skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's well engineered and the tooling and finish are very high quality. Everything snicks together with great precision.

I would not build a high end gaming machine with it. Motherboard tray cable routing cutouts are not well positioned if you have a large, high feature motherboard. I knew this but as I used an mATX board I didn't care. Also, airflow is limited by the solid front panel as is always the case with 'quite' designs.

The supplied fans are excellent but only one front case fan is supplied; I knew this and obtained a second "be quiet!" 140mm fan for my build.

I have mixed feelings about the gauge of steel. Typically quiet focused cases of the sort I've been using for many years now rely in part on heavy steel. The steel in this case is comparatively thin; similar to what you get with OEM machines from Dell or HP. On one hand I miss the rigidity of prior cases, on the other I've been surprised at how happy I am with the reduction in weight.

The size is perfect. It's a little larger in every dimension than a traditional mid tower making assembly and changes easier.

This is a bit of a boutique product; Amazon doesn't have this exact model and it took a while for shipment through newegg; it shipped from the manufacturers US warehouse and took extra time.

I would buy it again.

I did a double take when I saw the Arm workstation but I suppose it's not really surprising. The market is full of windowed, LED riddled gaming cases on one hand and low end 'value' stuff on the other. There are few quality 'grown up' looking cases available. I had 'workstation' in mind when I went hunting for a case and I imagine that's what Ampere was thinking as well; we made thoughtful choices and ended up in the same place.
According to the internet, Finland has little if any homework – something like 30m/day or less for high school students, and less or none for younger students.

Also school doesn’t start until age 7, the school day is filled with long breaks to go run around outside, student:teacher ratios are very low and teachers are highly trained and respected in society, and there is no standardized testing.
Come on, of course this isn't economically as well as culturally possible.
I have only dabbled with intelligense and language servers, but my out-of-the-box experience has been disappointing when working with pandas and I’m wondering if anyone on HN can talk about whose fault it is and what can be done to improve it.

Modern pandas is supposed to be written along the lines of

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv().transform().agg().pipe() #etc, etc

But I am very disappointing in the suggestions I get after the dots in the chain, as well as the parameters inside the functions, when trying out jedi and other language servers in different editors (even ipython is quite disappointing to me)
> What's wrong with opkg install unbound? It's robust, doesn't require maintenance,

Good joke. It's written in C, so in addition to typical protocol/logic flaws, it'll have its share of security and memory leak problems. No maintenance? Have a look at https://nlnetlabs.nl/svn/unbound/tags/release-1.9.1/doc/Chan... and its security advisories... Regular updates are necessary.
X1 carbon 6th runs smoothly on antergos
Where do you rent the VPS? Example from personal experience: Yahoo and Hotmail block DigitalOcean IPs outright. At least they have the decency to reject your mail at delivery, not spamhole it.

Practical DIY SMTP is a lost battle. Unless you're in it for the experience of the hosting itself.
There's a huge difference between confirming that one is related to someone (not doing so can be considered really rude or even immoral depending on culture) and sitting patiently and listening to that person.

This quote might be relevant

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

- Upton Sinclair
Its only a paradox if you think its primary function is education.

Its primary function is the warehousing of children while adults work; and secondarily, filtering children according to ability for future work (ie., grading).

The content of the "lessons" could be anything, so long as it (1) keeps them occupied; and (2) differentiates according to cognitive ability -- ie., grades.

The primary and secondary functions almost totally constrain its auxiliary function of imparting useful skills to children -- which were it sincerely attempted would fundamentally undermine the school's ability to warehouse and grade them effectively.
There’s a difference between saying we don’t scan the emails and saying we don’t track the metadata either. So if you bought from an online tobacconist rather than amazon they wouldn’t need to scan the contents.
But it doesn't need to be fully automated. Automate 999 out of 1000 (probably quite easily) and flag the rest for human review. Surely we've got enough GPUs now to train a neural network smart enough to do that.
Why can't they cycle through coils one by one and see where the biggest drain is?

I mean:

1. Cycle through coils until you discover a drain. (From two (or more) overlapping coils which both show drain, pick just the one with the biggest drain.)

2. Assume that's where a device to be charged is (or aligns best to a coil).

3. Give power only to the this best-fitting coil (one per device)

4. Pause charging for a few ms every 500ms to repeat at (1.)

As they have full control over the receiving hardware they could also easily hide the small pauses in charging when a "search cycle" happens.
Only surprised it took this long. One of the below-the-surface purposes of regulation is to provide a mechanism for private players to shed liability (and public accountability) for things that go wrong in their businesses. A builder can make 1000 choices that might increase or decrease the risk of a fire in a new project, but as long he is within the regulated parameters of "fire code" he is unlikely to face liability if there happens to be a fire, since compliance will be used as a defense against a charge of negligence.

Now imagine you build nearly every building in the state of California, have a personal relationship with the governor, and have the means to subtly influence the development of fire codes in such a way that makes it easy for you to comply, minimizes the effect on your business, but may make it harder for other competitors to gain compliance. This is regulatory capture, and it is endemic in almost every industry in America, with the glaring exception of software.

Facebook has finally realized that they have enough influence and market power to be confident that a regulatory regime for data and content will benefit them over the long-run. They will not get 100% of what they want, but they will get 80%, and in the long run, they will reap the benefit of knowing:
- that they can continue to shape the evolution of these rules over time
- that they no longer have to worry as much about black swan liability arising from UGC on their network
- that the next generation of UGC startups will have a hard time achieving compliance, either hurting their growth or motivating them to sell to larger players like Facebook

Regulation benefits incumbents.
Some issues could be:

1. It is not obvious to everyone.
2. Another integral parameter called k is added later on. Now which is which?
3. Another guy might call all his integral parameters k. n and k are used for the same thing all over the code-base. An outsider might initially think they are different.
4. Names which are descriptive of their use are obvious to everyone by definition.
But most people use the switch as a console, not as a Gameboy-type thing.

All they would have had to do it provide a decent selection of games, and include two low-cost Bluetooth controllers and an HDMI dock with every phone.
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Indeed, sorry for the confusing way I answered it.
This has not been my experience. I maintain various popular and not-so-popular projects (although maybe not to the level of gnome calendar) and I just work as much as I want. If I don't feel like handling an issue right then, I say I won't have time soon and that PRs are appreciated.

The vast majority of people are understanding, I don't remember anyone making a fuss about it.
The title is in a Germanic language, it is centered on their home.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to block users on HN due to spam?
I’m in no way a Theranos apologist. What they did was evil and crimininal because they pushed far ahead of what any moral startup would do. But they weren’t evil solely because their leadership had blind faith in their product. And for all intents and purposes emulating everything at Theranos that made them
Successfull, minus the criminal parts, is a good idea. No one was saying “I wouldn’t invest in them, they believe touch in their product” back in the early phases when they where booming forwards.
At the same time, if you skip the blind faith, Bill Gates would just be a regular boring rich kid today, never having bought DOS after already sellling IBM, he would have just told them cynically that he weren’t even sure if it would work out and they would have passed him up.
any by system76 are worth a look
Thousands of security issues don't even get CVE in a timely manner or lack details, or are not reported/included in the catalog at all. MITRE and NVD are overloaded and underfunded.

http://hackwolrdwide.com/7900-vulnerabilities-didnt-make-it-...
Yes, can we at least get some benchmarks?
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A holocaust survivor once told me her mother died after liberation of the camp by English troops, because they started eating the ample supplies that the guards had kept for themselves. Truly tragic.
A good breeze, doesn't have to be that strong, really helps outside.
Any reviews on running Linux on the LG gram 17 inch?
Yes, I forgot to make an exception for scheduling future local times, so use utc except for future local datetimes.
I mean, that's temporary. Are you saying all workers will agree that only say 20% of them work at a time (rotating) to artificially create scarcity, raising price of labor, then redistribute income amongst themselves in a communal fashion? Because that's strictly worse.
Oh, there is acknowledgement that it needs to be treated alright. Especially by those who suffer it, counterintuitive as it sounds.

It's the basis for the wildly successful and profitable "mental clinic" franchise business. There is one of those ( or two, or three, or four ) in front of every train station in Tokyo. For those who don't know Japan, take a look at a train map of Greater Tokyo and count stations, just for fun. You'll be doing that for a while. Then multiply the number by 2 or 4 to get to the number of "mental clinics".

Those are little more than drug dispensers run by legally authorized pimps with no medical expertise of any kind or a psychiatrist or psychologist anywhere on the premises, but anyone ( and millions do ) can "treat" their anxiety, depression, or insomnia, with half a dozen prescriptions a month. For good measure, they make sure to book appointments weekly in both the clinic near home and also the one near work. And maybe have a third one as backup.

What's needed is proper mental health services, on that you're spot on. And as another comment points out, to erase the stigma of suffering a mentall illness, so people don't use alcohol or these vending machine style clinics with no oversight to treat themselves.

That it is a problem and it needs to be treated everyone's perfectly aware of.
I have been wondering about this too. I'm pretty attached to my 2014 MBP (running macOS) but dislike the latest line of Macs (and want to have a linux laptop). I've been looking mostly at the new Dell XPS 13 range as they look really good. I just worry that the build quality will never match up to Apple's.
You’re mixing man years and man hours. But it’s still over 11,000 man years spent in lines at the airport.
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There is homework, but Finland has both less homework and less hours spend in school compared to other countries, but the quality of teaching is better. Teachers are better educated and motivated.

Especially for little kids, more hours in school does not increase learning. Sleeping later in the morning is better.

Having nutritious school lunches (for free) probably plays a role too. Kids' may hate the food, but it's not junk like pizza, juice and jam.
Surface Book is not bad. No suspend though.
Yes, but that's rather besides the point. It's not the fact that it's Tetris in a terminal; it's also the fact that it's minified code. Look at the GIF on the Github page; that's the code of the game.
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Linux on those 2014 Macs run great especially for the ones with integrated GPUs.
Interesting, although not surprising to see how large powerful companies keep buying up other tech companies and possible competition early on and expand that way.
Refcounting has long tail latency too arising from cascading deallocations.

(And then you have ref cycles which is another kind of headache. And poor cache behavior from all those refcount updates.)
Considering the crappy keyboard on my 2018 mbp and annoying stuff like no extenal monitor if using battery (unless the laptop's open, for some reason, I already prefer my 2015 xps 13
Automation of moderation IS very dangerous.

If there is one thing people need to realize, is that automated moderation is inherently dangerous.

People think of news and informaiton online. but its all just Content.

CONTENT can be anything, fake news, lies, or fighting against an unjust leader, rebellion, fighting for the environment and more.

Tools that effectively get better at moderating content do so for ALL content.

Any tool that you use to cut bad will is always useable to harm good.

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So far I have good reason to assume that intent is not paresable from content online, so human beings should be relatively safe online.

Figuring out INTENT, is the holy grail of moderation. If you know why someone said something, you know whether its meant as Nazi apologia or whether its no malicious historical context.

As long as we don't figure out a way to automate that, private thoughts are safe.
This is gorgeous, and it works beautifully on a touchscreen. Incredibly valuable tool for learning mandarin, I bet. It even works with traditional characters!

How did you do this??? Was there a database with stroke orders somewhere?

Love this app. It would be wonderful if this could be included in a spaced repition app somehow!

Thanks for sharing this.
There's plenty of good ones, just look for hardware that has good Linux support, like an Intel GPU, or AMD if you need more power, compatible wireless chipset etc.

If you don't mind slightly dated HW and want the smoothest experience, I'd get a Purism Librem[1], the XPS line is known to be a solid choice as well, there's vendors like System76.

I personally have an ASUS ROG GL702ZC, which is a Ryzen/AMDGPU based workhorse laptop that works well out of the box.

1 - https://puri.sm/products
This was a smart but unsavvy approach to solving the problem. A better one would have been to appeal to people's better natures.

I think it can generally be said that bureaucracies mostly exist to serve other bureaucracies, mere mortals are illegible drains on their resources, to put it candidly, if they helped every sad sack with a sad story that showed up at their doorstep, pretty soon that's going to be all they're doing.

So instead you have to persuade, cajole people into helping you out. You find the one guy with both the spare time and the wherewithal to work the system. Spin a detective story out of it, make it interesting for them. Never lose sight of the fact that they're doing you a favor and send a nice thank-you card after its sorted.

Sure, political forces have driven wedges between institutions that should be public-facing and the public they should be serving. But that doesn't mean that good people don't still work there. You just have to get them interested. Anyone you speak to can be cajoled into doing the right thing. But they won't unless you help them see the light.
There's always a fraction of kids for whom homework will never "work"; another group that has no need for it to achieve excellence. But for a huge number of kids the structured individual effort is essential to comprehend and master the subject.
I think the government should step in with UBI, supplemental income, or some such, but it would be wrong to fix price of labor for one particular industry/market. The latter is just a hack.
Selling something poorly and for free is still selling it.
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The Google founders kept trudging on because they had seen an anomaly that no one else had observed or no one else was willing to fix.

They had built PageRank for BackRub that proved to be superior in almost every way to the dominant way search engines were built. The dominant way also had a glaring flaw that skewed search accuracy — keyword spam.

In a way, they saw themselves as been on a mission to rectify the anomaly in how search results were currently being computed by demoing to investors just how better their search results were compared to the competition, and in the end, with their help, they managed to succeed.
I had the most homework in Middle School and Graduate School. Not sure why exactly, just something strange that I noticed. Ended up dropping out of Grad School over the excessive busy work. Turned out to be an excellent decision!
Maybe because the consumers of your work are developers? GNOME Calendar (the OP's project) is an app for end users.
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The situation I see is that most people have multiple points of contact (phone, Line, FaceTime, Whatsapp, even Facebook Messenger) and different overlapping social networks which relay information. There's a difference between chatting with someone on Facebook Messenger vs. having the Facebook feed for major signals in life like death.

I think there may be "too much" when you're keeping track of people who die (or get married) and you're legitimately nervous about how you would've missed the news had it not been for Facebook.
On several occasions over the last decade or so, I've witnessed famous SV CEOs make statements and write essays that say the most wonderful-sounding things. "I'm giving money to orphans", "I want to do X (Where X is a thing people love)", or in this case the match-and-lead "Yes, this is awful, isn't it? Here are some things you already agree to that will fix it"

In each of these cases, two things happened. 1) The crowd and the media ate it up. What an amazing, insightful, kind, and effective thing for them to suggest! There was no in-depth coverage beyond that. People who criticized these statements got political push-back on the issues involved, not the quality or meaningfulness of the position 2) Digging into it, it was clear that these ideas were most likely extremely self-serving. Things were not what they appeared. The orphan guy was setting up a trust fund to dodge taxes, the X guy was dodging an important responsibility by finding a scapegoat -- and here we are with Zuck. The kindest thing I can say is that perhaps theses ideas and actions are both self-serving and in the public interest. But I kinda doubt it.

People at Facebook are not morons. If we're seeing this problem now, they saw it many, many years ago. They've just been playing the long game, stalling until the stars align for the next phase which logically looks like regulatory capture. Growing the user base. Mining the machine for more money. I'm ok with people acting in their best interests and thinking so far ahead in a clever manner. These guys rock at it. What I'm not okay with is the example they're setting for our kids. A lot of kids and wannabe startup founders idolize these people. Is this the kind of generation we really want to raise?
We know that Germany who focused on using dolar has failed miserably and we know that france who focused on nuclear hasnt. No modern country get their main supply of energy from wind or solar but have to use coal and oil to make it work. And the countries who boast with using a lot of alternatives also have much higher consumption prices because they are subsidizing their politically based energy policy.
This has been discussed before and it has been true for me as well. I don't have a large, super-popular package I maintain, but several lesser known ones, some of which I wrote, and several of which I just adopted and passively became a maintainer over time.

At some point the pressure from the community made me pass the magical threshold between fun/useful/rewarding and downright chore.

It has permanently changed my perception of OSS management, to the point that I stopped releasing further projects, no matter how small, simply due to the work that these entail.

Just look at the discussions you find here monthly about being "a good author/maintainer/leader", where most expect full documentation, professional landing pages, useless code of conduct, and so on... BESIDES the project itself. You'll be criticized irregardless.

I have deep respect for the maintainers of popular OSS projects because of the amount of s*it they must take. I know I wouldn't do it for free at these scales. I also wouldn't do it besides another job since it is so demanding.
Do you still need "unofficial" kernel patches to make it work properly under Linux? That's not what good support looks like.

And the "no hardware support for ACPI suspend" thing is common to a lot of newer mobile hardware - they call it "Connected Standby", so just be aware of that misfeature.
I don't think the article mentioned this, but one of the big reasons behind all of this homework is the personality of the people dolling out the homework: Conscientious people can't stand not being busy. So they try to do everyone else a favor by loading them up with lots of busy work. The only problem with that is not everyone is conscientious and in constant need of busy work.
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This is incredibly interesting! Real time simulation at scale!!
Mental health has become far too medicalised in the west in the interest of multiple large entities (including but not limited to the pharma mafia), so your vision of Japan might be influenced by your standards for mental health.

Worth pointing out is that the mental health issues are only the symptom and not the cause, the cause should be adressed first rather than the symptoms.
Governments and mega Corp have some level of responsibilities. If someone is judged illegal, irresponsible, they can be prosecuted somehow. You have some limit to their power and some restrictions to what data they are allowed to gather and use, even if it practice there is obviously some issues at this level.

What the OP suggests is to use the power of the mob to apply surveillance to potentially anyone, completely removing the concept of privacy. That sounds incredibly dangerous and nefarious to me.
Nicely written article and I am sorry for what happened. Similar thing happened to a friend of mine some years ago and since then I don’t dare take my bag out during evenings.

Re The Met - it’s a sad state of affairs with policing in the UK. It comes down to the following: police only ‘care’ to investigate or deal with 3 types of criminals:
1. Terrorists
2. Paedophiles
3. Speeding motorists

If you wish to do any other criminality in the UK then you have pretty much free reign to carry out things with impunity. Government are even talking about abolishing jail sentences for ‘minor’ crimes (not to improve rehabilitation but to save money).

I am emigrating. I can see where things are heading and it’s not good for this country.