skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure if this is sarcasm?

No, $24k gross per year does not even begin to cover the amount of work put in to create and maintain software at the level of Pi-Hole. Not even remotely close. Not even 1/10th.

Pi-Hole should be making $1m ARR at least. 53 releases (going back to 2015), 2,765 issues on Github, multiple devs, supporting multiple platforms, extensive documentation, and on and on.

$24k/yr, come on...
This is such a beautiful book. The writing brings Vonnegut to mind.
Dolt. Git for data. Announcing private beta
One of the bigger mistakes Salesforce made with Lightning is moving from purely transactional model to default-cached-no-way-to-purge model. Without letting a single developer to know that they did it, what are the pitfalls or how to disable it (you can't).

WRT Lightning motivation, sounds like a much better option would've been supplement older server-rendered pages with some JS, update the stylesheets and make server language more useable. In fact server language is still there, still heavily used and still lacking expressiveness so badly that it's 10x slower to prototype on it rather than client side JS...
We expect tiny people making minimum wage to ask thieves to pay for the cheese they’re shoplifting. This seems pretty minor by comparison.

I wouldn’t expect any physical force to be used. If asking politely doesn’t work, call security. If they threaten you into letting them in, comply, then call security.
Do they have a timetable for when they'll upgrade existing plans? I'm on plus and while I don't care too much about the extra 1TB of space the smart sync would be really nice.
Not to disagree, but even if one visits restaurants for their "day to day" meals, one might begin wondering, Hmm.. How would I cook that?
I tried that. I exhausted the stack and not all the windows were there.
I agree. The font feels somewhat ... awkward.

The dotted i's are the same height at lowercase d's (see "ideally"). And then the capital letters are shorter than lowercase l's (see "Plus"). Then you've got a fancy lowercase g that stretches up to match the height of its other lowercase brethren.
> young women - with almost no tolerance for 1-star ratings from that group

Why should that be?
If having a partner that did porn doesn't bother you, this changes nothing. On the other hand, if it does bother the person, then it enables him/her to rightfully discriminate who will be his/her partner for life.

Least I checked society still accept people to choose by their own discretion who they date.
Energy consumption has not stopped growing in rich societies... so long as the economy grows, energy consumption grows. The relationship isn't perfectly linear only because the available metrics are imperfect, but if you have any data that outright contradicts this rather reasonable assupmtion, please show us.
The problem is the only way to combat Google in this regards would be for smaller players to come together and form an open-source working group based on a chromium fork. (The train has already left the station for anything besides WebKit or Blink, since the lack of accessibility of Gecko means it will never be adopted by anyone else.)

But most of them are directly financed by Google and have almost no common ground (e.g. Opera, Firefox).

And unfortunately no single player involved can gain much by going against Google. What would Microsoft gain from forking? Nothing.

I think 10 years in the future we might see WebKit and Blink merge together into a single core engine.

Modern Capitalism almost dictates this development, as corporations strive to save money at all costs.
Pretty sure the idea is not to be Netflix and offer a family plan, it's to sell a suite of features into small businesses and corporations. E.g. They just acquired HelloSign.

You should move to iCloud if you absolutely want those features unless they say they're building them or you anticipate some form of auto-tagging and face recognition being useful for professional/business users.
It's not about making anyone dance - it's about rewarding people for exceptional service. Sometimes, when I pay someone to do some kind of service for me, they go out of their way to be better than average. That is just what happens in human-to-human interactions, and I want to honor that. It's the reason to give a bigger tip than normal (now don't tell me you never did that and always tip whatever is your absolute maximum), and it should also be the reason to give more than the average amount of stars.

Oh, and btw: it's the same the other way round. I also sometimes put much more effort than strictly required into my job for a particular client, and I love it when that is recognized and honored. If it is, I am more inclined to do it again later. If not...well, not so much, then it's probably back to "standard service, just enough to fulfill the contract".
But as is pointed out, energy isn’t, because efficiency exists.

I am not denying that the economy has changed in meaningful ways; I am merely denying that we can quantify the overall state of the economy over time such as to enable simple comparisons implicit in concepts like “growth”—and that with the caveat that the problem isn’t too severe over short periods of time.
> Did they run the tests without training first? What’s the point?

How do you know if your training is working if you have no baseline?
Many times I’ve almost bit the bullet and paid for the (now old) Dropbox professional plan just for the smart syncing capability. But I decided not to because the feature was not worth an extra $9.99. But for $2 extra, I’d say this is a nice upgrade for smart syncing and extra storage.
Most of it being financed by the big 4. Also, most mentions rights holders not content creators. That's a big and important difference. It's the difference between hard working people and rent seeking capitalists abusing their market power.
Another Also,when you are a service provider, DRM is a expensive anti-feature thus detrimental to the quality of service provided and convenience experienced by the customer.
There is no research necessary to see this stimulates piracy.
At least one pretty well-known economist does echo heraclius' point:

"The fact that two incommensurable collections of miscellaneous objects cannot in themselves provide the material for a quantitative analysis need not, of course, prevent us from making approximate statistical comparisons, depending on some broad element of judgment rather than of strict calculation, which may possess significance and validity within certain limits. But the proper place for such things as net real output and the general level of prices lies within the field of historical and statistical description, and their purpose should be to satisfy historical or social curiosity, a purpose for which perfect precision — such as our causal analysis requires, whether or not our knowledge of the actual values of the relevant quantities is complete or exact — is neither usual nor necessary. To say that net output to-day is greater, but the price-level lower, than ten years ago or one year ago, is a proposition of a similar character to the statement that Queen Victoria was a better queen but not a happier woman than Queen Elizabeth — a proposition not without meaning and not without interest, but unsuitable as material for the differential calculus. Our precision will be a mock precision if we try to use such partly vague and non-quantitative concepts as the basis of a quantitative analysis."

(J.M. Keynes)
There's also Tab Session Manager, which I've been using with great success for hundreds of years!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...
> If they get you there without incident and don't annoy you too much that seems like a 5/5.

Here's how the scale I instinctively would use would work:
Getting me there without incident and without being too annoying would be a 3. If they don't annoy me at all, that would be a 4. If they do anything that makes my trip better (a better route, a good, relevant suggestion for where to go for something of interest to me, or just making my day a bit brighter), that would be a 5.
Couldn't Uber look at rider rating tendencies and normalize the scores?
> low completion rate

Most people who sign up don't actually want a certificate and aren't trying to complete. They are interested in the subject, watching some videos, move on. When you have class sizes with 1000-30,000 students, it's OK if 90% don't complete the certificate since many more did than in a brick and mortar school, yet it cost much less per student to deliver the class.

In online classes where you need to pay to get the certificate, it's been found that paid students have the same completion rate as brick and mortar university students.

https://www.afr.com/news/policy/education/fee-payments-lift-...

> Students in massive open online courses (MOOC) who pay a modest amount for a "verified certificate" are just as likely finish their course as regular university students, according to a new large-scale study of online education.
I assumed they were already doing that. I've seen several TV shows or movies (recently Booksmart) where "I can't use uber because of my low passenger rating" was used as a plot device.
I see you’ve never made any embarrassing email mistakes.

Retards,

-Scoundreller
BART gates are entry and exit, but require card entry on both entry and exit (there are separate emergency exits which set off alarms). So it's not possible to trick them to open, though their current configuration does make it easy to jump over.
I generally liked the Do The Math posts but I thought this was one of the weakest.

Physicist: "Right, if you plot the U.S. energy consumption in all forms from 1650 until now, you see a phenomenally faithful exponential at about 3% per year over that whole span."

It's not phenomenally faithful. There's an inflection point visible even in his large graph going back all the way to 1650. US primary energy consumption in 1977 was 78 quadrillion BTU (quads). At 2.9% annual growth it would have risen to 245 quads by 2017. Actual US primary energy consumption in 2017 was only 98 quads. The per capita primary energy consumption in the US was actually higher in 1977.

Physicists don't need to imagine future limits to growth. The limits are already visible in the historical record. But, contra the fears of many scientists circa 1960, the limits to growth showed up on the demand side before the supply side. We ended up with a world where widespread obesity is a problem and predicted gigadeaths from starvation did not actually happen.

For any product you can imagine consuming, there are "obesity"-type limits to how much more of that same product you can consume before the marginal utility goes negative. For any service you might use, similar limits apply since there are only 24 hours in a day.

The physicist character gives the more correct answer but his supporting evidence is flawed. The economist has the much worse answers, but only (I suspect) because he's a strawman constructed for didactic purposes. Economists generally don't make 1400 year forecasts of any sort.
I just want to say that this discussion is a charming read so far (the salad just arrived - I can’t wait!)
Their target customers are businesses that want an innovative company to boost their public perception. They don't care what consumers think about them. So, to AdAge, it is a triumphant moment as it showcases their ability to do so without hurting the perception of AdAge to large companies.
He founded Blue Origin in 2000. For whatever reason, he is the opposite of Musk about his Space company - shares the barest minimum possible.
>it's using OS built in DRM mechanisms that the studios love

that implies either Apple's FairPlay or Microsoft's PlayReady; no Widevine
Pelosi Rebukes Facebook for Enabling ‘Lie’ with Doctored Video
Fantastic. Just downgraded from Pro to Plus, saving 100 Euros per year. All I wanted was SmartSync, previously exclusive to Pro.
>all formal models are proven to be wrong

Your point certainly holds true for any physical entity as far as we know - probabilistic quantum effects, Heisenberg's Uncertainty, chaotic systems, and all that.

However if you were to model a theoretical entity, and given a few more constraints (like strict computability, which precludes a turing-complete systems), you can indeed have correct models. Alas, in practice this is a rather rare example.
From the end of the post:

> We’re excited to roll out these changes to Plus and Professional starting today.
Final Countdown to 1.0 Blog
Wasn't Rewind already a thing?
Exactly. I do NOT want to use business plan for my family!

They still do not address whether shared folder count against your space. It is just stupid. This means I can not share the photo folder with my family members. If I have 500G of photos, and I share the photo folder with my other family members, it will take 500G from each one of them? How ridiculous it is! This is why I have to convert from Dropbox to OneDrive. I still use Dropbox without subscription, because it auto renames camera photos.
Netflix still has native apps. They always have.
I might get heavily downvoted for this one but so be it:

I was curious why this article we're discussing doesn't show the after pictures, since it's about defacing. (The picture at the top is the one that was replaced - so we only see the before pic.)

From the video, it seems because the after pictures are beautiful and way better, which I'd guess is why the real volunteer Wikipedia editors kept them rather than reverting them and why it was so successful. They do show a tiny logo incidentally as part of travel gear that is in the photo but other than this it seems the photos are way better. It's not like the logo takes up more than a few pixels.

Any counterexamples? (A photo that was worse than the one it replaced)? If not I think I can't agree with the word "deface". Maybe if the brand placement were more conspicuous or damaging to the photo -- but the ones I saw honestly seemed fine to me and seemed like an improvement.

"we improved wikipedia with fantastic royalty-free images of popular destinations, taken with travelers who were also wearing our gear" seems like an alternative way to phrase what happened. then we wouldn't be talking about it.

I'm happy to be proven wrong if someone can show a before/after example that wasn't an improvement. Any examples?
Flipboard Security Incident
This account made the edit removing the image in the Wikimedia Foundation blog post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Adamjonn...
Agda-sessions: Learn the Agda basics in three 2-hour sessions
It was called Packrat. I used it a few years ago. I don’t know if it was still offered or taken away so they can bring Rewind.
If you think that just clicking a link is so dangerous that it needs to be a firing offense, then you should probably lock down the computers so that the browsers cannot view anything besides approved domains.
Torrentfreak.com tends to cover all sides of the story in a human readable format.
Mars does look a lot closer in 2019 than it did in 2012. Back then it seemed like no real plan existed, except for one little company not a lot of folks believed in. Now we’ve got billionaires in a space race and suddenly it seems obvious that we’ll colonize space to some degree even in the next 100 years, likely with some aggressive growth. We’ve only recently come off the gloomy decades after Apollo where space exploration was so muted compared to the glory days.
Show HN - Sparrow6 – language agnostic automation tool, try it out
Bearer has nothing to do with physicality.

Anything controlled by a private key is a bearer instrument by definition because the person bearing the private key has custody of the asset.

You're making up your own definition of transfer agent, not the one used by the SEC. They have specific requirements and responsibilities.
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
And I postulate that "The universe is littered with one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic and game theory decision of having thousands of thermonuclear weapons pointed at eachother, hoping that MAD will make that whole bit of lunacy sensible." -- vkou

It's got about as much empirical evidence to back it as RM's postulate. (And a similar sample size of N=0)

Anyone care to get on the train for my pet issue, and get around to nuclear arms reduction, already?

The beauty of making arguments, based on observing experiments with a sample size of N=0, is that you can argue whatever the hell you want.
They should require two things.

1) Label accounts with conflicts of interest if necessary.

Personal accounts that are only personal (and never used in an official capacity for any other organization or entity).

"Professional" accounts for which one or more professional entities (potential conflicts of interest) are disclosed.

2) All work should be submitted to the public domain, or as close to the public domain as possible; and any fair use material clearly marked as such and why. (I believe they already require this, I'm just not a Wikipedia contributor so I've not read their specific guidelines.)
I wasn't assuming that. I was assuming that the riders and the drivers would generally be honest, though.
Google Play Store starts requiring games with loot boxes to disclose their odds
That would go against Wikipedia's mission. I think referencing this event in their article as they've done is the correct response.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Face#Controversies
I believe the use of the term "magic angle" in this article is at least partially a reference to the technique whose actual technical name is "magic angle spinning" NMR spectroscopy[0]. If course, the angle used in MAS is not related to the angle used in these twisted graphene bilayer structures, but in both cases there appear to be "magical" results that appear only at the specific angle in question.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_angle_spinning
I really wish dropbox would offer a 2$ plan for 100GB comparable to google drive because I just don't need a full TB and I'd easily sign all family members up. The syncing is just way faster than the google drive sync.
The thought of only special, out of the ordinary rides getting a 5/5 is amusing to me. That's absolutely not the culture I want to experience as a rider. Even above-average levels of conversation can be distracting when I just want to quietly think about what I'll be doing at my destination. My ratings are basically either 5/5 or 1/5.
Most of the pictures are fine i.e. you can't really see the North Face logos. A few of them though are just really terrible and don't belong on Wikipedia.
Less Polished?
You can tell they spent quite a bit of resources on design... I just can't get used to it. It doesn't feel friendly or useful either, it doesn't fit what I'd expect from a cloud storage provider and it's not really pretty to look at either.
But ideally only those who actively choose to have the police as their enemy.
Note that it already mostly works right now with v8.
That seems like a pretty big topic jump, doesn't it?
Assange was chemically lobotomised within days of being admitted to Belmarsh Prison, which has a long and sordid history of providing the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex with safe cover for its wet operations.

He is, essentially, dead to the world now.

However, his legacy remains - you cannot destroy ideas with chemical torture so easily. The next round of whistleblowing will be especially painful to the American people, as yet more evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity is being prepared for release.

While we were all being distracted by the scary orange puppet, the US and its coalition partners ratcheted up the tempo of its criminal war operations.

Evidence regarding US involvement in Yemen, for example, is going to reveal the true nature of American military power in the 21st Century, and it is not going to be pretty.

If you are an American who feels suitably embarrassed by the actions of your oompaloompa in chief, be prepared for a sobering realisation when the next round of whistleblowing starts happening. And, be prepared for the distraction that the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex has in store for the American people.
‘Range’ Review: Late Bloomers Bloom Best
Seriously. It's like they want 4 more years of Trump. It's mind blowing.
This article seems to be responding to the strawman argument that all code will be replaced by visual tools. I don't think this is true, any more than that high level programming languages have replaced all uses of assembly language. At the end of the day, there are applications that care enough about performance that you need to hire someone who deeply understands the microarchitecture of your chip.

That said, Excel has largely replaced traditional text based languages in a significant set of domains, and I don't see any reason that pattern can't be repeated elsewhere. There was a time when summing a bunch of data required a "programmer" and today that is only true for unusually large datasets. You can certainly define Excel to be a programming language, but it doesn't feel that way to most of it's users.
Fake news! I was hoping for a kit to help me launch oxen. Anybody got links for trebuchet designs?
With LUKS, you'd want to backup the locked partition, perhaps as an image. And that's just a binary file.

What about ext3, xfs, etc?

Encrypted files (7zip, GnuPG, VeraCrypt, etc) behave just like normal files, right?
> 5/5 - No problems 4/5 - Minor problems 3/5 - Major problems satisfied 2/5 - Major problems unsatisfied 1/5 - Horrible

But that makes it impossible to indicate when something is great.
!RemindMe when this supports video
You aren't metagaming the system, you are being gamed by the system. Uber isn't as concerned that all the drivers are polite, but they do want them all to have near 5-star ratings, so if anything goes badly they can say “Hey, he had great reviews from riders up to that point”. If they guilt you into rating 5-stars for rude service, mission accomplished.
The big studios will probably cease to be able to enforce their business model but firms like Netflix won't care about piracy / free marketing since their model is based on providing a service that beats piracy.
There are two complicating issues:

A certain air speed is required (to turn the weather vane, as it were).

While in ground effect, the air flow is different from the airflow in flight (away from the ground), so apparently a certain altitude above ground is required for the indication to be considered reliable.

However, I believe that it should be possible to recognise a sufficiently defective AoA sensor during the take off roll, and possibly in time to abort the take off. However, not sure whether pilots are briefed to do so, as that is a risky manoeuvre in itself, and a missing AoA sensor should not be any problem per se (in the absence of MCAS that is trying to kill you).
The print version could work maybe?
Do they, or are they Electron ports?

I just remember that there was a nice, very performant Windows client at one time, and then there was a newer version released at some point which was much, much worse, and I switched to using the browser all the time.
I'm with you that pure text can be limiting as a medium for thinking and communication, and that using a wider range of visual expression like diagrams and illustrations can dramatically enhance understanding.

No visual programming environment I've seen compares to the expressivity of writing code - but I also consider myself a visual thinker, and I believe there's still a lot of potential for imaginative rethinking of what it means to code. Text is just a subset of visual communication, and there's no reason why we need to limit ourselves to what can be typed - maybe we could include dynamic interactive symbols as new "words", or program by visually constructing diagrams that include code..

The sweetspot seems to me, visual languages that also let you use code.