skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure he's the ignorant one?

As a young adult who had a roof over their head by default, I was 100% FOSS and installed Gentoo on anything I owned that could even limp its way along that path (and discarded devices that couldn't), I refused to use proprietary messaging tools and social networks, and I accepted that I had limited myself to the social and economic opportunities that these things allowed me, as a sort of altruistic techno-hippie.

Now I am on LinkedIn, Slack, on a Mac and an iPhone, backing up to a proprietary NAS, operating most things in Amazon's or Microsoft's clouds using managed services that lock me and my clients in to their ecosystems, running default OS on most of everything. The technology choices in my day job are made by whoever has the power to make them, for whatever reasons those people may have -- and "freedom" or even "sustainability" for that matter are pretty low on their list of priorities. The technology decision in my home life come down to "what do I have time and energy to put up with?" and "is there a risk that I'll have to fuss with this in order to make sure it's operational when my wife wants to use it, late at night on some weekend when I'd rather be relaxing?".

Maybe when and if I return to a survival-by-default - when the mortgage is paid and health risks are (well enough) accounted for I'll be able to "model my values", but probably not before then. Even that might require a divorce, in adult life one's motivations and their consequences are not solely one's own to keep.

Aside from that, given the experience I've had with FOSS, at this point I doubt even if I were 100% financially independent and early retired if I'd go back to participating except to go to low effort to upstream fixes to my own problems (here's a patch/pull request, if you don't like how it's indented or documented, that's your problem to solve, not mine). The incentives are all awful with so many volunteers trying to create software for users or use cases that are fantasies, bike shed arguments, corporate interests trying to get their way and take advantage of free labor, corporate leech organizations saving millions in license fees for proprietary software and contributing nothing but sassy bug reports, the folks who are militant and awful to each other about inclusion/exclusion topics, well-meaning but ignorant people who refuse to understand their behaviors and words cause others grief, projects with lack of vision, leaders who are reluctant to lead.

Further aside still, there's a reason normal human beings don't use free software or decentralized whatever and it's because the developers of those things don't have the resources or vision to build software for normal human beings: people who won't edit a config file, won't author content in Markdown, don't want to read a man page of flags to understand the permissions in their chat channel, don't want to have to have a tower PC whirring and heating up a corner somewhere in order to solve what seem to them like simple problems, etc. etc. etc.
It's hard to say, there's evidence some are carcinogenic. E.g. formaldehyde.

Studies are lacking, so I prefer to err on the safe side. Especially since buying natural furniture that releases less VOCs is not limiting. In fact, it will last longer as materials are of higher quality.
Or, maybe MS finally realizes that "Customer centric" is/will be the mantra to gain back the trust they have lost, you know.
Unaffordable? Compared to what? Maybe in SF/NY.

I live in an area with nothing, none, nadda, no version of public transportation that can take me from anywhere near home to anywhere near work. Setting aside the unusual hours I work, my occasional need to haul stuff that is awkward on public transport (military stuff), not driving is not an option.
Don't forget maintenance stations and other office housing required to run the plant.
While Mozilla seems to be a large open source/web advocate, I always have a hard time with the fact that, as an organization, most of their revenue comes directly from Google buying the top spot in default search engines.
The goal of, like, 20% of the blockchain movement is to have no single point of failure.

30% wish to avoid restrictions on the movement of money, 50% see it as money-making operation.
> why do you not want those people to have the information they need to refine and improve these emails

Well, it comes at the expense of 1) making things slower for me and 2) making it more difficult to discern phishing emails from legitimate ones. I also find it difficult to believe that all of this analytics is actually doing much to inform me about things I care about.

> Would you be happy if the email just doesn't show up or gets shunted to spam?

It's unfortuate, but I would understand it if it happend. I certainly hope most phishing emails would end up in my spam.
Sounds like a nice idea, but as someone that does buy a fair bit of vinyl (both for listening, and sampling), I find that part of the fun is just browsing through and taking a chance on some obscure records, and seeing what you found when you get home. If you don't like them, you can sell them on.
I assumed this would be the way forward when they introduced Webmaster Tools like a decade ago.
Not all transport time is "wasted". Consider the difference of a normal vs congested road. Suppose a trip would normally take 15 minutes, and takes 25 minutes in congestion.

The 10 minute difference is the waste. The 15 minutes is some acceptable transit time you agree we must have. This discussion is centered around the waste.

Claiming there is some essential traffic time is a straw man argument
.. along with the usage of Disqus, some third-party analytics and Google Apps.
i switched to ubuntu minimal for my cloud instances. it works great. highly recommended.
Minecraft IO isn't terribly efficient.
The chunks don't get rendered bedrock to the sky, but the chunks have to be loaded from disk like that.
Due to the way they are stored, there is no way to load only the visible/nearest part of a chunk.
(I'm working on a minecraft clone with cubic chunks btw)
I’d love to hear any war stories.
Yep, this is it. Great technology, but it's not _the_ technology for developers, as the past years have clearly shown.
What you’re describing is a land use problem not a transportation problem. There are many cities where most trips are made by foot and most of the remaining trips are by bus or train and very few are by driving alone in a car.
How much would the influence of house plants shift things?
It seems totally ridiculous to put pie in the sky faith and trust in one trillion dollar globalist publicly traded corporation over another.
> I think that the vast majority of people either absolutely have to use a car, or can pretty easily not (or in fact would be inconvenienced by using a car).

I doubt either of those categories exist, yet alone form a dichotomy
0.1 ppm is quite a high indoor concentration of formaldehyde. Most homes will not air exposure levels this high.

Just for reference, NIOSH recommends 0.016 ppm as the max exposure limit for a workday. CARB recommends a max safe level of 0.05 ppm. WHO recommends max level of 0.08 ppm for 30 minutes, etc.

0.3 ppm is extremely high for chronic exposure.
I'm more interested in what logic is than what it feels like.

I think it's the same logic I'd use if I sat in gum at a discount theater, and the owner responded with "I'll pay for your pants, but only if you never come back here. I can't implement a process that keeps you from sitting in gum. We don't have that budget, and you should have been fully aware of that by looking at how dumpy this place is. And if you can't take responsibility for sitting in gum yourself, then I don't want to see what else you will do that you try to hold me liable for." Then I'd have to decide if the discount theater was worth it or not.
Searls says that the fight for general purpose computing is the one most worth having: but I think he's using a definition of "general purpose computing" that most non-developers won't even understand, much less agree with.

The problem is that development is an extremely special purpose--one that most people don't do and don't understand the needs of. As a developer, I want a level of control over every aspect of my computer that most people don't want, need, or even think of. To most people, "general purpose computing" just means their computer (or more likely their phone, these days) can run any app they want it to run. It doesn't mean what Searls (and the people whose articles he references, like Doctorow) takes it to mean.

And to the ordinary person, the idea that it is essential to society that developers have the freedom to configure their computers however they want, regardless of what the government or some corporation says, doesn't sound like something worth fighting for; it sounds like something scary. They don't think of Stallman developing Gnu or Linus Torvalds developing Linux; they think of computer viruses and worms running rampant.
Yes, but replace 53 fixed pickup and drop off locations, with pickup and drop off “virtually anywhere”.

And replace a fixed timetable schedule and massive upfront capital costs with perfectly elastic timetables and consumer subsidized capital costs (Tesla Fleet).

Double the top speed. Add a few zeros to the daily ridership. Add 4 zeros to the number of vehicles. Etc...

Putting people on rails makes no sense when the electric cars drive themselves.
Until you want your data.

Turns out data roach motelling is a big thing. And it's even better for the corp interests if they can tie hardware and software to irreplaceable APIs that lock the user down to the whims of the owner.

It's time to take the fight back to "Owner"... If you purchased it, why can't you do what you want? Why are you prevented from doing arbitrary actions?
Is that some special discount on the S10e?

S10e - £669: https://www.samsung.com/uk/smartphones/galaxy-s10/buy/

Pixel 3a XL - £469: https://store.google.com/gb/config/pixel_3a
Also works in latest on Windows 64-bit
Eight bit micros are the most fun.
Causal link not established. Placebo not tested.

Compare therapy against random assignment to six weeks of baking class. Then get back to me.
If you care about protecting something, leaving one known-exploited exploitable backdoor open is practically as bad as leaving 100 open. "Closing all known backdoors" is a rational compromise. "Closing more backdoors known others are open" is an irrational feelgood measure.
Deaths / trillion kWhr (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...)

Coal – global average 100,000 (41% global electricity)

Coal – China 170,000 (75% China’s electricity)

Coal – U.S. 10,000 (32% U.S. electricity)

Oil 36,000 (33% of energy, 8% of electricity)

Natural Gas 4,000 (22% global electricity)

Biofuel/Biomass 24,000 (21% global energy)

Solar (rooftop) 440 (< 1% global electricity)

Wind 150 (2% global electricity)

Hydro – global average 1,400 (16% global electricity)

Hydro – U.S. 5 (6% U.S. electricity)

Nuclear – global average 90 (11% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)

Nuclear – U.S. 0.1 (19% U.S. electricity)

I've never been quite enthusiastic about these kinds of numbers, because I'm not sure what deaths are included. I believe this article includes indirect, pollution-related deaths for fossil fuels, but what about deaths in uranium mining and processing?

Forbes separates out the US numbers because of the strong regulatory regime here---which strikes me as odd; doesn't Forbes usually consider environmental and health-and-safety regulations bad?

One confounding factor in this data is the low numbers of large-scale accidents for nuclear power. The reason the hydro power number is so high is a number of very large dam failures; would nuclear numbers be similar if Chernobyl happened in a much higher population area or if Fukushima happened faster?
> Convenience always wins

Yes, but convenience also leads to greedy "algorithms" prone to getting stuck in local maxima. Convenience can make us lazy and choose the wrong long-term solutions.

This applies to more things than just tech ("convenience" may make us choose foods that are wrong for our health, for example).
Last time I checked, mTLS incurred significant performance penalties and required significant soak testing to ensure that performance would be acceptable for a given application. If you're a small company, you have much lower hanging fruit to chase.
I've ridded a half-decent street bike a summer or two. This thing was light enough that as a tall slightly chubby man I felt uneasy just getting on it, I kept thinking "this thing will crumble from my weight". I knew it was stronger than that, but my brain kept telling me something wasn't right.

And it was a pretty mid-range bike.
And supervisord will restart it.
Yeah, official alpine one looks fine

$ docker run -it alpine head -1 /etc/shadow
root:!::0:::::
chains are a pain. But belt drives have been around for 10 years now and you hardly see them.

Chains are the most complex part of the bike with the most moving parts. You have to lubricate them, they stretch.. But they work well in all variety of conditions (even rusty and squeaky) and are fairly cheap.

Sheldon Brown's (RIP) bike pages have some good articles on the good old chain.

old school html ahead:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/chains.html

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/chain-wear.html
You're not describing a failure of the calories in/out, you're describing a failure to measure the caloric requirements correctly. How do you find that? Eat less, measure your weight. Titrate as required. Worked for me, works for many.
> I'm fairly certain
Yes, it does open them to litigation. Failure to pay arbitration fees is now considered wavier of a contractual term to demand arbitration in many jurisdictions.[1][2][3]

The American Arbitration Association has been cracking down on companies which refuse to pay. They send out letters to companies telling them that not only does the AAA reject this arbitration, the company can no longer use AAA services at all. This throws the case back into the judicial system.

"The cost of arbitration is turning out to be real leverage for plaintiffs' lawyers who are smart enough to adapt to the privatization of litigation. It may not be long before companies like Uber start wishing for the good old days of class actions."

[1] http://www.outsourcingjustice.com/11th-circuit-hernandez-aco...
[2] https://demlplaw.com/firm-blog/new-decision-failure-pay-arbi...
[3] https://www.publicjustice.net/bait-and-switch-many-corporati...
"Trust me, the customer service is a great value-add for this shitty product."
Yes same here. I was on ubuntu from 2003-2010 and quit for osx because I didn't have time to tinker and fix basic-level services like audio and display settings. I only recently got ubuntu 16.04 on my desktop (dual boot) and am enjoying it, but I still drive osx on my laptop.
what else is used in production commonly?
The force of the wind hits you less when you already bend in its direction. When the privacy laws are put in place, which they will be, Google will escape most of the wrath. This is just getting their affairs in order for the inevitable.
According to them, because they have special needs regarding moderation, because "muh harassment".
Abstract for http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1047133/FULLTEXT0...
I have both models, I discovered it in the manufacturing label and was surprised as well.

Turns out Segway is owned by Ninebot and a large chunk of Ninebot is owned by Xiaomi.

In terms of build quality, both are pretty similar.

Here is the source:

https://www.engadget.com/2015/04/15/segway-ninebot-xiaomi-ac...
Almost everything outside the foveal area of your vision.
Come on. You can drive nearly to the reactor itself and not even get a yearly background radiation dose now. There are a few hot spots where contaminated gear from decommissioning is stored, that's it.

People got cancers at increased rate, which is limited to less than two generations of damage. The range had expired a bunch of years ago.

Going into high mountains is a bigger radiation risk today.

As a bonus, you can just drive to Fukushima on a bike today and not even get a daily dose of some inhabited places in the US.
He did, I believe. The question is, if I were a criminal and robbed someone at gunpoint for their iPhone, would it make any sense to not ask the victim about their iCloud password at the same time? I'd still be going down with armed robbery if caught, but if not caught I'd still be ahead either over $150 to pay for a corrupt Apple manager to unlock it or have the bad luck of being recorded on Apple security cameras while spoofing the Genius Bar employee with a fake invoice?

I don't care much about the repair industry, they can sell every part of a phone, both legit or stolen, except the display and the logic board. The display can't be resold anyway as it will have been extensively scratched anyway and the logic board rarely breaks.
I am not aware of a consumer sensor that measures this accurately enough, but I'm also curious what is available.

I tested my home using a badge from this company: https://acsbadge.com/ They are not cheap ($60 for one test), but it's accurate to 2 ppb and will give you an idea what your chronic home exposure is and if changes are needed.
I think it's safe to say it's several orders of magnitude less energy than provided by the trees chopped down, chipped or pelletized, and transported, though.
The US could have its own yellow jacket revolt in a few decades or so. And I suspect the govt. will subsidize it further. Perhaps you will see a rise in bus commuting from the rural towns.
It creates a financial disincentive to consciously fail to deliver reliably.

If you ship 100 people a $100 product with a 5% defect rate, earning $10,000:

Previously, you would refund 5 people $100 each, at a cost of 5 * $0.30 = $1.50 (effectively, 0.3%) + $500.

Now, you would refund 5 people $100 each, at a cost of 5 * $2.90 = $14.50 (fixed at 2.9%) + $500.

I imagine Paypal hopes that this increase in financial cost to refunds will diminish what, presumably, is an excessively high rate of refunds that resulted in the otherwise-unpopular rule change.

Apple does the same for iOS app purchase refunds, except at their 30% rate instead of 2.9%, there is a much higher price to pay for selling something so bad that people manage to refund it (which Apple makes much more difficult than Paypal, from a pure UX perspective).
Calling people "pathetic" is generally a very bad way of convincing people of your argument.
If human breath is in the 3.5-4% range, how does the difference between .05%(green building), and .15%(conventional building) in ambient air make such a large difference? It sounds like the small sample size exasperated the issues. The results are much less conclusive looking at other studies.
Speaking of MySpace, I noticed in yesterday's keynote that Google controlled the end-to-end (E2E) user experience for their demos to work flawlessly.

The value proposition to Developers was not very clear, but I imagine a few bad 3rd party apps could severely harm the E2E Google experience.
I always sleep with the window open, because the fresh air feels nice.

In evolutionary terms, you could speculate that the nice feeling of fresh air could be an instinctual response directing the organism to seek higher quality air.
Not only harder to quanitify. "Tech debt" is frequently used by devs as an excuse to make changes that they'd personally like to do, but which aren't necessarily improvements, e.g. rewriting from one language to another, or rewriting code they find hard to understand because there are no comments (instead of understanding the code and adding comments).
I reinstall Uber for company-related travel because it's integrated with our billing app. As soon as the trip is over, the app is removed. It's really not that much trouble.
I work at $CORP. I don't trust my enterprise IT department with unencrypted traffic for fear of falling victim to stupid traffic shaping or deep packet inspection intrusion prevention going haywire.
Another interesting topic is the movement's impact on steam heating capacity in the skyscrapers from the era. Has lasting effects to this day because of overcapacity.
It definitely is trendy – https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year...

There are other reasons, outside of complicating branding, to stick to one color: https://blog.bolt.io/sonos-x-hay-8fb9e96fcc72.
Honestly the amount of people concerned about their "privacy" is shocking... kinda makes one wonder what most of these people are up too, what are they trying to hide? Obviously, some people are just concerned for good reason but I get the feeling most people are concerned because their hiding shit.

If it means that an literate mother of 3 from India can become literate when it counts then Google execs can take naked pictures of me and publish them in the New York times for all I care.
> "...using personal data to sell ads..."

again with the misdirection. look the other way if you like, but you're letting google choose the information you access and believe (even with ads). if you don't understand the power therein, maybe you should study more of your namesake.
Making it smaller than necessary is a bigger premature optimisation, though. Rather than worrying about potential disk space issues upfront just use glibc and everything works fast and fine.
How fast are the algorithms? does anyone of them work in real time?
In fact, that's only the ideology of Open Source software.

Free/libre software (e.g. GNU and the FSF) believe in "free as in speech" for ideological reasons, not for tech quality reasons. In fact -- they argue -- one should sacrifice convenience and sometimes even short-term quality in favor of freedom. I certainly see the merit of that line of thought, though it's also a very hard road, and harder still to convince people.

Ideology is not a bad word :)
I agree it was a missed opportunity, but:

1) Is there another company that benefited from that missed opportunity? No. K8S is free and it "makes money" in the sense that it's a great on-ramp for GCP, and therefore GCP is happy to subsidize it.

2) It's never too easy to be the "first" company to break into a new technology or opportunity. Look at Altavista, and how it lost to Google in just a few years, despite when Google started Altavista was already a huge company.

3) I am not sure that your proposed solution would have worked, at least in terms of making Docker successful. It is the obvious alternative, but hard to be certain that its outcome would have been a better one for Docker (the company).
How I Install Python in 2019
Google has become so evil, their whitewash attempts are a sad joke.
I was also curious, as an owner of a box mattress and laminate flooring.

I used https://acsbadge.com/ to do a highly-accurate one time test of my home and was happy with the results. Piece of mind to determine if you have a potential issue or not. They also give guidance on how to interpret the numbers and what 'safe' means (results are in ppm concentration accurate to 0.002 ppm).
Most games can use loading screens to hide their "chunk lag", minecraft doesn't have that option.
Is there a link for the Elsevier-disabled people?