skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to buy a Grimm's Stories book for my kids and it was basically impossible. They had 5 different translations and selections of stories under the same entry.
I had one and, like most dell laptop owners, returned it. Except I got a refund, not a replacement.

Issues many after eventually upgrading every firmware and driver:

- on first boot the laptop was hard powering off repeatedly every n minutes, got worse over time

- keyboard had wonky keys

- keyboard is literally the worst keyboard I've used in 25 years

- WiFi card is junk - disconnects and throughput issues

- tiny amounts of load in Windows saw massive heat output that meant it isn't usable

- idiotically overcomplicated hardware meant Linux support is terrible for the moment

- felt flimsy and poorly constructed

The laptop business is in the worst state it has ever been. Trying to get a well specd 15" laptop that doesn't have dual GPU s is a nightmare
That stuff is way too salty though with a pretty thin flavor profile. You can at least find liquid stocks with no sodium so you can add a lot of flavor and then salt to taste. Even their reduced sodium version is too salty. Liquid no sodium stocks still aren’t awesome either but I think it’s better overall than the Better than Boulion options.
> Serious predictions are talking about a couple of degrees over thousands of years.

Serious predictions are talking about a couple of degrees over the next century. That's very different. It may be hard to separate the climate change extinctions from the regular habitat destructions that are already ongoing, though.
I tend to feel like there’s already enough roadblocks in the way to get things done. I used to tinker around with my OSs but now I want them out of the way to a large extent.
Window management has really stagnated in MacOS. All the focus has been on full screen apps rather than useful tools like dragging to the side to splitscreen as Windows has.

Apple should have long since sherlocked BetterSnapTool.
Where do you draw that line though? If I take steps to ignore/block ads that don't involve software -- like muting during ads or flipping the phone over -- am I subverting the company's revenue model? How much do I need to "see" ads?
Yeah, lesson learned. Fortunately my most critical data was backed up elsewhere. This seems like an inherent issue with iOS, I will consider migrating to a different platform. Any suggestions other than Android?
> Human rights should not be geofenced.

Spoken like an authoritarian who doesn't believe in national sovereignty and wants to impose one world government.
I think you’ve made some valid points in your previous post, but I’m not sure I buy this as a valid argument.

A quick google search tells me that 30.1% of US energy generation comes from coal [1] (at least in 2017), with 62.7% coming from fossil fuels overall.

Unless you’re proposing switching to a ‘cleaner’ fossil fuel source, there’s only so much wind/solar/geothermal can contribute until we see major leaps in the available technologies. Until that time I will continue to view them as a supplemental power source, rather than a primary one.

[1]https://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/faq/2009/08/how-much-of-th...
Kinda reminds me of the Big Mac Index.. McDonalds charges different prices for the same thing in different countries. Of course that’s a physical product and this is an API and I bet cows in Romania are cheaper than America. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/01/12/the-big-...
By 6 months the incidence of SIDS is almost nil. This is what we learned with our kids, so it helped us tremendously because our son also sleeps on his belly.
The "Mouse" Systems Setting I have on screen on my up-to-date KDE right now has a slider for pointer speed with no numerical entry. There is only a small handful of other settings that quite useful (acceleration profile, invert scroll direction, and a couple other things). KDE has been working hard on usability lately.
The rules makes no sense. The rules are very strict
Would you prefer a government that is open and overt about their domestic surveillance or one that tries to keep the public in the dark about what is happening while relying on secret courts, secret organizations, and extensive classification for everything?

Many of the 'outrageous' things about this are already being done in the USA, but secretively. PRISM [1] in the USA, for contrast, is described in internal slides as a program that allows "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples including email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats (such as Skype), file transfers, and social networking details. The secret court system that's supposed to be there for oversight is little more than a rubber stamp machine. In 10 years there were more than 20,000 surveillance requests sent to the secret court. It rejected 10. But regardless of how many they reject a secret court entirely destroys the point of oversight. It's one secret agency overseeing another secret agency where they are going to be deeply interconnected with 0 transparency.

People forget about these things because it's no longer headline news, but these programs are still alive and well - and almost certainly more expansive than ever before. And while China is completely open about spying on people and coercing companies, the United States instead lies about it and forces companies to lie about under threat from secret lawsuits from secret organizations with secret subpoenas, secret warrants, and secret orders, all originating from secret courts.

I would much rather have no surveillance at all. But should that option fail, I think open surveillance is a million times better than secret surveillance. Of course there is one interesting issue there. Open surveillance could never work in a democracy because people freak out about things and would actually do something about it, if they had any clue what was happening - which is why they're kept misinformed + uninformed. By contrast the people, on a matter like this, are completely powerless in China so their government can afford to be open.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
A lot of -isms correlate strongly with statistics. That doesn't make it okay.
I really don't think this is a reflection of the current games industry. It's people's nostalgia for a game they played when they were fourteen and hormonal.
Try "kmonad" for a Linux karabiner replacement. You'll need to follow some instructions on the GitHub readme but it can do what you want to do.
This has been a thing for a while here in Norway, at least - at a former employer, there was an almost absurd desire to outsource anything and everything; I quipped to a colleague that they'd probably do the office greenery next - only to be told by the janitor that the plants were indeed leased already.

Sigh. We had someone come by once a week to water the plants and restock the coffee machines.
We had a blast talking to Darren from GitLab. There was a lot we learnt about GitLab on why it participates so strongly in the narrative of remote working, how it tackles remote working difficulties, inputs on how companies can turn the remote switch on, and so on.

Quite interestingly, we reckoned GitLab being a strong and loud advocate of remote work is for social good, but also seems to be an important narrative for its IPO.
Just checking in quick, we still doing that thing where we build hyper-platform-specific components that favor individual companies into an "open" standard?

https://amp.dev/documentation/components/?format=websites

Just wanted to keep up to date.

Oh cool, I see now the only way to do captchas is reCaptcha v3!

https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-recaptcha-input...

I'm very excited about the future, and I foresee no negative impacts to web diversity or competition. After all, it's in a foundation now so it can't be bad.
Well, he gave a nice list of problems caused by capitalism, and said we need a new capitalism, but gave no reason why. Why a new capitalism? Why not something different, like market socialism, where the shareholders are the employees?
Hey, it's really easy: do not rely on a Google account. There are choices, and it's your decision in the end. Google is actually rather clear in the terms of use that you have no rights whatsoever and that they can use your data for training their algorithms.
Don't be afraid of asking (what you think might be) stupid questions.
Runbox is good too.
Except usually paths are made because they're the shortest path. Taking the shortest path is not random, even if you have a curved pavement path, people will cut it and walk through grass to get the shortest path. So it's basically a pre-programmed algorithm in our brains saying we want to spend the least amount of time.
Five Reasons the Diet Soda Myth Won’t Die
It's not easy to just switch. I have a lot of services tied to my Google account including drive documents.
I'm not particularly worried about dystopian outcomes like that because I don't see how they'd actually happen.

I figure that there're basically two cases:

1. Automation kicks in slowly enough that the government isn't toppled, allowing people to simply vote on a more equitable way of doing things.

2. Automation kicks in quickly enough that powerful individuals can openly defy the government, acting above the law.

The first case doesn't seem problematic. I simply can't see a society with >99% unemployment and mass poverty, with booming wealth in the hands of <1%, not voting to distribute the wealth, so long as they have the ability.

The second case would then have sub-cases, depending on how the powerful-faction chooses to behave:

a. The powerful-faction chooses to comply with the government despite being powerful enough to topple it. Then stuff turns out like in Case (1) anyway.

b. The powerful-faction refuses to trade with everyone else. Then they'd have their own, exclusive economic system, but everyone else could still trade with each other. Then they might not be as wealthy as the powerful-faction, but they could still be much wealthier than people today.

c. If the powerful-faction chooses to kill-off or cage everyone else, that'd be bad.

So, sure, there's that hypothetical scenario in which people who rapidly rise to power would leverage that power to kill off everyone else. But, that just doesn't seem particularly plausible to me. And most of the other scenarios seem to have positive outcomes.
The complicated ethics of Tesla’s Autopilot
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A much better selection of apps, Explorer is vastly better than Finder, a vastly larger variety of hardware choices, and WSL/WSL2 is actual Linux, which means that many command line Linux apps work out of the box.
It might be common enough already to warrant a VPN in a low income country, if one is perhaps purchasing from Disney or Netflix or seeking college financing (among the examples from the OP)
>it's this

Its not yet known whether its true or not. There are no proofs in the github thread. He could at least post his google email so some google employee could check since this thread got heavily upvoted
Thanks, that looks very helpful. :)

> The link to read online requires Flash...

Ugh. Security holes galore. Not going to install it on any network connected gear I use. :(
You are misunderstanding the Animal Farm. It was a criticism to the Soviet system and not socialism, Orwell literally fought for the anarchists in the Spanish Civil War.
I’m sure this list isn’t exhaustive but My Subscription Addiction[1] has 97 pages of available boxes. There’s everything from the aptly named “The Opulent Box”[2] a luxury jewelry subscription at the very unaffordable price of $25,000/month, to just about every “Dollar ____ Club” you could dream up. And, of course, everything in between.

[1] https://boxes.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/

[2] https://boxes.mysubscriptionaddiction.com/box/the-opulent-bo...
Peripherally related: molten salt thermal energy storage is also something the nuclear industry has been considering using to help improve load-following economics of nuclear in a heavily variable renewable world. The idea is the nuke would run 24/7 at constant power but the load of the plant would be swapped from the thermal storage tank (in the day while solar is providing all the electricity) to the grid. Meanwhile, the load of the solar thermal system would be turned off during the day and turn on at night. This effectively doubles the power capacity of the nuclear plant to help fill in the duck curve as the sun sets.

Doesn't help with seasonal renewable variability, but for day-to-day, it's pretty slick. The cool thing over TFA is that now it can work in many more geographic areas (e.g. where solar thermal doesn't make as much sense due to low intensity sunlight and there's more solar PV).

Conventional nukes aren't great at going to these temperatures so this is mostly a thing "advanced" reactor people talk about.

e.g.: https://inldigitallibrary.inl.gov/sites/sti/sti/6339782.pdf

Of course then there are molten salt cooled/fueled reactors, which is different from energy storage, making this topic even more confusing.
I'm not trying to protect against a governmental entity, so I'm happy to use an US based provider. I provided the extra info in case any US provider requires additional steps for non US customers.
I wonder whether paying for multiple Google services (e.g., Google One, Google Cloud, having a Pixel), increases the odds of being able to speak to a human and get the account reinstated or at least be given a reason?
Making Mei a pro-democracy symbol to get Blizzard's games banned in China
It's unrealistic to hope businesses do the right thing, especially when profit inherently wins out over all else, and it means you cannot do the right thing in your business without losing to the competition who doesn't care.

That's kind of a big issue with capitalism, and any revisionist/reformist take on capitalism has to try really hard to convince me this won't be an issue.

This article misses that point badly. If you're going to criticise capitalism at least try to understand what actually makes it bad.
Ah, cool, thanks
> Legislation to close loopholes in the Equal Pay Act have stalled in Congress for years, and today women still only make about 80 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men. But congressional inaction does not absolve companies from their responsibility. Since learning that we were paying women less than men for equal work at Salesforce, we have spent $10.3 million to ensure equal pay; today we conduct annual audits to ensure that pay remains equal.

If Benioff is going to quote the .80/$1 statistic, then the equal pay audits of SalesForce need to use the same comparison which is to take the average pay of all women in the company regardless of position or job and compare it to the average of all the men in the company regardless of position or job.

If you actually do the comparison taking into account job and position, you get something like .93/$1

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr...
Look into "kmonad", it is designed to bring the features of the QMK fireware to any keyboard on a Linux system. It is better than xmodmap IMHO.
I have it set up so that Gmail sends the mail through my domain's server. The <from> field is my domain address, and my gmail address does not appear anywhere in the header.

I've had it this way for a long time, but I believe it was optional and it's also possible to only read the mail from the domain but send it via gmail.
> AG Barr is actively trying to get rid of encrypted communications

One AG trying != it happened.

> and social scores are just as possible to implement in the US as in China

Not under the current laws, no.

> we already know that a form of such scoring has already been applied to those thought to perhaps be "terrorists".

No, there is no “terrorist” score that comes up based on posting tweets about how much you hate the US government when you go to apply for a job. In fact, it would probably be worse for your job prospects in the tech industry if you had public posts supporting the current admin.
which is why I withdrew the idea to set up a branch there, the internet access and censorship combined are enough to kill any idea to run business in China.
I stopped setting a financial goal for my SaaS
The theme of the game was a big deal around the US bicentennial in 1976. I remember playing this in school then, in 2nd or 3rd grade -- but on paper.
CCPA and similar regulations are going to have an effect on at least recovering and restoring your data so it's not a catastrophic loss.

Also after hearing these stories, I keep my cloud accounts as light as possible and use S3 + NAS for actual data.
I got my AdSense account suspension notice yesterday about an game I had built nearly 7 years ago.

Stuff like this are downright scary but there is absolutely nothing we can do. Google is too big to fail now for consumers
What about turnover? If the buck stops at the CEO, what happens when that person moves on? Is their successor responsible for everything that went on prior? Im not saying either way, just asking how that should work.
> You can do the experiment yourself with some children using a plastic water bottle, a thermometer, and a mixture of baking soda and vinegar. We understand this physics extremely well.

If you can't see how ridiculous that sounds, you might not understand how people become skeptical about climate science.

If we really understand these physics so well, why have most of the predictions been wrong?

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/pubs/public...
You are going to need to provide more information than that
See this:
https://www.patentlyapple.com/.a/6a0120a5580826970c01310f2ed...
You don't have to switch all of them at once, switching your email is pretty easy.
I think they either have no concept of another system or are in denial about how problematic capitalism really can be and are blaming the wrong things.
And if you account for other factors, like flexibility and other benefits, you get within the margin of error--women may even out-earn men.
thanks! will do
The extremely wealthy keep talking about how to tackle inequality, many of them pledge to do something about it but nothing ever happens.

We all know how this plays out, we'll get lip service until we start to kill the rich. Then they'll apologize, reform, and do it a little more subtly next time.
I prefer macOS over Windows, having used both for a long time. But one area where Windows has beaten macOS is keyboard shortcut support. I can use a Windows system and applications without a mouse and get many things done (including using a program like Paint.Net for image editing/manipulation). But macOS is inferior on this front, and it's quite difficult to use it if a trackpad or mouse isn't available. I know that macOS, unlike Windows, allows custom keyboard shortcuts to be setup for all applications for menu options, but it's still not the same as the built-in experience on Windows.
Technically they're already linked - it's an android, it can query the bluetooth mac address, the wifi mac address, the hostname of the device and the serial number / imei / esn of the device.

There's no "unlinking" it unless you manually modify the serial numbers on the device, which is possible, if you have qualcomm diagnostic tools (QPST/QXDM) and are able to communicate to the modem softband directly.
I felt the same way so for my Linux laptop I moved over to Plasma. It's a real desktop with sane defaults, and I can recommend it.
Obviously not quite the same level of polish as the Mac, but try it, you may be pleasantly surprised.

Gnome3 has been such a regression of user experience, I've never had a good time using it.
This is easy for Benioff to say because he's already wealthy. Let's table this until such a time as I become wealthy too. After that we can talk about dismantling capitalism.
Xfce still works well, I just upgraded from 4.12 to 4.14. The only thing that broke on upgrade was the desktop background - I had to reset it to black
with how much of the Internet relies on giants like Google and others as an identity service, it is worrysome that a minor infraction like this can lead to be locked out of your emails, apps purchase, and files.
> The two systems seem to be built for different things. Mac prioritizes single application, focus based work. Windows is better when you're multitasking

Well, Mac has multiple desktops to manage multitasking, and in Catalina the zoom button does have an option to tile windows left or right.

There are also apps you can get (I like divvy) which really open up advanced window management options.
I'd say for most jobs you are overqualified and people are afraid you would be bored after some time. If I were you I'd apply at an institute like the DFKI, I'm sure they would be glad to have you and provide you with a good challenge.

The things recruiters told you ("not sufficiently pragmatic" or that you belong in academia)... they didn't tell you this to talk down to you but to give you hints.
and maybe it was https://youtu.be/Ew7bT6qP-Xg?t=21
A responsive, composable react charting library with a hand-drawn style
There is the active hours setting, and I have not seen an update fail in quite a long time (several years).
Egypt's police randomly searched people's mobile devices and arrested some
It's interesting you say 12 years ago -- 12 years ago was Leopard which according to Apple, contained over 300 changes / enhancements.

That is similar to Catalina with its too many new untested features.

Then they fixed the bugs in Snow Leopard.

The severity of Catalina's bugs are much greater than Snow Leopard. For example, there is now simultaneously a Mail deletion bug and iCloud bug to ruin your data across all machines.

Catalina needs a Snow Catalina.
I was about to mention this. I've been setting up some things for a new business and somewhere along the lines Google explicitly recommended creating a new account.
This might be a troll. Be careful. We do not have any evidence that these claims are correct
That was an interesting read, as my relationship with my dad was pretty similar at that age. I was coding image handling systems for newspapers (in 80286 assembly) with my dad handling the business side. We had some success - installations in a few newspapers and some banks in Iceland, but not making real money. The parts about the tension and fights sounded almost exactly like my story. Then I left home at 22 and came to grad school to UC Berkeley, all the way across the country, which was one of the best decisions I ever made.

I'm still doing 2D graphics software! It flows more or less directly from the work I did as a teenager.
To a native English speaker like myself, perhaps the thing most different about classical Sanskrit is the heavy use of nouns and nominalizations (participles and so on). Coupled with other things like the passive voice, I wonder if the "courtly" or "elegant" effect sought out was something like these researchers have been studying. (Perhaps Samuel Johnson's style has something of this in English.)

Contrast the Strunk, White, Orwell et al. approach of directness and writing with verbs. I have often preferred that approach throughout my life, and appreciate reading writers who employ that approach.

Yet as I get older, I find myself in more and more situations in which I am read and perceived as confrontational, difficult, or accosting, to an extent that I rarely want. The main dynamics of particular situations aside, I wonder if too much brushstroke with verbs did not help my cause.

Also, it may be worth noting, as Gertrude Stein put it: Sentences are not emotional, but paragraphs are.