skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profit? And that the audience is limited.

If I have a resource heavy problem, I can solve it for a fraction of the price outside the Apple Ecosystem.

Who buys these? When you look to the source you will understand.
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With the ease of travel I'd suggest go to libraries in different states or countries. Libraries close to major airports so that many people are likely to travel between them. (ie don't pick a city in the middle of nowhere just large enough to have a private airport)
I feel like like saying svelte is an "easy intro to web development" is misleading. The svelte compiler "abuses" (I don't mean it in a bad way) existing technology so it doesn't have to create special tooling and works with existing tools. I think that's okay _only if_ you're aware of this as a developer.

If I was hiring a JS dev, and someone _only_ had svelte on their CV, I'd be a bit reluctant to hire them, only because the svelte compiler hides a lot of JS warts (which I think people should be aware of).
If i remember correctly, Stallman made semantic argument, not legal argument.

There are at least three levels of analysis - semantic (which are proper words describing the act), descriptive legal (whether the commited act is crime) and normative legal (whether the commited act should be crime).

Note that the law does not prescribe language (if the law defines some crime named XYZ mean it overrides common language meaning of XYZ). It is the other way - criminal law defines which classes of acts are crimes and then uses common language names for them (which may or may not fits perfectly).

Stallman first made semantic algument about 'sexual assault' and later later did semantic or perhaps normative legal argument about rape definition.

(With second reading, the rape definition comment was also clearly semantic.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biograp...

But even if he hadn't changed his opinion there would be nothing wrong with that imo.
An IDE is sometimes used as band-aid for bad design. I use an IDE for convenience, but try to make my code not depend on it.
It's said that the time it takes to type the code is a very small part of software development. Yet programmers are lazy and would write the short-hand if one is available.
I think it's best to learn one language, and one code-base well - if you want to be productive. (or maybe become bored) There is a trend in software, that things get dumbed down, and locked down. It shouldn't take 15 years to become productive, but if you aim for one month or less, you would have to sacrifice a lot.
"Find me a comparable computer that:

- Ships with anything other than Windows (Linux, OSX, BSD, etc)

- Has a corporate warranty"

Support for mac-only software notwithstanding, Dell's workstations officially support RHEL, have Nvidia GPUs for CUDA workloads, and come with up to five years warranty with on-site service. You can probably find comparable HP Z-series workstations too.
That is a better definition than the elusive conscious
I have a couple of years of archive, but Thunderbird starts in about 2 seconds for me. Do you have an SSD? If not, you should invest in one.
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It will until it doesn’t. What troubles me is that it’s hard to tell whether the risk is 1% per year or 0.000001% per year.
Well Facebook is pushing out Libra.

Amazon has its own Managed Blockchain for currencies https://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/ as well as a ledger https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/ along with a POW https://cointelegraph.com/news/amazon-patent-casts-light-on-... so I wouldn't exactly be surprised if they push out their own coin.

I don't think Google has made any big moves in crypto. Though if Amazon/FB really start pushing for their own coins I doubt Google wouldn't try something to compete on that market.
> Selam Jie Gano

People should be outraged that a nobody working on automated vehicles for the US military (AKA drones) believes she on a higher moral ground than Stallman, that never hurt anybody.

People should be outraged that said nobody wrote "Remove Stallman and all the other toxic people in tech" like if "removing" people is ok, like she knows who they are, 'cause she's the ultimate judge, and as if building weapons is not toxic...

BTW

RMS has been much more brave and clear than that.

He wrote

"if someone in csail says in this discussion group that Minsky was accused of sexual assault, a very serious accusation, and someone else in csail thinks that he was not, should the latter person refrain from saying so in this same discussion group out of concern that the conversation will leak and be misconstrued by the press?"

The in stands for "science". The job of scientists is to evaluate evidence and seek truth. We have a social responsibility to do that as well. I hope that we scientists will never evade our social responsibility to seek and defend the truth out of fear that the press will misconstrue our search. That would not be a reputation I would like attached to my affiliation.

I think the existence of a dispute about that supports my point that the term "sexual assault" is slippery, so we ought to use more concrete terms when accusing anyone.

He did what he believed was the right thing to do.

He was doing it to protect the movement and the protest from

a - leaks to the press

b - bad PR, if they used sexual assault people could spin it as "but he didn't assault her, it was consensual sex" like they usually do: they shoot the messenger or the form of the message to not address the real issue and divert the attention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts)

c - he was UNDOUBTEDLY right! nobody is talking about the protest against Epstein-MIT involvement.

good job Selam, good job everybody
> 10 types of string

It's not. It's 10 types.
Is there an approved list of pronouns it is OK to choose from?
People have brought up those previous comments of RMS' in the past but a lot of the community would not discuss them / reacted rather negatively to them. The news stories helped push all this out into the open.

I contend that someone who thinks that an adult should not be allowed to enter into contracts regarding software / be punished for doing so "If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs." yet thinks that a 10/11 year old should be allowed to pick their sex partners is something that should be openly discussed.
HP offers Linux on their Z workstations, which have been reliable workhorses for decades. I believe Dell does, too.
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Remove them all then.

Where's the outrage when we need it?
Do you feel dissatisfied though? I’ve felt lazy all my life, even when I’ve averaged 60 hour workweeks.
A technology like Google Stadia will probably solve this. Nobody will need a expensive hardware to run it. The graphics will be generated in cloud computing and streamed to the VR. Keep creating hardwares to run better graphics is a dead end.
>-Has a corporate warranty

Has Apple finally started to offer one comparable to the Big Three? (SLAs, Onsite service with guaranteed reaction times and HW replacements and so on)
Serious question - this was actually a big argument against Pro Apple workstations in the past.

>-Ships with anything other than Windows

Well, you won't get macOS of course, but all big workstation manufacturers sell workstations with Linux preinstalled. It's really nothing unusual and hasn't been for quite some time.
Indeed. Whilst travelling I've met people quite a few people who had no idea how differently other people lived around the world until they saw it themselves. That knowledge of "other" is typically of great benefit to someone.
The least worst choice, for me, is Gmail on a web browser. Switched over from Thunderbird and prior to that Evolution after many years of using both.

Don't misunderstand. I do NOT want to use Gmail, and there are a lot of things about it that fall short... but nothing else has given me such pain-free integration with calendar, contact, and office apps, on my desktop, my laptop, and my phone.

I'm also keeping an eye on ownCloud, which seems to be on its way to become a viable alternative.
In the case of AMD, the TDP figure just means it's shipped with a cooler that has capacity for 65W. In reality it just means boost clocks will drop sooner.

In the case of Intel, the claimed TDP is a fairy tale.
How do you think we should distinguish justified and unjustified stonings, if not by due process?
How to conduct interviews with candidates you already know will be rejected?
That was 3 months ago, no one asked because no one remember it was posted.
I'm talking about hospitals and other officially church operated institutions:

http://humanist.de/kirchensteuer/krankenhaeuser.html

Hospitals and elderly homes are NOT primarily financed by the insurance of their patients. Public hospitals are funded by the government. Church operated hospitals are funded by the government AND the church, with churches often paying the smaller share. Additionally churches themselves as public organisations receive public subsidies when providing public services, so even the money they do pay into operating these services partially comes from the state.

But in some cases the state literally subsidises the clergy directly:

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/spardebatte-staat... (€ 442 million paid for clergy wages based on a contract from 1803 that was meant to reimburse the Catholic church for lands that were claimed by the state to prop up the aristocracy -- note that this contract with no expiration date was between the Catholic Church and the German Empire, not modern Germany)

Also, "Germany mostly has public schools" -- yes, but child care is often operated by churches while being mostly funded publicly. Note that "Kindergärten" are often considered part of the school system (but definitions for pre-primary education are hazy so I admit I should have clarified).

The point is that the "special deal" church operated services get compared to regular public services is that they get to apply church law, which is uniquely privileged to override common labor protection and anti-discrimination laws. As a "user" they appear almost indistinguishable from non-church operated public services.
The explanation has weird parts, too:

> To create a comparison range, you’ll have to pick a colour and make use of four different shades of colour. To help you do this, you’ll have to select the colours one after the other.

> Bear in mind that a bullet graph can either be horizontal or vertical in shape. As clearly mentioned above, the target of the organization must be feasible, and the right tools to reach the target should be provided for employees.

How did that last sentence end up in that paragraph?
Or, more likely, you just wanted to get some referral bonus.
With the parting comment in mind, that there are people who give a shit at FB, how do you/they reconcile putting a lot of effort into managing user envy, when we have a much bigger problem caused by FB, in that it is actively feeding a single perspective to each user to further entrench that viewpoint (with the objective of selling advertising) when it could achieve a lot more worldly good by providing alternate viewpoints. The practice of pushing more alt right to the alt rights, or more leftist content to liberals is strengthening tribalism and as a result doing far more damage to society than 'like envy' would ever do. Please don't see this as a challenge or an attack, I'm really curious to know how this sits with FB employees, climate change is threatening the planet but tribalism is threatening democracy and FB is feeding that monster.
If the IT industry only accepted alpha males it would be an industry empty of people.
I don't see a good fit between and ecommerce site and gatsby, on an ecoomerce site you may have to change your pages depending on the stock, and disable the buy button when there's no stock for an item. What are you going to do? redeploy the site on every purchase?

Or you can only list the product and make the buy button and items available come from an api, doable, but then you start to loose the simplicity of gatsby.
Thanks, I read OPs article twice and still didn’t have a clear understanding for the application of this visualization technique.

Animated it would be useful for an air/fuel gauge project I’m working on for a track car.

Confined display area, Target stoichiometric value (14.7). Current ratio. Historical average.
I wonder how Stephen Hawking would have tasted like?
Run the game in the cloud, stream to the VR. The more you pay for cloud computing, the better your graphics. Why no company is doing that already?
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My personal view is that the 'what' in frontend development generally isn't super interesting and most web frontends are very similar; if you do not focus on new tooling, you will just do the same thing over and over which is unsatisfying.

If you're a very smart dev at one of the biggest tech companies in the world, getting paid a quarter of a million dollars per year working on a niche team that handles a small section of a single product, you will probably get bored pretty quickly and start focusing on the how. It's a shame really; some of the greatest minds of our generation are being put into rooms to work on animations for buttons on virtual DVD cases and Photo Books.

The silver lining is all these tools are given away for free. The tools so great and their corporate creators so cool that you can just have them! A cynical reading is that they are only given away because the competition can derive no value from them... In fact, forcing your competitors to retrain every 6 months when you release another major version that breaks all existing projects will only slow them down and fill your coffers! The new whatsapp will never get off the ground, because the devs were too busy rewriting babel files and the money ran out... you just saved a cool $18bn.

If these frameworks were really the key to anyone's successful business you would not know that they exist.
Since at least 1987, Cadillac is offering this with simple hardware push buttons. We have that in a VW "group" car and turning the dial in the center console allow to adjust as needed the temperature + airflow in less than 1 second.
It would not be the first time a company has dropped Qt overnight, especially with their recent push for royalties on all products.
You are not going to get an accurate CO2 sensor for $27. You're being misled into buying cheap Chinese crap.

An accurate CO2 sensor is much more expensive. I would not trust the readings of the sensor in this blog. It's going to be off by over 100ppm, especially if there's a lack of good airflow.

https://www.atlas-scientific.com/product_pages/probes/ezo-co...
> "VR is not for Silicon Valley where you wake up every day thinking of all the awesome things you can do. VR is for all the people whose everyday life is terrible."

An earlier Facebook VR demo infamously managed to twist up both, with the Puerto Rico tragedy demo. CNET report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8q2BQOGRGE
For me, it didn't take long. I was initially confused by some "repurposed" syntax in svelte, and kinda felt negatively about it, but I grew to accept it, and even appreciate it (it's a hack, but on the elegant side). There's quite a bit of "repurposing" going on (probably so svelte can work with existing linters and other tooling), but you get used to it.

Svelte has more often "magic" stuff, but the good thing is the magic is simple, and it easy to understand (especially since you can easily look at the compiled output, if you want to double check)
Do you think that it costs nothing for app review, hosting servers, legal, accounting (sending it out 1099s), refund handling, etc? Can you name one retailer that pays only 2% between retail and wholesale?
Not all force is physical.
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Very debatable outcomes!
In a way, good that they charge stupidly high amounts (the article has screenshots with claims of >100gbp/usd). That high, most people would make some noise to get it back. If it had been 10$ or similar, more people would either not notice it, or they would just jot it under the "well, shit, lesson learned" account.
Ask HN: Building a mobile app with JavaScript in 2019, which stack to choose?
I mainly work as a Node.js freelance dev. and for a client, I have to build a small mobile app (4 screens, very basic features: HTTP requests for login and signup, and just fetch and display data). The app might get updated with more features in the future

I don't know which tool to use for this, the 2 contenders are:

- React native: Not sure how mature it is, but there is a learning curve for sure, as I don't know react really well

- Cordova + Onsen UI: Cordova is pretty mature, but the app will be a webapp mimicking a native app, could feel awful to use

Do you have any opinion on those tools? Do you have any recommandation?
I switched from Thunderbird to just the Gmail web interface. TB was too slow (esp switching between tabs), and like most open-source email clients, just couldn't manage Gmail's labels elegantly (e.g. search should only search "All Mail"). Also seemed to use 30+ % CPU all the time (on a laptop, so power impact not acceptable). I gave it a go over a few weeks but just went to having Chrome open all the time in one workspace with Gmail and Calendar.
In general this sounds reasonable. But another perspective has to do with binary reasoning. Are you trustworthy? IMHO its a yes/no answer. Are you dependable? Again yes/no. If you are "mostly honest or dependable", do I count on you 70% or 90% of the time? IMHO the restaurant dropped the ball on customer service. I would have taken that personally as well. Suppose it were a customer meeting instead. You've arranged it all, refreshments, talk some business, eat and talk more, relax and enjoy your new customer/client/partner relationship. Oops... they want to put you at the bar?
Geary reminds me of the reddit redesign or some other UI that Apple or Google would create. Information density and convenience where obviously sacrificed for someones idea of aesthetic.

They removed button labels for no apparent reason other than to confuse you with duplicate icons as far as I can see in the screenshot. Looks like it takes at least 2 clicks to sort emails. I'd bet that probably the most annoying thing though is the lack of features and options.

It looks really nice though and if it fits your needs, I'm sure it's great. But those of us who like desktop software and not things like Gmail probably won't.
> Have you seen the "pleasure cards"?

Yes, having been asked "business or pleasure" countless times during his travel, his "pleasure card" is a nice pun on "business card". Of course, some might not like puns, so this reduces to "guy uses corny joke to introduce himself." I'm sure that never happened before.

https://fossforce.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/RMSleisure....

> I can testify of him harassing people privately over public discussions on mailing lists.

Taking disagreements off-list is now harassment instead of good form?

Feel free to reproduce exactly these harassing private exchanges here. I'm fairly sure rms wouldn't mind, so there is nothing stopping you from providing actual evidence for this particular accusation.
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Oh, whoops, the article describing the bribe was in the NYT. Sorry about that.
That patent only seems to cover using the same camera for both sign recognition and forward collision detection by switching between two different sets of image capture parameters and then dividing the frames captured between the two different algorithms. It's not a general patent on sign recognition. Tesla have enough cameras on their current cars, and camera technology has improved by enough over the years, that I can't imagine that being necessary.
I think electronic non-regulated centralized payment systems are worrying. However if they are de-centralized there are less things to worry about. As long as the community is verifiably in control of the validators/nodes then a central authority cannot impose and block your account.
Understanding Git Bisect (Linus Torvalds)
Didn't Swedish add a new pronoun for gender neutral? I.e. exactly what RMS does?
Personally, in C#, I don't enjoy debugging and maintaining Fluent APIs. An exception thrown in the chain is sometimes opaque and the necessary extension methods to make everything come together is not neat code. The former reason is why I also discourage use of object initializers.
"I'll kill your family" after they killed many other people's families is verbal violence.

Believe me, my grangrandfather and my grandfather were jailed many times in the 20 years of fascist regime because they refused to swear as fascists.

They were two gentle men who worked as tailors.
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150K UK residents were stranded.

600K if you include people from other countries.
> that it shouldn't be called sexual assault if no physical force was used in the sexual act

The fact Stallman doesn't understand what assault means, and then used his lack of understanding of the word assault to defend Minsky, is exactly why people are annoyed with him.

Assault does not require force or violence.
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The pattern of misalignment is also very clever too; instead of simply putting "halfway" bits with a timing right at the boundary, it varies the bit timing over the whole window:

http://dmweb.free.fr/files/Game_Chaos.Strikes.Back_UK_Versio...

I wonder if a pattern like this would also be useful as a "jitter check" --- which bits change and the statistics of their values over many reads could show how closely aligned the drive mechanism is. A "perfect" drive would yield an average value of those bits of 0.5, with any asymmetry in the timing causing the average values to increase or decrease from that.
I don't understand where this question comes from?
People were journeying around the world before the Wright brothers were born. Getting from Austin to Bali for a "weekend getaway" might no longer be feasible, but travelling will.
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Yet, most of the time, we're using usernames to hide our identity because we don't want to have our real life connected directly with internet strangers.

A sterile virtual environment ran by a company that makes money on me giving them my personal info?
Not sure I'd want that.

Plus, the fact that this is going to be a VR clone of Second Life without the anonymity and most probably without all the rated M stuff makes me rather sad. A big missed opportunity.
> result of patriarchy and not a hundred thousand year genetic predisposition to find desirable mating partners for survival?

What makes you think these two can be cleanly separated?
I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but screw it.

I'm sure whatever it is you've done, I'll probably use at Github at some point. However, from my 10 second scan of the page, I know absolutely NOTHING about what this is or what it can do for me. Is it just me or do I _constantly_ see example of developers making the worst marketers in the world? Where are the code examples or videos showing whatever it is this is and how it will help me. There is nothing on that page but a HUGE image and a bunch of text I can't understand without 4 PHDs and a half a tab of Adderall.

It's so frustrating see stories on Hacker News that are just piss poorly explained. You've most likely worked hard at this for a long time, why is it you can't take 5 minutes to explain it in lay man's terms for all to understand?

END RANT
I am glad there is crypto because cash is dying and complete government control over all your assets is becoming a real possibility. Cashless is convenient but also very dangerous for a free society.

Fiat is great, if cash exists.