skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's hard for me to emphasize enough how little typical Westerners understand about Asia.

I bet the typical human knows very little about life and culture outside of their specific environment. A typical city-dweller knows little about rural life even in their own region, and vice-versa.

It's weird how easily we fall into a trap of saying "look how ignorant x people are". I mean, of course, it's a big world, and we're busy, so it's pretty hard to not be ignorant.

Maybe a bigger mistake is thinking that "Media" (news etc?) is an education system. It's not and maybe it's not supposed to be. We need to come up with a better system/expectation/culture around continuous education, but even in the best case that can only apply to the subset of the population that has the time and resources and interest to take part.
Maybe there should be a third category then.
The deskthority wiki is by far the greatest collection of keyboard lore in the world: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Main_Page
I have seen the effect of neighboring trees on cut trees in the campgrounds of British Columbia. Tree stumps left when a tree was removed and then fully covered in bark as if it were a tree with no branches. No cut surface to be seen.
That would be cool but a beast of a project and a hard sell to big business. Maybe start with email/calendar/etc. first
I put the i on the wrong side, then added it in one place but didn't remove it in the other.
Simon Peyton Jones is also (in)famous for doing this.
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There is no evidence this is the case except wishful thinking.
Assuming no other conditions change, and that the object crosses Earth's orbit as the planet is passing by, and so on.

I'd be willing to bet, however, that this object's orbit permutes a bit with every pass, especially dipping that deeply into the gravity wells of other, much more massive, objects.
I handled the prototype at FOSDEM this year. This may or may not have been the final case, but it felt as solid as a macbook air; it had no discernable flex even while holding it by a corner (better than my T460!). It did feel disconcertingly light, but I suspect that many people may find that a feature.

That said, their table was always very crowded, so I didn't spend as much time as I'd have liked examining it. I still bought one though
What about if you defraud somebody by pretending to be the IRS?
The more jaded truth is that politics is downstream from culture. Politics is literally soundbytes and pictures.
Farmed fish is not much better. It's still fed with fish and farms are really bad for the ecosystems around them (too many nutrients cause dead zones)
In the 1950s, building a moonbase would have been an engineering and technological challenge.

Today, it's basically a political and economics challenge, to convince enough people it would be worth while to spend the time and effort to do it. Which is not to say there wouldn't be engineers involved, solving new problems, but we already know enough of the solutions that it's not really the sticking point now.

(Which is to agree with you, a lot of things are organizational problems at this point.)
Having personally had 3 open heart surgeries (where they remove your heart, do work and put it back), it's important to pay attention to which hospitals are the best at which types of care.

Veteran care has improved drastically since the first Bush administration (might have been started with Clinton, I dunno for sure). Cheney used VA hospitals for full body scans, etc which my father casually used as a reason to get his own. All veterans are equal in the VA now.

Largely, hospitals ALL have a basic level of competence in the US (meaning medical training and certification and subject to regulation) and it's disrespectful to imply otherwise. There is no benefit to people dying in a hospital. Nobody wins and the penalties are stiff. The staff are people, which are imperfect (often overworked) and situations are fluid.

The idea that opening him up again was going to save him, is tenuous. It would not surprise me to find the implant wires caused angina; given his history it would be warranted that a nurse would move the patient to cath, since the heart can only survive so many "insults". A nurse is not a doctor and doctors (especially cardiologists) are RARELY walking around, especially in that facility at that time. The nurse made a call and a patient died that may have died anyway waiting for a doctor to make the decision.
Hutchin's contributions to information security have definitely benefited many. While it was "good" that he faced responsibility for his actions (well, not really -- a forced extended stay in the U.S. away from his family and dealing with X months of court bullshit is horrendous and should not happen), I'm glad he was spared from a decade in the U.S. prison system.
On galactic scales that's more like glancing off the ring of the bulls eye.
That sounded better than most dedicated voice synths I've heard.
Also, it really could be an attack. It's within the realm of plausibility for country 1 to launch a nudging vehicle to push a space rock into a collision course with country 2.
Why should Visa be treated as a utility but not a company like google for example?
Young Instagram Users Give Up Privacy in Search of Metrics
> China is far more free. 100% stand by that statement. Have you tried living there lately?

I haven't but I heard from people that did that you can't even connect to the Internet there without government interference. That's some definition of freedom that you don't find in every dictionary.
Russia Today has had multiple journalists resign, citing they could not support their propaganda efforts in good conscience. One journalist resigned on air, apologizing for “whitewashing Putin's action” in downing mh17. Another resigned rather than leave the safety of the US and travel to Russian occupied Crimea. To act like these are commonplace occurrences in journalism strains credulity.
Using a tap-to-pay card would probably change your perspective. They were specifically designed to eliminate that usability nightmare. I find them easier to use than Apple Pay (because Touch ID only works about 90% of the time for me), and certainly easier than scanning a QR code (look at the queue of people struggling to enter any concert with electronic ticketing). The only downside is that you still have to carry a card.
National looks up to me: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA
The Library Card Project: The Ease of Forming Anonymous Companies in the U.S.
That's the spirit! :)
I’m surprised people don’t get infections from it too having seen it done. Although these probably do happen but get “explained” as “Herxing” response proving it’s killing the Lyme, “you need X sessions to kill the Lyme completely so sign up for more sessions now!”
The main reason there is not enough food for everyone is that farmed land is hoarded by a few people, and agricultural production is targeted at crops with high market value. In other words, because agriculture is treated as an activity that must turn a profit, instead of a vital resource for the survival of the population in a country. Rich countries are able to subsidize their agriculture, but this is even more important in poor countries. In that case, starvation is the result of most internal agriculture being targeted at exports. Land owners can make a lot more money exporting their production to rich countries, where there is a large market for higher priced products, instead of the cheaper crops that could be sold internally.
> Credit cards --- bona fide, revolving-credit credit cards --- are so completely avoidable in modern life that I'm a little mystified as to why people get them at all.

Cash back and other rewards. They can add up if planned for properly—they aren't a life-changing amount of money or anything, but they're nice. Effectively, if you aren't using a high-fee card like American Express, you're subsidizing those of us who do use them (much to the chagrin of merchants). It's better to be on the receiving end of that subsidy, not the giving end.

> I find myself wondering a lot how much credit scores actually matter

Here's a well-sourced WaPo article on how credit scores affect mortgage rates: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2016/11/17/...
As someone who used meditation to reduce opioid usage post surgery, I agree.

If the effect is all in my head but it works, then who cares if it's all in my head?
The letters are carefully worded to not actually claim to be from the IRS.

They're 'offering IRS guidance' or from the 'department of taxation'
You are using <brackets> as though you haven't noticed the physical product companies are all racing to lock up their products in rent-seeking license agreements.
The effort to turn Trump against Amazon's Jedi contract
Defining Good Work
Those sat shots totally remind me of the intro to the blade runner where they show the densely packed structures https://i2.wp.com/rosettedelacroix.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
How does the math change when you take into account the fact that Earth exerts a gravitational pull on the asteroid?
> One thing about human life that is remarkable is the dramatic range of climates we can survive in, compared to other species.

We are pretty impressive compared to most other species. One that holds it own, though, is the Yakutian horse [1], a native horse breed of Siberia.

They are kept outside year-round, dealing with temperatures of up to 38℃ (100℉) in the summer, and as low as -70℃ (-94℉) in the winter. That's a range of 108℃ (194℉).

Of course their human owners also handle those temperatures, but they need buildings and clothes and fuel to do it. They couldn't do it standing around naked in a field like the horses can.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutian_horse
Fair enough, yes the convenience factor can drive more sales which is mutually beneficial, I'll give you that. But the OS can still put you in control and let you run things inside a sandbox. Its the 30% money grab that I was complaining about because the app store provides no assurances on anything, and so we are pretty much back to square one. Its still a "random" binary off the internet. And for a basic sanity check, you can scan the hash to determine if its a known malware.

I think its just the same bullshit as Walmart and Target selling toxic toys and then shifting blame onto the original supplier. Not sure what happened to the lawsuit though..

Agree to your second point on fraud/hassles,etc...
While given the general lack of real civil liberties (not just civil privileges, granted conditionally by the state) in the region, I wouldn't be surprised if some of these are illegitimate; I suspect the vast majority of them are for legitimate (murder, forcible rape, evasion of arrest, larceny, movement of materiel for terrorists and other criminals, etc.) purposes.
The world is run by criminals. Get over it.
You are probably very young if you believe that fantasy.

Who is this "we" that it's so worried about the welfare of humanity?

Read about the interventions of first Europe and then the USA in the global affairs.

You can check how sugar, then cotton and later oil interest have shaped the world. Or even fruit (1).

(1) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
What's wrong with charging for upgrades? I buy a computer with Mac 9 and some programs, and when I want Mac 10. I buy upgrades.
Is that really unusual for countries to ban travel to foreigners with criminal records? I was under the impression most countries had similar laws.
Does anyone know if this organizational dissonance still exists at Google? I'd really like to think that there are Googlers on the inside who appropriately appalled by GMail. With the latest redesign I literally decided that it was worth $5/mo of my money to pay Fastmail so that I wouldn't have to endure GMail anymore.
Yes, investor T. Boone Pickens nicknamed America the "Saudi Arabia of wind" due to the windy plains.

http://pickensplan.com/the-plan/wind/
Texas Taxpayers Pay for Wind Power and Then Pay the Grid to Take It
And funnily enough, recently even Bank of America started issuing MasterCard credit cards. The pioneering BankAmericard that started it all is now a MasterCard.
ha ha. What a logic to tackle a question - let's change the question itself. I guess you have never witnessed or heard about green revolution. Welcome to the real world.

> In most places in the world it's easy and cheap enough to produce food and distribute it.

source?
Oops, correct. Its too late to edit :/
Your own vote matters, but there are (number of eligible voters -1) votes to still be influenced.
perhaps.

The IRS enforcement division is a disproportionately large but small part of what the IRS does.

The other parts basically extend privileges to you. like when you do 475 elections, or 83(b) elections, or 501(c)3 elections etc etc. Basically all the cool stuff that makes you not have to pay taxes and only comes up if you run for office.

The enforcement division can be overzealous and ruin their own cases just from always thinking they have a smoking gun. If you reported and paid them you'll be fine.
They've just been fined by the UK broadcasting regulator for systemic and repeated bias in reporting the Novichok poisonings, and withdrawing their broadcast licence was considered.
They are more efficient (intensive) at output per acre, but (much) less efficient per unit labor. A more or less reasonable market allocation of resources would dictate a similar outcome with the relative abundance of labor (becoming less so, therefore also getting more capital intensive and more efficient on labor input) and scarcity of land per capita.
Wind and Solar have something Nuclear doesn't have, ability of small players to enter the market, relentless decreases in capital costs, and low regulatory requirements. Which why they have traction and nuclear doesn't.
'Clever Hack' Shows How Upload Filters Have Made Copyright Law Even More Broken
The battery on my 13" MBPr, which I bought on 2015, recently begun to swell. Apple support said that a swollen battery is very dangerous, then proceeded to confirm out that its warranty was expired and there was no replacement program for the 13", contrary to the 15" MBPr from 2015. Battery replacement 300€, which is frankly preposterous.

I shortly contemplated getting a new MBPr, but with all the stories circulating about the butterfly keyboards and the touch bar, went with an ifixit battery replacement kit, about 100€.

I'm generally very reluctant to carry out these types of sensitive repairs myself, but opted to do it with help from a friend. If, instead of buying a new one, the customer prefers to keep a 2015 MBPr and is even willing to run the gauntlet of carrying out a difficult repair themselves, something's seriously wrong. And Apple should take notice.
You can still run old Reddit! It works the same as always. Props to them for acknowledging the cantankerousness of their older users and continuing to support the classic design. I think Reddit would implode with nerd rage if they just dropped it given the state of the new design a couple of years ago.
Guns, Germs and Steel anyone?
I've had good experiences with them as well.
> for a long time it seemed that they were kangaroo-accusing him of somehow being responsible for wannacry because he registered the domain it pointed to.

That certainly wasn't a long time. As far as I remember it was very shortly after his arrest (maybe a day or so) when it became public that it was for the Kronos malware and unrelated to the wannacry incident.
You should never subscribe to a product that doesn't let you export your data. All the major products do.
Indeed, it's the 5th root of 1.16, or 3.0%. Doesn't make much difference, though - paying a greater proportion of income to maintain the status quo is a pain in the ass.
Eh maybe. It strains plausibility. We can't even accurately predict where deorbiting satellites will end up... It's pretty hard to imagine a nudge with the required delta-V and accuracy to hit a specific nation. Too far away and you get too much uncertainty, too close and you don't have enough dV for the push. Even if it could be done with today's technology, the potential for error is high, and if you screw up, you've accidentally started another war or "bombed" your own country. Can't imagine that a military with the requisite technology to pull this off wouldn't be able to think of a less-risky way to obliterate their enemy.
The IRS treats BTC as commodities like stocks, not as foreign currencies.

If you mine any coins, that is income you have to pay taxes on. Just like when my RSU stocks vest, I pay (regular income) taxes on the vested amount. It's treated as if my company gave me the money to buy these stocks I now have. Later when I sell them, I'll pay capital gains tax on the gain/loss.

Now if I buy coins, then I will only be taxed on them when I sell them.
One day we’ll discover that graphene can even be used to make graphene, and then everything will finally just work
MASM is just an assembler, with no awareness of the C or C++ code. MASM is unable to place arbitrary bytes into the middle of functions that are written in C or C++.

To fix a problem like Spectre, and generally to solve unusual problems that the compiler vendor isn't dealing with, the full capability of an inline assembler is required.
Users are lazy creatures of habit. Energy conservation.
Eye Tracking Demo in Neos VR [video]
What does this even mean? Almost 300 million people are agricultural workers in China, versus 6 million in the US. Despite that, we produce nearly the same quantity of food and export 140 billion dollars of food every year. The US has plenty of efficiency shortcomings, but in agriculture, the US agricultural sector is a modern marvel of engineering and efficiency.
The only known habitable planet in the universe, one filled to the brim with millions of unique forms of life, isn’t worth fighting for because...social media? Do I need to elaborate on the irony of this?
Wikipedia says that BLM founders are:

Alicia Garza - alive and well

Patrisse Cullors - alive and well

Opal Tometi - alive and well

Under "key people" - Shaun King, DeRay Mckesson, Johnetta Elzie, Tef Poe, Erica Garner. Of those, only Erica Garner is not alive - she died in 2017 of two heart attacks and the following brain damage.

BLM is a decentralized movement, so there are a lot of people that could be called "leaders", but clearly claim that "nearly every leader" has been killed is false. I suspect none were actually killed for any activities related to BLM (I did not check that but consider it plausible), though in large enough group of people there would always be people that die prematurely, either due to illness, or accidents, or crime (many BLM activists live in places where crime situation is not very good).

I think you'd better to put down the conspiracy Kool-Aid for a while.
When I bought a Macbook in 2006, it came with a remote-control. I guess they don't do this anymore?
There is forgefed, connecting Git web services including gitlab by based on ActivityPub, but the spec looks still not fixed.
https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed
1. Fewer API round trips compared to REST.
2. Clients only download the data they need. No more REST silly patterns like BFF trying to support multiple client needs.

Yes, this does make instrumentation and rate limiting harder, but not impossible. It’s akin to using SQL... sometimes the query optimizer does weird things, but declaratively asking for your data is much better than imperatively pulling and joining it yourself.
The width of the filter is separate from how the gauss curve is used as a filter (and not everyone does it the same).

Using only one standard deviation cuts off a huge amount of the curve, ideally it would be cut off around the third standard deviation and normalized so that the value after the last would be zero.
> Do you live on the same planet as me? The world is an incredible place and gets better every day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJvJaad-LS4
I was really impressed by the top answer until I read this statement.

"I mean, the Chinese government has also forced Tibetans to build a massive amount of greenhouses on the Tibetan plateau. Those Tibetans have no time to go to temples for worshipping any more, instead, they have to work in the greenhouses taking care of tomatoes. This is why Dalai Lama is not so happy to hear this."

What??
>They ignore the very real benefits that have been afforded to millions of poverty-stricken people in Xinjiang via progressive government policies, while tunnel visioning solely on human rights abuses.

And I'm sure that many folks made the argument that Africans working on plantations in the South had a higher standard of living than where they came from.
Interesting... so what does a "5 dimensional" cube look like? I am having difficulty visualizing that
> The manufacturer keeps working to improve the quality

Call me cynical, but I think it's naive to make this claim.

Manufacturers don't optimize quality, they optimize profits. Even if there's sufficient competition, manufacturers don't race upwards to improve quality, they race downwards to reduce the cost and undercut the competition.

You can see this in kitchen appliances. People complain about how they don't last as long as they used to and are harder to repair. That's because when a customer sees a $30 blender and a $50 blender on the shelf, they will nearly always pick the $30 blender, even if the $50 blender is a higher quality. There was a race to the bottom on pricing, and corners had to be cut.
Weird. Because of privacy settings I can't view the 3d model walk-through video. Anyone else getting the issue? I disabled ublock but no dice.

https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/ship
> greater portions of the workforce are replaceable with capital nowadays

I totally agree. I think this is even something they intended. And the workforce parts that aren't capital are more serving the capital (running expensive machines) rather than the machines helping workers be more productive. People's jobs have been tailored around becoming replaceable widgets, where you want to be able to replace someone as fast as possible (with minimal training).

But all this is basically saying the Phillips curve is dead. In that, lower unemployment doesn't lead to higher wages.
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I think that because the keyboard is connected to the logic board it is literally impossible for Apple to give you a newer keyboard without also giving you a logic board for a later gen pro which won't work with the later gen MacBook. That's also (part of) the reason why repairs are so expensive, most of the parts are connected into a few large chunks that have to be replaced all at once.
I really liked this article also. I just happen to be reading "Guns, Germs, and steel" so it was fun to actually get some close up perspective from someone doing field work. The discussion about the changing relationships was quite interesting. I am grateful that Mead reported on herself and the other scientists along with the supposed subjects of their field trips.