skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a woman: no, this comments section is a sexist dumpster fire of the usual "but false accusations!" variety that paints women as generally being out to get men, because... Who knows! I still haven't figured out what our motivation is for all the alleged false accusations we apparently enjoy making, and I'm pretty sure in reality we all just want to live our lives and mind our own business. But also, you know, have some protection or recourse if some co-worker thinks it's cute to grope us or make gross comments about our boobs or something.

I enjoy reading HN, but it absolutely has a sexism problem and it shows everytime an article about something like this is posted. You know how to not get "falsely" accused of harassment? Don't be a creep and don't treat your woman collegues as being lesser-than. Really not that hard. I promise.
Hey, there's always Svalbard :P
Note for the future; Asylum granted by Ecuador is worthless, regardless of how much of a shitty house guest you are.
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Well, before China, it was Japan. They dominated the 80s and a good chunk of the 90s. They still have a lead in markets such as cameras and are fairly competitive for technologies like Flash, which they actually invented. Samsung passed Toshiba a decade ago or so.
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Allegedly how to get access to another user's creds, to avoid having to download further data Uber Manning's account.
> "Something something it's righteous when we do it but evil when they do it"

That's too simplistic a take. There's a moral angle that you're missing: "they" are authoritarians with terrible human rights records (see: Dissidents, treatment of), "we" are a liberal democracy that's quite a bit better at human rights (though not perfect).
If you're streaming audio over Bluetooth (i.e. headphones or speakers), you're not using BLE, you're using classic Bluetooth, and none of this matters. BLE didn't have the bandwidth for audio until 4.2, and still doesn't have an audio standard like classic Bluetooth's headset profile.
"hired car" // been in use for decades

"ride for hire"

"car for hire"

"fee for service"
Yeah but as far as I can tell that doesn't actually exist yet, and isn't scheduled to be available until the end of next month. (Existing inside Microsoft but not publicly is "does not exist" as far as I'm concerned, because I remember all kinds of legendary stuff Microsoft has apparently made but never released.)
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Most of this thread is filled with toxic, logically fallible attacks, which is why I avoided commenting earlier. I decided, however, to create a throwaway to respond to this. Anyone in this thread who is willing to step back and actually look at the facts, this message is for you.

Facebook takes the GDPR very seriously. I know this, because I know some of the people who worked on compliance. Facebook has lawyers who have studied the law. Facebook has worked with the EU to ensure compliance. Facebook publishes online the steps necessary to access your data, the list of uses of that data, and even a form for special requests. You may ask, then, how I reconcile that statement with the website posted here?

Well, take a moment to actually read the linked website. The writer made a request for their data, and was disappointed when Facebook complied, and gave them access to all of the data that they had on him.

The writer then asks for this specifically: access to their own data, how it's processed, and some minutiae around the processing. The user already has access to their own data, and the additional information requested is already publicly available.

The writer uses email and a special request form in order to make this request, and becomes irate when the special request takes longer than he would like.

Facebook then politely sends the writer an explanation of all of this, at which point the writer starts harassing the customer service agents who are helping him. He then researches ways that he can personally harass members of Facebook's team. He sends an email not just demanding his data, but requesting the raw data from Facebook's servers.

Facebook's response is still quite polite and factual. They have already delivered all of his data to hime, as well as all of the descriptions requested. They point out the timeline of events. They then explain that despite his request, the GDPR does not cover raw server dumps, a fact which has been proven in court.

Finally, the writer creates a defamatory website and posts it to Hacker News.

So no, sir, this event does not make me question my morals.
Farmer != farm worker. The farmer owns land, which is an extremely valuable asset that can both be borrowed against and provides serious tax benefits.

When the farm worker is under paid, the farmer is the one that reaps the profits.
There's also the main Bountysource page: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/microg for donating to specific issues. If you're not ready to use this yet because it doesn't work well with X app, there's probably an issue tracking something that would make it work which you can donate to!
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I have the first version of Chevy volt. I can take phone calls with Bluetooth but not play music with it, what a joke.
Look at my comment again. I said "more friendly with Russia and China". That does not imply that I said that Ecuador was previously a puppet of China and Russia, simply that it was more friendly with them than they were the West.
> I don’t think PG is in a good position to understand those constraints and anxieties. And he is somewhat incentivized not to, since YC benefits from having more startups to choose from. But YC does not experience significant downside on the startups that they reject or which fail. Unlike: the founders of those failed startups.

Exactly. And I have been avoiding saying this but keep in mind that from what I remember PG got the idea for YC when he was 'walking through Harvard Yard with Jessica'.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3002810/aha-moments-made-paul-gr...

All VC's are like this by the way. Even though they know there is a great chance that many ideas they fund will not work they still push the investments because it's not their mess to cleanup. That said there is actually probably more downside for employees. After all a founder with a big startup failure has been marked as someone 'in the mix' and can usually parlay that to other opportunities. Look at even Sam Altman and what happened after Loopt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt

Then he goes on having made his mark to running YC.
I still see non-tech savvy friends have computers with "adware" installed in their browser. It's usually because they tried to "fix" something themselves, googled, and installed something that was purported to fix the problem.

There are a bunch of well SEO'd sites that will come up if you google nearly any computer issue that will appear to have a solution, but step 3 is usually to try installing some software.

(For example, if you google "can't delete file windows" this site will come up. I don't recommend installing the software https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager-software/delete-fil... ) Here's a discussion on MalwareBytes forum about it: https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/166526-easeus-partitio...

No matter how many times I yell and scream at friends not to just blindly google for "Device Drivers" and install them, they do. Even sites that look a lot like a legit Epson or Canon site (for scanner or printer drivers, etc) are fake. (And they're searching for device drivers because they have a printer problem and they don't realize that the need to install a custom driver for a name-brand current printer on Windows or MacOS is very very rare)
This is how SOLID, or rather its most zealous proponents, go from reasonable but limited capabilities to claims that cannot be sustained.

While small classes and methods can be (though are not necessarily) at least superficially easy to understand, this does not guarantee that the system as a whole is understandable. This is because a lot of the complexity is in how the classes interact with one another. There are contracts and constraints that have to be observed, that are inherently about more than one thing, and so cannot be localized in one method.

This approach, applied to writing, would be to allow only kernel sentences using common words. This is not going to be enough to make a complex topic simple to understand, and, if applied zealously, is likely to have the opposite effect.

Unnecessarily complex code is not a consequence of not following simple rules; it is usually a consequence of trying to write simple code but not understanding all the issues. There is nothing about SOLID that guarantees that unnecessary complexity will be avoided. Your idea of turning programming into something like painting-by-the-numbers will not work.
I carried an HTC 10 and the battery went bad pretty quickly. When I googled around that sounded common.
Not sure if that was sarcasm, but surely there's South America, South and Southeast Asia, and Australia. Though, obviously not all these places are on good terms with China either.
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I'm using Zotero with the FF addon as a bookmarker and subscribed to the RSS-feed in telegram via bot. This way everyone in my workgroup gets notified about new bookmarks.
Indeed, this is something of a bellwether case.
From the FAQ on the page I linked to above:

> Why do we need a custom build of LineageOS to have microG? Can't I install microG on the official LineageOS?

> MicroG requires a patch called "signature spoofing", which allows the microG's apps to spoof themselves as Google Apps. LineageOS' developers refused (multiple times) to include the patch, forcing us to fork their project.

> Wait, on their FAQ page I see that they don't want to include the patch for security reasons. Is this ROM unsafe?

> No. LineageOS' developers decided not to include this patch for various reasons. The signature spoofing could be an unsafe feature only if the user blindly gives any permission to any app, as this permission can't be obtained automatically by the apps. Moreover, to further strengthen the security of our ROM, we modified the signature spoofing permission so that only system privileged apps can obtain it, and no security threat is posed to our users.
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In my opinion, as an init script replacement, systemD is almost a great thing. Including everything else is what makes it a terrible thing.
Possibly the poster is over extrapolating the finding that women self-report higher levels of neuroticism than males. It's not clear to me that 1) self reporting is a reliable measure, 2) higher neuroticism implies higher paranoia or lower objectivity or 3) higher neuroticism is necessarily a negative trait.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11519935
I would add that it is important to practice acceptance and self love. A lot of times lists like this give the sense or feeling that you can't slip or mess up. It's important to remember that you're human, you will make a mistake or slip up, and that it's ok. Practicing accepting those moments, being kind to yourself, getting back on track and continuing to make progress.

Remind yourself that you're not alone in this struggle and that any setback is just temporary and sometimes necessary so you can keep pushing.
There's also /e/ - another, more opinionated Android distro also using MicroG (and LineageOS...)[1], along with freemium Nextcloud hosting. I threw it on an old Nexus 5, seems interesting, if a little still-in-alpha.

1: https://e.foundation/e-solutions/
Pretty bad reporting. OK, it contains Pu-239, but how much? If it leaks, what effects will that have?
Thanks so much, glad you like it.

We're going to do all your suggestions—definitely will make it more obvious what's going on
Exactly - conventional techniques involving moulds would probably be cheaper if you're making 100 or even 10 of them, but if you're making 1 of them 3D printing is excellent.
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Cross platform stuff? Docker allows you to do many things on Windows and Linux.

I’m not arguing that this is worth the overhead, or even a useful feature in practice (most companies and products tend to pick one environment and stick to it), but one that comes to mind that systemd would likely never have.
Not the first time the US has tried to enforce computer laws in regard to password hashes. The infamous case of AACS encryption key controversy and 09 F9 showed a lot of people willing to help with hacking into computer system, and the reaction from the legal system.
I don’t know if it’s a semantic difference or not but some languages, like swift now have labeled loops so the break statement can reference the specific loop, allowing control flow to jump out of the nest.
Have you read the special counsel’s GRU indictment?
Even non-OSS apps that "require" Google services usually work fine without them.
This is what the joy of OTA updates feels like Shivetya!

There is no other auto manufacturer on the planet where you could complain about wanting news features XYZ instead of the delivered ABC and actually expect something might be done about it!

> But we got fart humor, animated rain drops, and MAME.

This is unfair. Aside from the humor and slight touches, which sometimes is delightful, we also got Dashcam, Sentry, Dog Mode, updated Climate controls, Blind Spot display, zoom-in speed award guidance display, improved auto-park, improved Summon, and probably another two dozen features I’m forgetting.

That’s aside from all the core AP enhancements which are almost too numerous to list.

Media is hard because they probably refuse to make the interface work for just a single model of phone, or even a narrow range of software versions of a single model of phone. They don’t want to write and maintain features that need to be tested across 100 models and versions of phones from a dozen different countries.
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The bio diesel relies on a net investment in calories to achieve its green fuel. Most of the investment comes from petroleum products used as fertilizer. (All be it some time ago, I remember it being 4:1 calories invested:harvested for corn).
I've decided to migrate my Linux boxen to BSD (this is a long-haul project that will take me a year or more, I estimate). In part because systemD itself really made me aware of the issue that you're raising.
> You are free to ride with whomever you want, and you got into the deal knowing what it was.

This cuts both ways, though. Taxis still exist! If you don't want to take Uber or Lyft, you are free to take a normal taxi, use public transportation, arrange your own ride, etc.
Oh, that changes things. I suggest to attribute quotes to avoid people thinking they’re your words.
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There are so many different kinds of 3d printing!

While "FDM" or "FFF" 3d printing (the kind most people think of when they think 3d printing) is most common, there are tons of others. SLS can produce impossibly complex "solid" metal objects, SLA can use resins that have very unique properties (some extremely hard, others nearly perfectly transparent, etc...).

Even if you don't leave the FDM style of 3d printing, there are tons of different techniques and plastics or plastic-hybrids that you can use. Often they can even be used on hobbyist level machines. Different kinds of plastics including Nylon and Polycarbonate, carbon-fiber infused filaments that have incredible tensile strength, even some metal-powder infused plastics which are designed to print, and then "bake" to harden them.

It's a pretty awesome field with a lot of variation in what is possible even at the hobbyist level.

Just looking at the video, it looks like they are using fairly "traditional" FDM 3d printing, but most likely with some unique filaments/plastics. If I had to take a complete shot in the dark at what they are using, i'd guess PEEK. It's a bitch and a half to print with using hobbyist devices (it needs a pretty high temperature and the ambient air needs to be kept quite hot to avoid warping), but it's extremely strong and very consistent.
I'll be honest, this was a much larger job than I had expected
Guix is a weird little behemoth of a distribution, that allows you to install different versions of different packages at the same time which then builds your effective file system on the fly. That being said, as mad as this sounds, I've heard people are having a lot of fun with it too, so apparently it's also manageable.

Guix is for you if you want to run old software on a discontinued software stack simultaneously with a modern system.
It would be cool if that was for an apartment
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Is someone maintaining a HTC10 build now? The last I checked it had been abandoned in November.
The problem is that China insists they don't do forced technology transfers, and gets angry themselves when e.g. the US cuts off Huawei. If the government openly said "you can't do business in China if you don't want to give us your tech", I don't think anyone would get angry about that, but it would put them in a substantially worse market position than they currently enjoy.
...and when you care quite deeply about the problems being solved, think they're being solved in a pretty good way, and are unsettled by the anti-systemd frothers literally sending Lennart death threats? (Like...this is bad, yo. There are arguments--bad ones, IMO, but arguments--against systemd. But the people who like systemd aren't sending death threats to Devuan people or whatever.)

What group is that?
It's so much worse since Greece hasn't been infiltrated by the mafia on a state level. Greek politicians are corrupt but in a populist, power-to-rule-over-masses way.

There are no large-scale mafia organizations that control parts of the country, parts of the government, like in Italy which is pretty much a mafia state.

This means that rackets like toxic waste disposal (= poisoning your own land and killing your people) are unheard of in Greece.
That generally makes it harder to follow and harder to optimise?
> But what U.S. government crimes did he expose?

Google, "Collateral Murder"

You're welcome.
This is a common meme on HN, but it's reductionist to the point of being meaningless. You could also say Google reinvented Altavista.
Why does he need one, what will that do for him?

How should he find a good one?
These actually exist (or used to) for paper tape.

Until the early 80's a lot of CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) machine tools (e.g., milling machines, lathes, planers, etc.) were programmed using paper tape. Large machine tools are built with literally tons of cast iron (cast iron has excellent vibration-damping characteristics and is a fairly good bearing material) and run for decades: there are still WW2-vintage machines labelled "PROPERTY OF WAR DEPARTMENT" humming along in small machine shops. Not surprisingly, the owners of expensive capital equipment didn't want to just up and buy new ones that were programmed by floppies or over RS232, etc. So an industry sprang up to convert the paper tape readers to take electronic inputs and emulate paper tape.

I remember at my first job, being approached by our PCB vendor who had a CNC drill that read paper tape. He was looking for a way to bypass the tape reader and input RS-274 drill data from a floppy drive. Would have been a fun project, but my boss passed on it.

In fact, there are a couple of small companies selling thumb drives with IDE interfaces that plug into the floppy drive port so you can load code on a thumb drive, but the machine thinks it's reading a floppy.
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I hate bluetooth. I hate pairing viscerally.

Recently, I rented a Dodge mini van. Was all they had.

The pairing is voice. Fucking menu via voice! It took 10 minutes...

Please say:

Manage devices
Add a new device
Configure
.
.
.

What priority, say 1 through 5...

I say 1.

Priority 1 is in use by [device name]

And on and on. I was angry when done. I will never use that POS again. Ugh!

Someone at Dodge needs to try again. I know you meant well. I know you were probably told to do it too. But damn. It is a real fail.

I hate quality changes for very thin reasons.

I hate quality changes for technical reasons.

I hate charging.

About the only time I loved Bluetooth was running windows XP and that excellent driver could pair with my old flip phone and do it all. Network, act as mic, etc... I did it once and done too. Ran that setup for a couple years until I got a better phone.

Here is the thing. Brb

Back! Had to change devices.

I can be convinced to go wireless. It is going to take more than the mess we have today.

Just renewed my phone with headphone Jack. Brand new, should be good for years.

The wireless devices need to be serviceable, the protocols need to be sane and robust too, or the whole affair is a total net loss.
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What's perhaps more alarming in the original paper [0] is that earthworms were shown to increase nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions even more than they increased CO2 emissions from soil (42% and 33%, respectively).

In terms relevant to the greenhouse effect, N2O is 298 times more potent than CO2 in the atmosphere [1]. I wonder about how increasing the entire boreal forest's emissions of N2O by 42% would affect the current projections. Seems...bad.

There's perhaps a silver lining here though: earthworms "unlock" stored nutrients in soils, making them easier for plants to access. This might spur growth, thereby storing atmospheric carbon in the process.

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate1692
[1]: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases
> I want to be challenged and maybe have my opinion changed in an intellectual way

be the change you want to see in the world! begin by not selectively ignoring the false allegations that brought him disrepute. Then you can gain some "insight" from the concept that the US could level much more serious charges against him after he lands on US soil from the relatively minor "hacking" charge. From there you can challenge yourself to respect the temerity required to expose war crimes committed by the most powerful nation in the world. You can do it; my faith in you isn't as easily shaken!
The difference is that with busy box, everything is optional (just replace the symlink in /bin with another implementation), and designed as a drop-in replacement for standalone utilities (instead of redesigning them poorly from scratch).
It's, IMO, due to how 99.9% of the world uses their bluetooth. It could have options to control these things but for most people, they just don't care. They might own one pair of bluetooth headphones and one bluetooth mouse and one car that pairs to their phone, and that would be about it.

So ironically it was designed to do anything & everything, like USB, but now it's a two-trick pony.
Ever get a flat tire in your Tesla? I did. No shop would touch it and I had to have it towed to Tesla where it took 2 days and $400 for a simple tire change.

My blood boils when I see Musk tweet about putting more games in the car. They need to be reaching out to mechanics with training information so that they're not so spooked that they won't even change a tire.
Thank you, I added the link to my original post!