skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I think Tesla-style control-via-screen-only is akin to the 'Open Office' -- that is, a stupid trend that will be overcome, eventually, by the saner among us.

1A. Folk who are 'visual first' probably like Control-via-screen-only. I'm a 'tactile' and 'auditory' first guy. I have very good spacial muscle memory. I can close my eyes and dead-on any control in my trusty '95 LS-400.

1B. I would prefer even the common displays (e.g. speed) be given to me via morse code when I push a steering wheel button. At 50 WPM it would take as long as a glance, with no eyes-off-the-road. But I'm weird.

2. Yesterday I turned in after a 3.5 yr lease a VW eGolf. I asked them how well they were selling the vehicles that have come off lease. Guy said they just 'park them in the back' and he's never seen one of them sold. I don't know what they do with them, but I definitely concur that there seems to be a push toward leasing.

2A. The prices for the 2019 eGolfs with more features than the 2016 SEL version were about 10% less. And I thought the 2016 prices were pretty good. I don't understand.
Burying it doesn’t really solve anything though. And while seemingly unlikely, dumps can be damaged. A recent storm damaged one in the south of New Zealand, spreading plastic down a river and along hundreds of kilometres of coast.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/fox-glacier-land...
It allows bloggers that want to keep control over their own platform and content (read: not use Medium) to be part of a bigger network of selfhosted blogs. Like in the good old days.

I for one hope it catches on
Yes, you understand what it says. You don't know what it should say, though. The code can't tell you that.

[Edit: "Better architecture, but bug-for-bug compatible" probably isn't the goal of the rewrite.]
Its just hilarious example of how China is part of the global economy despite Trumps escalating tweets (trade deficit continues to climb by the way if anyone's interested).

I am sure China knows everything about the F-35 its not a secret weapon.
I disagree that it’s the content and not the website styling that makes this unreadable on mobile. A couple of small changes, namely reducing the margins and not having the code run off the side, would make this a lot nicer.
The social sciences have gained an incredible amount of control over academia. Why would they allow the current system, which works very well for them, to be "fixed"?
You rig it into your own blog. It's designed for use with static site generators. Check out the links on the bottom of my blog posts:

https://drewdevault.com/2019/06/13/My-journey-from-MIT-to-GP...

They're generated by this software.
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The subscription is coming. Direct from manufacturers side stepping the dealerships. Especially in the era when not owning is perceived as wealthy.
That doesn't sound like an 'or' to me. That sounds like a 'why'.

A rewrite also means no new features for a very long time. And my very cynical view is that people asking for a rewrite are motivated by the peace and quiet that happens during the first six months of the rewrite. In a world where people leave after 3 years and get a pass for their first few months that represents a pretty large fraction of their tenure.

But it's a bit like rehab. You've decided to start over with a new set of habits and hope it sticks. But like rehab or new year's resolutions, the relapse rate is high.

My current take is that there is a paradox here. The teams that deserve a rewrite usually don't need a rewrite. There's a high degree of overlap between being capable of fixing your broken crap properly and being able to refactor to a better system.

The only rewrites I've seen work look like the Ship of Theseus. As far as management is concerned it's not a new system. But the old developers can barely recognize the code.
Joey was very active in Debian, but has retired from it in 2015.
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Cochrane reviews.

Wiki (ISH) based.

Does the graph, this alone might be enough to help science and can be used to kick-start to the site (do you want to open source your graph and data questions)

I'd guess you have to have multiple graphs for topics due to disagreements that can't be solved.
But this can't be guessed, would need to be worked out. I think people would get reputations and this would push forward topics.

This is mostly for medicine... But might expand.
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a lot of high end cars are allowing you to skip the huge screens in lieu of analog gauges.

its like the car industry forgot what made the iPhone great... a touch screen device that didn't suck. Before that, everything was a laggy bloated unpredictable mess that sometimes registered a fingerprint
Thank you for sharing your honest, unvarnished perspective. A prediction: if you do earn a ton of money and become really wealthy, lots and lots of people will think you are brilliant or even a genius.

In the mean time: how do you stay motivated to work the long hours? How do you maintain mental focus for extended durations?
This is true only if you ignore costs. It falls apart as soon as you include market pricing or any other reasonable resource allocation mechanism.

It's like pretending that the liabilities represented by a huge coal ash pond are actually an asset, because if all the aluminum and silicon in the ash were purified and sold it would be worth a lot at present prices. The problem is that the cost of turning the waste into a salable product is higher than the market price. So it is still in fact a liability.

Under present and foreseeable economic and technical conditions, the asset-value of spent nuclear fuel does not exceed its liabilities.
How does it solve curation & search?

Edit: I'm asking because I suspect your answer is going to be "it doesn't/that's not the point/who cares?" But people who read blogs will just flock to the centralized services that solve curation & search quite effectively and keep users reading. And then this centralized service will have strong incentives to become _more_ centralized, not less, and decentralized solutions like this one never really gain traction and become functionally irrelevant.
“as much as I love China and can understand their politics due to the size of their country”

The size of China is not the source of their politics; the source is a totalitarian state that ruthlessly suppresses any dissent and maintains constant surveillance of its people. Not to imply that you meant otherwise, but the citizens of mainland China are no less deserving of political rights than those of Hong Kong; rather, they have simply been denied them by those in power. The 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre was only last week —- it could have ended similarly in Hong Kong. Also, unsurprisingly, Chinese media has been almost completely silent about these protests and many on the mainland are completely unaware that anything is happening at all.
imagine driving this in the winter

https://di-uploads-pod1.dealerinspire.com/landroverwillowgro...

Even the buttons on the wheels are touch "buttons" not physical ones
The problem with slippery slope arguments is that they need to show that the initial step taken somehow leads to the bad outcome mentioned. The obvious solution is to stay at 50k. I think that the political situation still would create a huge uproar if it were lowered significantly.
Same - I don't totally suck in FPS and can put up at least decent fight all the way back to Doom II which we also tried in the interest of software history. But I get thoroughly spanked in Fortnite, every time.
Agreed. Their iOS client is a huge pain too. Finding files is a bear. It’s so bad that Apple’s “File” app is a much better way to browse and search Dropbox files. I suspect in macOS Catalina we’ll be able to search files through a similar way.

Also, Dropbox Paper shows the same lack of attention to detail. The iOS client has all sorts of really stupid basic bugs like undo and copy & paste not working properly. It’s nuts.

It feels like Dropbox’s culture is to ship a product and not do the hard work that it takes to make the core basics rock solid on all devices and platforms. It’s really hard work, but it’s essential for a user base as large as theirs.

The even harder part is for their leadership and PMs to say “No” to new features until they hey the basics right; otherwise they are going to find themselves in the position of doing a lot of things not very well.
That's a good idea. The important thing I think is to create a culture of privacy-preservation around the whole Matrix ecosystem so that features like that make it to the various clients.
> If we built a privacy preserving payment network, it would be used for money laundering, drug sales and ransomware.

Like cash!

> There are privacy preserving/censorship resistant social networks. They're full of Nazis.

Oh crud, has anyone told Mastodon yet? This seems like the sort of thing they'd want to know.

I guess it's time to go back to safer, Nazi-free networks like Twitter.
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I would say, rather, that models are not approximations of reality, but descriptions of it.
Indeed, and even if it was it may well be in the opposite direction. E.g. people who have better relations with their children are more likely to take paternal leave
I think it's better to say it never "bends out" away from the sun, which is a different way to statue that it's orbit around the sun is convex.
I see you skipped the part I made that point eh.

That is possible, but would require first having a security breach with access to the completed assembly to know _what traces_ first. At which point that security breach is slightly more concerning given it's higher level.
>Is running a server really that cheap if you include the up front costs, maintenance, and your own time?

It's annoying, but it's still cheap. What ''up front costs'' do you mean? Maintenance is mostly me struggling with software someone else wrote and wanting to replace it with my own; the smaller services I run, Gopher and Finger, use software I wrote so I need not configure some awful software written by someone else. My goal is to eventually only run services with server software I've written, such as for email and FTP and whatnot. I have spare time and knowing how to maintain a server is useful.

I'm clearly an advanced user, however. Still, I've offered others some things, not that they want them. I could host email for my family and whatnot if I needed to.

>What about the costs of having an offsite backup?

I use scp to transfer it to my machine. It's all measured in single digit megabytes.

>As someone who also has their own personal server, I can definitely say it's not cheap.

Okay. I don't know what you do with yours, but I run email, HTTP, Gopher, Finger, and I want to have FTP and Bittorrent available soon. The email server gives me the most problems, but that's mostly because of other email servers, as I didn't need to do much configuration and it's measured in hours rather than days. The HTTP is preconfigured and I've written the software I use for Gopher and Finger, although I want to replace it with better software I write, later.
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That’s a great synopsis of the tricky bits, which I’ve noticed provide the most value to unit test as well.
Hmmm I do not know about that, the test real, meaningful control would be who gets the funding, no?

Social sciences is nowhere near the top of this list.

https://nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsb20181/report/sections/aca...

Overall my understanding is that it is harder to be an academic in almost any field these days, but especially the humanities - social sciences are an in-between zone, but I doubt the universities cutting language and history programs consider the social sciences more 'science' than 'humanities.

Seems to me that there is a stigma around social sciences - both for legitimate reasons, and because, like anything which shines a light on the uncomfortable (systemic bias, racism, capitalism, etc) people get defensive and afraid and reactive and concoct conspiracy theories.
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This is why you buy tools, not toys. You can't really expect an OS trying to foist Candy Crush and/or Minecraft through start menu ads and full-screen mobile apps to respect your work, can you? Try a Mac, or Linux if you don't mind its less-than-stellar user experience.
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Crime can look a lot like a hydra. Still, I don't think giving up the fight is a better solution.
Of course not. It means you misleadingly gave one side of the story. I doubt you'd like it if someone took the worst thing you ever did, defined you publicly by that, and didn't mention your efforts to make amends.

Look at this way. When I read your comment I thought, "what a monster. How is it possible that such a monster exists in this world." That's why I went to look him up. But when I read two or three other facts about the story, that feeling went away and was replaced by the feeling that I had been tricked. Had you mentioned that this happened over 50 years ago, your comment wouldn't have had that effect, because today's knowledge and moral consciousness, both of which you're relying on, didn't exist back then. But instead you wrote in the present tense, obfuscating that. You also used the word "proficient", implying that killing elephants was his main goal. And you put his stated goal in scare quotes. That just seems like a lot of misleading for a short comment.
TL;DR, because comments to date suggest people don't bother reading the link:

1/ Yes, it's a blogroll.

2/ It's meant for static site generators.

3/ It solves curation and search by you doing the curating yourself, in the form of providing links to RSS feeds of the blogs you like.

Looks really nice. I think I'll hook it up to my generator.
Agreed. Let's make gerrymandering illegal.
Subpoenas aren't warrants and we are just as legally required to oblige them if they are valid and signed by a judge. One can get thrown in jail for not complying with both of them, so if one is pushing back, they better be really fucking prepared for the consequences of that action. For a subpoena/warrant for legitimate data collection of online extremists, that's not a battle one is likely to win. Like with all things in life, one really need to pick their battles sometimes.

I'm more inclined to believe that this FBI agent is not familiar with standard operating practices, seeing as his biography describes him as spending most of his career working on drug gangs, which is a somewhat different beast than online domestic terrorism work.

Relationships aren't really with the organization (RE the 4chan comment), they're more with the individual agents and pretty decentralized. I've never had the same FBI agent twice, for example.
Having dealt with various tech distractions in cars since before the introduction of cell phones, I don't see how the NTSB hasn't banned touch screens. My older car has a standard radio (dials and buttons), and I still almost rear-ended someone while changing radio stations after a long day.
ah, what's old is new again. i can't wait to get my 1999 on! =)

the subtitle is a little more informative: "A webring for static site generators." i'm glad to see this kind of the movement toward self-deplatforming.

i wonder how comments are both attributable and decentralized? i'm not a fan of comments being blog posts themselves (which would be one solution to this), as they're often "less formal" than a post and should reflect that.
At least for military stuff, not consumer. ITAR is a thing still.
Glad that you agree with the parent.

Oh, sorry, didn't see the !
In almost every state jury awards for damages are reduced, often drastically, down to what can be proven as material damage. Unless someone has receipts for the $11 million (I haven't read the case) it will likely be reduced. This is the benefit of the 'tort reform' theories pushed by pro-business GOP legislators over the last 40 years.
>>> Indexing all open research

I'd also check out analytics platforms such as VIVO. End goal is a universal workflow for all research, discovery and collaboration. Solving this problem will have immediate impact. For example, computational epidemiology and containing Ebola outbreaks in "hot zones" hundreds of miles apart.

Web of Science

https://clarivate.com/products/web-of-science/
Looks nice. Is there any reason to use getopt over flag in Go?

How do you find the experience with sr.ht?
It's meant to be used and configured for individual blogs - you provide the sites you're following and it picks out articles. I'd say the selection of blogs you follow is curation enough. It's not meant for use a la medium.
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China wants the seat at the table back and reinstate themselves as a world power. Unlike the USSR they have the economic, military, diplomatic and cultural power to be an equal to the current players. Accommodate or resist. The US seems to steer to the latter.
Matplotlib is better than nothing, but... as I understand it, it was inspired by Matlab's plotting - and therefore is a bit quirky when translated to the Python paradigm. I use it tho.

I think having a built-in web server via a visualization library that shows the graphs etc in a browser is 'optimal' -- because then, the whole crap of e.g. dealing with Tkinter to make your windows goes away. You achieve OS independence, and could even use lynx for text-only.

The Python visualization space is vast. I believe 'something better' will shake out in the next few years.
I'm always amazed that someone who by all rights should be intimately familiar with the history of social science research like McIntyre can seemingly be so unaware of it. There was an empirical, modernist period in social sciences in the 40-80s of exactly the kind suggested by Lee and it was an absolute disaster. The results couldn't be related to the real world, and no one was really able to get over the inherent [1] influence of the author in the data. After a lot of arguing and furious paper writing in the late 80s-90s, everyone began working on how to deal with that bias, moving it front and center where it can be handled instead of subtly hiding it in a bunch of numbers and pretending it didn't exist. Does it make people who aren't familiar with what's going on think everyone is a bunch of raving lunatics? Yes. It creates a heck of an image problem, not helped by the fact that some smaller percentage of academics are ideological lunatics. But it's far more manageable for their peers to deal with than trying to solve an impossible problem.

[1] If you don't understand why that's an inherent problem, ask yourself whether a white male like myself would get the same results doing research on menstruation in Kabul as an Afghani woman would, or an Arab doing sentiment polls immediately after 9/11.
I prefer getopt because it's more succinct and more standardized.

I made sr.ht :) I can't give you an unbiased opinion, but naturally I think it's quite nice given that I designed it explicitly to suit my needs. Check out the marketing page for some more details:

https://sourcehut.org
Short of it was that a student was confronted about shop lifting a bottle of wine, two other students with them assaulted the shop owner/employee when they were confronted about it. All the students admitted guilt for the shop lifting of a bottle of wine and the assault. The university still pressed and encouraged the protests saying they were only targeted because of their race. It should be worth mentioning that the bakery has been a family business for over 100 years and at that point a community feature, and the defense argued the multi employee bakery was a business worth only 35k and so therefore, no sizable damage to its reputation was done. The school, with an endowment of 887 million, sent a mass email to the campus and alumni out after the verdict but before the full damages could be determined basically saying the jury were idiots in so many words for ruling against the college and sticking to their guns.
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I'll heartily endorse Legal Insurrection's coverage, but with the caveat that they've got a bone to pick against "social justice" and leftist campus activism. It doesn't seem to get in the way of them reporting all the relevant facts in a fair way.
SirCmpwn, the project owner here, also owns sr.ht.
It doesn't change the fact he killed a lot of elephants, but it does make your drawing only that part of the story to our attention rather poor commenting IMO.

Also, is preventing desertification, which affects far more species, actually the wrong reason? Sure his analysis was wrong and so it didn't work, but his motivation seemed better than you're suggesting by saying "for the wrong reasons"?
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I don't like this, but violence is a proven remedy against fascism, possibly the best one. Engaging them in good faith debate in the marketplace of ideas isn't.
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I think this too, but lately I’ve pondered “why do we feel such a strong need to convince others climate change is real or otherwise feel hopeless”?

Not to generalize too much, but is it a convenient excuse that we tell ourselves to not take action, make hard choices, and try to solve the problem? It’s analogous to not shooting satellites into orbit because there are people out there who believe the earth is flat.

The more I mull on this thought, the more I think “piss on those who are holding it out; they’re just haters who want to slow progress.”

Something to think about. I’d rather our generation is remembered for taking action and not for “trying to convince grandpa that climate change is real”.
TFA seems like a challenge to C++ fans, not to sketch out a better solution, but to actually run a better solution against the same data.
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Normally an Apple ][ would use IJKM for movement and space for fire (rarely did games need more than one action button, but control and return were also used for those) On the IIe/IIc which had apple keys, those were also used.
I hate anti-virus software. I have yet to be convinced it is worth the CPU cycles it eats. I would rather reformat my hard drive if there is a malware issue than have McAfee running 24/7
They tried that for a really long time, but Hong Kongers have no power to affect change in China. The traditional pro-democracy camp was always about Chinese democracy and assumed that China was going to go down that path. But all those Victoria Park Tiananmen vigils were the most that anybody could achieve and those didn‘t get anything done. By the time Chinese authorities were kidnapping booksellers off the street it was clear that China would not take any recommendations or receive any change.

The current protests are a mix of a culmination of two decades of waiting, then despair and anger at what looks like the inevitable outcome of twenty years of stonewalling and tightening.