skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. And I don't think anyone is saying you don't have that right. Rather we're hoping you can forgive the molestor as someone who is ill and needs treatment to get better. The act is not the sum of the person. I wouldn't fault you for not being able to do this though.

We are making a choice to punish people for their illnesses. And in a humane culture we would look at those less fortunate and try to help them. This was a central tenet of Progressivisim, which as an ideal has presided over some of the finest periods of our nation's history, and since it has fallen out of favor so has the US.

Currently what we're doing is throwing people in jail who are mentally ill, treating them like criminals, and not treating the mental illness. Then we release them onto the streets, where they promptly take up the same habits that got them put into jail in the first place.

It's been several generations since we closed up all the inpatient facilities, and two generations since Reagan basically eliminated all federal funding for mental health care. The upshot is we have a bunch of crazy people living among us who don't realize that they're mentally ill, and who cannot be coerced into treatment because there are no treatment programs that have room for them. So they end up in jail or on the street.

I think it's time for us to try something different. Clearly jailing the mentally ill is not working.
Not necessarily. Validating the authentication labels on a device might give someone enough confidence they can trust it for their particular threat model. While resellers add a definite uncertainty to the security of the supply chain, I think most people would find them to be more trustworthy than a counterfeiting manufacturer.
To you, maybe. But others, security in public/rented clouds is a serious concern.
I think there often is a point when reducing the bitrate further while keeping the same resolution is a worse choice than dropping the resolution. I believe one of the tricks of AV1 is to internalise this trade-off.

More generally, doing visual comparisons of codecs is full of traps. Since quality often falls off rapidly at a certain point it's possible to show your codec off by choosing the exact point to compare to maximise the difference. This is almost certainly the case if you're comparing against jpeg and it's starting to totally fall apart.

It's not that it doesn't correctly show that one is worse than the other but it's probably not a good visual reflection of the true scale of the difference any more than ramping up the bitrate until everyone would think they are indistinguishable.
An excellent example!
Everything wants to startup and run in the background on windows, all those game update installers (steam/orgin/etc), adobe products, drivers, apps, its crazy. Not even counting all the win10 apps.
That was a fantastic post. I feel exactly the same way.

My kids sometimes feel too needy. Oftentimes I never get the desired downtime.

My wife got mad at me one day and said "You need to listen to Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle. Then come talk with me." It's a shock to listen to that song, because it's true. It would be easy to end up like that and no one want it.
A slightly amusing side effect is that the app shows you as having -1 followers and following -1 people.
A hearty congratulations, Noam, on finishing another chapter of the story i opened in the early 1990s...

Another person asked "What took you so long?", and i had the same question. :) I really thought this milestone would be achieved fairly soon after i left the field in 2007. However, breakthroughs require a researcher with the right amount of reflectiveness, insight, and determination.

Well done.
Would be useful to note how many users of Teams do so, where their employer pays specifically for it. My guess is that most users of Teams are effectively corporate ‘Microsoft shops’ who effectively get Teams for free with their Office365 bundle.

Another useful statistic to ascertain: how many startups or small businesses use Slack compared to in large corporates?
Notwithstanding the row length and column count limits, did you also give MySQL more memory? Setting InnoDB buffer pool size to 3 or 4 GB might help; its default is about 134 MB.
OP should install Windows Server Nano or Core to run these or use a non-interactive user session to run builds, e.g.: by running a service with a service account instead of a login session with a user account.

The OP is making the equivalent complaint of running a full Ubuntu shell complete with the Ubuntu One store running in the background after starting up Gnome, and complaining that Canonical owes him CPU-time.

Well, yeah, you logged into a interactive user session in a desktop user-oriented operating system!

This is the case of the person who goes to a doctor and says, "It hurts when I do this". The answer: "Then don't do that!"
What specific region are you talking about?
The crucial point is that the sister did not think she needed help. She had to be 'pushed' into it.

And that's the crux-at what point do we do for them what they can't/won't do for themselves?
> like a matte screen

By the way, if you need a matte screen, third-party screen filters can help there.

I got a Kensington “Privacy Guard” that attaches magnetically and can be flipped around between the gloss or matte side. It may be slightly blurry at times but after getting comfortable with the reduction in glare and reflections, I dislike going back to the default Mac screens.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HLXJ2ZM/A/kensington-mp15...
If anyone wants more info, there's a John Oliver segment on how Sinclair does this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtNyOzGogc

They require local stations to play pre-recorded, "must run" commentary, as well as requiring their anchors to recite a script accusing other news outlets of running "fake news". https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-americas-largest-local...
Scientists Find “Man-Made Climate Change Doesn't Exist in Practice”
At one point in time (2013), Bobby Bonilla and Jason Bay were the two highest paid outfielders for the Mets, and neither of them were on the team. This occurred in the middle of a six-year sub-0.500 stretch. They probably could have used the $1.2M better than that.
The main selling point for ZSH, for me at least, isn't the shell itself; it's the plugin ecosystem. Zplugin[0] allows me to load plugins and programs in the background without slowing down startup time, and makes it easy to carry programs across SSH sessions. Fish simply doesn't have replacements for many of my favorite plugins[1].

[0]: https://github.com/zdharma/zplugin

[1]: https://gitlab.com/Seirdy/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/shell...
What do you mean? They're silent because they're malware updates. You can turn those off.
Ask HN: Open-source feature flag service?
Is there an open-source self-hosted feature flag service (like Launch Darkly, Gatekeeper, etc...)?

I’d rather run my own than have someone else do it, but if you’ve had good experiences with the SaaS options I’d be interested in hearing that too.
>that aren't unilaterally marking you as spam for no reason

This sounds hopelessly naive to me. If the receiver marks it as spam, it's spam. By definition. Work harder to only send emails to people who want them.
Looks like it'd be fun for big rides in more unusual locales.

It'd look cool for this ride I bet:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1636893894
For people who have more Julia experience -- is this (thinking mainly of chapter 4) representative of how most Julia users do plotting? It looks like a lot of calling out to matplotlib via PyPlot. I know Julia has a ggplot-inspired library called Gadfly.jl, is PyPlot more commonly used?
I'd say it's more evidence that (many) people are cruel, stupid, and callow, and social media gives them the chance to expose who they really are. (It may also encourage their worse impulses rather than their better ones, but I think that they are bringing out who they already are. Social media isn't really changing them.)
ElectricityMap.org: Costa Rica

https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=...
Think the solution here for Relive is to raise more money and go right after Strava's core market. Strava doesn't really give them many other options at this point...
Just wanted to throw out a plug for photopea.com .. discovered it recently and it handles everything that I, as a programmer ever needed from Photoshop.
Mexico is deporting illegal migrants at the highest rate since 2006, and has deployed the military on their southern border:

https://www.teledoce.com/telemundo/internacionales/mexico-au...

The E.U. tightened their border control policies after a wave of terrorist attacks and upsurge in far-right political activity. We ran the experiment, and it turns out that's what happens when you let in millions of people with little job skills from cultures that broadly have, among other things, very regressive views on women's civil rights.
Correct. I guess without giving more detail I can understand how my username or original post can be confusing. But I'm representing companies that use api feeds from larger companies to build products on top of them like Relive did, not using a third party api such as a map in our product if that make sense.
I check them periodically and have never seen any of the settings turned back on.
> Things like these is why most Mac converts never want to return to Windows.

This sounds like a false dichotomy. There are, of course, other and cheaper ways of getting out of using Windows than buying an Apple computer.
> I know MS has considered it, I'm still pretty surprised they've haven't followed through.

Didn't they add Javascript support in 2018?

I agree though. They brought up that they were considering Python3 integration like 2 years ago and haven't said a word about it since.
Strava stopped innovating years ago and hasn't introduced any useful new features. Although I seldom use Relive, this user hostile move finally convinced me to cancel my paid Summit membership. It's my data, I should be able to use it for whatever I want.

Strava has been promising support for triathlons and other multi-sport activities literally for years but hasn't actually built anything. Right now if you compete in a triathlon it shows up as five separate disconnected activities. And the swim portion can't even be tagged as a race.

Segment leader boards have also become a joke with nothing to prevent cheating or accidental bad data uploads. They claim to have a feature that automatically flags bad activities but it doesn't work at all. It would be trivial to auto-flag activities faster than the world record but they don't even bother to do that. It seems like their engineering organization is just completely incompetent.
Just a note: word "free" in the tile refers to a freemium model.
Right, but why not take thirty seconds to do the appropriate checks in the wrappers?
I live in Seattle right across the street from a mental health institution. The folks that gather around it are really beyond their wits end.

While I think the idea that Seattle is dying is melodramatic bs, it is quite the nuisance to have these folks hanging around. Furthermore, the inadequate public sanitation in Capitol Hill compounds the problem into one of public health.

I think that the problem visible in the homeless population is the result of systematic marginalization. The USA has a real fuck-you attitude towards those who aren’t up-and-comers, so the down and out just get ground down further. It’s a tough problem to address, so do your part and try not to recoil in dehumanizing horror when you see these folks.
> I have no personal experience with mental illness, but judging by your story it seems that part of the problem was your sister's lack of willingness to seek help.

Would you be willing to take serious anti-psychotic medication, with significant side effects, if you were 100% certain you were perfectly sane?
I would add that besides the police we outsource a lot of this stuff to public transportation workers and librarians. All night subways operate as mobile shelters, especially in winters and libraries are frequently the only place a homeless person can stay during the day without getting kicked out or interacting with the police. Unfortunately we don't really prepare transportation/library workers with the resources to deal with them most of the time.
> I have no personal experience with mental illness, but judging by your story it seems that part of the problem was your sister's lack of willingness to seek help.

That's kind of the problem though. You can't just blame someone who is mentally ill for not seeking help. In the UK, for example, you can be sectioned.

"The Mental Health Act says when you can be taken to hospital, kept there, and treated against your wishes. This can only happen if you have a mental disorder that puts you, or others, at risk.

You should only be detained under the Mental Health Act if there are no other ways to keep you, or others, safe."

https://www.rethink.org/advice-and-information/rights-restri...
I don't see any ads on my W10 machine and I haven't done anything to disable them. Where are you seeing this?
What is it specifically you are needing to run? I only ask because I’ve been running Linux for the last 15 years exclusively, in and out of the commercial corporate world, and have yet to feel limited software wise.
Julia has static typing.

I wouldn’t go that far and say Python is suitable for large programs. It’s clearly not. Working on a large python code base is hell.
How does it compare to pixlr?
The incentives that MD or DC offered probably weren’t enough to make up for the deficiencies of the areas.

I’m not sure about DC but it seems like businesses are frequently choosing to locate in NoVA rather than MD. https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/neighborhood/camer...
Tutorial: Using AWS IoT Core with an Embedded Device
So it's even better, not considering the bad career effects of not being at HQ?
Many years ago, while living in Fairfield, CA and trying to get education appropriate to becoming an urban planner, I had a class on Homelessness and Public Policy through SFSU. More recently, I spent several years homeless.

A very big issue in the US is housing policy which has steadily shrunk the availability of basic housing, such as SROs and Missing Middle housing.

While we need some emergency services for the homeless population, I'm really not for actively growing more homeless services as our primary approach to trying to resolve this. We need to fix what's wrong with society that's causing people to land in the street. Housing is a big part of that.

A few blog posts by me:

Why I'm not for "we need more homeless services!" as our primary approach:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-shirky-...

Housing cost and homelessness:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-clear-c...

Missing Middle housing:

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-missing...
At the platinum level, even.
Nobody from marketing writes this stuff, come on
After updating to any of the semi-annual releases in the past few years, Edge is what brings up a page to tell you that your computer updated. I think they're just using it as a glorified and guaranteed installed safe to run HTML viewer.

IE does not start up automatically.
Relive are completely dominating the social media game. Complete silence from Strava vs this https://twitter.com/relivecc/status/1149260549231915010
Exactly. We were able to support millions of new devices without infrastructure involvement.
The evidence shows that housing-first policies applied to the worst cases (chronically homeless single people with addiction) is effective and lowers costs, in fact more so than for easier clients (families who have become homeless more recently). However popular outrage culture insists on targeting folks who have addiction with sweeps and incarceration instead, even though the law-and-order response is more expensive and less humane. It seems our urge to punish defeats our willingness to tolerate less retributive evidence-based approaches. Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/17/724462179/episode-913-countin...
I would argue, I think most systems have more quantity and churn of applications than users. Meaning, it would be better to pay some overhead to deal with "user's crap" in every application bundle than to deal with "application crap" in every user's home.

Your second paragraph though is probably closer to a realistic solution. That is, the OS provisions an Application Support directory and restricts the application to using it exclusively. Any application uninstalls can (via admin prompting or configuration settings) then also delete the support directories as well.
This is very important! A few years ago I was reading about UC Berkeley grad students who were homeless. They slept in their office on campus. When people talk about homelessness, usually their talking about being visibly homeless without knowing it.
I do graphics, but on the scientific side, we all use Linux. Except when the lab provides us Macs, then we get frustrated and just remote in.

I'm just trying to detangle the type of graphics being mentioned. I do wish Nvidia drivers were better, but maybe that'll happen with ROCs coming out soon.
The US just repealed and lowered some taxes a year and a half ago. Look back 4 or 5 decades US incomes taxes were way way way higher. You're simply wrong
You are comparing "bought your own house" to "rent your own apartment" while the prior post, I think, was comparing "have your own living space" to "shared or multi-generational living space".
Android's Syncmytracks has served me fine to keep all my runs in Endomondo. Worth a try.
Works for me with Firefox, but not Safari.
I work in downtown Seattle and the people I see affected by the aggressive homeless folks are those who don't know who they are- people visiting or new to downtown. I know which homeless folks are dangerous from experience and which ones are just panhandling. I've personally been spit at, spit on, attacked with a 2x2x18 piece of wood, and had a brick thrown at me (with surprising force), charged at, sexually assaulted (physically), the list goes on.

I've observed the end result of panhandling in various situations: there are the "my family needs help" folks who beg with kids in strollers and at the end of the day get back into their cars in the Target parking lot; there are the folks crying on the street begging for any money to get food, but don't want food directly even if you've already bought it for them with no strings attached; there are also the rare case of someone who was just mugged now trying to get on the bus.

The end result is any compassion I had has been slowly whittled away. Actively avoiding human shit or fresh vomit every morning on the sidewalks and keeping an eye out for needles everywhere (watch where you sit on the bus) really just leaves you tired and unsympathetic.

Pro Tips: avoid 3rd & Pine / Pike, avoid all of 2nd Ave. in general; avoid parks and downtown after dark; do not touch the needles unless you have to (bus seats); do not go into tall grassy or ground obscured areas as there may be needles; avoid the park beaches as they are toilets for the homeless early in the morning (4-6am).
> - Github Pro which based on browsing user profiles a surprising amount of folks have bought into

Not a statement either way, but AFAIK everyone who has the Student Pack[1] gets the PRO badge. I have it and I haven't spent a penny on GitHub (though my employer has).

[1] https://education.github.com/pack
That's interesting, most people (myself included) usually find poorer battery life on laptops, often substantially worse.

The reasoning boils down to power management, but using linux cuts an hour or two off my laptop's battery life.
The criminal justice system only handles these things because there's laws on the books saying they can. Busybodies have managed to convince politicians to criminalize basically everything.

The reason people keep looking to law enforcement to solve these problems is because they can. Take away that and institutions (government or otherwise) will eventually spring up to solve the problem. Visible homelessness running rampant in the time it takes for that to happen is simply the penalty communities will have to suffer for being so economically dysfunctional as to have the problem in the first place. This is the phase some west coast cities are in now and of course there's some backlash and people who want to go back to strict law enforcement.

As long as someone acting on behalf of the government can tell a homeless person to move along from a public space the problem will not go away. It will just move to the next street over for a few hours then come back when it gets kicked out of there too. These people need either better options that are so much better they take advantage of them (i.e.) better shelters or to be institutionalized against their will and I don't think the latter is compatible with our values.
I felt it was patronizing because the original article is about manufacturing progress in a country that has been notoriously behind the curve on manufacturing. Making iphones is not what one normally associates as a dirty or polluting industrial effort.

Instead of directly discussing the merit (or not) of this move by Apple, you chose to bring up an unrelated topic of general environmental problems in India.

Lets imagine the article was about Apple opening a new manufacturing facility in Texas. Would you have brought up other social/political/environmental challenges that Texas faces (oh i don't know, like racial equity, or floods)? My guess is that would be unlikely, since its kinda off-topic and would be clear you are trying to express some other gratuitous concern you may have about that region.
I think you'd be surprised how fast the companies hiring all those workers would go bankrupt, leaving the United States without an agricultural industry (which is as critical to national security as the rule of law).

Americans are, on the whole, unwilling to pay the prices required to provide people with a living wage and proper labor protections.
Couple of things:

1) Tablets aren't the only "post-PC" platform. Most of the leisure computing is done on smartphones when it would have been done on a laptop or desktop 5-10 years ago.

2) If we're considering tablets to be PC replacements, we should expect their sales trends to be along the lines of PC sales. People keep PCs a lot longer than smartphones, so we should expect people to keep their iPads a lot longer than their phones too.

3) Tablet sales have absolutely not collapsed [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-...