skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that's almost all they do with the exception of Google and Apple I can think off the top of my head

I'm not sure how well Google fares either. I mean YouTube is a success story but Boston Dynamics & Motorola are pretty sad outcomes.

With RH and IBM - they were competitors. So, for everything RH does there is an alternative in IBM (operating systems, application software, Java, etc.). Corporate fiefdoms are not so easily dismantled or pacified :)
45 euro for 500 km in 2 hours, no security. I don't think flights are any cheaper; certainly not if you factor in your time.
What's wrong with Tuesdays?
Focused on what exactly?
A hero or idiot? The protesters are manipulated by someone behind, powerful and evilly smart people. All the protester's actions will not alter the decisions that have been carefully thought by the China gov. I am glad he has not yet formed a family, otherwise more people will suffer by this meaningless movement.
No tactile feedback, for one.

Here's my test. Take a Touchbar-equipped Mac, and a non-touchbar equipped Mac. Sit them side by side. Play a video or song on both of them.

Then, one hand on one mac and your other hand on the other mac, turn the volume up and down using the keyboard and touchbar.

One hand gets confused on where to go on about your third or fourth time turning it back up or down. There's nothing for your fingers to call home.

It's the exact same problem when you try to use a touch screen phone as a game controller, vs an actual gamepad.
I'd be pretty damn annoyed if I went to set up my new media center and discovered that I was gonna need to go out, buy a selection of different cables, and figure out which one works.
Aside from "paying well" this is like a laundry list of what to not do.

1. Unless you're paying me, I'm not doing homework.

2. This isn't a dating ad, it's an employment offer. You're not hiring PIs.

4. Be careful about building a social club instead of a company

5. I don't work with people who don't understand the separation between work and my personal life. My political views, social views, and what I do with my free time are none of your business as long as I don't make them your business. Frankly, I don't want to be your friend.

7. A book is garbage onboarding. Your onboarding needs to be task oriented and fast. Give them a quick checklist on how to get access, pull down a project, and build it and run tests. Don't expect them to study a godforsaken manual.
The U.S. Geological Survey does issue notifications when they detect significant seismic activity that's a potential precursor to larger events. But as many people have already mentioned, there still is no known model for predicting earthquakes.
Some places also sell bar shampoo. Something you can take on planes & can be sold in simple wax paper.
Any regulation on corporate behavior is ultimately just a proxy for regulation on individuals (because it's often easier to regulate corporations, as they tend to be more accountable). Corporations will discipline themselves if the demand for their product goes away.
I go into it more in the README but yes, GPT-2 overfits Magic cards very quickly despite my best efforts (usually it shifts the mana cost/rarity a bit more though than your example).
I've known Ben and his cofounder Clark Valberg for probably fifteen years. Clark is the front man, the CEO, of InVision. Ben strikes me as someone wanting to avoid being a manager at all costs and happy to just code. They're both great people.
That would be super fun to work on this project.
With inexpensive, distributed RF software defined radios, we could rapidly collect data and use machine learning to see if a pattern presents itself based on changes in HF propagation.

For a similar example, check out https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en. They use inexpensive, freely colocated time of arrival RF receivers to triangulate lightning strikes across the world [1]. It operates on a shoestring budget as a hobbyist project.

There might be no signal to be found, but it seems from a cursory glance that to investigate would be a low cost exercise.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/dUxnTsR.png
Can you please omit personal swipes from your posts to HN? Providing correct information neutrally is by far the best way to get it across, and then you won't be breaking the site guidelines or damaging the community either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
yeah here is another one. why didn't they take down the whole seller?
https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Braided-Charging-Syncing-Comp...
edit: put correct link
Note that even rsync itself has some limited support for "profiles", like --archive.
Exactly.

I've done no research on the company but I assume Graham is profiting off of its success. Since only collective action will solve climate change's effects on the middle and lower classes this is just cynical profiteering off of global disasters.
See it here: https://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1038031/
Ask HN: How do you feel about usage statistics collection in Python libraries?
Reason: I'm a product manager of a Python open-source project and being able to do this would make it easier to work out how you're using features e.g. poor-usage of a feature might mean we've designed it badly or high-usage of our supported plugins might mean we should just natively build the feature into the core library.

Optional questions:
- What would make you feel safer if this feature was implemented? Clear documentation and an easy and direct way of turning it off?
- Do you use products that track your usage?
Corollary: the biggest impacts to energy consumption lie in land use and building code changes, secondarily in consumption habits.

See LLNL's 2018 energy flow chart:

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/images/energy/us/... (PDF: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/assets/docs/2018_United-...)

Of 101 quads, 28 go to transport. Industrial use. is dominated by relatively clean natural gas (methane), with a large chunk likely being ammonia and other chemical production (I'd like to see breakouts).

Dense and local-first construction enables public. transit, walking and cycling, localised services, shared facilities, and numerous other mechanisms of increased efficience

Denser residential spaces and more cimate-appropriate construction hugely reduces
Handbreak is a really good GUI for ffmpeg. The problem is that i (with its ~20 different windows) supports only one use case of the tool.
Traveling is a part of why the world is more integrated and, likely, less violent than it used to be.

People flying around is not just good for businesses and economies, people visiting other places is cultural exchange. Do you really want people to be more culturally isolated?
Your "piped tar" doesn't cover the main use case of rsync, which is (unsurprisingly), remote file hierarchy sync'ing.

In particular, when there's a hierarchy on a remote machine that I want to sync to a partially-up-to-date hierarchy on a local machine, the required rsync command is a one-liner and it's very fast because it uses a diff.

Incidentally, the "tar" man page is not exactly a model of simplicity itself.
Really? They dry out your skin and leave it prone to damage in my experience. I don't know that they're better than soap.

But from the article:

> Soaps and detergents have been described as the most damaging of all substances routinely applied to skin (43). Anionic and cationic detergents are more harmful than nonionic detergents (54), and increased concentrations of surfactant result in more rapid, severe damage (55). Each time the skin is washed, it undergoes profound changes, most of them transient. However, among persons in occupations such as health care in which frequent handwashing is required, long-term changes in the skin can result in chronic damage, irritant contact dermatitis and eczema, and concomitant changes in flora.

> Irritant contact dermatitis, which is associated with frequent handwashing, is an occupational risks for health-care professionals, with a prevalence of 10% to 45% (56-58). The prevalence of damaged skin on the hands of 410 nurses was reported to be 25.9% in one survey, with 85.6% of nurses reported to have problems at some time. Skin damage was correlated with frequency of glove use and handwashing (56). Washing with plain soap may actually increase the potential for microbial transmission because of a 17-fold increase in the dispersal of bacterial colonies from the skin of the hands (59). Skin condition clearly plays a major role in risk for transmission.
> I take much more stock in the opinions with those who actually have to work under those conditions and see those systems in use first hand.

Check out John Taylor Gatto's works [1]. He was a public school teacher for 30 years, but later advocated for homeschooling.

[1] E.g. Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, and The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern Schooling
According to Macrumors they have the 3rd Generation butterfly keyboard: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/09/all-2019-macbooks-have-...
FTA: Benson Leung seems to think they should have copied figured 4-9 -- https://medium.com/@leung.benson/how-to-design-a-proper-usb-...

I don't think a long and imperfect specification is a good excuse for getting this one wrong -- since this specific part of the spec is a MUST and accurate.
It's worse than that, IMHO. The zoom client installs a web server that remains after zoom is uninstalled with the ability to reinstall zoom.
How often does this RF Seismograph show disturbances when no earthquake follows?
If governments put a price on carbon, individuals and corporations will do their parts as a result.
HopsFS is based around using an in-memory database as the metadata store for a filesystem -

https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast17/technical-sessions/...

HopsFS is a drop-in replacement for HDFS, and the above paper showed 16X throughput improvement for Spotify's Hadoop workload over Apache HDFS. Since then, HopsFS has added small files in the metadata layer, with over 60X throughput improvement and an order of magnitude lower latency for writing small files (ACM Middleware'18):

https://www.logicalclocks.com/millions-and-millions-of-files...
Has anyone ever used the word completion or quick emoji picker on the touch bar? I've found both of those to be very useful!
I agree with all this. However, even though I still use Macs for everything, it's been clear to me for a while that Apple 'Pro' users are not tech people. There is a big difference in keyboard necessity between a developer and any 'Pro' user. Key travel, actually having real keys, are all a big deal to devs.

I think Apple lost their function and form way a while ago. It's never coming back. The new Mac Pro is the latest example of this. I bought a 2018 MB Pro 13" last year and the touch bar is a waste of space in my mind. We see now that Apple is ditching the scissor keys, but regardless, their design decisions for a while have just been wanting to have something look cool instead of a balance of looking good and functioning great.
The US intelligence services do not operate within the law, clearly. They are not beholden to the people they pledge to serve because their pledges are lies. Their public statements are lies. Regular people tolerate the erosion of their freedoms because the process is slow and subtle (and because they are made to fear). Meanwhile, news sources blast our brains with the well-chewed topic du jour to distract from the tragic reality of the global US-led pursuit of absolute power they call "defense". These people are not voted into office. They rise in rank by repeatedly demonstrating willingness to carry out orders without question or moral objection. Real power is achieved by the systematic extermination of human compassion. Every new technology they build and release to the public is another tool in their arsenal. It is all a con. There is a comprehensive historical record of the iniquities perpetrated by agencies like the CIA, and even more clues of their involvement in all manner of pure evil, yet we collectively operate as if this were untrue. These criminial organizations destroy cultures the world over. The surveillance system is expanding at an exponential pace. It will soon overtake everything we once held sacred or private, and we are being trained to accept it. We are slipping into a new paradigm where everyone is plugged in all the time, or not plugged in, but bathed mind and body in the radiative probes of a thousand wireless devices. The world is being infiltrated by forces that seek to undermine creative thought, to create a an emaciated drone army of egoist technoslaves. There is no democracy. Can you prove that your vote counts or is faith in the system good enough? For many people, money is just a number on a screen. Your entire livelihood is based on what that number on the screen is. There is no guarantee that your number is safe. The fork in the road is coming fast and we have two choices. Expose and destroy the slime or go to sleep in a virtual reality forever.
Private browsing mode wasn't (originally) intended to to prevent tracking by websites. It's goal was to keep your browsing history locally private. (i.e. keep your pr0n viewing out of the local browsing history so your friends wouldn't see what kind of porn you like when they borrow your laptop to check their email.

That definition has expanded a bit (very) recently, but preventing website tracking is usually a separate feature (adblockers, noscript, automatic cookie deletion tools, firefox's recent "tracking blocker").
"I don't smell" is the classic response of someone who smells bad. No offense, it's just that every time in my life where I've encountered someone who has said things like this, they have been someone who smells bad but people around them just weren't letting them know.
This has been discussed about 2932874923874 times on this exact website. Google the past threads. The fundamentals of sales have not changed.
Corporations dictate consumer behavior in the ways that matter here. Do you think individuals agitated for the rise of throw-away goods during the rise of mass produced plastics in the 60s? This was the simply the most companies could do in the production process to maximize profit in a way that wouldn't stop customers from buying.

Also, nothing will change until people stop imagining that corporations and government are foreign bodies comprised of something other than their neighbors and themselves.
> [UPDATED 8:20 am PT, Tuesday 7/9] We do not currently have an easy way to help a user delete both the Zoom client and also the Zoom local web server app on Mac that launches our client. The user needs to manually locate and delete those two apps for now. This was an honest oversight. As such, by this weekend we will introduce a new Uninstaller App for Mac to help the user easily delete both apps.

Someone wrote code to reinstall the app if was deleted, right? I'm having a hard time understanding how that is a "honest mistake".
A plugin that shows if a scientific article has been supported or contradicted
I worked with a start-up that focused on providing software for private family offices. These are for UHNW people who have more than 100 million USD. They do not want to brag that they go to the Bentley of banks. They want to keep it as private as possible.

Typically UHNW has a private family office, something between a concierge and philanthropy and a private investment organization, which maintain relationships with private banking services provided by Credit Suisse, UBS, etc. It can cost 1-2 million USD a year to run a private family office.

You never hear about family offices and in some areas you may only see a discreet sign at a posh building saying "private banking" and all of these folks want to keep it that way. The branding play here is being tight-lipped and discrete.
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It is weird how people pretend that corporations and governments are some type of weird entities with minds of their own instead of just a group of individuals. Individuals changing priorities will directly result in corporations and governments changing priorities.
In cases like this, I explicitly preface it with "nit: <text here>", explain how I would do it myself instead and why, and then (also explicitly) say that this is more of a preference thing and that they should feel free to leave it as is. It might turn out they like my approach more and change the code, but if not, it is still totally cool with me, as they learned of just one more way to do the same thing that might come useful later.
From a privacy perspective: which do you guys think is better? Firefox or Brave? I'm thinking it's finally time to give up Chrome.
Who is "we"?

Ripple (or rather XRP, which I referred to as "Ripple") is widely referred to as cryptocurrency. It uses a distributed ledger and cryptography, like a cryptocurrency. It is traded on cryptocurrency exchanges and can be sent/received like a cryptocurrency (requiring no account registration like Paypal). Also, like most cryptocurrency it is backed by nothing and its price fluctuates and moves along with broader cryptocurrency market trends. For most intents and purposes, it is a cryptocurrency.

Of course one can make the distinction that a "true" cryptocurrency should be fully decentralized, but that's besides my point.
USB Type-C is an example of the second-system effect:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html
We need over-ear headphones with this ASAP. Current noise dampening products are mostly targeted for high dB sounds. It would be nice to have pure silence anywhere with relatively small headphones.
True, my point of view might not take everything into account, but for trains, the ability to add capacity is limited, mostly constrained by tracks leased time.

For the train I take to go back home, the price varies between 35€ and 220€. This is excessive! And not much better than sold-out seats..
A doesn't necessarily need to be true.
Using your quote for the article and adding site:https://news.ycombinator.com to the search criteria I was able to find this request for help and the following links

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17595545

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18682579

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19062504
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19891084
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Calibre's ebook-viewer is tolerable when your distro doesn't break Qt5/Calibre; I think that's an Arch problem, unfortunately.
USB C has confused me for the same reason. I read often about how there is no expectation that two USB-C cables/ports will work together.

Why design them to fit together if they won't always work right?
Except that since indies are pretty visible you can't just hide behind Steam, your fans know how to reach out to you and will hound you when they feel like they've been wronged.

The fact that indies are saying they'd prefer the game to be pirated than bought through G2A should tell you all you need.
> I suppose the Airlines will just pass along any new taxes to the traveling consumer.

Well, yeah, but what is the problem with that? The price increase thus decreasing the demand of flights, achieving the goal.
>but still the spec literally hands you a schematic. Is it that hard to just copy it? Why did they even try to be clever and use their own design in the first place just to save a single 5.1k ohm resistor?

See also: People who like to get all creative with encryption library implementations in commercial settings. If implementing a standard protocol, unless you have a very good reason otherwise, you should;

1. Go and find the guide by the people who designed it.

2. Read the guide and make test thingies till you are sure you understand it.

3. Now go and do what the guide tells you to do.
It just occurred to me that the situation with the Touch Bar is similar to what Apple has done with 3D Touch... it seems like Apple is making a bet that more complicated input devices are better, which is a total about face from their past positions. Notably the 1-button mouse, and the original buttonless iPhone.

I think it's a bad call. To me, these input devices create a lot of confusion for very little benefit. I think it's a sign Apple has given up on the philosophy of trying to make everything accessible to the average user.

They have gone over to Microsoft's philosophy, which was that UIs should be like an iceberg, with a deep well of hidden functionality for advanced users to discover, and then a separate "normal people" UI layered on top of that.

I think there's a MASSIVE opportunity right now for someone to build a new OS, designed around a very limited set of inputs, and a highly constrained widget library. With an emphasis on speed, putting as little as possible on the screen, and like Apple of old, having simple apps that let people do things pros typically do.

For example, you could design a UI that would allow you to easily cut together clips from multiple videos. This was hard, and then iMovie made it easy, but now it is hard again. Those kinds of features make good ads, and lead to good word of mouth.

Basically, take Steve Jobs' original strategy with the iMac/iPhone and do it over again. Apple has totally departed that path.
I think it's more that they understand their customer base rather than a local practice.
Yes, forget due diligence. It's too much work.
If they added it _but also didn't steal the fn row_, I'd be all for it. But losing known, solid functionality for the opportunity to maybe hack together something useful is not a fair trade.
I don't buy shampoo. My shower contains a single bar of soap.
The single-winner form of ranked choice voting (a.k.a. instant runoff voting) doesn’t help third parties as much as you think!

It makes it safe for you to give your first choice to a third party candidate who has no chance of winning, because they’ll have no effect on the result after being eliminated in the first round. But as soon as your third party candidate becomes a serious challenger, you’ll risk instead eliminating your second choice, whose redistributed votes are much more likely to favor your last choice.

https://www.electionscience.org/library/the-spoiler-effect/

So IRV is great for stopping weak third parties from upsetting the balance of the two-party duopoly, but not so great for helping strong third parties get a real chance at winning. If you want real change, there are much better systems available: take a look at approval voting, score voting, or Condorcet voting.
When reading a man page, especially a classic man page like the ps man page or maybe a system call man page like sigaction, I try to keep in mind that the information is there but may require careful study. Good man pages are a often quite terse, requiring attentive reading.

I like using man the best, but there are two other methods that command-line programs can use to provide documentation, GNU's info and built in help (triggered by -h or --help on command-line).

GNU's info works better than man for more complex documentation--its practically a curses based e-book reader. For a taste of using info based documentation, try

info spell

on the command line to see the documentation for the aspell command. Info is even used as the internal help documentation for Emacs, reachable from inside of Emacs (via "Cntl-h i", naturally). I think rsync has too many facets for a man page and would benefit from having a longer info file that could explain the many use cases for rsync.
Coutts is one name an average person on the street in the UK would recognise as exclusive bank.