skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah - I've seen plenty of not-confident-bikers hop on scooters and ride them in the street.

Even though riding a scooter in the street is often fairly terrifying, I feel like there's some kind of easy mental jump that has people getting on without nearly as much reservation as they would have hopping on a bike.
I'm sure it has some special Apple magic, but I really think the hardware-only approach isn't the path forward. Hardware faults happen, and papering over that fact with un-debuggable, un-observable firmware is not a good choice.
This site claims:

"For over thirty years, he has been studying, modelling, building and testing his own ornithopter — an invention that was first conceived some five hundred years ago, but is yet to be implemented successfully."

This is so falsely absurd I am not sure where to begin. Many ornithopters have been constructed that flew or fly successfully; there have even been a few successful full-scale attempts. Most were models, though.

A recent model implementation:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/274008848/metafly-a-new...

...which was inspired by a much older toy - which itself (if we're being honest) was probably based off of even older examples:

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

Then you have Paul MacCready's Pterodactyl:

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

I won't go on...
Hard to drink hot liquids with a straw anyway (stirrers are another story).

The plastics I'm think of are PLA and PHA. Mainly made of corn, but you could synthesize them from pure chemicals as well. Far more common than these "lobster shell" ones.
You raise a good point. Flat probably doesn't always work this way. It wouldn't be a good idea to assume that every flat organization is doing what I describe.

While I'd personally argue that people development is an essential duty of management, they may not see it as important. Also, in some cases, management may just see it as a way to be less rigid.
> Point Mac client to ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs

I forgot where I saw this (a tweet?) but iCloud Drive may have moved in Catalina. It should only be a matter of pointing SyncThing to the new location, but it’s something to be aware of to keep your solution working.
I'm not sure what you and others are suggesting though.

Instead of the user limiting time on their own phone, you want the government to? Or you want the government to restrict certain practices from certain app makers?

There are many many many things people abuse and many many many industries that make their products as addictive as possible, that's the world we live in.

Go after the caffeine and sugar industry if you want to rid the most humans of addiction.
Also Snowcrash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
It's interesting that /usr/X11 isn't in that list!
My point is: Joe Average takes some photos with his camera, finds that he’s out of space on his SD card, pops it into his MacBook to transfer over a couple of good photos and delete the rest, and when he plugs it back into the camera it’s still full. Finder doesn’t show anything, and neither does the camera’s image review function. I don’t think that looking to empty the Trash is an intuitive next step, since it seems to me that the Trash wouldn’t be on the SD card.
Title: "Oregon is poised to set a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. That’s a huge deal.
A “cap and invest” bill would link it to California’s carbon trading market."

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/6/5/18650155...

FWIW: Vox's David Roberts is now my primary climate & carbon pundit. He's just crushing it. And I've become a big fan of "explainer journalism".
I think it's important to remember that a big part of the value prop of these services is that when you open the app to hail a car, you're pretty much assured of getting that car within 15 minutes or so. Change the current equilibrium much and that benefit might go away. I could hail a cab by phone before Uber, but, in Chicago, where we have pretty reasonable cab service (certainly light years better than SFBA's), it would often take multiple attempts and involve a 30+ minute wait. You could reliably get a private car in NYC, but, as I recall from all the times I worked in NYC, you weren't getting that car in 15 minutes.
People are as energetic as ever about controversial, tribe-splitting issues, possibly more. We are not going to let power fall into the hands of our blood enemies just because our party’s candidate messed up the trains. He knows this, so there is no reason for him to spend political capital on them, so they will continue to deteriorate.
The probabilities differ by less than 0.0000001.
I agree as a white guy. Asian guys have never been particularly well placed in most US media, movies, etc. and there is a stigma when white women date them - you rarely ever see it outside of places like SF and NYC.

I know for a fact my white female friends (at least in high school and college) had large biases against Asian dudes.

What's worse, it seems that many American-Asian women go for white guys instead of Asian men, though I have no idea why.

On the flip side, I believe I do get an extra few points with the ladies when I travel to Asian countries. I don't know if it's because they assume I'm wealthy (which I am compared to most in low wage Asian countries) or if it is just the foreign novelty.

And it's kind of a stereotype now where the unattractive American or British gent goes over to East / SE Asia to teach English (and pick up a girlfriend or bride).
Reducing supply will remove money from the economy, although less than the amount of money that was taken (the same happens whenever the government levies a tax).
C++ Patterns: The Badge
I actually have a 3D printed PLA straw (nominally compostable) that I reuse (single layer so it can be cleaned/dried). Weird, not super feasible for most people, but I needed a straw and didn't have one.
BackBlaze is absolutely genius at marketing. They are one of the few companies that know how to produce “ads” that are both super interesting and useful while explaining how their service can solve a real need.

I absolutely love their hard disk stats as well. Whenever I read one of their articles, I get the warm fuzzy feeling that these people really know their stuff and that my data would be safe with them.

Kudos for building great service and marketing in such a useful and informative manner.
In my opinion, Huxwell's Brave New World is much more 'accurate' for Western world, while 1984's surveillance state is what we observe in the East.
Is the display expensive for what it is? Everyone's saying it's in the same league as reference displays?
They're also the most likely people to be injured by their unsafe behavior, whereas car drivers injuring vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists) would most likely be harming others only.
There are more ways to innovate than just offer the same thing for less money. You can offer more things for the same money, which is what FlyHomes is doing. That is actually the more common and more financially viable form of innovation.
Prime Video is also going to have a new season of "The Expanse" later this year
Building a unique combined desk and PC [video]
I really need to tell you... html is already only presentation.
The content is in the backend system
If anyone else is wondering about the 'bondcap.com' URL, it seems a Kleiner Perkins brand.
From the video:

"Traditionally, it was done by mounting file systems on top of directories in the root file system. With the number of crossing points which we need to introduce and the number of volumes which it would require in the file system, that approach becomes rather expensive."
Windows malware uses IPFS/libp2p
What physical medium do you use (HDD, SSD)? I had a faulty HDD act up on me like that.
Very cool.

>They appear to shoot the entire vehicle out of a cannon-like container, then air-ignite the booster.

They have an interesting launch platform, maybe they are trying to limit the damage to equipment? As it is their strategy seems relatively gentle to their launch platform. This could give them faster turnaround on launches.
"...this isn’t an unfortunate one-off...a pattern of behavior ...Microsoft’s storefronts are always a snarl of broken technology with horrendous usability"

That sums up the situation so well. I never cease to be astonished by this sad fact.
Sure, what do you want to know?

I went in the dead of winter, so might be a little different from what you might experience in summer.
https://www.facebook.com/dheera/media_set?set=a.101010917929...
The reason this article is on hackernews:

"A non-trivial example is when your electoral process is corrupted by a foreign power and your government talks about charging the people who tried to investigate this interference with treason. That’s Orwellian. And it’s no longer a prophecy. It’s a headline."

... wonder why this is getting upvoted
To me flat orgs default to lord of the flies leadership.
You must have had better ones than _that_, when you were thinking up a witty reply. I hope that wasn't you bringing your best.
You can still front non-static assets by a CDN. Just update the CDN when the asset changes, or add a query parameter to requests (e.g, ?v=2) when changing things like your favicon.
I'm not familiar with Windows file tagging, but on MacOS this is not true. Any and all files may be tagged, regardless of their type or contents.
You can rent a jetski at Treasure Island, FL and see wild dolphins in the bay for the same price as SeaWorld tickets.
Everyone I know (see username) visits nature to be in nature. Not just to see it.
The future isn't 1984.

The future is Brave New World.

Huxley should know: he helped implement it.
Open in browser with reader mode on. Only text. Lot of rss readers have that option
I for one have already switched from Uber to Jump (which Uber now owns anyway) for casual use where I’m not in a hurry. A bicycle is more pleasant to use, I don’t have to wait for pickup, it’s way cheaper, and I get a little exercise. The electric motor helps me not get sweaty.

During rush-ish hour it’s also faster than a car due to lane splitting and such.

The math goes like this: $15 for a car that takes 15min + 5min of waiting, or $3 for a bike that takes 10min + some pedaling? Is easy decision

This is downtown SF so we’re talking lots of traffic and short distances.
You registered a new account to post this?
"It’s a radical act to be optimistic about the future of the internet."

With half a billion dollar in revenue your radical act amounts to "be optimistic about the future of the Internet" and share that now through a branding exercise? No actual radical acts that would actually improve the future of the Internet?

"We disrupt the status quo because it’s the right thing to do."

Unless the status quo is advertising, or microsoft, or google, or drm in the w3c.

"Build better products."

Maybe start with "product", singular. Also maybe stop talking about your browser as a "product" that needs to be peddled.

"Open. Open-minded. Open-hearted. Open source. An open book."

Not open-web though, only fuzzy and easy feel-good "open" stuff.

"The brand system is built on four pillars [..] We make transparency and a global perspective integral to our brand [..] The Firefox brand exploration began [..] working on the Mozilla brand identity."

What do these things even mean? Remember when driven users took out a 2-page advertisement in a well-known newspaper to spread the word? Because you made an awesome browser? A browser that put its users and the open web first?

"branding without walls"

Unless you were Debian, or some other distro that needed to patch your stuff because market share is more important than getting a good browser into the hands of as many users as possible.
Yes. But OP will learn (hopefully) and that's the fun of it.

Anyway, for the C64 many of your "APIs" -- especially for games -- are accessed by peeking and poking memory-mapped locations, careful usage of the zero-page, etc. C doesn't help you with that stuff but assembly loves it.

If you aren't in there counting cycles you are leaving so much on the table, and there just isn't that much table!
There is a recent RFC which applies the DNS to security checks for passwords, credit cards, etc. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8567
I didn't even realize they had a free tier, makes sense.
I would agree with that, especially for their biggest and most influential subs like /r/news and /r/politics. Reddit's owners have shown they're not above selling out some of these subs to firms like ShareBlue. It would make sense as part of their contract, they'd ensure that the mods were 'suited' to their customers' goals.
the heart has reasons
the head will never understand
Analyzing latent embedding capacity in Tacotron, Google's seq2seq TTS model
Research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03402

Audio examples: https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/capacitron/

Capacitron is the Tacotron team's most recent contribution to the world of expressive end-to-end speech synthesis (e.g., transfer and control of prosody and speaking style). Our previous Style Tokens and prosody transfer work implicitly controls reference embedding capacity by modifying the encoder architecture, thereby targeting a trade-off between text-specific transfer fidelity and text-agnostic style generality. Capacitron treats embedding capacity as a first class citizen by targeting a specific value for the representational mutual information via a variational information bottleneck.

We also show that by modifying the stochastic reference encoder to match the form of the true latent posterior, we can achieve high-fidelity prosody transfer, text-agnostic style transfer, and natural-sounding prior samples in the same model. The modified encoder also addresses the pitch range preservation problems we observed during inter-speaker transfer in our past work.

Lastly, we show the capacity of the embedding can be decomposed hierarchically, allowing us to control the amount of sample-to-sample variation for transfer use cases.

To appreciate the results fully, we recommend listening to the audio examples in conjunction with reading the paper.
I was going to comment the same. I really liked the design and wondered if enabling JS would make it different (not seeing a logo was a clue I wasn’t seeing the full design). I turned it one and was immediately disappointed.
Not the person you replied to be wow, you have no idea how little China cares.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jared+diamond+site%3Areddit.com%2F...

for example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8nr7xd/thoug...

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6meq1k/a_det...

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2mkcc3/how_d...
All the next gen, copy on write filesystems have checksums: NTFS+ (ReFS) has it, ext4+ (btrfs) has it, but HPFS++ (APFS) has not. Bummer.

At least optional checksums should be supported, then watchOS does not waste time with it but a user with 10k+ mac workstation who might still uses spinning rust for bulk data storage is SOL.
Just because you can't currently see any problems doesn't mean you're not surrounded by them. You can't see the problems because no one has turned on the lights.
Ignoring federal law doesn't make anything legal, it just makes it harder to get caught. California is going to end up in an interesting battle one way or another.
Expect about 30%, most of it in smaller system files and libraries. Block-level dedup is great for pretty much anything where you have a consistent workflow.
Unwrinkling a raisin, and TIL about cellular aging
No Easy Way Forward for Commercial Open Source Software Vendors
Hearing a free software project talk about "branding" and "a range of products and services" makes my eye twitch.
When you post it this way we can't click on the link.

Just post a link to the paper and then we can discuss it.
Fair point. Around where I live, they seem pretty scarce the few times I've looked at the app out of curiosity. I don't know how long a typical pickup would take. But there's certainly some density level of drivers/passengers below which the market doesn't work. In fact, any percentage decrease presumably decreases service everywhere to some degree and shrinks the areas where Uber/Lyft can effectively operate at all.

I do use private cars but pretty much to get back and forth to the airport.
Oh yes, the ability to pin a window to the top is one of the features I miss most on Windows. You don't need it every day but when you do it saves a ton of time and clicks.
Kayayo – “Market Porters” – Of Ghana
Our teams at Tanium do something similar. There’s no pay bump to lead the group... and we have a number of folks who’ve led the a team and then went back to IC. It’s worked quite well overall; however, is a difficult position (sometimes leading north of forty folks)
These arguments seem entirely unconvincing to me, in the same way that the Fermi Paradox is. Let's take some small numbers (which we got mostly by guesses, not experimentation), multiply them together, and then be shocked at what a tiny number it is.
What should they say? It's theoretically possible for any AV to detect the bug (how else did they prove it exists?) but a simple "Yes" hardly conveys accurate information.
Space on the screen is a limited resource and overlapping windows allow making a more efficient use of it.
Well, X11 hasn't been provided by Apple since 10.8, about 7 years ago. So it wouldn't be touched by OS upgrades anyway (it's a separate product).
Gnome Shell with PaperWM extension looks a lot like this. I used to use PaperWM and enjoyed it a lot. They have some interesting ideas
Climatic, there is nothing you can do. The vast majority of pollution comes from corporations, not individuals. Try to rally a change in laws, but don't focus your efforts on changing individual people's habits, it's a drop in the bucket.
Sure but is that a problem?

If the originally submitted guide is admittedly subjective, then it seems like sharing different subjective viewpoints (with reasoning) in HN comments is a great idea. If it's a subjective thing, I'd rather hear from several viewpoints before making decisions about how to handle my own tables.
Orwell's book primary point wasn't about the surveillance (although there is plenty of surveillance there, to be sure), it was about how history is rewritten and people are trained to change their beliefs on command.

It's much more about "2+2=5" than about the Big Brother TV-show with the cameras. I myself thought the book was about surveillance before I read it, mostly because of the "Big Brother" TV show.
no. It's Mary Meeker's new fund (a lot of them are from the KP growth team) but separate fund now
You have things 100% backwards. High density should mean improved public transport because the economic incentives will shift to favor it strongly.

Low density sprawl is a huge factor in traffic because it pulls people apart. You can't walk anywhere because you have to live more than half an hour walk from the local shop, the local butcher, florist, cafe, gallery. Zombie existence? The low density shit hole that is the Bay Area is a zombie existence. European lifestyle with its much higher density and much better road traffic is the antithesis of zombie existence.
Java Project Amber: Towards Better Serialization
I use Blink[1] to Mosh to an EC2 instance where I use Jekyll, Vim, and Git to edit a static website that’s built and deployed when I push master. I can transfer images from my Photos library using the local shell, which I then resize on the VM.

I’ve heard people speculating about “Xcode on iPad within a few years” since Swift Playgrounds was released. Hopefully it’s closer now, but I’m still skeptical.

[1] https://blink.sh
The only thing I hate is the lack of removable drives. I didn’t appreciate that until the last time I worked at BigCorp and the screen “went bad” (okay honestly I dropped it) and the help desk just swapped out the hard drive to a spare and sent it to HP for repair.

I had almost forgotten what computers use to be like.

On an unrelated note. I love HPs drop jaw Ethernet port. It keeps the laptop thin but you still have a regular built in Ethernet port.
Honestly, even in cold liquids, I'd be worried about non-plastic straws getting soggy and/or melting if left long enough.

I haven't specifically looked into PLA and PHA much, but a quick google sees PLA being referred to as "too good to be true" and having "misleading biodegradability". I'm not seeing such concerns about PHA, but I've also only spent like a minute looking it up, and I wouldn't be surprised if some more intensive searching turns up some serious drawbacks. I have turned up some concerns about bioplastic production competing with food for the same agricultural resources, though.
I don't think Huxley's Brave New World has aged too well. Many of its central concepts such as 'soma', 'hatchery and conditioning centers', and the caste system - alphas to epsilons - don't have readily transposable equivalents in our modern day society. Granted, many of the technologies in 1984 don't either, but its central concepts resound to our times.
Yeah, its a tricky situation. If a cyclist runs into a car, the driver of the car will survive and feel the guilt of taking out the cyclist. I really hope I never meet one of the hill-bombers that way. They are not just playing with their own life, they are affecting others.
Yes, that's a possibility. Flash level checksum only guarantees that the written or read LBA is intact.

However, I've never seen an enterprise storage system to do a mistake like that. My archaic OCZ Vectors or Mac SSDs also didn't do something similar. The problem you mention is as sinister as bit-rot.

It's always nice that the FS is self aware about its integrity, however it may be overkill for consumer class devices and installations. Maybe making the flash controller and the storage itself more reliable should be better in the long run for these type of devices IMHO.
New Zealand banned foreign investors last year.

Prices have dropped where I live (although could easily be due to other causes). Mortgage rates have also dropped recently.
In Jared Diamond's "guns, germs and steel" an explanation given is that in China, some monarchs simply decided to abandon ocean faring ships, and so China didn't have them for a long time. The same couldn't happen in Europe, because there were so many small competing countries.
Don't submarine missiles work like this?
I love that my iOS devices backup to iCloud.

I really wish iCloud would support macOS (Time Machine) too.
Android SQLite Debug Tools
Big companies that work with recruiters (staffing agencies) are usually just trying to hire contractors to fill a short term need. You need to create your own staffing agency if you want to compete on this.

Otherwise focus on a niche and build a brand that isn't based on your own name. That way other companies aren't assuming when they work with you they will only work with you. 1-to-1 interactions make scaling very difficult. If you've already done that, then it's time learn how to find your customers, understand their problems and how to solve them, market to them and sell. This is much easier when you focus on a niche rather than being a generalist programmer that can do anything.

Since this is an old comment, it's probably not worth going into the details here. If you're seriously interested, I'd be happy to help answer questions from my experience. Feel free to find my contact info from the website in my profile and reach out.
"Might just need to add

- a fallback wm"

imo this is one of the major reasons windows 8's GUI, Metro, failed. They didn't go all in. I understand the rationale though
Uh, no. That's not it at all.
Plan 9 is really radical about this, but I'm not sure how secure that would be in practice: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/net/

But the computing experience is quite unreasonable - with copy&paste working though ;)