skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These raids have been highly condemned amongst the public here, and (at least my echo-chamber of) people seem to be pretty wholly against it.

Of course, we're also an apathetic people because we've had it so good for so long that no one will force any change, and it'll just keep getting worse.

It's also seen in our elections. There's no big visions. No bold statements from politicians about producing changes to make a better society. It's all attack ads and pandering to key demographics just to win votes and stay in government.

It's depressing and dire, because I don't see it changing in much of my lifetime and it's the exact reason why our leaders are completely dismissive of action even when we stare down the barrel towards issues like climate change. Hell, our current PM literally brought a lump of coal into parliament as a prop to taunt the opposition by saying "this is coal, don't be afraid".

edit: Another great example of the apathy I'm talking about is the collective shrug that most Aussies gave as incredibly intrusive anti-encryption and data-logging laws were introduced last year. Simply, no one cares unless it immediately and directly interrupts their middle-class suburban lifestyle.
If google couldn’t make this work with all their assets (email, calendar, search, location, phone OS, photos, travel images, ads etc) then it would seem this is an impossible application to build at scale.
'NextCloud' is what we are today, but I think it's not really relevant.

I've dared the Google comparison, because in my point of view, It's THE company who is changing the world.
In my experience, remote work takes quite a bit of organization which often defaults to hierarchy. Leaner organizations with less management struggle with this. It partially depends on where you want to put your money as an organization.
If climates are different in places, solutions should be different in places too. Yes it might not be feasible to force everyone to cycle in Texas, but that doesn't mean that everyone in the US should drive everywhere.
It may have been carried up by an updraft along a warm side of the building.
Maybe someone who rejected a job from Blockstream back when Bitcoin was around $350?
I've done most of my Linux development on WSL for the last year. It stuggles sometimes under certain types of heavy IO load, and there are ocsssional compatibility issues, but overall it's been impressively reliable and convenient.
Are they more than happy? Or just settling?
Gosh. It sounds horrible. imagine if companies hired people and gave them stock at a particular price and had that stock vest over a period of years. Imagine the horror if the value of the company's stock went up over that period of time and suddenly some early employees were making quite a bit of money.

It may have been unwise for blockstream to use something decoupled from their company's profit, however, but it's not completely insane, inasmuch as anything in the cryptocurrency space is sane.
I mean I never understood AGPL for client-side code to be honest. Would the GPL not cover this use case? My understanding of the license is that the GPL would of been enough, unless the AGPL has some terms I'm not aware of that aren't server specific like ensuring access to code in unobsfucated form or something.
I use a Mitosis which has even fewer alpha keys and even more thumb keys: 3x5 alphas and 2x4 thumb.
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Regardless of whether you agree with the outcome in that case, Australia's defamation laws are more plaintiff-friendly than those of countries like the US and UK, and have been subject to criticism for years [1], independent of the more recent debate over national security laws.

[1] https://theconversation.com/social-media-and-defamation-law-...

[2] https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-s-defamation-laws-...
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I do not think that Russia needed to import from US any hyper-capitalism with poor rule of law.

It had a good stock of poor rule of law already from Soviet times, and hyper-capitalism - or even feodalism - was what it had before USSR was formed.
Still, I believe it. A ten year, 200,000 mile tire sounds like a pretty reachable goal if you don't use rubber.

Mass produced, and economies of scale take over, and a resin with carbon fiber, or some other high performance composite gets cheaper, and ultra durable donuts get popped onto car rims around the world.
> In the past plenty of people read newspapers while standing on trains. Nowadays we have smartphones and podcasts. It’s even easier.

Stand/sit and read my phone is basically what I am forced to do. I don't consider that any more productive than driving, and certainly not "work".

As for podcasts (and audiobooks), I can do that in a car just as well as packed in a train.
I went poking around Wikpedia. Ryugu's surface is mostly carbon. It's also a "rubble pile" and about 50% of its volume is empty space. There could even be large voids within because the force of friction between pieces is greater than the force of gravity holding it together.
I think studies that have used MDMA have suggested that some of these slumps can be corrected sometimes by just a minimal dose. It seems like such a waste not to try something like that, when the cost of taking an individual from cradle to responsible adulthood is fully realized.
Presumably why Googles New London office is next to two of the main rail stations St Pancras and Kings Cross and Euston is only a 10 Min Walk.
Ok, but what I meant was: instead of vectors, or deques, why not also consider sets, maps, etc.?
There's the intake project from the Anaconda folks.
Quantum mechanics is really a very different beast from the social sciences. Experimental physicists don't have to tease out any confounding effects due to the life history and social baggage that electrons bring with them to the lab.

A huge, huge, huge part of the replication crisis in social sciences is due to researchers getting overconfident about the capabilities of their experimental methods.
Smart move. Google wants to own the entire data infrastructure. Alooma (acquired in February) gets your data from various sources into BigQuery, then all the analysis is done in Looker.

Unfortunate news for non-Looker users: Supposedly Alooma stopped supporting Redshift and Snowflake integrations following the acquisition, since those compete with BigQuery. If you're using Looker with Redshift or Snowflake you should be concerned.

Edit: By “stopped supporting” I meant they deprioritized it from the roadmap. I do not mean that they disabled the integration.
I mean, lead is a fantastic lubricant for petrol. Of course the consequences of it are not typically worthwhile, but there's a reason 100LL is still quite commonly available. It just works better.
There are absolutely some things slower in zsh/bash. Are any of those slow because of a non-upgraded machine ("they would run fast on a $50k server" doesn't count)? Or, as others in this thread have pointed out, are they slower because of flawed implementations which, unless fixed, will always be slow on any hardware?
Our build time on Linux container is 8 minutes, but it's a few hours on macOS using docker containers. I haven't dug into it but the hypervisor seems to be single threading the normally multicore compile.
Nope. Kids demand Apple devices because of the cool factor.

"Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19610357

Seems like they're abusing their monopoly to me.
Depending on the apps, you could make some age assumptions of the kid too. Even more, perhaps extrapolate the number of children in the household based on the age-ranges of the apps and the behavior of how they are using the apps. A 3 year old and and a 5 year old are going to have very different usage patterns. The number of children and their age ranges could be a very important metric when considering targeted advertising to the parents. The fact is, this information is used against the consumer to manipulate them into doing things they wouldn't otherwise do - click an ad and perhaps make a purchase. Any bit of information to further that goal will be used, even better if its information about the children since that's a major purchasing factor for parents.
I had foam-based bike tires 20 years ago, and they were quite awful. They cushion by flattening out on the bottom, creating an enormous rolling resistance. It was like pushing uphill everywhere.

This isn't quite the same, but in calling it the "first airless system" it sounds like they had done zero research on previous systems and have no idea what the potential problems are.

The new Michelin system is a rather different concept. I dunno if it will adapt to bike tires or not, but it would be great if it can.
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My understanding is that Google hasn't relied on Page Rank in a very long time. Depending on who you ask, they use 100-300+ factors to rank pages. Or they switched to an artificial brain that uses its own magic that no one really understands.

I haven't kept up. All I know is Google is useless for all but the most obvious queries now.
It absolutely does and macOS has already broken it several times. This I guess to some extent demonstrates the folly of having one. https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/how-to-get-civ4-bts-w...
Google plans to acquire big-data company Looker for $2.6B
Which is fine if you can afford to live there.
Right. Lots of big libraries have these, to save space, and while I guess they need a strong floor, moving a ton of books by hand seems to be no problem.
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> Cities are booming and at the same time living spaces are shrinking.

That's not necessary with the right allocation of shared spaces. Are workspaces "shrinking" because more people work in coworking spaces?

Designers should stop pretending that prison-cell living is something desireable, it's not.
Or even more housing, which would in turn often reduce pricing and then commutes.

This even applies to the "some of us want a yard" rebuke of suburbanites. Houses nearer cities can have more land if there isn't an 8 lane highway.
There's nothing that says the sidewalls have to be open celled.
Good for Looker. Hopefully that will cut down on aggressive spam and sales from Looker.
Of course back in the day we all used tables, but there was a shift where "tables=bad" for layout, but we didn't have a good replacement yet... so it was floats.
I guess that depends on how much if a sweat you work up. Personally, if I work up enough whereby I need to change my clothes at he end I am going to feel disgusting if I don't also shower.
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I'm a huge fan of Looker, but I'm not sure how I feel about this news. The best parts of Looker:

- It connects directly to your existing data warehouse. Most BI tools suck in your data into their datastore; Looker queries your database directly. If you wanted Looker to cache results for performance reasons, you could set up a dedicated schema in Redshift for example and only give write privileges to that one schema. But even the cached dataset was stored directly in your data warehouse.

- It is platform agnostic.

- LookML is backed by Git. By default, changes to your LookML definitions are pushed to a Looker-owned Github repo, but you can change this so that the repo is under your control as well.

- The support is pretty phenomenal.

There's that unsettled part in me that's wondering the over/under on two years before we get the next announcement: to give you better performance, it's tightly integrated with BigQuery; LookML is getting long in the tooth so we've gone ahead and created the views you'll need which are now accessible via the Google Analytics interface; you can go ahead and forward your concerns to /dev/null.
On the actual use and calibration of confidence intervals -
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ybYBCK9D7MZCcdArB/how-to-mea...
Needed to stop but didn't for which clearly it is all my fault because someone is wrong on the internet!! Being snarky about features being only possible in $language is one of the few entirely appropriate uses of snark and you don't object to snark per se, do you?

Which feature of this discussed data transform is called "template meta-programming?" Excuse me, my bad, is called "resumable exceptions?" Or are resumable exceptions a language feature/idiom used with a particular choice of language to perform a data transform? Really. "The feature of using C++ is impossible with a different language selection." Come. On. It must rankle. It must.

Maybe this isn't just yet another "any criticism of a language boosterism piece must be met with fire and fury because I've invested time and want career payoff." Yeah maybe there's something else going on here but I genuinely can't see it. And it's a pattern also visible with rust boosterism articles (and I like rust too!) and clojure (again, it has some merit!) and even Haskell. Yeah, Haskell is fun! (No! Silence the Heretic. The emperor's threads are fine indeed! "Let me repeat what you just said but with me explaining it to you to show how stupid you really are." Yeah well I know I'm pretty stupid, often, but not so stupid as all that, yeah?)
The Twitter thread that led to Crowder's demonetization:

https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/1134263774591037441
On a (slightly) smaller scale he also figured out how to weaponize chlorine gas and heavily evangelized its use (to the extent of bringing a tank to the front against orders and releasing it at Ypres).
I got tired of the work to keep my elderly mother's windows laptop in trim, so I had her get a Macbook. It's been smooth sailing for over a year now. No more "can you look at my laptop" Mad Max virus of deth incidents. I'd have her use OpenBSD, but she seems to lack the gene to roll with i3.
No mention of the purchase price - tho Looker was likely flying in unicorn heights.
People always demand unchecked democracy because they always believe they're interests align with the majority. Why should everyone get a say? Why should anyone get a say?

I don't believe a legitimate democracy can have any power greater than the individual. To extrapolate, "The government may do x." If you replace 'government' with an individual, that is the guideline. For example 'Jose may tax your income.' Obviously, Jose may not do that.
Your comment made me chuckle.

>People want authoritarian governments
>we have different points of view or agendas

You say people want one thing, while contradicting that statement and saying people have different points of views and agendas - so we don't all want one thing? It could well be most or a few or some or a minority want authoritarianism; but the only constant I can see in governments throughout history and modern society is their inconsistency.

To say it is the natural way of things is, in my eyes, completely ignorant. If that were the case we wouldn't have seen numerous people's revolts throughout the entirety of human history [1]. Humans are adaptable, and we adapt our governance depending on the times. In times of war we might pick a dictator. In times of peace we might pick a democracy. In times of fear we often find ourselves in an autocracy. In times of religious ferverence we chose theocracy. Just as a human seems to be able to thrive on a number of diets, we thrive on a number of ways of group governance. I highly recommend to everyone to read "Pathways to Freedom: Political and Economic Lessons From Democratic Transitions." It's a bit text-booky, but there are some great case studies as to why various new governments have gone various different paths, and why democracy has blossomed in some places but failed in others, as has authoritarianism.

In the words of Alexandre Dumas Pere - "All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."

I my opinion the main reason we're seeing authoritarianism seemingly increase in popularity is because fear in the media has become so profitable. It distorts our perception of reality. We can be in a wealthy, 1st world society with all our basic needs met, however if we're told constantly in a barrage of information everyday that everything is going wrong - regardless of the fact that as the individual or group there could easily be almost nothing objectively going wrong in their life - they'll believe that they're on the brink of destruction and that the only way out is to adapt to an authoritarian government that will "sort everything out". The old phrase "what they don't know won't hurt them" comes to mind.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revolutions_and_rebell...
An increase which would be even more obvious had they differentiated subsequent data points. They'd look like giant stair steps.
There is a tradeoff between traction and (to a lesser extent) ride quality versus treadwear.

Long treadwear tires tend to have terrible traction qualities as compared to softer tires. This is obviously true in motorsports (and is a major strategy component in Formula One), but is also noticeable on road cars. It's not just sports cars and "racer wannabees", but handling traction is a safety issue at the limit. For winter tires, you typically need a softer and more compliant compound as well.

You could make tires out of something closer to cast iron that would wear incredibly long but have terrible traction and ride.
That is a rare circumstance, and I agree with your assessment, no point in making life hard for yourself.

Since IE is no longer supported (or even considered a browser by MS, but a compatibility layer) what kind of site do you work on that is so heavily trafficked by primarily IE?
I apologize in advance for the armchair engineering, but from a basic knowledge of material science, everlasting tires probably aren't practical. The tire needs to be soft and grippy in order to be safe on the road. Soft things will be worn down by harder things. So to keep the tire soft enough to be safe, you would need to add more material. But lots of mass on the outer circumference of a wheel would have negative implications for performance and fuel efficiency.

And besides, modern tires last 50k miles. That's twice around the planet by friction force. That's not enough of an engineering marvel for you folks?
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> no atmosphere to diffuse light

Could the spacecraft—just in theory—introduce an atmosphere? Maybe not this spacecraft, but if we’re riding around in the starship Enterprise and want to get better snaps of asteroids, would it be a good idea to just send out a big pair of glass hemispheres, encapsulate the asteroid with them, pump them full of air, and then take a picture of the asteroid-capsule system?

Alternately, could you stick something really good at diffusing light—like a big block of aerogel—between the sun and the asteroid?
I’d highly recommend reading this piece by a psychiatrist for a (research-based) alternative perspective: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/25/in-defense-of-psych-tr...
$2.6B
$2.6b, all cash.

- https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2019/0606/
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Well this is hacker news if I saw it. Good work!
That takes the cake. The worst I did was 9 cells, with images in each corner. How did you maintain your sanity when one cell went bonkers on it's dimensions for no good reason?
Um... I know a lot of people who bike to work, including several co-workers. They bring a work shirt, wet wipes, and deodorant with them to work in a bag. Get to work, change shirts, wet wipe the pits and apply deodorant in the restroom. Good as new. I didn't even know which co-workers were bike commuters when I first started.

If you worked in a formal environment you'd probably have to bring extra pants too. But most people bring a change of clothes to the gym anyways, so it's not like it's a completely outrageous concept.

It's really not that big of a deal. In formal businesses ladies have done this forever with having comfortable shoes for traveling and high heels for the office.
I was one of your volunteer beta testers years ago and provided some feedback. I still get a little salty when I see this app since you still terminated my account and made me pay :) hope you've been well
> there is nothing luxury avout the stand, it's essentially identical to any other stand

Some of the features that make it "luxury" in my mind are:

* Build materials / quality

* Small footprint

* Magnetic connector (no screws)

* Ease of adjusting height / rotating (according to Apple)

For a 32-inch, 16 lb monitor that may need to be moved around a lot and shared amongst multiple people, I can see how those qualities might be important enough to justify the price for some.

And if it's really identical to any other stand out there, can you show something comparable at a lower price?
Nice benchmarking on Microsoft .Net CLR. Looks like the JIT compiler is smart enough to recognize that array.Length is an invariant and hoist it out of the loop, which is awesome for the common use cases!

One nitpick about the title: C# runs on more runtimes than Microsoft .Net CLR, and those may behave very differently. For example: Mono CLR, or Unity's IL2CPP which is an ahead-of-time compiler.

Specifically, I'd expect IL2CPP would not hoist length out, because it would not recognize it as an invariant. (Some great examples of IL2CPP cross compilation are here: https://jacksondunstan.com/articles/4749 )

TLDR: the Microsoft JIT compiler makes the local variable unnecessary, but this is a property of the JIT, not of C#. Developers on non-MS platforms shouldn't assume this.
Many items of the discussion here remind me of two books I casually browsed through without actually reading them, "Conjuring Hitler" and "None dare call it conspiracy".
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I like Joplin, but writing markdown on mobile is a real PITA. They really should provide additional UI elements to create bullet points and alike.
A small towel is part of the kit. Very short haircut too... But yes, at some point it is a lifestyle choice: I quite happily sartorial sophistication (I forego tie and jacket: my office attire is dress pants, dress shoes and a nice shirt - sufficient social camouflage that packs neatly) but I understand that others might prefer the "delicate princess in an air-conditioned bubble" way of living, even though it is harmful to their health.
Please add some screen shots of product. Idk about others but this would be a great way to get people to try the service.
Thanks a lot to whoever posted this. I have recently started my new "(at least) one drawing every day" stint and I am currently working on animals (even if I tend to copy from photos) so this is very interesting to me.

http://pa-mar.net/Hobbies/Drawing.html
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> Google wants to own the entire data infrastructure.

Not just the infrastructure. They want the data too!
So Apple will now know which service you use and that is called privacy wow!!
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Very good summary of the post-war history.

I completely agree that the high point of liberal democracy was the decade between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the World Trade Center.

Since then, every year the Western democracies resemble more and more with the socialist countries they were criticizing so much 30 years ago, both in their economies dominated by monopolies and in the surveillance of their citizens and in the restrictions of the citizens' rights.