I like this better than turning off all notifications. The difference is that like GP said, I control when to look at my phone (which admittedly I still do often), but also I don't lose track of the occasional actually-important notif (granted this is rare outside of messaging).

It's also nice for messaging apps -- I can see who messaged me without even unlocking my phone and then I can decide whether to unlock my phone to respond if it's something/someone more urgent or important.

A couple of years ago I would worry about missing calls, but the nice thing about the text-era is that all my friends message me now and no one actually calls, and when services and stuff actually calls you, they leave a voice mail. So this is a natural way to solve spam calls for me -- I just don't hear them at all and they become missed calls.
They said that the information is on your device, not on Apple servers. So I presume that they/GS can extract this information from the device under a valid legal claim.
From an article mentioned by another poster:

> As for sexual assault, groping and molestation on crowded trains and elsewhere is so widespread (and so unlikely to be reported to the police) that NGOs such as the Osaka-based Chikan Deterrence Activity Centre suggest that almost every young woman experiences it at some point.

https://www.tokyoreview.net/2017/08/myth-japans-bored-police...
They save merchant fees when the card is used on their products, and collect them when the card is used elsewhere. Same reason your bank issues a card, really. Though mastercard's still the payment processor here.
So instead of fixing the UI, let's remove the entire feature altogether. Yeah, no.
>is there even a need for credit cards?

Yes, I don't care for running any of these blobs or other DRM garbage on my phone. And what's the selling point ? I don't see the difference between pulling out my card v/s pulling out my phone. Decent security (chip & pin for eg. or other 2nd factor) is perfectly possible with cards. US is just backwards in matters like these. We don't need to beat the security strawman.
Credit Card issuers get a percentage of everything you spend, so Apple gains that.
Samsung Pay, Android Pay and Apple Pay all are primarily just a different way to use a credit card. They're competing against the physical way cards are processed, not the cards.
I thought of ant tunnels, cross-section.
Any mirrors for this? Just from the headline, I'd love to see what is being done to match Apple's touchpad quality.
http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-turns-away-petition-to-permit-e...
> robots cost the same to operate in the US and they do in China

Nope. Labor, land, resources are all typically cheaper in china. It's also close to other manufacturing. I've read on this elsewhere; it's called "economies of proximity" or some such (I can't recall exactly). But it means you don't have to ship inputs or outputs as far.
I can't read the article because the site is hosed. I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme, and the touchpad is as good as any MacBook I've ever owned. It's the only non-MacBook that I've encountered where the touchpad is even usable.

I don't usually run Linux on it, but I have, and I don't recall it behaving any differently than it does in Windows. Maybe the pinch gesture doesn't work in Linux; I'm not going to reboot to test.
AI Ethics: Seven Traps
I think the whole idea of "Cash back" is insane. Someone, i.e. the consumer, is ultimately paying for these rewards, whether it is airline miles or cashback % or whatever.

It is a self-propelling idea that would be almost impossible to kill because doing so would make your credit card offering less competitive.

It is also self-propelling from the consumer end. If you don't take advantage of these rewards, you're paying for everyone else's rewards by buying goods and services at a higher price. Some merchants flat out deny certain credit cards such as AMEX.
thanks for the feedback
having `scp file $BAXX_TOKEN@scp.baxx.dev:file` support is definitely in my list
>Ultimately, actions reveal preferences.

Actions only reveal which preferences prevails. We could still be totally conflicted internally, and wish we did otherwise.

It's not mere theater. Some even go to suicide because of the anxiety of such conflicts between what they wish to be doing and what their pleasure impulses get them to do.
I was just talking about this in a different thread; I'm a similar age to you and my house is in a rural area that has mediocre DSL as the only internet option.

So, I rent an office in the nearest town. I have a quiet space to work and 5x better internet there. It's close enough to bike in when the weather is nice, and a pleasantly short commute the rest of the time.

It really is the best of both worlds.
Let's just hope this "gaming as a service" stays on mobile devices where it belongs.

Microsoft has Game Pass. EA has Origin. Subscribe to both and they're both fantastic.
The Adult Brain Does Grow New Neurons After All, Study Says
Interviews with developers who became managers
Yes and no. Some trackpads are connected over actual PS/2, but others via the EC and that one simulates PS/2 internally. On the MacBook side it's SPI now, not in all cases, but pretty often. Not sure if it's a Double or Quard SPI interface but apparently it still does the same nice experience they had with USB - and better.
Okular is to Zathura as Acrobat Reader is to Vim. :-)
It asserts a solution.
I dunno, not until Apple releases a first party controller. Otherwise Nintendo will continue to keep its current market at least.
Agree that health skepticism is warranted here but it might also be that they are trying to re-think the credit card experience to improve it for everybody.
http://archive.is/uxh3z
"We are well past the point where people in rich countries could earn middle class lives if incomes were distributed equally."

This article seems to be talking about incomes being distributed equally with no explanation as to who will be doing the work.

If work effort doesn't matter, then I will just stop and collect my money...and within a few short years, more people will do this, and we will no longer have $160,000 to split because productivity will be destroyed and overall GDP will decrease.

We will never be in a post-work world because someone will always have to do the work.

"That is why we are seeing yesterday’s careers going up in smoke"

This is completely expected as we've had major advancements in the last few decades. When I was in college, you couldn't get a full-time job in social media.

"Gigs replacing jobs"

I'm not really seeing this. Unless you want to work for Uber/Lyft or a small amount of companies that offer gigs.

Gigs are actually a way for more people to earn money. As an example, we used to have a small pool of people making an average living as a taxi driver. Now with the gig economy, we have a much bigger pool of people making a smaller amount of money.

Many people are under the impression that by forming a union, all of these people will make the same living as a Taxi driver did in the past. The reality is that there will be more restrictions imposed on a potential employee and there will now be a much smaller group of people making more money.

The result is that more people will not be able to make any money at all, rather than having at least an opportunity to make a supplemental income.

Gig jobs were never meant to support an entire family or even one person. Could it? Sure, but it's not really the responsibility of the company owner to make sure that it happens.
Reviewing Amazon’s Machine Learning University – Is It Worth All of the Hype?
How It Feels to Discover Your Son Was the Secret Founder of Silk Road
Were they trying to make one for 40 years?
In a lot of places all around the world credit cards always played a minor role. Usually the lack of credit cards in Germany is attributed to being a cash-only country, but I guess it has more to do with wire transfers and direct debit being basically for free. For shopping physically there's also additionally a national direct debit system (called girocard), organized directly by the banks with much lower fees than credit cards.
Website seems down.
Here is a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20190325183108/https://bill.hard...
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15680668

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4856207
Because it gets the definition back to procrastination being a consequence of other traits and the sum of these negative traits. If cowardice is character flaw then it follows than cowardice in fighting over the tendency to run from things we are scared to do (aka procrastination) is a character flaw.

Is there more to it than a definition ?

I believe the outlook matters more to deal with it though.
If you look at the percentages you will notice the older movies have higher approval scores. But the algorithm also weighs number of reviews, and newer have more.
I will agree that I did form somewhat of a strawman in my original post. Many of my examples were not for comfort, but for safety.

That said, I would still say that there are plenty of ways to improve (what I would consider) "comfort" in your work environment; however, they do not need to be reimbursed by the company (moving this back to your original post).

Likewise, as the other reply to this post mentions - cost.

Simply put, what is the cost involved and relative productivity gained/lost from each layout design. What about experimental designs? Without this type of information, it is difficult to convince a decision maker to improve these conditions. Those metrics need to be quantifiable, not anecdotal (I get more work when there aren't conversations around me vs. I resolved 10 bugs in the open office environment and 25 equivalent bugs in a cubicle).

This gets into more the MBA and Information Systems world of quantifying intangibles in tech (like productivity), but to obtain this in an environment that would be deemed acceptable for experimentation, you'd need a corporate culture interested in experimentation - because not every layout will work for every group or every person in said group. Even then, being a group that opts into experimentation is not indicative to a real work environment, and so better results would require a new cohort for each experimental layout.

Regardless, without decision maker buy-in and quantifiable metrics that can beat the cost/productivity metrics of open-office, articles like this only serve to form an echo chamber.
If encryption is allowed, then there can no longer be any restrictions on the use of ham bands - you won't be able to tell the difference between someone calling for help or doing disaster relief and a pizza place using ham radios for dispatch.

But to answer your question "who cares?", hams care, and I'd be surprised if people sending encrypted transmissions are not soon discovered - and if you knowingly violate the regulations, you run the risk of losing your ham license. If you're not licensed, (or even if you are for egregious or repeat violators), there are various enforcement actions the FCC can take including significant fines, equipment confiscation, and other criminal penalties.
Some functions of character are easier to perform when we change the environment to encourage them -- that's the parent's the whole point.

It's not like suddenly he would give a magic trick that involves no function of character at all.
Would advise against using a debit card for anything.

Credit cards give better consumer protection, less hassle if your card gets cloned, and (if used sensibly) help your credit rating.
That tumbling effect sales pitch is the most baffling part of this whole story to me. It is great in a lab with ballistic gel on an uncovered target, but hardly the reality out there.

I think sooner than later this whole fiasco will be in the past once the move to 6mm cartridges become a thing.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17280945
Couldn't you just get internet over satellite link? Of course there'll be lag, and perhaps lower bandwidth, so you might not be able to play multiplayer action games or download 4k videos, but you should be able to get the news, send email, and surf the web without too much of a problem.
> That's wrong, accessibility is about ease of access to the content.

That doesn't account for cognitive disabilities.

Ease of access is up to the user-agent software. Accessibility is more than just that. As front end developers we have to provide that content in a meaningful and understandable form without getting in the browser's or screen reader's way. Sometimes that isn't enough and you need to use ARIA to clarify things more precisely.

> then you could just tell your blind clients to view the page source and read it character by character.

Screen readers provide a variety of navigational tools for drilling into page content. They don't just read text.

I am not really sure what you are arguing. You can have great CSS and great accessibility at the same time.
Did you follow an established program or just make one up?
USD9.99 is not nearly enough.

That said, it sounds like they're just going to give the money to the guys who make the games that are played the most. It's not like every developer will get 50 cents a download or whatever. So the big guys will get the real money, and smaller guys will fight for scraps at that price.

But at least it's a start.
So much this. I've never carried a balance on a card that charges interest. but I would be more open to the idea if they charged interest more inline with market loan rates. 15-35% is insane.
I hope that you do end up doing it. This seems like the perfect kind of thing to use Send for, removes the need for mozilla to maintain extra infrastructure (maybe just a STUN server? I haven't looked at the Send architecture) and would let people keep the files up for as long as they'd like at the same time.
The Microsoft Precision Touchpad[1] devices are interfaced over I2C or USB. Bandwidth for I2C depends on implementation AFAIK, but should be plenty for a responsive touchpad.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/com...
Had a very similar experience unintentionally. A coworker was making mixed drinks with Everclear, which was 190 proof (95% alcohol). I badly misjudged how much I was drinking, and it was one of three times in my life I threw up from drinking (probably saved me from alcohol poisoning). Took me a few days to recover fully. Before that incident, my preferred drink was whiskey neat and I could drink it like water. Ever since, any hard spirits make me nauseous immediately if they aren't mixed and diluted heavily. I figure it's my body's defense mechanism telling me not to drink poison anymore.
I don’t know about the OP’s reasoning, but for me, it’s much easier to track spending with only a debit card than with a credit card that I periodically pay off from my checking account. A single stream of transactions is much easier to budget than one that cascades into the other.
Still at the mercy of Goldman Sachs.
Procrastination was much more difficult before the modern age (1960+)
Apparently this article discusses the Videotex technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex , where Minitel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex was the most prominent brand. This seems to be a kind-of predecessor of the 90s modem uplinks with personal computers.
Can you elaborate? This would be mindblowing. I have fructose malabsorption, and have had sleeping issues most of my life. Never occurred to me they could be related. Please say more.
Watched a great documentary on Netflix called `Stink!` that was about all the crap found in all sorts of products under the hidden phrase "fragrance" (or in some cases, "parfum"). All sorts of chemicals you've never heard of to make those garbage bags smell like apple orchards.

Very informative and, if you're like me and are constantly panicked that everything's trying to kill you, I recommend it.
The same is true of quitting, of course. Aside from rare situations such as a beheading it is hard to lose consciousness while being reasonably sure that you won't regain it, if only briefly, and even the guillotined could wake up post-singularity and start smoking again!
> the largest problem with cards in the US today -- interchange fees.

To the non-expert, what are interchange fees and why are they a problem?
Apple's poor support for serious gaming in the past makes me doubt that they understand gamer's needs (casual and serious). They failed over and over to offer proper "gaming" 3D graphics in Mac OS, they failed to grow GameCenter into something useful, they failed offering good gaming support for Apple TV. Too many broken promises. It's the same thing with music: Apple claim for years they have "Music in their DNA", but neither understand anything about classical music nor are able to build a good version of iTunes. I bet that this Gaming service will fail, as did Ping and Apple Musics "Connect".
Those are the only evolutionary survivors of the App Store economy. Pay up front won’t fly anymore, so we need a new model if we want to see games that are actually fun rather than just addictive. I’d like to see this succeed, fingers crossed.
They get a percentage of every transaction (small, but it is about the aggregate for them). Mostly for Apple this is about pushing people who are using ApplePay to back it with a credit card that Apple gets a piece of, rather than the one you already have a piece of. So they get the small chunk from being in the loop with ApplePay, and now a small chunk from being the sponsor of the card.

Apple has been very focused on not being a big-data company. Any sort of back-end shenanigans would be so damaging to the brand of information safety that they have been building as to be unworth any potential profit.
Saying that something moves to China because minimum wage is too high has always been an interesting topic for me. With a positive spin this argument becomes "the American government has set a standard of living which is too high to allow such manufacturing processes or subjective abuse of labor". Reducing regulations or lowering minimum wage would verly likely not result in a better standard of living, even though it would be most economically efficient for everyone to be working for peanuts 60hr/week.

It seems to me that it is part of the governments job to say "yes this is economically feasible, but not socially acceptable." Outsourcing breaks this dynamic by introducing moral hazard--we can have our cake and eat it too. I think if there were a minimum global standard of living, most cheap plastic shit just wouldn't get made.
Thanks for posting this. The news aggregator looks really good. I would love to know how you built it. Which text analysis AI did you use to group the similar news together?
It's more complex than that. From a development standpoint, doing it this way was a real pain. This is due to the reference being in a different repo than the change itself.

We decided to relax this rule last year, and so instead, issues need to be filed. They then get filled in after. This has its own set of drawbacks.
Only if you play with the numbers to make it appear that way.

https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...
Machines Shouldn’t Have to Spy on Us to Learn
The certainly fanned the flames of Seth Rich conspiracy theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Fox_News_r...
American Express charge merchants higher fees so many don’t accept them, and treat them with disdain.
...Because everyone is from Murica and knows our radio snow names.
Name It, and They Will Come
I am using zfs send and it works like a charm. Once you have configured filesystems for only data, you can use dedup on receiving system.
You are not, on present definitions.

This is one of those things that a lot of members of the public at large do not seem to know; they think that depression is defined as some sort of chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not. Depression is defined in the DSM more or less as, being sad too often, except in cases of mourning etc. where people are often incredibly sad. It is literally defined as an overabundance of feeling.

This matters to me because I no longer have depression—I am “cured!”—because I am no longer too sad often enough to qualify for the diagnosis. I did not use medicine but developed better coping mechanisms. The cause of my depression is still around—my negative thoughts will on average trigger one or more additional negative thoughts until I am paralyzed with self-doubt and negativity. Indeed, and this is somewhat hard to explain to folks who have never had this problem, I will sometimes luxuriate in those negative emotions because they have a sort of familiarity or nostalgia, I spent so much time being so sad that it is sometimes desirable to feel unpleasant again. That sort of complicated “if you seek out sadness is it really sadness” type of question is 100% interesting and valid.

But I developed coping mechanisms to deal with those sorts of emotional overloads and recognize that they are happening and escape them, and I do not frequently return back to those unhealthy thought patterns. In that respect I am cured. The psychiatrists define depression so that that is what cured looks like: we have not necessarily addressed whatever the underlying cause is, but we have treated the symptoms.

So it is literally impossible to be depressed if you don't feel sad often enough; it is part of the definition. Anyone who says “oh I get really sad and maybe even suicidal, but I am not depressed” is making a nonclinical statement that would not be directly translatable as a clinical one.
It seems like it could be. This thing sounds like it focuses on Fredholm integral equations, the solutions should be composable.

These are basically equations g(t) = Integral_t K(t,s) * f(s),

where K(t,s) (the kernel) and g(t) are known, but f(s) isn't. In physical applications, t is usually time. A solution f(s) could be fed into the input of the next device, at least mathematically.
How can we make AI that reasons?