skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not about whether someone is taking away Inferno or Viridis. It’s about what is effectively lying to your audience and what is accurate perceptually linear representation of the data - the latter triumphs over any aesthetic considerations. There are 4 different color maps from matplotlib 2.0 - you could use a different one if you don’t like the aesthetics.

If this article had come up with an original improvement to Viridis, I’d be praising it.

Also, Turbo doesn’t give a fuck about colorblind considerations whereas Inferno and Viridis does.
What's your source of truth? Ideally it would be Timatic.

Also a good disclaimer to add is that this concerns visa for short visits.
I also recommend daily science fiction for a new short story sent to one's email every weekday!
For user/app data at least, this sounds a lot like Fuchsia's Ledger: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/peridot/+/master/docs/ledge...
The interesting part about Uber is the legal side and not the actual transportation. I.e. how can you legally provide a public transportation without paying for permit.

Or how can you call a driver a non employee while specifically giving him orders to drive.

This is the real innovation.
"Fundamentally discredits" strikes me as extraordinarily dramatic.

Yes, there's a dip right at the end. But browser stats are pretty noisy, so it could be nothing. Statcounter, for example, doesn't show that drop: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2009...

And Wikipedia's data similarly doesn't show that big falloff: https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...

Even looking at just the original one graph, the only thing showing a big rise is IE, with a 39% jump in usage. The author makes clear how that fits his thesis, in that Edge is now built on Chrome.
Monopolies like these are partially built by the demand side flowing towards the option of least resistance. In such case, the average person will float towards browser X when Y seems to, for example, become slower, take more processing power or pure peer pressure "I can't believe you are still using browser P, it is so slow!".

As demand floats towards few suppliers, organizations with the most value to gain from it will either look to purchase one of the current suppliers or increase investment to outpace its competitors. In time, the market becomes a monopoly/oligopoly due to both demand (customer) and supply (org/biz interests). At this point, the mono/oli has the means to change things, either slowly or drastically, to maximize their gains.

Unless a good portion of society takes further interest in keeping what they believe to be right (e.g. privacy) and put their money and time where their belief is, non-profit orgs or less agressive ones are most likely to lose 99 out of 100 times in the long run. This is a human nature challenge, not necessarily an entity problem.
Idk, but this has been a pet peeve of mine for a very long time now and I've posted about it before also with screenshots [1] and lot of people have agreed they have faced the same problems and we had a long discussion about it.

So there is definitely truth in it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20295333
Most applications need more than one vector. Management of this with custom allocators pays dividends fairly quickly.
Reads like satire! Now I'm genuinely sad the dutch currency isn't the Dutch Guilder...
There’s a famous story of a seminar on p-adic numbers at Princeton where Harish-Chandra was in attendance and one of the audience brings up some intuition from ordinary primes and the speaker replies with a joke about the degenerate case of the real numbers.
Universal Healthcare is generally only a thing in Canada and the EU. It's great if you need to wait a few months to see a doctor, but I know plenty of Canadians and Europeans who come to the US for medical care so they don't have to wait.
The ReCaptcha annoyance has gotten better for me recently. In about 50% of cases, I get the green checkmark without having to solve any puzzles.
Show HN: Figma-like measurement tool on any web page (Chrome extension)
That would be it. Thanks for digging it up!
The challenges of the Iraq War that needed this kind of singular, focused effort were not really super publicized. I would say that counter-IED tech (IED Defeat), armored vehicle development, and possibly intelligence gathering platforms / fusion and special operator techniques, tactics, and procedures likely saw the biggest "focus" in terms of the military.

I would not argue that this was efficient, well organized, or toward a single goal, but rather got a bunch of money dumped on it due to national priorities and something shook out.
A lot of restaurants have switched to delivery through third-party services, which is a shame because the quality of service has really gone down. The treatment of the workers is also significantly worse.
That’s not equal to pi.
Matrix 4 Is Happening
So yet another article that tries to paint a picture of a person and his audience with:

1) No data on who the audience is, demographics, their beliefs, etc. (Outside of looking at a podcast download chart rankings.)
2) Not actually talking to the subject
3) Using anecdotes about friends as representative of the audience

I try to not hate on the MSM and all that jazz, as I have friends that work in the business and know how hard the job is, but articles like this that fail at basic journalistic principles under the guise of "editorializing" just makes people continue to lose faith in the medium.

This reads like a pretty long, above average blog post from a political / cultural commentator.
> As judged by who?

People who can, willing and want to go beyond the factoid soundbyte 0-24 screaming cycle?

> This kind of whining is what drives his audience to him.

Of course, but it doesn't make the "whining" invalid.

Uncritically discussing ideas in front of such a huge audience is a problem. (That's why we have so many people who found shit on the Web and got so deep into the hole that now they are probably beyond repair. Basically just as extreme xenophobia/racism/bigotry/classism indoctrinated people in the past centuries now we have the Internet with its cacophony of bad ideas/memes.)

> Providing a platform for anyone is tremendously good for democracy.

Umm, is it? Really? Was electing Donald such a great idea? Well, the media certainly made its deal with the devil.

> Hyde Park in the UK

Speaker's corner. The soap box. Such a noble idea.

Except, well, look how great the UK is doing.

> When both Bernie Sanders, Ben Shapiro, and __Alex Jones__ happily go on the same podcast and have civil discussions, you're doing something very, very, right.

Or .. just nothing. You are just an empty conduit, a blank screen.

Which is okay, sure, why not. It's just doesn't make the JRE "great". It makes it bad in the big picture, because it again provides an outlet for those people that are at risk of getting hooked into something extreme.
You said the following:

> Since Rogan never cares to really question or seriously push back against any claims being made, the guests are free to spout as much "propaganda and BS" as they want

Who is Rogan to question or push back? And, if he were to do so, on what basis would you find the push back acceptable?

Could you provide an example of something you expected him to 'push back' against, and why you think he should have pushed back?

> wanting mainstream viewpoints

Clearly, it's implied that if there's something he should 'push back' against that is clearly 'propaganda and bs' then there must be some basis for evaluating this. That most likely is some mainstream viewpoint of which you might find objectionable to unfiltered discussion. Allowing objectionable discussion to take place is surely a thought crime that needs policing, in many people's view point. You might not agree with the wording or implied context, but not everything is about what you think, and I would characterize that as policing 'thought crime'.
Yeah plus Splitwise's onboarding curve is pretty perfect. Hard to do better than it I think
If you have a “near perfect functional alternative” then what exactly is the complaint?

Demanding all software be free is also demanding the end to freedom. People want iOS to be more open because of the incredible value of iOS. Not because there’s an equivalent free alternative at hand they simply didn’t notice.

> Darwin/XNU is libre software, so it's a contradiction to make people pay for the right to program.

This does not make logical sense? That other free software exists is not an argument that all software must be free. Apple has a business model which increasingly relies on selling services and licenses on iOS over selling new hardware. That’s their choice for how to fund their operations, which I’m very happy that they are free to make!

Being forced to make all my code freely available would be an appalling restriction on my own personal freedom. Not to diminish the brutal history of slavery, but what gives someone the right to free access to my work?
> How about java projects? How can I add a dependency to a project I’m building without it being published to a maven repo, for instance?

You can use Gradle, which supports source repositories, instead of Maven:

https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-source-dependencies
Dell Unveils Updated XPS 13 with Intel’s 10th Gen Core CPUs and 4K Panel
Color cycle survey: preliminary order ranking results
Apple has definitely accommodated the Chinese government’s desires before: https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/19/apple-cracking-down-on-callki...
Maybe because he's not foaming at the mouth with rage about anything.

From right wing talk radio to CNN, the whole rage thing has gotten really wearisome.

I think people just want to hear normal, friendly talk throwing around ideas. They are out of adrenaline.
Needs more information. Also, needs to understand the many nicknames/aliases countries have, e.g., US, "U.S.", "America", "England"...
Whoever flagged me should know those were all real quotes from Blanco. (Just watch that campaign ad or footage of her immediately after the storm)
He actually discussed his moon landing hoax beliefs in a recent episode. He talked about how there were a lot of sound arguments going on at the time, and interesting valid evidence (like the proven faked photographs). He then said after some more more time and education he changed his views. All humans should get better at being ok with being wrong.
Does Splitwise (or any app) support OCRing the receipt to visually split the bill?

Edit: I found https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.astepanov.... which works offline and does OCR from a photo
> But anyhow, no the other commenter did not imply that sea mammals have extra salt glands that humans do not.

The other commenter clearly implied 2 things:

1. sea mammals have salt glands

2. their bodies have solved the problem of removing waste salt from said glands

There's no way to interpret the commenter's statement otherwise without it being nonsensical. Sea mammals manage (what exactly) just fine?

If you can't see that, then I'm sorry, here's a simpler analogy to illustrate my point:

Me: "Pancakes can't be made without flour"

Commenter: "French chefs manage just fine"

A rational person would deduce that what Person 2 is implying is: "French chefs [are able to make pancakes without flour] just fine", not: "French chefs [are able to make pancakes] just fine"
You don't have to have a product to be shilling something, and it doesn't have to be a paid infomercial to be an infomercial.

I feel interviewers who push their guests to confront and address the rougher edges and ramifications of their beliefs are more valuable to their listeners, and will preferentially watch/listen them instead as a result. You're welcome to disagree if you like.

The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan is a good example of someone who won't let a guest dodge a tough issue - his interview of Erik Prince is a must-see for the benefits of a more confrontational approach, IMO. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/mehdi-hasan-caught...
I think most look at the ideas and don't see a safe/profitable path. Most are right but with the right person they can take any idea and make it work. Not because of the big idea but by winning the small battles and the non-obvious battles.

Facebook had a similiar idea to others. But they limited it to Harvard. So anyone who joined was part of a social club that they saw in real life. That gave them trust and people more freely posted. Next they rolled out to only ivy league schools. Next all colleges. Then highschools. When they released to the public the colleges still had semi-private networks allowing them more freedom. Then facebook did something no one thought was possible, they allowed you to login to hotmail import your contacts. Now you are friends with people you may not have talk to in years.

The original idea only shaped a broadvision. Each decision really provided the vision and a path for growth.

The original vision is important. If you tried to take a dating app and follow the Harvard facebook roll-out it wouldn't work because people wouldn't want to be seen as looking for a mate. Dating sites try to connect strangers.
A New Home for Extreme Poverty: Middle-Income Countries
I'm guessing all these were done when SolarCity was independent before Tesla bought them right?
Oh no, a satellite virus!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain
Thanks for the information. Very interesting. IBM of course is the owner of CPLEX one of the famous LP solvers.

I still hold out hope that the likes of Gurobi or CPLEX would be replicated by open source or they themselves would be open sourced. There is GLPK, but from what I hear and read its performance is not at par. There is Glop by Google but have not tried it.
I'm not up-to-date on these bacteria. It's shocking to me that at this day and age we still don't have good treatments.

Would bacteriophage have helped?
Who is this hypothetical person who can afford a Mac and the time to learn how to how to develop iOS applications and yet cannot afford $100 a year? Usually I'm all in favour of freedom, but I just can't see who's actually affected by this.
> - (almost) Never talks down to the audience or his guest.

I occasionally listen if he has a guest I am interested in. When talking to James Hetfield (Metallica), they got to talking about bees (Hetfield keeps bees).

After about 10 or 15 min, Hetfield says something like, "Sorry, I could talk about this stuff forever. Your listeners don't want to hear me talk about bees."

And Rogan says, "No, they'll listen. This shit is interesting."

For my part this is what makes him worth listening to. He just tries to find what his guest is interested in and passionate about and lets them go off on it.

Its refreshing vs more "Do you still talk to Jason Newstead? What about Dave Mustaine?" type interviews that Hetfield always gets.
> However climate change is a direct consequence of capitalism. Halting pollution would ruin the economy. Factories would have to be shut down, entire categories of products could no longer be produced, masses would become unemployed. The global financial system would tank. Surviving this change would require abandoning capitalism.

The goal shouldn't be to totally halt all pollution, the goal should be to switch to a carbon-neutral global economy, and find some way to sequester carbon on a large scale.

Doing that would require a massive shift in power generation to wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric, and nuclear power. All vehicles would have to switch to electric or fuel cell. All of that would be enormously expensive, but it could still create many new jobs.

Manufacturing would have to change dramatically and carbon scrubbers would have to be employed to counteract carbon emissions from industry. Shipping and trade would have to undergo radical transformation. The cost of many goods would rise substantially

You'd still have some air pollution, trash, water pollution, etc. But again, the goal would be to cut greenhouse emissions.

Either way the costs of not making the shift are incalculable. The civilization as we know will end if we stay on this path.
Flagship gaming support from Windows, Stability and flexibility from Linux, and Design principles from MacOS

I would love such an OS too! Sadly I'm not aware of anything that ticks the three, but at least ElementaryOS [1] attempts to tackle the last two. I enjoyed it three years ago, though I had to move to MacOS for work so I'm unsure about how it is now.

[1] https://elementary.io/
> Umar Baig barreled through a red light at a terrifying speed and T-boned an S.U.V., sending it flying across the street into José Alzorriz, a cyclist,(...) killing him instantly.

> Mr. Baig, 18, has not been charged.

> Running a red light alone is almost never considered reckless driving, even though in Mr. Alzorriz’s case, it had fatal consequences.

Not being a US resident, this is unbelievable to me. Is this only NY or all states?

Compare with France:

- A person who kills someone while driving a car is automatically charged with involuntary manslaughter: the killing implies the driver's recklessness

- The penalty for involuntary manslaughter is up to three years in prison; if the driver was willingly reckless (for instance, deliberately ran a red light), the penalty is upgraded to five years

- The only way to exoneration is proving that the victim was blatantly reckless themself or suicidal: if someone jumps right in front of your moving car, for instance
Thats not true. Theres other ways into your account besides breaking encryption. Off the top of my head, a brick to my head and the use of my thumbprint would do it.

Unlike how a normal service is normally supposed to store my password (hashed, but with no copy of the original password anywhere, EVENT THE LOGS) the password manager DOES retain a plain text copy of a password, not JUST a hashed derivative.
Which one of us is me?
I'm a technically minded person. I've been using web browsers since NCSA Mosaic. I switch browsers probably once per decade (mosaic -> netscape navigator -> firefox -> chrome).

At the time I started using Chrome IE was the dominant web browser and firefox was losing the war because content creators were continually accidentally making things work in IE only. (By "accidentally" I mean that the standards were very confusing, and understanding what would work with which browser was a continual battle, and Microsoft had a good 15 years under its belt of attempting to make the web a windows only affair).

So then Chrome comes along, backed my Google, and people started treating it as a first class citizen. Sites were belt to run with, and tested on Chrome.

Fast forward to now. I actually do want to have a wide array of ad sponsored content on the internet because I appreciate the free content and I'm not going to pay 30 different 5$ per month subscriptions for stuff I might read. Are they tracking me? Yes. When I search for lawn mowers online I get spams (which gmail seems to filter just fine) and my rarely logged into facebook feed is full of lawn mower ads. I use in-cognito when I want to see what a google or linked in search looks like without my user context. I use ABP when sites are too aggressive with their ads.

And it's all fine. I suspect my current experience is common, to answer your question.
Please add an option with JavaFX bundled.
I had heard about him a few times and I avoided listening to it for the same reason, the show lengths were a complete non-starter.
But I decided to give it a try and for the topics/guests that I found interesting the show lengths seem actually necessary to dive into the depth and breadth of topics that are covered.

I personally only listen to the episodes where I have an interest in the topics or the guests themselves i.e. the intellectuals, nutritionists, incredible athletes, and scientists.
In this way I use the podcast as more of a medium to experience the guests rather than listening for Rogan himself (although I do appreciate his generally progressive views and genuine intellectual curiosity).
Even if I tried I can't imagine devoting 3+ hours to a comedian or MMA fighter talking about whatever.

I think the author touches on this in the article, the audiences of the podcast are quite diverse and many are only interested in a subset of the content. The diversity and neutrality of Rogan allows it to act as a neutral medium to be exposed to an in-depth view of a variety of topics and people that you would not have the opportunity to experience otherwise.
I also highly recommend this book. It uses post-apocalyptic scenario as a lens to examine fundamental society processes, and essential knowledge needed to reconstruct those processes in some crude form. Each chapter deals with different technology ( filtering water, growing crops, preserving food, making fabrics and clothes, forging metal tools, blowing glass). Explanations are wonderfuly clear and to the point, with some insightful comments about current and past state of technology. Great material for filling knowledge gaps.
I think the most ridiculous thing is not even the gift, but the fact that it is a Tandem bike (just because of the name).

What's the rationale there? "Ohh their name is Tandem. Let's buy them a Tandem bike to convince them to accept our term sheet. It's our fiduciary responsibility to do this stupid thing".

For me, that's just a red flag. How little can you add to a company besides money, that you have to resort to this chaplinesque strategy?
"Did you just assume my gender" is generally a throwaway meme by right-leaning trolls these days. It's a caricature of an outraged feminist or non-binary person, not really a sentence you'd normally hear from either of the two groups.

But on a more serious note the article does switch from the neutral "they" to a gendered "he" in at least one place (see the other comment), which is not just unnecessary but also inconsistent. Just stick with "they", unless the person's gender is important (note: it almost never is, even "women's issues" don't require an implicit "she" and using "they" in these cases is actually even more inclusive because it also covers trans men).
The author's primary complaint about Joe Rogan and his followers is that they show a lack of empathy by having too much compassion and seeing value in people who don't deserve it. Defining empathy as a the absence of compassion for bad actors and idea that the world would be a better place if only we were less willing to see value in people who think differently from us is something I would usually expect people to conceal in public writing, but here it's presented as obvious.
I'm not fully convinced if "late-stage capitalism" is a suitable phrase for this historical era we're going through - I suppose we won't know until the next era defines itself.

Aside from what to call it, I do agree that wealth and power dynamics have got so blatant and cruel, especially in the US. In the last few decades, the public has witnessed countless abuses and breaches of trust from the "elites", those in government and corporations that rule their world. There's systematic exploitation, "wealth transfer", power grabs, and consolidation of society as a human farm.. OK, gotta stop my rant.

We really don't have to live like this, there must be better ways for society to self-organize. As the pressure mounts - it's been building up for a long time, and the ratchet keeps getting tighter - I think it's inevitable that there will be public movements to "take matters into their own hands", since clearly the rulers have lost touch with needs other than their own, long ago.
> whatever Amazon calls their thing

Depending on what "thing" you're talking about, it might also be Kubernetes. See: EKS.