skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a Ditto drive and a series of tapes, bought circa 1996. We used the software it came with on Windows to perform full back ups of the machine, cycling between a set of tapes (maybe 6). Backup would complete overnight. Never had to restore from it. It was a consumer friendly, easy to use product and cheap. My father was an accountant that ran his own practise, so needed to know his files were safe. That went from carbon copies into a second filing cabinet, to 5 1/4" floppies for groups of clients, to 3.5" floppies, to Ditto tapes to USB sticks to Microsoft Cloud storage (which sinks between laptop and PC). The oldest days of filing cabinets and floppies were easy, the middle days of Ditto and USB storage was more worrying, and the final days of cloud storage went back to being simple again. Now he is retired so none of it matters.

This was all donkeys years ago, so it is interesting to hear how things have changed.
Possibly localised ground level temperture increase of a fraction of a °C due to air turbulence relocating warm air.
Just put a Pi Hole on your virtual network. :)
They do. https://cryptome.org/2016/01/CNSA-Suite-and-Quantum-Computin...
s/home page/donations page/

https://www.wireguard.com/donations/
Sadly, this was my first experience with wasabi. I didn't know what it was, but thought since it was green, that it was avocado-based. I was on a first date with this chick. I took what I believed at the time to be a "small" spoonful and popped it into my mouth directly. I am remarkably good at maintaining my composure under such duress, but that was a lot to handle. You can't hide the sweat and tears behind a smile, although I tried.

To this day, I can't do wasabi. My body decided it was poison at that moment and I'm very sensitive to the flavor.
Thanks for the information, this colors the Kickstarter choice a lot differently and actually makes me trust it a bit more, so I'm going to "edit" my original comment (I can't actually edit it, so consider this the edit/retraction) to mention that, in this instance, I've changed my mind.
I just buy a domain and put addresses in public DNS
I like Earl Grey more than any other kind.
You can use string-and-paper based bags that you fill yourself. All the convenience of bagged tea, all the taste of looseleaf!
I would assume anything that uses the triangle tea bag would all be about the same. I can only remember getting them from Teavana, but I don’t spend a ton on prepackaged expensive Tea.
> Education should not be about indoctrination. Sadly there's a lot of that going on. I am not some crazy right wing guy, not even close. I'm just sick of what our universities have turned into. Someone goes to school to study computer science and they are treated to a solid dose of rosy-glasses Marxism. Those who go into humanities are in for full-on indoctrination. This is a horrible disservice to humanity.

I seriously don't know what university you're talking about. Florida State University's economics classes (which I was required to take) as of 2011 mostly talked about Milton Friedman's invisible hand and how communism doesn't work. I know it's the narrative on Fox News and chain emails that colleges have become this safe space for SJW snowflakes or whatever, but that really wasn't (and isn't) the case for me. I live in New York right now, and go to a New York public college, with New York typically regarded as a left-leaning state, and it's not like that filled my mathematics degree with a bunch of stuff about gender studies and race relations. My math degree is, unsurprisingly, still basically math.

> Why aren't kids reading the Greek philosophers? Plato's Republic is a BRILLIANT piece of work. Aristotle, Socrates. Move forward from that, read Descartes, Kant, Adams and others. So much to learn. So much perspective to acquire. But no, we force kids into immersion in some of the most destructive ideologies known to man. And for what?

My philosophy class in a public college actually went through all those philosophers, and in that order. The required philosophy class.

Your take on climate change is so ill-informed that I don't know that it needs a rebuttal.
First, these things are generally country specific. Is there an EU Directive that makes it continent-wide?

Second, given countries in the EU are fairly democratic, this is done via acceptance of the voting public because they elected the representatives. They can always have the law changed if they don't like it.
I understand that, yes. But is the implication that they were released incorrectly?

There's nothing that makes murder specifically relevant to babysitting. If the implication is they wouldn't be hired, that implication applies to every job. So they'd be unhireable. Which in practice is more or less the same as "they should still be in prison".
> I hope Gnome is able to take a Newegg approach here and kill the patent.

How do you propose paying for that? It is fantastically expensive.
Which means “bag” in French
I am so glad that the author of this piece doesn't limit his criticism to just Neumann, but he also goes after the people and firms propping up such obvious dumpster fires. Neumann would not be able to siphon off so much investor money if he weren't given legitimacy by big players. This issues at play here are absolutely systemic, and any analysis that doesn't acknowledge that fact is fundamentally flawed.
I'm intruigued, could you elaborate more?
No libertarian of my acquaintance would say that marketing addiction to children is just the free market but that’s what’s happening here. I just object to libertarians being tarred with that brush.
> Almost all of the missionaries blamed the survivors for what happened. They said their people died because they worshipped the devil. They took the surviving children away, telling parents they weren't fit to raise their own children. They banned the use of Native languages, and all aspects of Native culture such as dancing, regalia, ceremonies, and more. All of this has led to despair and a disconnect with a rich culture that existed for ~10,000 years before this.

Do you have any citations for this? I have read a lot of missionary stories, and have friends and family who have been or are missionaries themselves, and have never heard of anything so heinous. That's exactly the opposite of what missionaries are supposed to be; it sounds more like a particularly brutal form of western imperialism and exploitation than anything else.
> When you couldn't visit the majority of major web sites without downloading plug-ins.

I was on the web since AOL added it to their client in the mid-90s and it was never as bad as you're hinting it is.
Well, it looks like we've covered both sides of the arguments :)

I guess my take is somewhere between these two comments. I sometimes hate the way it feels like Anna plays a "contrarian character" no matter what, and yes, Felix and Emily can sometimes be a bit too.. "NPR do-gooder, feel-gooder" for my taste. But I really enjoy the show regardless. It's a saturday morning long-run staple for me.
You need an easy win before going after bigger fish.
E.g. I live in a European city with awesome public transport - it's comfortable, cheap, precise, frequent, fast and goes everywhere. I totally enjoy this but this provokes 2 thoughts:

What if I move to the US occasionally (for some years at least) - will I be forced to drive a car because public transport is bad, expensive and doesn't go everywhere there? I doubt I'm going to be able to afford (or even like) living near the office in a city centre. This frightens me.

Despite the public transport is amazing at my location and you can even get to a neighboring town quickly, comfortably and at no additional cost (unlimited public transport subscription card is cheap and covers heavy rail together with light rail, subway, buses and even ferries), businesses still concentrate near the center (not even in alternative districts of the city) of the capital and the only businesses you can find in neighbouring towns are e-shop + very small businesses providing essential services to the locals. No IT companies of any kind (but above mentioned small e-shops and small hardware stores) or anything like that. Why? If I were a full time developer I'd love to live in such a town and work in an office there (in fact I used to live there but the office still was in the megapolis center, thanks to the trains it wasn't a problem), needless to say office rent is a way cheaper there. Why does this phenomenon take place and how might we stimulate geographic dispersion of businesses? Set particularly low taxes where we want them to move perhaps?

When the IT boom was beginning about 15 years ago I thought IT companies are going to build developer campuses, call centers etc in cheaper towns because this can save tons of money while IT workers can work anywhere thanks to the Internet (and, thanks to the great public transport system, they still can get anywhere quickly once they need to attain some kind of event). But, as we can see now, this is not the case.
Your comment above was not entirely wrong. The majority of nuclear energy's costs are overhead costs of plant construction. If a plant is not operated for its intended service life, $/MWH will skyrocket. Opposition to nuclear power (which existed prior to Three Mile Island, and increased thereafter) caused plants to be closed prematurely. This drove up the effective cost of nuclear energy, fueling the push for more closures on the basis of higher costs, and so on.

Curiously, these sorts of high nuclear costs are not experienced by every country. France's electricity (70-80% nuclear) is a fraction of the cost of Germany's electricity production, while simultaneously emitting less carbon. Countries like South Korea, and Japan (until they cancelled nuclear plants following the tsunami) had cost effective nuclear industries. Cost overruns happened, but not as large as compared to the US. The main explanations for this that I have encountered is that US nuclear plants have tended to be one-off projects, whereas other countries implemented serialized production of a handful of designs. Building 10 instances of the same plant is easier than building 10 different plants.
If they instead used the extra space to include more battery capacity, people would appreciate that more.
Nope. They put me on the waitlist again at #2.008M
It should be noted that your staff are a key attack vector.
To be honest, I've always been puzzled with how extensively people use Jupyter notebooks, despite how deficient they can be in many situations. Don't get me wrong, I have used them a lot and I still use them on occasion, but pretty much the only times I would really reach for them are when I want code + documentation to reside together.

So if I am prototyping things that also would benefit from Markdown + Latex comments/documentation, it is far superior to a script with text comments. The only other situation where I've found them to be pretty useful are when utilizing their interactive widgets to let the end user explore the data in interesting ways.

But most people seem to use it as an IDE when it is quite deficient compared to something like PyCharm. Even for quick prototyping, I find PyCharm to be far more useful because a) I can directly run things in the IPython console, b) Examine variables in the variable display widget, c) Attach a debugger to the console at any time and start debugging with an unmatched debugging experience in Python land, d) Easily have the correct venv be utilized by the IPython console, e) Have outstanding linting + code introspection + autocompletion, f) Have sane git diffs that make it easy to use version control appropriately and frequently unlike with Jupyter notebooks, and probably a bunch of other benefits that come with having access to a powerful IDE. All of these make rapid prototyping much faster than anything I can achieve in a Jupyter notebook.

I've also been pretty unimpressed with the quality of the average Jupyter notebook that I find on Github repos. They encourage dumping everything into global state, rely on state across code cells in non-obvious manners and in general result in ugly scripts that need a lot more work if they had to be refactored into modular packages/modules.

Running automated jobs from Jupyter seems a bit crazy and I hope people stop to think whether that is the appropriate path to take when trying to write automated jobs.
Congratulations to Unbabel, but I've heard some nasty horror stories about the inside and I would be skeptical of any claim to become the "world's translation layer".

However, if investors are willing to risk it, then good luck to them. More Portugese tech companies getting funding is always a good thing!
Salesforce Hits 500k Visits/Mo via SEO Content (and Why It’s Not Enough)
I mainly drink “Irish Breakfast tea” since it’s just black tea. I don’t like all the spices and such other teas have.
An interesting thing about patents in the US is that this company could also sue any organization using the infringing software (eg, a Linux distro that uses GNOME, and it's customers).

Red Hat offers to fight and protect end-users of their software that might get caught up in a patent fight like this one: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source-assurance-faq
There is one counterpoint for those concerned about all their DNS queries going through Cloudflare: since more and more[0] websites use Cloudflare (CF) service, the traffic goes through CF regardless of DNS lookups. I'm not saying its good, just pointing out that in more and more cases CF will know about a visit to a website whether their DNS/DoH is being used or not. In such a scenario using anything else than CF would actually harm the privacy as this would spray the information over other entities/providers. (If a website is behind a CF revproxy, CF "knows" about a visit to that website, if then a non-cf DNS service is used, that DNS provider becomes a second entity to have that information).
Of course as of now majority of websites are NOT using CF, but apparently their market share is growing and this may become a larger issue in the future.

[0] Already 10% in 2018 according to this: https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-spectrum-iot-protecti...
It will always be configurable for people who deicide they don’t like the defaults, like it has been, currently is, and will be.
Uber and Lyft also broke the uncapitalistic taxi medallion system, lowering prices and easing entry for new drivers. In places where taxis weren't being crushed by the government, the equilibrium price was already in place and Uber wouldn't have been able to lower it by much. In places like NYC there was a big difference.
Dropbox Spaces
I had no idea Graal VM was open source! That's awesome.
AFAIK he hasn't done anything illegal beyond (allegedly) smuggling drugs across international borders (also i guess the acts OP mentions to stop self-dealing). This was all fairly known, we all thought it was stupid, but no one cared until the IPO revealed the public markets were more skeptical than anticipated.
Teapot and tea strainer! Much easier to clean than infusers which often manage to be fiddly too.
Innocent until proved guilty is a fundamental principle of American values. I don't at all see why we should throw that out the window and say that "a few people falsly convicted is an acceptable casualty" just so we can catch more perpetrators.
Innocent-until-proven-guilty is morally, ethically, and logically superior to guilty-until-proven-innocent.

The former is the high ground, the latter is the low ground. Full stop.

I have empathy for accusers and the accused. But I don't have any empathy for people pushing guilty-until-proven-innocent.
I can't tell if you're being ironic.

In case you're not, that's a frankly silly take. The sachets TFA talks about are not generally used for fancy "hipster" tea but rather the super mainstream commercial "tea-flavoured tea" and industrial herbal teas you like so much. Unless you consider Lipton to be fancy niche tea artisans: http://img.webme.com/pic/m/megisti/ethel-lipton-all.jpg

Beyond that the "standard" tea you seem to enjoy is probably "English breakfast tea" and you can probably still find it extremely easily in any tea shop in the world, alongside Earl Grey and a few other classics.
Even large companies like Amazon or Facebook launch some of their new products only for the american audience and only expand to europe later. And early stage startups don't have the resources of translating their app into two dozen languages, offering customer service in those languages, having a sales infrastructure, etc. It's doable but more expensive if you operated in the american market.
Vaping didn’t work for me when I tried quitting the first time, but that was the early days. I eventually just went cold turkey, but that took a lot of longer than I would have liked.
I was in the waitlist on my old phone but just got a new one, is there any way I can get the 10 GB too?
Trusted Types are the solution for this: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/trusted-ty...

With Trusted Types on, unsafe strings are disallowed directly at the unsafe sink level, ie innerHTML doesn't accept strings anymore, but instances of TrustedHTML. TrustedHTML can only be created by a Trusted Types Policy, and by isolating policies from user-generated and other untrusted content you guarantee that you can't have XSS holes.

* Note for the curious: This is how we're locking down lit-html so that it's completely safe from XSS. We have a simple policy that's only accessible to the template strings processor, so that the only strings trusted in an application are the template literals written by developers. All other strings will not be allowed at unsafe sinks. We don't even trust the other internals of lit-html. See https://github.com/Polymer/lit-html/blob/ceed9edc0aecdf82588...
In school I learned that if you are a conductive person, you are more likely to be struck, but also more likely to survive as the lightning would go through you faster.
From an ecological standpoint it makes much more sense too. When you buy a box of lipton tea bags you basically get 20x2g of tea in 20x2 grams of trash packaged in a box inside a plastic film.
Sounds scary, but you have to be prepared for situations like this if you are getting roommates in your house (through AirBNB or otherwise, same thing).

I agree with someone else that the story isn't entirely clearly written but I think I get it.

Really be interested to know-- did the renter actually leave their cats and bags there?
For precisely one "lets copy a lot of data around" workload. In real world you wont feel the difference even when editing 4K movies.
Poster here, and engineer on the Segment Functions platform. We're super excited to launch this new way to process your analytics data.

Functions open up Segment to integrate with virtually any service. You can write a function to convert any source webhook into a format for your data pipeline, and write another function to send your data to any destination API.

Happy to answer any questions...
Everybody recommends IrfanView, but is really the "desktop linux" (in tnat old derogatory sense when it was for nerds) of image viewers: endless configurability (with important things like color management off by default), strange navigation (How again do I switch images when zoomed in?), etc...

It's like Total Commander: efficient and good in a way, but not in a way of modern streamlined UX that e.g. Apple software was once known for.

/rant
I always thought of Gnome as a Redhat product.
> Loose tea is often cheaper and of better quality in my experience.

This is indeed my experience as well. Still, the convenience factor of Lipton tea cannot be understated.

I'm personally willing to bring in my own tea, metal strainers + teaspoon measurement to my workplace for example (hot-water is usually available in most offices). But that's probably too much for a lot of people.

In contrast, you can usually get Lipton Tea from the office supplies, use some paper cups (also office supplies), and get to tea drinking without having to buy the supplies.
It doesn't. Not saying that we should throw in jail any accuser who fails to prove their case. But if it's proven they made it up, then we should. There are three outcomes, not two: proven guilty, inconclusive, proven not guilty. Either end comes with an equivalent penalty, middle comes with acquittal.
This is precisely what another commenter on this thread meant when they said the presumption of innocence that underlies our system of justice is currently eroding in modern society. Assuming guilt gives too much leeway for authoritarian abuse
Egg whites?
Sun exposure triggers the release of serotonin. For many people (probably most people), a lack of sun exposure will cause depression.

Your single case does not apply to the population at large.
But I don't spend time positioning them. I switch to a window that needs my attention, or sometimes snap them to get a split view, but that's not common. Maybe it makes more sense on a bigger screen, I'm always on my laptop, so there is not really enough real estate to have many windows shown at the same time.
Ah that is good.
I have a 300/300 symmetric connection in Barcelona and only get 80/0.07 Mbps with Warp. The 80 is fine, but what is up with 0.07 Mbps up, and why is it so jittery?

EDIT: Anyone in Barcelona want to go axe throwing in an hour?
Please run as fast as you can. This company is toxic waste.
Now, of course, IANAL. But in these discussions, I always hear 'ignore the abstract, look at the claims'.

The claims describe "An image-capturing mobile device".

GNOME makes software that could be used on such a device, but surely no-one can claim that software _is_ a mobile device?

Claim 4 _could_ apply to the software, except it still says "mobile device" in that claim as well.

This is all without even considering how ludicrous the "invention" being claimed is. I'm pretty sure I could choose to transmit only some photos, based on date, from my phone way before 2008.
Are staples bad for compost? I've had some teabags that used staples, they worked fine for the purpose
I forget the status of that, you may be right! That'd be a large deploy too. The intention was to do that, for sure, I'm just not sure if it shipped or not.
> If you take away cigarettes and vaping, they’ll just move on to marijuana or heroin, or maybe glue. Nothing about “what’s healthy” is driving their choice here.

This claim is pretty strongly refuted by all available evidence, given that (before vaping), tobacco use among teenagers had been in a consistent decline for decades, without a corresponding consistent increase in marijuana or heroin use among teenagers.
I wish there was an organization of non-patent holders (to reduce risks of retaliation) that does nothing but work to find prior art in patent troll portfolios, invalidating them and destroying their business. There are so many obviously shady patents that these trolls hold onto, it should be pretty easy to get the low hanging fruit.