skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That line of thought leads to dismissing the experience of working people who are hurt by leftist policies

No, it doesn't. First, because It's quite possible to recognize that people fail in what they seek to favor. And, second and more importantly, because it leads to noticing that there's virtually no leftist policy in the US, since the dominant factions for the two parties have for decades been right and center-right.

> But the left made healthcare worse for people who have health insurance.

No, the left didn't. Aside from the question of whether the ACA made healthcare worse for people have insurance (which is a complicated mixed bag), the ACA didn't come from the left, it came from the center-right faction of the Democratic Party, following an outline earlier used at the state level by Republicans, and which actually was first suggested by a group of Republican politicians and insurance industry figures as a better (from a conservative standpoint) alternative to the (also from the center-right faction of the Democratic Party) Clinton healthcare reform effort in the 1990s.

> They lower wages for American workers by expanding immigration.

When and how have leftists fine this?

> They raise taxes to pay for benefits for people who choose not to work.

What are you talking about?
“Utopia” (1951) – Laurel and Hardy's Last Film
More transparency isn't a guarantee of justice. Look at the cases of Eric Garner and Danny Shaver. Their murders were recorded on camera and both responsible officers walk free today.
We could say the same about the Homeric epics. One does not end up producing the canonical version of an oral tradition by blindly recording whatever lyrics are circulating at the time. A great poet(s?) rearranges, reinterprets, and infuses the story with a unique perspective that can be identified as his (or theirs), even thousands of years later.
>The storage has value - that will continue to be the case whether there is a token or a hundred tokens, or no tokens.

And this is exactly why I think that a token used for a specific tangible thing like storage would be more stable: storage has a value and that value doesn't repentinely change by hundreds of dollars in a day.
Okay, well the way you are phrasing it seems to suggest you're annoyed that the story was published and/or posted here.
Want to bet? Library budgets are on the front lines, and have been for decades.
It's always surprising to me how fall risks operate in the world of OSHA compared to rock climbing. There's an entire domain where people take good-sized falls as an everyday event, just sort of sitting in parallel with the domain where they're considered a major risk needing emergency-response measures.

Obviously, some of that is a real difference in situation. Construction falls are unplanned and happen under all sorts of odd circumstances, and people are quite often injured during their falls. Climbers have someone managing the other end of their rope at all times, on a system that makes lowering them to the ground straightforward.

But other differences seem absolutely pointless. The "suspended by your groin, legs hanging straight down" posture of construction harnesses massively accelerates suspension trauma, while climbing harnesses pull the legs up and keep pressure on large muscles. And there are companies starting to use that design for safety gear, so it's not a regulatory issue - it just somehow took decades to cross the gap.
> Machine learning techniques are AI, as the term has been used in industry and academia for decades.

As the poster said, most of them are just statistics; the term has been used in industry and academia for _centuries_.

Predictive models based on accumulated data is just what statistics is applied to do. Calling it AI academically is a big stretch, calling it AI in industry is a marketing technique.
> 1. Bold move in this day and age: prioritizing quality of UX over business metrics. Props to whoever at Instagram product made the call on this.

Or it's a cynical move to remove any user input as to what you actually see on your feed.
I am constantly and intentionally contracting my leg muscles when in an airplane. Mainly due to comfort issues, but I figure it is probably also helping blood flow.
Being able to plug the AC adapter into either side of the laptop > MagSafe.
Using that logic, a homeless person with a casio watch is better off than Charlemagne.

We should be comparing now with now. And most importantly, we should be comparing wealth inequality because wealth translates directly to power and wealth inequality means power inequality.

Nobody is competing against anyone from 1973 or 1873. We are competing against people today. And the accumulation of wealth and power by a small group of elites should concern everyone regardless of the price of insignificant trinkets.
> [a] librarian [... said] “As a librarian, my gut reaction to that was, ‘You know what else is a free library? A regular library.’”

With all respect to librarians, this is a bit silly. There are public libraries that also call themselves "Free". It's a bit of an outdated distinction, sure, but they've had their names for decades. (And there still exist libraries that are not lending libraries or not open to the general public; mostly attached to universities at this point, but not "free".)
I think they have their place, though, depending on the circumstances. In my town, you don't see these in the higher-income neighborhoods at all, you see them in the lower-income neighborhoods where there are no public library branches.

They tend to be filled with light recreational reading and children's books.

The main problem I've seen with them is that they usually aren't weatherproofed enough, causing books to get water damaged, and they provide an irresistible temptation for vandals.
Makes me appreciate the importance of grammar a bit more. I assumed I was reading it wrong. Thanks for sharing the detail.
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Thanks so much for your comments. As Andrei mentioned, open source is something we are constantly considering but it's one of those decisions that is irreversible and must, therefore, be very carefully considered. Our belief is we must focus on a sustainable business model given the history with products like Parse, Graph.cool and Scaphold.

8base was founded after having spent decades in enterprise software and feeling the tremendous pain associated with designing, hosting and supporting multi-tenant SaaS. Our product is significantly differentiated from Firebase today but we expect that over the rest of 2019 we will diverge further and address some of the major pain points that exist in the market.

We will be coming out Beta in the next few months but we already have some great logos building on the product and paying us real revenues. We are also well funded.
It probably also puts you on their map.
They will not be cut because of LFL, but because some people don't think libraries are important.

Those people may cite LFLs as a substitute, but I doubt even that.
On youtube there are plenty of videos of people eating old military rations. The oldest is from the Boer War. But here is "1942 WW2 US Army Field Ration C B Unit MRE Taste Test Vintage Meal Ready to Eat Oldest Food Review" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8f5Kj_CrY
I'm adding onto this -- I have a 2017 edition of the MBP for work, and I have a faulty keyboard. I hated it. "The touchbar is stupid", I proclaimed.

I recently bought a 2018 edition for the wife because she has always expressed a desire of owning one of her own (my work always provided me with a mac). The keyboard is much improved.

Additionally, watching a "normal" user interact with a Mac and a touchbar, versus me, a developer was eye opening, and I suddenly realized there is a lot more to the puzzle we are so blind to. She loves it. Sure, it is an "emoji bar" when she is in iMessage, but she also loves the scrolling functionality it provides in Photos.

I still don't see much use for it personally, but I am no longer a rapid opponent of it as I once was. There's always been extra ports and features on other laptops I've used in the past, and I never seemed so critical of those as well. Maybe I bought into the mob mentality? Going back to my wife, her work provided her with a Thinkpad Yoga. It has a touch screen, and a stylus. Ok touch screens I am not the biggest fan of, but I happen to think the stylus is cool! I am sure there were many users of the previous Thinkpads at her company that were going "What!? A stupid stylus? Who needs this!" I realized I was doing the same thing with the new MBP.

Touchbar or not, it is still the most quality, aesthetically pleasing, well built laptop I use, and it still remains miles beyond any PC I ever used as well, Inspirons, XPSes, Surfaces included.
Tchap: The super (not) secure app of the French government
I Never Thought I’d Have to Go Bankrupt at 26. Here’s How It Changed My Life
If you get downvoted enough on this site, your comments will stop appearing altogether, so it actually is important to use a throwaway account for potentially unpopular opinions.
Link please?

That is an incredibly ambitious concept for a game jam, but it sounds like they pulled it off?
Why not tie an Alpine Butterfly in advance? Isn't that more secure than Prusik or Klemheist? Or does it weaken the main rope too much?

Or are you saying to use a pair of Prusik knots to self rescue, by climbing the rope?
If the belay stance is a ledgeless hanging belay and the climber above you is slow, you can be hang as much as you end up wanting. I'll end up putting a hip into the wall to give my feet a rest.

But even during super long belays, it's unlikely for the belayer to be motionless for even ten minutes.
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> and there's a valid reason for doing so. sorry, but there is no given right to enter any country at any time because you so choose.

There is, in fact, a legal right to apply for asylum at US ports of entry.

> there is demonstrated problem at the southern border

As consequence, not cause, of this Administration’s policy.

> the government is taking steps to manage the situation.

No, it is actively, and deliberately creating the problem, not managing it, except in the sense of stage managing.
It's basically a recursive-descent parser, which means LL(k)-ish. The "-ish" is because you can use other tricks instead of straightforward recursive-descent (expression parsing is a common example of where you might want to do so), but the basic combinator concept itself is LL(k).
I abandoned apple in Dec. of '17 after 5+ years in the ecosystem & went on a hefty soul search for what to use next. I knew the touchbar was sort of a warning flare that they were trending away from what I'd need out of computing.

After frustrations with windows / linux (laptop, dell xps 13), I ended up shelling out a bunch of money to get a macbook pro '16 with just the two ports: No touchbar. Had to have the top replaced within 6 months due to keyboard. The two ports heated up and pushing heavy throughput via wireless would make bluetooth go apeshit. Sold it immediately afterwards, endured a few more frustrating months with linux. Got a '17 pro, surely they had fixed things. Keys started sticking. Replacement, sold it. Now on a '19 macbook air, because surely they've fixed it, yes?

Keys are sticking after less than ~10 uses.

My desktop has been linux powered since that soul search started, without issue. The trackpad on my lenovo x5c is working wonderfully under ubuntu after I realized I had been importing broken configs from my 10+ year old backups: Exclude your dotfiles.

I only miss two things from the entire ecosystem: ulysses (the text editor) & little snitch. Everything else about linux is far superior.
Thank-you Mr Thomas Mhk.
I am in my 50s and also have stopped to worry about stuff. I also don't worry anymore about things "I should achieve". It hasn't happened until now so it probably ain't gonna happen ever. It's a thin line to walk though. I see people who don't ever seem to be be content, keep chasing things that they most likely won't achieve and are very frustrated with this. My body is also not getting any better so I have accepted that I shouldn't try stuff I did in my 20s.

To me it's a source of content and acceptance but depending on your personality it can go the other way.

I still have things I want to do but if they don't happen I am OK with that.
Weird, I'm pretty sure this isn't the comment I was replying to yesterday.
I joined HN during the Ballmer/Jobs era. Back then the community seemed predominantly Apple and [rightfully so] very weary of Microsoft. Getting to that point took Apple a huge amount of work; I still remember the days when Apple purely existed for Adobe and DAWs. Apple had to climb a mountain of consumer apathy in order to displace Microsoft. The hardware specs have never been great (which is why I personally never made the switch), but Apple was good enough for nearly everything and I could never argue against Apple build quality.

The tables seem to have switched. Microsoft is putting out some unbelievably good hardware, my MSFT friends have surfaces and I drool over them (without worrying about breaking the keyboard :) ). My Dell isn't that bad, certainly superior to anything Apple has on offer (the touchpad sucks as always, but I have a bluetooth trackball). Windows is now a great OS. Microsoft is now facing the very same mountain of consumer apathy that Apple faced.

It does seem to be changing. There was an Ask HN thread yesterday asking about setups, and the amount of "Install Windows 10" or "Install Linux" I saw on HN was utterly bizarre.
DISCLAIMER: Akamai Product Manager here.

Deployment times for config changes have been operating at the sub-5m timeframe for at least two years. It used to take hours (never days) to propagate changes across the server estate, but not anymore. And while we were admittedly late to the DevOps train, we have made up lost ground. We have nearly 100 individual APIs to control almost any aspect of our products. CLIs if you don't want to write to the API. A Sandbox to test config changes locally. The ability to validate OAuth tokens at the Edge, cache GraphQL responses, and throttle and/or quota API traffic on a global basis. Hashtag "legacy CDN."
No, not at all. This is exactly the kind of diverse content we need more of.
Yeah we've passed the point where there is so much third party involvement / data that the standard read strictly pretty much eliminates the 4th amendment. ... any privacy you might hope to have.

As an individual the only option is to withdraw from society as a whole and become a mountain man, that seems unreasonable.
1e12 square passwords.
Absolutely not. Maybe if there's a pattern of repeated irresponsible behavior, I could see a little bit of an argument for it, but the more likely state of affairs would be that the problem employee would only ever be given shitty or cast-off machines.

Frankly, I'd see it as more reasonable to FIRE someone who repeatedly failed to care for company equipment appropriately.
I mean. Dont take it sitting down but also get the hell out of Thailand if you can (and you can).
Not a single company I've worked for has had a policy of employees paying for accidental damage.
“Someone else has to prove it independently, otherwise it’s invalid,”

Take notes, psychology.
For my entire tenure of owning a smartphone before I got my Pixel 2 I was using and would swear by mid range phones from these eastern companies. ZTE, Huawei, LeEco, Alcatel. It was some combination of tendency to break phones, not wanting to support Apple due to their draconian policies, and just being straight up too broke to drop 700 dollars on a phone. These phones would ship without a ton of bloatware (with the exception of LeEco) for around 200 dollars and have decent hardware and alright cameras (outside of low light). For a very long time American phone manufacturers' offerings in this price range would be pretty lacking when compared. These days that's not the case, but in my opinion the inroads they were allowed to make onto the western markets (and subsequently the data they may or may not be collecting and sending to the Chinese Government) is entirely due to the refusal of western companies to ship quality phones at the mid range price.
True, it certainly highlights the "downmarket" strategy of Cloudflare (aiming for small to medium businesses).
Building a multi-file static logger with PHP
Shouldn't this kind of data just be available in a generic service like Google search/maps instead?
‘The Unthinkable Has Happened’
Yep, flew from Phoenix to Atlanta, fell asleep until the end of the flight, woke to get off the flight, and immediately became blind in one eye as an embolism blew up inside the vitreous fluid.

Not a great way to start a new job. Boss was meeting me at the airport thankfully and he drove me to the hospital to get checked out. A few weeks of an eye patch was the short term outcome and a bunch of new 'floaters' that my mind has mostly learned to filter out.

Just very grateful that it detonated in my eye instead of my brain...
Virtue signaling goes both ways. Yes, there's plenty of middle class progressive virtue signaling in having a little free library, but there's also plenty in bashing them as a threat to the public library system. Progressiver-than-thou is a seriously annoying thing.

My own gripe against them isn't the virtue signaling, but rather the KonMari problem. People who read tend to treat books as sacred. Throwing books out is a sin, even if the books are, frankly, junk. I live in one of those neighborhoods they describe, with a little free library or two on every block, and they are often stuffed with garbage books that someone couldn't bear to throw out - old Danielle Steele and Steven King novels, obsolete computer books, etc. It's okay to throw books out, it really is. The magic isn't in the book, it's in the reading.

That said, there are other ways to do Good Work with books besides little free libraries and the public library system. My spouse works with a nonprofit that distributes books for underprivileged children. Every time she buys something on Amazon, she also buys a children's book - exclusively books that feature non-white characters. Her goal isn't just to get books in the hands of poor children, but to get minority kids images that look like themselves, and get the white kids images that look like someone else.
So what? These sorts of criticisms are irritating. "Such and such is just virtue signalling and therefore bad" makes no sense. Everyone virtue signals all the time. It's just one of those things that human beings do. Accusing others of "just" virtue signalling is itself a signal of ones own virtue (in having deeper, more meaningful motivations).
What about doing nothing? Is the status quo intolerable? Will it become intolerable if things continue on their current course? If you believe this, why do you believe it?

The problems of upload filters have been discussed here in depth and the consensus seems to be that they would have massive collateral damage. Removing anonymity creates severe problems for freedom of expression. Consider, for example the buffer anonymity provides from strategic lawsuits against public participation.

What current problem is so bad that solving it is worth the costs of either of those solutions?
I'm not sure I got happier, but I'm definitely differently happy, and probably happier in a more sustainable way.

I'm financially healthier, my job is better, I'm physically in MUCH better shape at 49 than I was at 40 (like, 60 pounds lighter?), and have a better sense of myself.
An Unlikely Savior
Good points, thanks. I will try carrot and lettuce.
Sharing passwords using gopass, Git and GPG
UK's porn age-verification rules can be circumvented in minutes
This happens quite a bit with underage drinking. Cop catches some kids who are not quite 21 with beer and instead of fining every kid up to $1,000 and suspending their license (which is now on their record), he makes them ditch the beer and move on. Rethinking the law means we’d decide it’s ok for all teens to drink. Sometimes the laws are solid, but there are shades of gray in terms of how to apply them.
Some pictures of the underwater construction (a hollow 'weighted spar'): https://ocean.builders/a-view-from-below-the-seastead/
I came here to say this as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U5n2WaMMHo

I was a real dumbass myself one day and spilled a glass of water on my Lenovo in a cafe. I took it apart just in case to dry out, but I'm not sure I even needed to. I put it together and it was just fine.

I have an Apple laptop for work and I work in cafes a lot. I assumed that Apple of all companies would consider this lifestyle issue, but now I'll be extra careful. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that times have changed for Apple.
Whilst Apple was the first company to bring magnetically coupled power cabling to computers with MagSafe, the idea/design wasn't original; it's been a common design for kitchen appliances in the Japanese market since the year ~2000.
I do think there is a Sturgeon's Law problem where it's hard enough to come up with linear stories which are compelling. Based on some of the experimentalism in modern day game development in places like ichi.io hopefully they can come with some compelling genres

I'm not going to go down some half finished path in Bandersnatch when Black Mirror has enough problem with single stories.
I think part of the reason Wall adopted TIMTOWTDI as a design is because he observed that it's what happens anyway, so you may as well embrace it.
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I get the perspective, but the public library folks pushing this position are really cheapening what libraries are.

Books are a commodity with low or no value very very quickly. 90% of books as a commodity are worth less than a bottle of soda within months of publication. A LFL is really a way to connect with neighbors and get rid of surplus books taking up space in a way that is potentially better than dumping them in a bin.

A public library is in my mind a nearly magical place that's about learning and information. I'm lucky to live in a place with a vibrant library system. Our local branch is full of kid and adults doing homework, reading, playing, etc. Books are a big part of the expression of that, not the mission.
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> I bet that a drone could do the measuring job also.

Yes, if you cut down all the trees around it ...
You don't need a map to find the darn things. Just leave the house every once in a while, walk around the neighborhood.
> In September 2014, the mayor of tiny Vinton, Texas, announced plans to install five Little Free Library book-stops across town—while implementing a $50 fee for access to the El Paso Public Library system to balance state-imposed budget cuts.

From the article. I’m with you, I don’t think it’s likely, but the article did so their research and show that there’s precedent for exactly what you’re describing.