skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run all Linux at home (and LineageOS on my phone). For things like this I keep an old Windows laptop (Core2Duo) in the closet. For IOT/app-based stuff (none are mine - they all belong to my parents/relatives), I have my brother's old screen-shattered iPhone.

For documents I just use LibreOffice and suffer; if I absolutely need Office I suppose I could use my old discs and install it on the Windows machine, but have not had any need to in the past 3 years since I switched. When I send documents to people I just export as PDF and they're none the wiser.

Save for extracting BIOS updates from custom .exe files (thanks HP and Dell) I never use either of them.
We use github. So it’s great having git, prs, and issues wrapped together. My only complaints of github are:

1. Built in wiki does not have the option to be tracked in same repo as a dev repo. That is to say, the Built in wiki for a particular repo can’t track the same branches as The code. You need to roll your own.

2. There is not image uploaded for wiki (though there is for prs and issues).
No, piracy is if Amazon raids mercantile ships for their goods. If we can just start willy nilly assigning offenses with worse connotations then what is to stop absursity like referring to bouncing checks as treason or delinquent parking tickets as child molestation?

Hell many of the "counterfeits" are really unauthorized production because they were made by the same factories they outsourced to. Counterfeiting implies reproduction and presenting it as the original. When they gave the specs themselves to the manufacturer that isn't a reproduction. The brand holders themselves have undermined the meaning of counterfeiting by not being the manufacturer. Granted the ethical thing to do is to launch their own "knock off" brand.

Besides those rates only work against those massively legally outgunned - they are bullying rates. It isn't a solution but a sign that the system is massively messed up. The whole point of it is consistent enforcement based upon facts and rules and to not be might makes right.
Foodvisor automatically tracks what you eat using deep learning
Pretty sure. I read a lot, a lot of which is old. I enjoy a wide variety of writing styles.
Can we apply the same rules to Chinese company's operating on foreign soil?
A total trade war between the US/Europe and China could mean China being dropped out of the WTO and then some of its Western-owned entities to be nationalized by the countries involved. I know that pretty much nothing like this has happened on such a great scale, but there’s always a first.
Artist’s Nvidia-Powered AI Images of New York City Blanket Manhattan Landmark
So you're saying we should concentrate on (cheap) photovoltaics before moving onto expensive storage? Agreed although we do need to be thinking about storage, so we have technologies ready to go when the photovoltaics are built out.

Speaking from a UK perspective, renewables now account for about a third of electricity production, so that's well on the way in certain scenarios to be thinking about storage. The UK is lucky in that most of this is wind which tends to coincide with peak demand, if it were solar generation, night time and evening could start being a problem.
China can also assume company boards will be making short term gains decisions, while China is making long term moves.
As a reminder, WW has gone from a $47bn valuation - higher according to some interested parties - to skirting bankruptcy in less than two months.

The WGS law firm mentioned are better known for Chapter 11 "restructurings."

The Saudis who were persuaded to put money into Softbank are better known for this kind of thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9319_Saudi_Arabian_...

Interesting times for Vision Fund 1/2 and SB.
All airliners have a cylindrical body projecting forwards from the wing, which produces a pitch-up moment at high angles of attack: it is called the fuselage [1]. Normally, the effects of all such destabilizing aspects of the design are compensated for by the correct positioning and sizing of the wing and horizontal stabilizer.

Most airliners now flying do have additional augmentation of their handling for a variety of reasons. Earlier versions of the 737 already had the elevator feel and centering unit and mach trim, but they are much less aggressive than MCAS, and, most importantly, their presence and full scope of effect was not obscured in order to avoid the cost of training pilots for their failure modes. Furthermore, in other cases where handling and stability augmentation is powerful, adequate redundancy is provided (even the 737 feel and centering unit has more redundancy than MCAS.) The presence of handling augmentation devices on other airliners does not justify the way Boeing introduced MCAS.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2018/11/30/bjorns-corner-pitch-stabil...
It looks like you did for the circles, but not for the digits themselves?
Amazon is a TRILLION dollar company with 230 billion in Revenue and over 10 billion in Profits. Bezos himself is worth over 100 billion dollars. Amazon is a technology leader.

I normally am not a "wealth-hater" or whatever you want to call it, but Amazon (and Bezos personally) are on a whole different level. This is NOT a cash-strapped mom-and-pop struggling to understand a complex marketplace. This is a company so large it created and controls the marketplace. Depending on the day, this could be the most valuable company in the world and Bezos is the richest person on the planet. There are few, if any, companies with more skills, knowledge and resources.

The magnitude of the existing wealth in comparison to the relative pittance it would cost to put a stop to this it what makes it so shameful.
>the main pain point with eRaeders though is actually getting something to read on them

Pretty sure Calibre gives you the ability to convert to open formats.
Climate research is one of the most politically-infused research avenues, among the likes of nuclear and genetically modified agriculture. There is money to be made, and lost, depending on public outlook of our climate, and it has a lot of power when used to enforce political ends such as sanctions, subsidies, and could lead to such events like uprisings, occupying of countries and war.

Most likely, if climate research is found to be far off the alarming predictions made by most institutions, we'll chalk it up to political meddling/statistical fubbing and move on. If the lifestyle changes for most of the polulation are already in place by then, many will believe it was "for the best, anyway", and I'm inclined to agree with this view - our response to climate change is more important than if climate change was primarily our fault to begin with. I'm not advocating for skewing research in favor of one position or the other, but it enables a public forum of such scale that at the very least, prepares us for dealing with ever-increasing scopes of global issues that impact all life on Earth, which will come in handy when we progress to the point we're dealing with the ethics of extremely advanced technology.
I'm sure 3 is great if you live in a city, but my nearest apple store is about 2 hours away...
Why would that be the expected?
> Law is not my bible

Sure, form opinions, ask for change, make it better if you and others see fit. You don't even have to follow he law. You just have to understand that if you break it you get punished. So as long as the law is there and you break it you are a criminal whether you believe in it or not.

What you said is exactly the kind of excuse any criminal would use: "I'm not guilty because I don't believe in that law". Which seems to match perfectly with the reasoning used in the dozens of comment you posted about this, alongside some bad examples and analogies that attempt to support it.
Do you really think all the people who voted remain have the capacity to understand the full intricacies of the consequences of remaining in the EU?
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>Political advertising should be banned entirely

This strikes way too close to throwing the 1A out the window, in all the ways that touch the everyday activities.

That sci-fi book you wrote, with Lord Admiral character? It was a manifesto for a new governance system. That meme you shared online a month ago? It's now associated with a particular candidate. Your proposal voiced in parent's meeting at school? It's a political position favoring a particular social group.

Not to say everything is political, no. However any single aspect of life can, and many ultimately will, be talked about and negotiated on by a politician or a political movement at some point.

I often wonder how we would vote if we were blind to the opinions of the media, celebs and friends.

The biggest difference would be among candidates and the policies they propose. Presently the celebs & the media gate-keep which opinions & political programs are acceptable.

We effectively have two Overton Windows, and the candidates are constrained to the overlap of the two. The first Window is the usual voters' preference, expressed freely in the privacy of the voting booth. The second Window is maintained by the media - only the candidates that espouse certain views & policies get to be listed on the ballot, endorsed by mainstream parties, etc. All other ones get to be "crazy crystal lady"[1] at best, and maybe even "celebrated & defended by Russia's propaganda machine"[2].

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[1] https://news.yahoo.com/marriane-williamson-190502156.html

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russia-s-prop...
This is so shallow it feels like it was written just to create buzz.

It's so easy to build a shallow and polarized list like this about ANYTHING. All I can take from this article is that this guy doesn't seem to be good at argumentation. 2/10 on Apple whining.

Here, take your buzz.
Oh hey, I figured out why you can't get a job as a software developer. You didn't mention in your first post you refuse to get good at interviews.
What to Build? The Superbowl Ad Pyramid
Even if the pilots are partly to blame it indicates a bad design philosophy. The hierarchy of mitigation in safety critical systems is

1. Engineer the hazard out so it no longer becomes possible

2. Use other systems to detect and safe the system (ideally, if it's a software hazard, use non-software mitigation)

3. Procedural or administrative mitigation

#3 is by far the least desirable, meaning you only use it as a primary mitigation if the other two are infeasible. If Boeing uses this defense I would want to know why they were not willing to implement the other, better methods, because it would seemingly point to managerial or technical deficiencies
The infrastructure to get the salt water to the desert and then to distribute the fresh water to the trees will also be a challenge.

There are other challenges that you might not have considered, like sand dunes ruining your progress.

China has been working to turn some of it deserts into forests with pretty good success.

For the sand dunes issue, they’ve come up with a webbed system that’s fairly easy to deploy. The material is cheap and it’s easy for unskilled labor to deploy.

Putting aside the horrible human rights issues with China, it’s amazing to see what they’re doing with infrastructure.

Lots of videos on the desert projects, just search for “china desert to forest”.

Here’s one of them https://youtu.be/7Nur35fnjDA
I face the problem on a daily basis connecting my external monitor with my Macbook Pro and Mac Mini via thunderbolt. Either monitor is not detected or I am not able to wake the computer from sleep when the external monitor is connected.
That is why I wrote "(to put it in mathematical terms)": also Grothendieck and his scholars solved hard problems.

If you compare mathematical style of the mentioned Alexander Grothendieck and Paul Erdős, you will sense that they represent very different styles of doing mathematics. That is what I am referring to.
Controversial teddy bear fence along Australian highway 'destroyed' by vandals
Migration script to the Golang 1.13 error format
China begins preparations for crucial Long March 5 rocket launch
autogen.sh isn't intended to be invoked for user installs. Users are supposed to invoke ./configure, with the configure script being generated by a developer invoking autogen.sh and readily packaged as part of the software's tarball.
>course Secessionist propaganda calls it 'Fascism'.

Sounds like they are correct. It's absolutely shocking to see an European country jailing people for the "crime" of sedition.

Misuse of funds by itself would be much harder to argue against.
Thanks for posting this! Some funny parallels in a humorous blog post is a great way to start any Monday!

Yes, I can read from the comments that it rubbed people the wrong way - but lighten up! I did a satirical piece on Apple earlier this year, but had to remind readers not to get their feathers ruffled beforehand: https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/2...
I have constantly had issues with Apple miniDP to VGA adaptors completely failing to detect projectors correct resolutions and they just fall back to 800x600. Holding down alt and clicking on the resolution drop down never provides the right resolution you are looking for either. Not fun to do a presentation on such a setup.
one of the biggest differences between buck and bazel is,

when you want to write new build rules(to support your specific use case or to support an unsupported language etc):

- in buck you should update the buck code itself(you should touch so many places in JAVA)
- whereas in bazel, you can extend bazel with starlark(subset of python) language and do all sorts of things like supporting whole new language. without touching even a tiny bit into bazel core.

This was the main reason my company is switching to bazel from buck
Yasuke: The Mysterious African Samurai
Interesting, I tend to find the opposite - I outweightedly find the English words (or at least, the English versions of words probably derived from another language...) in text more often. Probably because my additional language skills are really bad.

Feel like, "oh, I definitely know that word!"
James Dyson Shows It's Too Easy to Make Electric Cars
My impression is that effectively, they do. Officially, the laws have to be approved, just like you have to click "ok" when you see a user agreement, but it doesn't mean you have any effective control. Control on paper doesn't mean control in reality, just like accounting is different from economics.

It's possible the current system is "the worst, except for all the others". I don't think you can do without expertise in making policy, but you also can't do without good faith/intent, so I don't know how you can resolve that.
This is misleading. Yes, the aircraft is most likely stable. But without MCAS, the 737 MAX would likely NOT meet certification requirements (at all, not just 737 type requirements) with regard to handling, specifically FAR 25.173 point C.

https://leehamnews.com/2019/02/15/bjorns-corner-pitch-stabil...

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4286602-boeing-737-max-misc...

> If test pilots from the OEM and subsequently from the FAA/EASA consider the feel in pitch for a part of the envelope above a certain rating, the aircraft will not pass Certification. It needs augmentation for this part of the flight envelope.

> The aircraft OEM is asked to propose fixes to the pitch characteristics of the aircraft so it can be judged acceptable for use by a minimum standard (Re. training and proficiency) pilot. This was the reason behind the MCAS pitch argumentation for the 737 MAX.
Yeah but none of these things actually work. That’s not to say back in 2000 Linux evangelism wasn’t similarly disingenuous ... anybody remember the joys of plug n’ play?
It's useful to distinguish between responsibility and accountability here. The algorithms may be responsible for a particular outcome but the people who commissioned them should be accountable.
High Sierra 10.13.6
And those "Pro" machines only have 8GB RAM (shared with Graphics, which need 2GB) unless you add another $200 for $40 more worth of RAM.
Why do you think it is disingenuous?
Of course, you're describing a 32 bit ARM system here. No surprise it outclasses it's 8 bit predecessors.
I think part of it is that mobile OSes have trained people to treat their computers like appliances. The way you do something is by getting an app that is tailor made to do that thing. There is no such thing as data, that can then be acted upon by different apps and services (I.e. files). What you have, instead, is Instagram, for taking pictures and sharing them with filters, and Pinterest for sharing random places on the internet, Notes for keeping documents, etc.

I think 1 striking manifestation of the loss of the concept of files is that if someone wants to share a Note from their iOS device, the most common way for them to do it is for them to likely take a screenshot of it and share that image.

Since conceptually a note is not a thing of its own, but rather a part of the Notes app, people rightly believe you cannot share it on its own, and so need to go with the all catching screenshot fallback.
I had this issue the other day, I solved it by generating a GUID each time the page loads and appending it onto the end of the ID.

Not ideal, but worked!
A lot of Catalans were expecting exactly this. The Spanish tribunals are highly politicized and it's an area where there wasn't much reform after Franco died of old age.

My parents and other family members that grew under Franco warned everyone that this is how the Spain would react, so again, not that we didn't know.

And they did it anyway.

The trial was highly questionable, starting on how the judge was appointed (breaking default procedure), continuing with the lack of memory of all Spanish governmental officials, and ending with not letting the defenses show videos that directly contradicted the sworn deposition of armed forces. This will all be revisited in the European Tribunal for Human Rights, of course, and Spain will get a slap in the hand and Europe will move on.

Technically speaking, as you say, they could have been charged with disobedience, as there was no violence, but you would rather have a death sentence for treason, I see...
And the article says

> This is worldwide — not just for the US

I even quoted that in my parent comment.
Statehood changes given enough time. In the case of Russia, and the states I mentioned, about sixty years. Scotland, part of UK for centuries, may have a referendum soon. Texas "seceeded" from Mexico in the 1840s.

So it goes.
Thanks for clarifying on this!
If they had to change their title to not be clickbait for Blendle, maybe just assume it's a clickbait article
Perhaps you could quote the relevant part that shows that this is more than just an opinion of the writer?

Given that it is a fundamental theme of the original article (encryption effectively banned), why doesn't the author provide this information in the very same article?
Deserts are fragile ecosystems with many rare and specialized plants and animals.

Climate change may push the temperature of some of those deserts too high, wiping out the specialized plants and animals that live there. Perhaps we could use a solar installation to provide shade in areas that are getting too hot.
Slack is almost exactly like IRC
> The amount of hate Apple gets is so much larger compared to Microsoft, Google, Linux, or any big tech.

Because some of those other companies are paying for it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Samsung+paid+students+for+re...
Calibre on its own will convert between formats and there are plugins that will strip drm. I have no idea about the legality in various parts of the world but it is a solid solution for liberating content and making it portable
Samsung Certifies Tools and IP for 5nm Arm Hercules CPU – Tom's Hardware
My anecdote: I got glasses this year specifically to counteract astigmatism related to the past 20 years of looking at screens for 8+ hours/day. I was beginning to get headaches every day from working. I didn't even know my eyesight was suffering until someone suggested I go get an exam.

When I saw the blue-light filter option, I jumped at it because I knew I'd be spending most of my time wearing glasses looking at a computer screen anyway.

The blue filter they treat lenses with is very mild, though. It's maybe a 20% reduction. I now wear the glasses all the time even though I don't really need to, and the filter isn't noticeable at all.
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What would be the gain other than symbolic gestures? China has no IP at risk.
I'd say it's pretty lengthy for putting a choice on a ballot in a democracy.
I see where you're coming from, but I think one way in which we diverge is in our ideas about what is valuable in language. I quite like inaccurate, loose formulations because they're playful - and I think writing is a form of play, as much as it's a tool to communicate with. In its place, evocative vagueness can be better than sharp clarity.

My feeling as to what distinguish good writing from bad is more that good writers say what they want. Bad writers say stuff they didn't mean to, say stuff that other people want (cliches), or say nothing at all (obscurity). So in my eyes, there's no distinguishing textual characteristic of good writing. For instance, while I generally agree with you on jargon, David Foster Wallace uses jargon in a way I really like, and think is pretty central to what makes his writing good.
Solving hard algorithmic problems in a job interview is a very uncommon interview practice in Germany. In all other job interviews that I had, the programming questions were ridiculously easy. UPDATE: I actually got rejected in one job interview because I knew too much about some quite subtle details of the C++ language (claimed reason: I am not "sufficiently pragmatic" as a programmer).

But I actually did solve some really hard algorithmic questions in my doctoral thesis - they are just of a very different kind than the "algorithmic brainteasers" that seem to be common in job interviews in the Silicon Valley.
Only if you want to trigger an emotional response. Territories aren't beings.
“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
Word and Excel have online versions that are free and work well.
The path of least resistance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_of_least_resistance

The path is optimized for A) Where people enter and B) Where they are going. If there is no purpose. A path is simply a path, and ascribing meaning to it is fruitless.
What game was this? (Can I find JARs anywhere?)
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> How can society change for the better if you can't communicate and try to convince people of your ideas in the public space? If you see a problem and think you have a (political) solution, you should be able to advertize your solution.

It increase impact of money. Who have more money more likely to win.
I read in a self help book that a doctor, while being a child, used to like waking up really early the first day it snowed and make a wild path in the snow, just for giggles.
Everybody else was just following his path through the snow.
So what do you think "sedition" means?
I feel like this is more of a publisher/vendor problem than a hardware problem. The Kobo is perfectly capable hardware--moreso than the Kindle, I'd say, due to its support of EPUB. You are perfectly capable of reading DRM-free books on it if you can find them. But the vast majority of publishers sell their book wrapped in some kind of DRM, and so if the hardware manufacturer wants publishers to do business with them, they have to support DRM.

I don't think that will change unless we, as consumers, decide to reject DRM.

With that said, we failed with pretty much every other DRM format, the notable exception being iTunes audio, where Apple had enough market presence to be able to say No. Kobo doesn't, and it is extremely unlikely that Amazon would die on that hill, given that the Kindle doesn't even support open formats at the moment.