skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has anyone considered that there are some things the state does well and others that it does poorly?

Health care and education are two areas where the public sector and public control does well.

Groceries are one where it does poorly.
> --no-ignore-vcs

Oh, thanks, I've missed it somehow.

> rg foo | less -F

Yeah, that's what I meant by writing my own wrapper, since I wouldn't want to type that in every time I search for something. And since I use bash, $@ in the middle of an alias is not possible, so: rg() { /usr/bin/rg $@ | less -LFXRqn }

It doesn't seem to be working as expected for me without explicitly adding --pretty though (obviously, rg sees it doesn't operate in a terminal and tries to be smart). End even then it's... weird. I don't know if that's `less` issue of `rg` issue, I'm guessing something about it being multi-threaded: it sometimes doesn't display some found items at the top of the terminal, but if I scroll screen down and up again -- it's there! Cannot reproduce with ag. Gonna play with this for some more time later, but it surely doesn't work as solidly with a pager, as ag --pager='whatever' does.

EDIT: actually found a bug report that seems to describe exactly the same problem. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/513
I too get annoyed with that. Outline.com is your friend.
That mistake has been fixed: ẞ

It was terrible because you could get all 3 choices in a lowercase usage (s, ss, ß) and then lose that distinction when capitalizing. You couldn't reliably uncapitalize such words unless somebody disobeyed the rules by leaving the ß unmolested.

Lingering affects will be with us for ages, for example in the rules that computers use to do sorting and searching. The default capitalization rules for Unicode can't really change because that would break somebody's database or filesystem.
What about the guy played by Christian Bale in The Big Short[0]? Surely his models were not BS.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short_(film)
I'm stating agreement with the post I replied to, yes.
Or allowing one to "confirm" their accoubt via SMS if they've lost the TOTP code generating device.

(Because no one would lie about that)
Some countries are already planning on banning petrol and diesel powered vehicles in the not so distant future.
There was certainly advertising in the USSR and other Eastern Bloc countries. Here's an article describing how bizarre it was: https://www.rbth.com/blogs/continental_drift/2017/05/18/sovi...
The Criminals Who Fool Doctors
Yeah it would be great if the touchbar itself had haptic feedback. But the trackpad haptic feedback works surprisingly well.
The Internet as a whole [1] is not designed or maintained – it evolves.

[1] As opposed to its components (infrastructure, protocols, individual websites), which are designed and maintained, and which would in general be a nightmare to design and maintain if they followed the principles described by vidarh.
I think you're conflating the Vive's lighthouse system with the Rift's cameras. The lighthouses don't use USB at all. They don't even need to communicate with the PC (though you have the optional ability to do so via Bluetooth).

If you move your desktop PC around often, I can see why the Index or Rift S would be a non-optimal choice. I don't think this describes most people.
From Small School in the Bronx to Internship at Goldman Sachs
That isn’t mentioned anywhere in the linked article.
There is significant research into overconstrained 6, 7, 8+ bar linkages. For reference, an overcostrained 4 bar linkage is quite common, your standard “4-bar linkage”. The fun continues as you add more and more linkages.

I’m no expert, but I understand that there is no closed method for determining viable overconstrained sets past 4. So the research has a large amount of analytical/exploratory research. Very active field:
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&ei=1bvk...
I listed issues with both together, probably should have listed them separately.

Edit: just noticed you said Rift S, maybe you meant the Rift? The Rift S doesn't use sensors, so moving it to another room just requires re-calibration in the new room, I believe.
i cannot remember the last time i used str() instead of a string format.
Go through the password reset process with google and it's worse than most people think. The first thing it asks you is:

> Enter the last password you remember using with this Google Account

Which of course the attacker knows because they changed your password. If they don't know that you can click try again and go through the various two factor methods set up (hardware token, totp code, sms) and then the very last and also terrible option is putting in the date the account was created. If your account has been owned the attacker likely knows this too. Advanced account protection is pretty much the only option if you've had your account breached at any time.
For convenient definitions of "secure" :-). "Unscrambling" a particular function could be in P but still effectively intractable.

(For a fun angle not related to complexity, the algorithm itself could be so large that it wouldn't fit in the observable universe without breaking the Bekenstein bound.)

And it has been a long time since I did proof theory, but is there the possibility of a non-constructive proof but no actual examples no matter how long you keep enumerating algorithms? Or a non-constructive proof, but no constructive proof? In that case there could be a "perfect heuristic"...
It was hard to walk past the "test if they have syph, by injecting them with syph" moment. For me, it summed up why study of mind in this culture of medicine bears very heavy burdens in the roots of the science: People did things which on no rational basis, would be ethical.
Basically what assets it has like inventory, PP&E, IP, etc. less any debt or liabilities the company has. Typically that sets the bottom range of value. In more distressed situations you would assume the assets are slowly destroyed by the company over time as it continues to operate and wastes the asset before they can be sold.
Almost anywhere on the internet people will respond to this with basically "no, it's extremely inefficient to learn how to program this way", and they're right.

But.

If you want to learn _other_ things, these books are incredible. Maybe you want to learn deeply the combinatorial ideas behind data structures, or general techniques for squeezing small optimizations out of low level code. Or even maybe you want to see simple data structures used every-which-way to efficiently solve a huge range of mathematical problems. None of this is normal programming per se. I treat these as math books, and love them for it.

Like much of mathematics, it will make you a better programmer, but only accidentally.
The punch line is that the anti-Semitic bigotry had the accidental effect of benefiting the Jews, who didn't have to stand in the pointless line as long.

Today, the joke would be accompanied with the "congratulations, you played yourself" meme.
Honestly I don't know who owns developer relations/tech docs. Could be Craig.

Could be Phil Schiller, who has owned the app stores since 2015. That might explain why developer.apple.com has turned into more of an information-lite marketing site than an actual resource.

God forbid, it could be Eddy Cue.
Why Backlinks Aren’t Improving Your Rankings
The problem is that with no VC funding and no profit model, most decentralized systems rely on volunteers to run servers, give up storage space, spend cpu cycles and/or develop it.

Meanwhile Twitter could spend money like crazy for years on end because their goal was cornering the market. They can afford to operate at a loss of millions per year, whereas John Q Developer can spend a few hours a week in his free time. It's a very lopsided situation.
> For example, if I listed off your address and your posts and offered a bounty of one million dollars for your ears?

OP clearly sees a threat of violence as a threat of violence. OP is calling it a "call to violence" but that's hardly grounds for a substantive argument about the bounds of the concept of violence.

> Under your stated view it'd be "dangerous doublespeak" to suggest this act is dangerous or violent.

Note that you inserted the branch "dangerous or" with no explanation, increasing the likelihood of an irrelevant counterargument.
Yes, I think a more general way to put that would be to say the lifecycle of the software affects how important these things are. It’s not debt if it’s not going to slow you down in the future.

It’s common to cram in some debt before a release in the applications world too, with the understanding that meeting the deadline is more important than finessing every detail in the implementation and that it will be cleaned up shortly thereafter. (Yes it’s possible for that part to fall by the wayside, what else is new.)
Anybody has strong feelings about AppImage vs Snap vs Flatpack (and any other similar ones)?
Kono to ask foreign media to switch order of Japanese names
Calling words 'violence' is like calling a restaurant recommendation 'eating'. A call to eat is not eating; A call to violence is not violence. It's simply nonsense.

In fact there's no area where people are trying to equate words with the actions they might lead to. People oppose words on the grounds of what they might lead to, but that's very different from saying the words are what they might lead to.

But why, then, do some people hold onto this absurdity tooth and nail, refusing to give it up even when it's clearly causing miscommunication? It gives some benefit to them.

The benefit is: People with weak ideas recognize that they won't win a neutral exchange of ideas. So they want to avoid the frame where the interaction is just a neutral exchange of ideas. Instead, they try to change the contest to something they can win - a violent power struggle.

They want a contest of power: Who can stigmatize, harass, and physically intimidate the other side into submission?

Because they sense they can win a contest of power, but they might not win a neutral exchange of ideas. There's nothing else to it - it's pure bad-faith power games straight out of 1920's Russia.

Of course, it's poisonous to civilization, since it weakens the discussion norms we need to find truth and good paths forward.
One of the issues I've had with things distributed as Snaps or Flatpaks is that they tend not to pickup the settings and preferences that I've configured on my workstation.

For example, if I've setup themes, fonts, scaling factors, custom keyboard shortcuts, etc., they tend not to be available/utilized by the applications which are distributed in these bundling formats. For the most part, that's why I avoid using them.

I assume, but don't actually know, that this also true of AppImage. Can anybody who knows better confirm, or deny, that?
> you're doing that while simultaneously claiming to represent a huge and varied field with absolutely no cited sources for that claim

I suspect it was phrased strongly because the GP made the same claim in the opposite direction: "Most software is grounded in an open source development and deployment tool chain".
> One of my coworkers was from Spain and had a last name consisting of two words separated by a space.

It's two last names, father and mother first last names. I guess the same definition works, but it's worth noting that any last name might contain a space.
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"Whatever is done to the platform, it must accommodate the strategy of capture of developer mindset."

Only if the company has a clue.
The CVT in the Prius is all "positive engagement", but it uses multiple motors to accomplish this.
Not doing something about national security because the US might look hypocritical is not a concern to those making the decision. Countries spy on each other while complaining about the other spies. The US tried to stop North Korea from getting nukes while holding the world’s largest stockpile of nukes. The US has put multiple countries on blast for human rights violations while also being allies with Saudi Arabia.

The fact that Google and affiliates are being used in a similar manner that we’re accusing Huawei probably makes the people in charge laugh even harder.

The real question should be that if Chinese government policy creates a security risk for the US, why are they only going after Huawei? Why not a blanket ban on all sophisticated Chinese electronics? Lenovo has been caught before putting spyware on computers, but somehow the US government still buys Lenovo laptops...
The Oculus iOS app connects to your headset and handles casting. Then you can just mirror the iPhone to Apple TV. Needs good wifi though or else it keeps disconnecting.
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Kono puzzles followers with 'enciphered bacon' tweet
Emacs users remap caps lock to escape lock!
Is Linode Down Again?
i think the author probably wanted to draw attention to their gender, not their sex. hence female is off the table.
Meanwhile it still doesn't have Authn/Authz built-in.
Many carriers let you set an "account password" or "account pin" - changes can't be made to the account without it (even with personal info like SSN, bday, etc)

Financial institutions offer it to sometimes - my credit union requires the account password, or a visit to a branch to show ID - no amount of personal info will allow you access.
Petition to stop forcible hair dyeing from natural to black in Japanese schools
Thanks, it's really very interesting to me that you have music. Seems to trigger the ritualistic aspect of religion that others have talked about in this thread.

My impression was always that UUs were a sort of offshoot of Protestantism; I think "Unitarian" refers to their non-belief in a trinity of beings that are a core doctrine of most modern Christian denominations - is that right? Would you say that UUs have entirely abandoned their Christian / Protestant heritage other than the form of the service?
I am reminded of the discourse on hypocrisy in The Diamond Age. That we fail does not mean we are insincere in our aspirations to do good.
See this article on the cash flow of Uber, Tesla, Lyft, and Snap.[1] Those guys have far worse startup cash flow than Google, Amazon, Apple, or Facebook. Far, far worse. It's hard to think of any business in financial history with that much cash burn up front.

Some of those guys are going to have a Chapter 11 bankruptcy haircut. They'll probably all survive, but the investors, not so much. Tesla has to raise a lot of money over the next few months. When the dust settles, Tesla may be a Chinese company. Tencent is the latest big investor.

[1] http://fortune.com/2019/05/20/fortune-analysis-the-tech-supe...
Also as Jew born in Ukraine at the tail end of the Soviet Union I'm at least 90% sure this joke was created by a Jew
To be fair, most of the harassment allegations were vague and not even alleged to be perpetrated by the woman who was disinvited (like “a famous hacker knows her, and my Signal started doing weird things”).
What people use it for at the top, what it does in the middle, and how it works at the bottom, buried in a video - typical modern sites (except this one at least has the video).

What I would like to see:
1. Problem statement
2. How this solves it
3. Usage guide
4. Source code link
5. No appeal to authority of who's using it
My desire to make it so for myself. No I am not a psycho, I am an educated and balanced individual. It pains me to see how people do not realize that sometimes it is worthwhile to die peacefully than living in utter pain. Worse, it drags down immediate family, society and govt money. All for trying to reduce the torture they are going through. Sometimes there are individuals who have no knowledge of torture they are going through - they cannot eat, cannot sleep, always in pain, do not have money, and yet do not know what to do.

I am going to live and die on my own terms, unless it is a sudden unnatural death (ex. Accident).
As a completely unrelated remark: it felt strange for me to see a so ancient text but without Yat[1] and hard signs[2] at end of the most words. You know, I've never seen so old english text, only russian ones. Typography is recognizably ancient, but where are those old letters. Cognitive dissonance as it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yat
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AA
Rakuten launches live video streaming service
Lung cancer screening with 3D deep learning: low-dose chest computed tomography
The author should check out Scuttlebutt if they haven't already. There's a compatible mobile app called Manyverse which will sync your social feed over WLAN or Bluetooth with peers while it's open, and also over the DHT and via public forwarding servers.
Bonobo mothers actively help their sons secure mating opportunities
Who is the United States stopping from trading with Cuba?
I offer you a contra thought. We have unparalleled access to information, we have Wikipedia, free online courses, video documentaries, books, you name it. Yet 1/10 people believe the earth is flat, 1/5 does not understand that homeopathy is a fraud, 1/3 believes different races have different levels of intelligence, 1/2 believe in some religion, 3/4 are proud to be born in the given nation and 4/5 never heard of the law of comparative advantages (aka why import taxes hurt economy).

My point is society has already gained all value that can be extracted from free knowledge and information. What we see today is the base level of human dumbness.
I have not, but Virtualbox supposedly supports passing through the USB protocol itself, so I imagine it works; at least it's supposed to work?
What’s odd about this is how easily it could have been a fan engagement story. Sloppy beyond belief or an intentional faux scandal.
> We treat all markets in the same way, but they aren’t all the same.

This is completely inaccurate. The US healthcare market (much like finance, pharmaceuticals, construction, most of the largest farming industries, etc, right down to the expensive licensing required to be a hair stylist or interior designer) are some of the most heavily regulated markets in the world.

The US health insurance market has been the farthest thing from a free market for some time. Whether health insurance would benefit from total centralization is one thing (one of the few markets I personally believe in being gov controlled).

Agencies like the FAA and FDA are some of the largest and most thorough of all regulatory agencies in the world. One that other foreign governments with allegedly "big government" administrative agencies look up to as a model replicate or simply take their findings as policy instead of testing their own.

Pretending the US economy is some capitalist free-for-all is one of the biggest global misconceptions.

The rising cost of the US health care market vs the world [1] has little to do with lack of gov intervention but the result of a centuries worth of half-baked compromises between two different worldviews, often featuring the worst of both worlds.
n-gate is a treasure.
>I'm saying that it makes no sense to say that Facebook cannot determine who is allowed to access their private property.

What?? That is exactly what anti-discrimination laws do.

>Why should anyone be allowed to demand access to something that is wholly owned, operated, and funded by Facebook?

Because we have decided for cases that other concerns are more important than their private property rights, which are far from being absolute.

>What about it is dishonest or malicious?

The people being deplatformed are, generally speaking, on the right wing. The people calling for right wingers to be deplatformed are, generally speaking, on the left wing. I'm sure I don't need to remind you that the left wing generally supports prohibiting private businesses from discriminating against people on the basis of e.g. sexual orientation, so when left wingers happily use "it's a private business" as an argument to support deplatforming right wingers, that comes off to right wingers as being partisan and phony. Given that speech is one important way in which people advocate for their interests, a partisan attack on the ability of people on the right wing to participate in the public conversation comes across as malicious.

>You already pointed out that legally Facebook can kick off any user they want, so are you arguing that the laws should be changed to prevent Facebook from doing so?

Yes, or regulations rewritten.

>Facebook is a cesspool of memes and fake news, it is not at all relevant in the annals of "public political debate" any more than 4chan.

Its userbase swamps that of 4chan. I'm not sure why memes wouldn't count as participation in the political conversation. They are modern day political slogans, propaganda posters, and political satire. Regardless, as you are probably aware, political campaigns have hugely invested in their social media presence. Are you saying that was all a waste?

>The fundamental nature of Facebook is triviality

I'm not sure why you think that the public political debate has ever been a deep and substantive one for the vast majority of participants. The depth of the conversations does not matter. Most people do not have to attention span for anything other than triviality.

>the idea that lacking access to Facebook is a precursor to violence is completely unsubstantiated.

The idea that lacking access to the public political conversation is a precursor to violence is a very old one, and has been substantiated many, many times.
This makes me sad, but not completely unexpected. I worked on Antergos a while early on and had a lot of fun. That said, at least 2 of the core devs went more or less MIA for months at a time as they got busy with life, counting myself. My hats off to the team but specifically Gustau and Dustin, who trudged along the entire journey through the years. Seriously great developers to work with.

As an aside, I just checked the geolocation server I'd setup for the installer.

03:14:51 up 1357 days, 3:43, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

It's been up 4 years continuously on a Scaleway ARM box. I can't recommend them enough for such projects.
> That's interesting, I thought the given name in Chinese was almost always two characters. Is this not the case?

It depends, I think. I don't know about all of China, but in some places they alternate the length of the given name by generation (e.g. if you have a two-character given name, you give your children a one-character name, and vice versa).
Think of the series like a detailed, focused encyclopedia. You can learn an incredible amount from reading and understanding it, but reading the whole thing is probably not especially efficient, and it will likely take a long time.

That said, you didn’t really set any goals; you just asked if it’s “worth the investment”. That’s very abstract, and to that I would say “yes”, but also “it’s very likely that you’re not at a point in your life that reading the series, especially cover to cover, is the best use of your time”.

Hope that helps.