skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comments like this remind of the top comment when Dropbox was announced on HN[0]:

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."

No, it isn't just an ipad slapped on an exercise bike. And no, the patent system is not at fault here. There are dozens of competitors in this market. But Peleton won it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
This. It's all about what kind of boss or manager or lead you have.

When you start having phone interviews, make sure you ask the hiring manager this question:

How many people do you manage? how many people have left your team (for any reason whatsoever) in the last 12 months. This number is quite telling. Good companies and good teams don't have attrition and don't have problems keeping employees.
New release of Iosevka – now has variable width and expanded width variants
Hacker Claims He Can ‘Turn Off 25,000 Cars’ at the Push of a Button
One caveat: It is unlikely that you can min/max more than one variable in a system at once with a single pertubation.

As an example: Say you are trying to give out bank loans to white and black people, and to men and women. You have a metric that you give loans out: namley their credit score. You are not guaranteed to be able to give out bank loans to all people fairly. Say that black women, via the randomness of life, have lower credit scores than white women. So, because you give out loans via credit scores, you disadvantage black women. This is not okay. So, you then include some factor in the bank loaning process that accounts for that the race of the person applying for the loan. This then corrects the racial disparity in the loans to balck and whote women. However, what did you do to the rates of applications to black men and white men? Your new metrics have likely affected those rates, maybe negatively affecting women as a whole as comapred to men. Maybe it results in lowered rates to black men as comapred to white men. Who knows. You repeat this process of sdjustment until all loans are given out fairly. Then you look at what was done to Native American populations, homosexuals, asians, poor people, etc.

I'm not saying that you are forbidden from being able to iteratively get to fairness in bank loans, but a single rule change is very unlikely to result in total fairness amoung all possible divisions of people. Additionally, to get to fairness in all bank loans, the rule set is likely to be somewhat complex [0] and then it'll have to change with time.

[0] The handshake problem maybe? n(n-1)/2 complexity? With just 7 racial categories alone you get 21 total interactions that need to be adjusted for, Add in 3 gender categories and you then have 210 interactions. Now put in 4 monetary classes, you get 3486 interactions to deal with. Now add in pregnant people, veterans, the disabled, political views, religious groups, etc. It roughly grows as N^2 and gets hairy really quick.
When you pay for cellular service, you get a SIM card, which contains everything the phone needs for connecting to the cellular provider's network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_card
> WeWork may not be a tech company when it comes to what they're selling, but it is when it comes to how they deal with tax.

Not sure what this is supposed to mean. Companies finding ways to pay less taxes isn't a privilege of the Tech industry
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphoton.2011.99
How is your experience with more "advanced" stateful interactions such as drag&drop?
Heck, I only read your blog through RSS. Presumably at some point in the past I saw it, thought it was nifty, and added the feed. Haven't visited since.
Sounds like a socialist policy. It's not good. What LA needs is more competition and less zoning to lower prices and allow better results.
Since January 2019, I work on an Elm project, once again weaved into an existing AngularJS app, with ~34k lines of Elm code.

Watching a simple example in the elm website, the codes make judicious use of new lines, would you say those 34k lines would represent 17K in js?
Day 0 and 1 of Discrete mathematics
"Randomness" doesn't explain anything. That is just the modern day version of "the gods willed it".
Sometimes when I get debt collector calls or car warranty scams I find their website and they usually have an opt out form, never seen a captcha. I have been really tempted to just hammer the endpoint with every valid phone number. Probably won’t accomplish anything but will give someone a fun surprise.
This is a personal comment, but if you're like me, I bet that anxiety is not just related to time.

I would be telling myself: How can I commit to a lifelong project like children? How can I decide what career path to choose, when there are so many options and I can only pick one? How can I work out, when its basically signing up to humiliate yourself? How can I take these _risks_?

In my experience, anxiety pretends that it's useful. It feels motivational -- like you are motivated to work out, because of your anxiety about being frail.

But contrary to how it feels, anxiety can have the opposite effect. You want it too much, that becomes dangerous, because you're afraid of trying and failing.

If that sounds familiar at all, my advice (since all HN comments have to have advice, right?) is to distance yourself from those goals and aspirations. Perform the Stoic exercise of meditating on the worst-case scenario. Let yourself make mistakes and look stupid. Just do it because you should, and damn the outcome.
Government works on law not on what makes sense, if the punishment you are describing is not in the law. they can't do it! and have to process all the filings.
Is this so common a thing, new bus depots? From "depot" rather than "station" I'm envisioning Greyhound buses. I was under the impression that long-distance bus ridership was stable if not declining...

Besides which, does anyone really deserve to live a certain minimum distance from transportation options? Why would anyone dislike her neighbors that much?
Git blame can also show you the last revision which touched a file since some revision. Git log on a file can show you all the revisions in which it was touched. Using these together lets you slice the history in many useful ways, and there are countless gui-based tools (git gui, for example) which also allow you to explore revisions.
The decision makers who hire people like this and decide their compensation aren’t dealing with the environment day-to-day.
Code for America Helping to Expunge Weed Convictions in Cook County, IL
Instead of a permission prompt, Safari could make it so sites that use the Media Session API (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/02/media-sess...) get to run code in the background if they have a media control visible in an active notification. (If the user doesn't want the site to run in the background, then the user could swipe away the media controller notification.)
The pentagram at the bottom left of the video is an instant deal-breaker for millions of regular folks...

being aware of social sensitivities is a big part of being successful for projects that aim for broad adoption.
> Ostensibly there is zero reason for this to exist.

It's a lot more convenient to exercise in your living room than go outside or go to the gym.

I thought Guitar Hero was stupid and people should just buy a guitar, but people loved it.
A line can have been touched multiple times since the breaking change (simplest example: indentation/formatting)
From a sibling comment group it sounds like this issue actually is a problem of the government lacking the hammer due to an extreme effort from lobbying... so hopefully WeWork abusing this system is the straw that breaks the camel's back and forces all the faux-small business real estate dealers to pay appropriate taxes.

This tax, which appears to be an effort to provide some relief to the victims of real estate owners that are gouging small business, is actually just benefiting those owners.
One Step Closer to a 3D Map of the World
Got it. (1) Yes, 500k is a lot, but (2) the TFRC program is making fairly expensive TPUs available at shockingly good prices for researchers willing to do some tire-kicking and feedback-providing. So 500k of TPU time is easier to come by than, say, 500k of generic compute.
https://micro.blog is nice too.
Wow, I would have never guessed that Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark, Hershey, Home Depot, and Walmart were all in on the mass surveillance business [1].

Anyways -- agree to disagree. My personal take is that once the mass surveillance has been conducted the cat's out of the bag. Once the LAPD started scannning license plates it doesn't really matter if they're using Palantir to search the data or a bunch of interns sifting through it by hand. The only thing we can do is get the LAPD and the LA City Government to be accountable to their citizens.

1. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/williamalden/inside-pal...
When it comes to vitamins, the typical, North American diet is likely deficient based on the following behaviors.

I am inside all day and get no sun - Vitamin D
I do not eat wild caught fish - Omega 3s
I am vegan - B12
I do not eat greens daily - Multivitamin + Magnesium Theronate/Glycinate

Most people are D & Omega 3 deficient. Also a bulk of folks are Magnesium deficient unless they are eating greens daily.
Thread parent opines that in one particular nation, regulations have particular harmful effects. In no sense is it a meaningful reply to observe that in other nations, there are other problems. "Banana republics" have laws, too, but I doubt most of the populace appreciates them, since they are written by dictators.

You are perfectly correct, that some level of regulation saves lives. I doubt thread parent would disagree. A discussion of which regulations are beneficial and which go too far would be interesting. Unfortunately that discussion was short-circuited by a banal list of wiki entries that could have been generated by a bot.
I use the one at our gym and I do like it. I have a decent carbon bike and an indoor trainer that I use Zwift with. However I do like the peloton for the classes/instructors. The machine itself is nice and the ride is smooth. The screen is amazing. It pairs with ANT HRMs and Bluetooth earphones. It’s nice to visually see the metrics and have target numbers. Missing ERG is a problem but not a huge one.
I don’t think it’s a fair comparison with juicero. Although I’d admit I won’t pay for it - I’m not the target market. I’m primarily an outdoor cyclist.
Look at their contribution margins though. Especially on subs. Unit economics are, I guess unsurprisingly, fantastic on selling 2k bikes with a ~40$ monthly sub.
I get how this subsidy came to be in the first place, but am surprised that I hadn't heard anything about it prior to this
>unless the only thing you care about is paying less for your goods regardless of the consequences, which I don't think is a majority position of adults today.

It may not be the stated position of adults today, but it's their revealed preference.
Sounds like someone didn't bother reading the linked page...
Yet Pocket is a core part of Firefox instead of an extension.
Got it. It's still possible to keep stepping back through the history of that line to understand its exact history.

I also typically find most files have only a handful of commits of interest in their history, so scoping a git log to the file often gets me within spitting distance of the right commit, if someone took the time to write a good one.

Edit: which goes back to my original point, that the commit is the best time and place to snapshot the meaning of that time and that place.
Like Instapaper.
yes same here.
Connectors, crimping tools, wire, electronic components, props, electric motors, control boards, radio sender/receivers, antennas, batteries, tools etc.
You need to find your way. The stores have a lot of crap, but once you get a grasp of everything you find out that there is actually quite decent quality stuff out there.
WeWork remains woefully insecure [1] -- IP is likely leaking out of it like a sieve -- and with a real-estate structure that's positioned as a too-big-too-fail [2], what could possibly go wrong...

[1] The Cyber-Insecurity of WeWork – Shared Offices and Cracking WiFi with Weak WPA2 Passwords

https://www.digitaloperatives.com/2018/10/10/the-cyber-insec...

[2] The CBINSIGHTS research report (WeWork strategy teardown)...

"WeWork’s $47 Billion Dream: The Lavishly Funded Startup That Could Disrupt Commercial Real Estate"

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/wework-strategy-t...
Yup. I wouldn’t subscribe to the Athletic without an RSS feed. I stopped reading Players Tribune when they axed their feed. Give me title, tags, and first two sentences so I can categorize the feeds and I’m a happy camper. I got rid of my reddit app on my phone. I was needlessly checking reddit multiple times a day. RSS provides me the same information without having to argue with people who are “wrong online.”
System justification theory
Breaking the Activation Function Bottleneck
Like Theranos, WeWork is a company that just seems to be one grift on top of another, getting away with it by doing it in plain sight.
Some folks are more relaxed than others. I have even seen servers named after gods in the distant past, can you imagine? Try naming a server Odin now, or Loki, etc. Used to be a popular naming scheme but today it would have someone complaining to HR about inappropriate religion in the workplace.

I gotta say that whoever flagged that post has the thinnest skin I've yet encountered. Even for HN, I am slightly surprised.
Not wanting to call you a point-haired-boss, but:

"clerk opens digital file, reviews attached floor plannings and previous tax filings/business plans (or the system automatically has the flag "this is a small business" attached), clicks on either approve or deny button, system automatically sends paperwork to the applicant."

Sounds almost exactly like the sort of comment that will emerge from a PHB when it is suggested that a proper business requirement spec and functional spec is needed.

I imagine the number of edge cases involved in"reviews attached floor plannings and previous tax filings/business plans" could be rather terrifying.
Thank you for this. Are you a Newspeak house guy? Your work is great and it reminds me a lot of the stuff I see coming out of that place
I’ll check it out. I will admit I like being able to combine several configs into a single setup.cfg or package.json, but I’m usually the guy who has a separate config file checked in for every tool he’s using.
https://youtu.be/_w9vB8V8mII Great video about gen 1 roadsters
Exactly. I can’t say for sure they’ll succeed but they are definitely onto something here. I explained the things o like in the comments above. It is well integrated. All the pieces work really well together. In comparison it’s a fight to get zwift to connect with my smart trainer, hrm and cadence sensor every single time I hop on it.
And many times have I thought that Pocket should also be in an extension and wondered why Mozilla is taking on the first party responsibility for it - maybe they get some partnership money?
Kinda like the Mexico-Canada dual-citizen Mennonite drug-smuggler Mafia: https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/m/episodes/2016-2017/the-mennonite-...
Why didn't the fee get put on the vendor/shipper?
If you're a software developer, how would you go about doing this if you have no skills related to any of the areas that can have some impact on climate change? I've been a developer for a few years and have no hard science background. Should I go back to school to try and learn this sort of thing? Go into politics in some capacity? Keep working where I am and spend my free time and cash on climate change initiatives? Something else?
There is a range of IF between one meal per day, and not doing it at all. Prof Sachin Panda’s research on mice shows effects of 12hrs/12hrs, 8hrs eat/16hrs fast, and fasting some days but not every day.

Did you experiment with any other patterns?
I just checked my 100 person orgs code base and we have 5000 files so him stealing 14000 files was almost certainly written by hundreds of engineers.
This is exactly how I feel, which is also why it is so difficult for me: I'm in a long distance relationship because of work.
> I had some human studies bookmarked, I'll try to find them again.

Please do. Rat studies are helpful, but not definitive-- close but not exact. That's why it takes so long for medicines and therapies that are shown to absolutely work on rats still take forever to reach humans.
Or make your own super easy peasy RSS feed for almost any site with lynx/w3m/curl/etc and diff.
I avoid twitter like the cesspool it is. Thanks for the warning.
You could easily generate a colour image by using a red, green and blue laser sequentially. But... they haven't done that. It's all black and white so I don't know why you think it can see colour?
That's actually the intention: https://www.quora.com/Did-Palantirs-founders-consider-the-et...
> largely because I'm subsidizing all the Chinese shippers.

I wouldn't expect shipping charges in the US to magically be lower after this change.
My mistake, I interpreted the $(...) values as being negative losses.
Yeah we’ve come across easy a and loved some of your blog posts. Will shoot you an email to connect! Nice product :)
Why not use other frequencies of the EM spectrum, some that say penetrate walls?

I've heard of WiFi being used to 3D map buildings for example.
I mean, just looking at our eyes: it's a field of evenly spaced measurement devices that send a direct signal to out brain. Ie we have a "parallel transmission of pixels".

You then just check what colour has the strongest (most) signals.

Or do you mean something else? Like how to do that consciously or something and not like, how it's possible?
This reminds me of when I worked overseas for Lucent; they hired an accountant who tried to file such that they would get a tax deduction that was supposed to go to the employee. Fortunately IRS saw through that shenanigan.
Indonesia prepares to move capital after Jakarta sinks 4m
Just asking: the new plans of "Owncloud" won't have any repercussion on "Nextcloud", right? Question based on 1) the fact that Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud and 2) this post...

https://owncloud.com/owncloud-infinite-scale-owncloud-unveil...

...as reported e.g. here (I had problems loading the above page):

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https:/...

Meaning: Nextcloud won't follow a similar direction, right?
Thx
This doesn't actually take advantage of the wave-like nature of light. There's no diffraction or refraction happening.
Americans should pray that USPS doesn’t only worry about the short term.
A gym membership starts at under $30/mo. I'm not sure at what point money spent becomes rapidly divorced from what you get but I'd wager that point is closer to $30/mo than to $100/mo.
> modular-monolitic kernel

This sounds like a bit of an oxymoron. What is a modular-monolithic kernel?
They did a really good job explaining the situation in that Planet Money episode.
Heh, 9 out of 10 people couldn't even tell you where those names came from. They never even had a chance to be offended. And frankly, not too many people wandering through the datacenter spent much time reading all the labels.
Is your student information system handling that for you? I know some powercampus schools handle it that way. I can ping some folks and follow up if I get any recommendations
Ha, omg this is impossible to read. Using async/await here would go a long way to helping. But honestly this just seems like a work in progress, so code cleanliness and ability for others to read and contribute might not be the focus.

Also, generally people do not put all their logic in the same file , in express apps. Just breaking out the business logic from the express app setup would also help to make it more readable/understandable.
Unless you absolutely cannot stand PHP I will always recommend Kirby. You get blogging out of the box, comments, search, tags, related posts, featured posts, metadata stuff like SEO/RSS/Sitemaps is easy, a decent amount of themes out there, easy to make your own, can be deployed on shared hosting like Siteground or a bespoke server like Digita Ocean and the CMS interface is a joy to use.

Downsides: all the code is on github but it’s not technically open source. I forget what the license is but it’s not MIT or anything like that.

It also technically costs money. The maintainers let you download a working basic site and never nag you about paying. It’s an honor system.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (1843)
> Unless you’re referring to the screen reader

I am. I would never claim MacOS couldn't be used by professionals in a more general sense.

> but my impression is Apple is generally regarded as the best in what comes to accessibility features, and they keep improving. They’re so proud of it they frequently brag about it in promotional videos

For screen reader users, they're the best in terms of what they ship with the OS. You get a fully accessible experience out of the box, which includes a tutorial for first-timers. You can even run with text to speech in the Recovery mode e.g. to format your disks.

Contrast that with Microsoft, with Windows 10 being the very first version to offer an accessible setup/installation process, no obvious way to use a screen reader in Safe Mode, and next to nobody using Narrator in their day-to-day computer use because it took so long to be developed to any usable degree. One of the most popular Windows screen readers (JAWS) also costs hundreds of dollars - thousands over a user's lifetime if they purchase upgrades along the way. Apple are definitely winning there. Everything is free and just works, and I'm quite happy for them to brag about it.

Where it starts to fall apart is when you want to actually get things done outside of a core set of Apple apps. For example, Office support is pretty lacking, with poor or no accessibility for advanced word processing and spreadsheet features. The terminal support is so bad that an enterprising blind user made his own terminal screen reader to combat it[1].

There are other problems, such as the screen reader's slow performance making the entire OS feel sluggish. Plus, if there are any bugs in it, you have to wait for an entire MacOS update before it gets fixed. That's annoying when it's a Window Manager bug, but can be completely disruptive when your only gateway to your computer won't read your email for a while without crashing.

There are also tons of more opinionated stuff that users can (and do) argue about, like the efficiency of the way you browse the web with VoiceOver on MacOS vs the way Windows screen readers do it. But once you've assessed that the core accessibility experience isn't going to work for you, debating the rest is pretty pointless. Plus (and this is entirely anecdotal) it can become exhausting trying to have a discussion about these problems, only to have hordes of users tell you that you're wrong even though they're unemployed (or employed in a different field) and don't have people relying on them to get anything advanced done in the first place. Sometimes I think there's a tendency to want to justify how much money they've spent on expensive Apple hardware which, realistically, they didn't really need, especially if the cost of a cheaper Windows laptop plus JAWS would've been less or the same anyway. And these days, there's a fantastic free, open source screen reader for Windows[2].

[1] https://github.com/tspivey/tdsr
[2] https://www.nvaccess.org
http://blog.datomic.com/2012/10/codeq.html

I think codeq 2 is being worked on