skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of build quality, it's a very subjective subject but I think the XPS, Surface Book, and Razor Blade all have superior build quality to modern MacBook Pros.

I'm a fan of the XPS in particular. The base models for the XPS are only a couple hundred cheaper USD less than a base MacBook Pro, but MacBooks dramatically increase in price for minor spec improvements so the XPS gives you much better performance value at the high end.

> So if said amazing laptop also supports a Linux with great interop, perfect trackpad function etc., like macOS does - I'll eat my own hat.

Last I checked, macOS runs on Darwin, not Linux. Do you mean you're installing Linux on a MacBook?

So it's not good enough for me to provide examples that support my claim. I have to find examples that also meet your own criteria.

If you want a high-end Linux book, I would suggest an XPS. They have a "Developer Edition" that ships with Ubuntu. It's cheaper than a MacBook, but not by a huge margin. I can't attest to the Linux experience on non-developer-edition models.
When it comes to innovation, compatibility for new hardware and being welcoming and encouraging to new users and contributors, you cannot beat Fedora.
> smuggling

Ah here, that's more alive than ever right now!
Eco 101 : https://www.gwern.net/Complement
If anything, easy money transfers wealth downward. Tight money transfers wealth upward.
Good luck!!! Sad that he is refusing to meet you in the middle. Stick to your rights.
I've a theory but that is not backed by data.

Land prices in India are dropping rapidly. Here how (my hypothesis): People for generations have thought that land prices will always increase. It might have been true before Demonetization. But now it is almost impossible to do anything with cash (expect the purchase of land). So if anyone thinks of buying land for any residential, commercial or industrial purpose, they will not able to use their cash in building because there are subsidies available for those who take loans to finance such building. So people will use loans (accounted money) to build their buildings. You cannot also buy cars with cash (unaccounted cash).

Because of this, land purchases have either gone down or vanished (by unaccounted cash which was majority of the purchases).

So the prices are rapidly falling as people decide on selling and don't find a buyer at the perceived market rate. So they lower the prices and the vicious downward cycle continues.

Put simply: There was a land price bubble because of black money. Now the bubble is slowly bursting. IMO the bubble was so huge (as a % of the GDP), I think we're in serious trouble with the spillover effect of fallen property prices.
Great article showing some of the complexities in Estonian, really appreciated this breakdown.

I recently worked on a data visualization platform for the trade statistics office in Estonia (https://data.stat.ee) and many of the nuances from this article came up while we were working on the bilingual version of the site.

For example adding prepositions in front of country names, required us to write a custom function taking into account the normal "rules" and exceptions.

Here is the case for Estonia + preposition

From Estonia:
Eestist

To Estonia:
Eestisse

With Estonia:
Eestiga

Between … and Estonia:
Eesti ja … vaheline

And now here is the case for the UK + preposition. (notice the extra g added in the from, with and between cases)

From United Kingdom:
Ühendkuningriigist

To United Kingdom:
Ühendkuningriiki

With United Kingdom:
Ühendkuningriigiga

Between … and United Kingdom:
Ühendkuningriigi ja … vaheline
Yes, but controversy sells papers. Ultimately the blame is on the pharmaceutical industries, the doctors, and yes the patients.
Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing
One pleasant byproduct of perusing Dwitter Web is you can pick up a lot of esoteric mathematics formulas ;)

https://www.dwitter.net/h/math
What kind of lame attempt at policing and changing language is this? Yes, animals absolutely do produce leather. Go read a dictionary!

Similarly, my stomach produces stomach acid, my sweat glands produce sweat, etc., and none of that is "mechanized" or used for any kind of industry, it's just how my (and your) body works.
> They are both lying for political purposes. Unless the UK stay in the CM/SU, there will be a customs border. The EU will require one from the Irish side, and the UK will require one in order to get any trade deals.

There will be a customs border, but that doesn't mean there has to be infrastructure on the border. Again, the idea of a hard border is a red herring, as nobody is going to build one.

> Have you been there lately? I pass the border a bunch when we travel north, and the only way I notice is the different signs and Google maps switching to miles instead of kilometers.

Sure, and there are already differences as you just pointed out.

> Fair enough, however there were a lot more back during the Troubles.

Sure, no body wants to go back to that.

> Like, it's impossible to leave unless the UK maintains the Good Friday Agreement, which essentially requires a mostly soft border. The border was a frequent target of republican terrorists and is likely to become so again, hence why you have US members of Congress saying that no trade deal with the UK is possible unless the GFA is maintained (are they also trying to trap the UK in the EU?).

Yes the UK has said it will maintain the Good Friday Agreement, but that doesn't mean we should have to stay in the single market/customs union.

> I'm not sure if there is anything I can say to change your mind on this, but I strongly disagree with your assessment here.

Which bit? The EU clearly doesn't want Brexit to be a success otherwise it might encourage other countries that are less than delighted with they EU, to leave. Far better if they can point to the UK and go "look how much better it was before they tried to leave".
The Eurozone economically is in a bit of a sorry state, not sure what there is to disagree with there. Ok it is slightly better than a few years ago in some parts of the south, but not much.

> The British government have literally done everything wrong here.

Well, I certainly can agree with you there. No doubt the EU has shown remarkable unity, and the UK has shown disunity and disorganisation.
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Not bad, but the Alexandrian tradition was not the only way to interpret Christianity. The idea that Christianity's understanding of God's oneness was merely borrowed from Neoplatonism is an old cliche, but it leaves too much out. Without going into this too much, I would say that the early Christian thinkers accepted the Platonic and Neoplatonic problem of trying to answer how the one related to the many, or how it became many, but their aswers were often their own and quite creative. E.g. Athanasius's distinction beween essence and will.
Yes, but you have to admit, the news doesn't really serve its intended purpose of speaking out against power. It seems more like a conduit that's pretending it's not.
They think they're technical users, but really they aren't. Generally these folks are people who have skills in other areas and have a partial or basic ability to use some complicated software. However, they don't have well-developed computer skills but are convinced that they do.
How is this good for future generations?
The thing that bothers me the most about framing this as "foreign influence" is that there's nothing stopping people from coming to the US (or paying someone already in the US) and writing whatever they want on the internet using their first amendment rights as a US person.

The problem is bigger than that.
When we make plans, we often forget about the possible failure scenarios - What if we fail at making the hardware? What if someone else makes it better? What if the software can't be built? What if governments don't buy it?

It feels like they didn't have enough Plan B's for when their Plan A's failed.

:-(
We could argue back and forth in perpetuity about the quality of both the Cochrane review (for example, there are claims that their diagnostic criteria for even having CFS were not good enough) and the data against GET :)

My point was simply that there does exist a large body of evidence supporting my original comment, even if there is also evidence against it.
Also check out this Bloomberg podcast with the author (currently it's the first one in this overview):

https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/odd_lots
hell I still have servers that won't do anything for me without https://
Meanwhile on the right: https://twitter.com/PhilosophyTube/status/117606984628879769...

Freedom of speech[1]

[1] whenever convenient for me, which is usually, because i'm in a position of wealth and power
I used VBRO before Airbnb and hosts in vacation towns were definitely collecting local taxes. Unlike Airbnb, VBRO responded to requests for host info because they were trying to do things the right way.
The referendum does seem to have been seriously flawed though; it didn't ask "should we become a republic", but "should we become a republic in this specific way" and many that were fine with the republic were not fine with the specific way.

The Brexit referendum had the opposite problem; they only asked whether to leave, and not the way in which it should be done (not that they really could have, lacking a specific deal at the time) and now they can't agree on the way.

The system here does need some serious reform though (and you might as well bin the Queen while you're at it).

The STV approach at electorate level is good, but the electorates then being combined FPTP style to form a government retains most of the downsides of an FPTP system anyway. Safe seats are largely ignored and minor parties have far fewer seats than their support would warrant.

NZ's approach (a vote for your electorate MP, and a vote for your preferred party, with the government formed in line with the percentages in the party vote) is more representative and would be a big improvement to the system.

NZ's could be improved in a couple of ways though; the vote for the electorate MP is still really FPTP, we should copy the AU STV system for that part. And we retain an unrepresentative 5% minimum for representation at the party vote level*, this should be dropped entirely, or if not then votes should also be transferred from any party falling under that line to preferences above it.

Kiwi living in Australia if any of the we/you/here/there is confused :D
Flying RC helicopters.

Just got back into it after a 10+ year absence for almost the exact same reasons as you -- relax, get my mind off shit.

It's stressful as hell (in a good way) but you will clear your mind of everything once you're in the air (no time to think about work when you're trying not to nose dive $1000 into the ground).

oh, and the usual stuff: cooking, riding motorcycles, fishing...
I'd have to agree with you that I think a lot of voters don't understand FPTP.

I keep having arguments with UK voters that think that it takes a majority in a constituency to win a seat, for example. Many refuse to believe this isn't the case even when I give examples showing it takes just a plurality in each seat, because it just seems wrong to a lot of people, even when asking them how else you'd pick the winner in a single-seat constituency without any form of ranked voting.

FPTP just seems to seem totally counter-intuitive to people when you make them actually work through the implications.

As an immigrant, it's incredibly frustrating to come across "natives" that knows less about their own electoral system than I do.
Yup, we do this. Works like a charm and makes it easy to configure from any client by just connecting to a new wireless network.

You don't need the VLAN, you can just put the two different wifi networks on different subnets or DNS config depending on your router and you're good to go.

(I do put IoT stuff on a guest VLAN though which can only see the gateway and nothing local in the network).
What Earth does care about, is when you decide that's a good idea to have on average more than 4 children per couple over the last 2 generations in India [1] instead of only 2 or even less children per couple like in USA or the EU [2].

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/IND/india/fertility-ra...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fert...

Every country has a set of natural resources at its disposal. It should manage and cherish those resources and not overtax them. If a country decides it's a good idea to perpetually grow their population when all they have are the same set of natural resources available, then well, the onus is on them to figure out how to do it without destroying everything.
Well, we both own the company (Jim 60% and I 40%) that operates the app, so there's no way Jim can get me out of the company.

The question remains whether he can simply take the app & create a new company since technically he paid for the app and the contract with programmers is only between Jim and programmers
>> then the consumer can sue them

> For what?

For sending a bad report about the consumer they claim to have entered into a contract with to the credit bureaus.

> The consumer isn’t responsible anyway if the lender gets defrauded.

That's true, but the lender is responsible for what they report to the credit bureaus.

> Is the fraud in itself not enough of a punishment for the lender?

If they don't involve the actual consumer in their lack of due diligence, then sure.

> It isn’t. The lender enters into a contract with a fraudster and gets fucked. The lender is the victim, not the consumer.

If the lender involves the consumer by sending a bad report to the bureaus, then they have harmed the consumer.
Adafruit also sells two pi-hole kits, one with a Pi Zero included and one BYOP (Bring Your Own Pi).

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3973

and

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3974

I am not affiliated with Adafruit nor do I own either of these products.
I think the best solution so far is for advertisers to just purchase banners on the sites their target audience is on, just like in the old days. Maybe use something like BuySellAds to find and buy "directly" from that niche site, but BSA is pretty bad.
there is no hierarchy between judges and representatives. the parliament willingly shutdown itself. they could have acted otherwise. everybody is acting respectfully.
Didn't May have a majority of 1 vote (Tories + DUP) through the negotiations though?
No, Russian trolls don’t take the time and burn karma trying to get people out of their echo chamber.

We’ve spent three decades ignoring the problem and we’re really at a turning point. Unfortunately, it’s probably going to have to get worse before enough people are convinced to do something.

I just decided to burn a lot of Karma so I can feel like I tried to point out the obvious problems.

You can take it from here.
Unfortunately Oculus lost me as a potential customer when facebook acquired them. Palmer Luckey's various misadventures reinforce this feeling for me.
I would imagine that the rate directly correlates with other additions such as alcohol. While addition happens to all classes of society, those in impoverished areas tend to have a greater concentration of addition (at least reported).
Yes, and they said "without reasonable justification". The implication of that being that if "reasonable justification" existed then it would be lawful regardless of effect.

Whilst I enjoy watching the mental gymnastics that other people go to on Brexit (I voted to Remain btw), it is utterly self-defeating. Just read something, try to stop your brain jumping in..."reasonable justification"...it doesn't need to be more complicated than that.

This would be more obvious if more people actually followed the primary sources rather than journalists btw. In Scotland, there was a whole thing about getting emails, etc. This has no other purpose than examining motive.
Interesting. I guess that's Jim's main problem - that a non-employee would own equity. Thanks!
When you found a startup the value of your work is the value of what you create. Pinning some prevailing market value for high priced consultants or FAANG engineers in a sellers market is also absurd.

At this point it’s hard to argue for any cash value, but he definitely earned some equity.
Has anyone applied this to Alexa or Google Home devices? I am interested in funding DEV for the Google Home device. Anyone interested in talking further?
You should be aware that your summary contradicts in parts the court's own summary at https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2019-0192-summar... You should just read it, it's not written in impenetrable legalese or something.
This has always been my conclusion when I experiment with not using an ad blocker. So many websites with outwise "okayish" content are basically ruined by ads.

Some sites are littered with "targeted" ads like download buttons and similar, which I'm not even sure why that's allowed.

It's also fun on "big" websites like MS Teams, Netflix, hulu, etc, to see the "blocked" count raise into the hundreds.
I’ve written similar things before here, but what I would say is there’s a very small chance that you will lose some huge fortune by just walking away with nothing.

On the other hand, the emotional distress, distraction, and destruction of personal relationship(s) that can happen from arguing over this sort of thing is tremendous.

Your cofounder probably feels emotions surrounding you leaving. You probably do too.

That emotional context colors the conversation, and you both currently value everything you contributed so far in that context.

I would strongly urge you to consider prioritizing an amicable parting of ways over other considerations.

When you look back years later you probably will realize you were negotiating over such minor things, while risking the truly important stuff, like your personal energy.
Its not asking though. Its screaming, threatening and drumming people out of their jobs if they don't comply.

I say this as someone that uses gender neutral pronouns etc.
I agree that blocking OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) servers is a bad practice. The argument to block them is that they can be used for tracking purposes. OCSP stapling is a great way to use OCSP without the risk of tracking - but not everyone does it or supports it.

Anyways, I maintain an 'Ads & Tracking' blocklist that I believe is pretty reliable and you are welcome to give it a try if you like: https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/

I've been maintaining my list publicly for over a year, and I've got to say its not always clear what deserves to be blocked, what should be blocked but can't be due to broken functionality, and what is legitimate like the OCSP servers. Everyone has their own personal level of expected privacy vs functionality. Its impossible to make everyone happy. I just wanted to say that being a maintainer of these lists isn't always easy. The obvious example you provided with (ocsp.apple.com) isn't exactly obvious because it _could_ be used for tracking, and it certainly isn't need for functional reasons (although I would argue that it is needed for security reasons). Anyways, there is a lot of gray when it comes to blocking and you can't make everyone happy.
Could That Be a $3M Vase in Your Attic?
Actually it looks like that guy has a lot of a karma; I guess he just feels so strongly about this comment that he's willing to burn some by copy/pasting it all over the place.
Not sure about your overall points but Israel is far from homogenous with a large part of the country literally controlled by another government (Palestine).
world is run by scam business.
The problem is, there are some industries where the piracy rate would be 100% if it weren't for dongles. Music production software, for one. And another surprising one is church software! (They feel they shouldn't have to pay because they're a "church" and serve a higher purpose.)

I go to the NAMM (musical instrument manufacturers) trade show every year and work with music, sound, and church software vendors.
They're made of people? Last time I checked the machines haven't taken over yet.
agreed - this is all about improving ad engagement metrics. If they can demonstrate that the user was engaged even if they didn't click the ad, then the acquisition is worth the $500m-$1b they reportedly paid for it. I also see the wrist band as becoming linked to payment / libra functionality -- that way it's always on the user and it opens fb to greater awareness in the physical world as well. It's funny how the tech future is finally materializing just the point where we are realizing that instead of utopia, it is turning out to be an utterly repulsive sci-fi nightmare.
I think the proper analogy is controlled nuclear fusion, which google is also dabbling with.
That would almost be a regression, as for a long time, monasteries were the intellectual strongholds of the West.
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The difference is that I trust businesses whose motive is purely logical - make money - a lot more than I trust government run by people who either have “cultural interests” that are directly opposed to my views and very existence.

Business doesn’t have the power to take money, property, liberty, or my life.
On reflection I really shouldn't have assumed your company structure was what I imagined it to be. I apologise for that.
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Prominent German Neuroscientist Committed Misconduct in “Brain-Reading” Research
React Native vs. Flutter. What I Have to Pick for a Future Mobile App?
Why would you have literal spy device in your home?
In 2017, Fenty Beauty found an underserved market (dark-skinned women and high-quality makeup) and made a killing selling them what they wanted. If you relied solely on history and stereotypes, you would believe nobody could make $500 million dollars that way.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/05/15/rihannas-fenty-is-...
Let’s assume for a moment that Facebook and Google we’re clearly monopolies that needed to be regulated. How would that work practically? Does the justice department and federal courts have people capable of understanding the nuances of some of these companies or are we going to end up with CEOs reminding senators that iPhones aren’t made by google?
It really depends on what you want/need. The Pi-hole blocks ad traffic by blocking DNS requests to known advertisement URLs. Ublock Origin works great in your browser. However, what about that app on your phone that plays an ad every time you open it? What if you use a mobile browser that doesn't have extensions (Chrome on mobile doesn't).

It really comes down to where you want to block ads.

Also, I don't know if Ublock Origin actually blocks the ad requests or just prevents them from loading, but if it's the latter, then you can reduce traffic with Pi-hole as well.
It’s not actually important what came first, but rather whats currently being used/popular. Nim might have had the headstart, but its lost the race, so now it has to challenge its existence against the current popular set of languages people are looking at for transition
That is because MVC 5 did not support DI out of the box. This has been fixed with Core. It is quite easy now, since I was able to figure it out haha.
Reduce their population how?
And the justification will be "more humane than waterboarding".
Seems like a good place to link Paul Graham’s essay on PR firms, and their relation with news media outlets:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Interesting thought. It seems most likely that the public lobbies generally against a problem without much of a solution in mind, or at least without doing all that much research beforehand. I can see how the public might complain about a lack of public transit and end up with lawmakers delivering scooters.