skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple things, I didn't really see a huge uptick about HK until China started "censoring" western companies with employees having to publicly backpedal. Second, money talks and there is a lot more at stake with western companies in China and HK then in Ecuador.
I grew up using Windows and after 20 years switched to Mac and could not believe I had waited for so long.

What parts of Windows do you prefer over MacOS?
Hamburg? Cologne? Munich? If nothing else works, pivot to JavaScript.
I guess what I really want to know is: is there a 2019 Linux distro which is the Mac OS of 2011? One where stuff just works, looks good, and works smoothly.
Thank you for your sound advice and wishes. Some of your "don't"s seem like traps I fall into easily. I'll be extra conscious of them now.
This? https://framasoft.org/en/
Ideals are unfortunately insignificant here. Companies are all about doing the legal minimum, especially if that is in line with profit maximum. Right, wrong, or indifferent.

Also, I believe they have absolute editorial latitude. They’re not a utility.

Don’t want to wet-blanket your post because I do think companies should be idealistic, bold, and consistent with their policies, notwithstanding what laws or constitutional rights dictate. But you can’t compel them to be, and arguing that they should be leads you down a path of moot argument and friction.
torsocks + youtube-dl FTW...
It's not an accident ;-)
The author explicitly acknowledges that the result of rent control is nepotism. Why is someone's friend's niece a better resident of this neighborhood than anyone else?
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Totally agree. All ads present a very one sided story, for products this is fine as you would need to pay for it, hence the negative consideration. For a political opinion it’s just there to influence and appeal to inherent bias in the direction of the ad.
There's the Palm phone running Android with a 3.3" screen

https://palm.com/pages/product
NewPipe is free software so I don't thing it will be able to send some covert information (even if the author is attacked /compromised).

Android is designed to not allow an app to read information from another one, so it should prevent the second scenario -- except that Google has root-level access to our phones so it can spy everything anyway.
what about China's own "national security concerns"? will those be out in the open? somehow I don't think so but that's only my supposition.

I would bet they will keep their own one government party secrets private and encrypted.

"privacy for us (the party) but not for you"
There should be a law that says: "one shall not use var in JavaScript code examples"
This is one of my hot takes, too. At least China is making it all "legal."
Actually, it's all there. You're just too daft to see it.
How is macOS any better? Default macOS, without third-party software. Does vanilla macOS even have keyboard-based window management yet? Does it still have weird modals where you're forced to use the mouse to select an option?
Yeah, it is unfair to their paid users, similar to piracy
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on separate phones :)
Another assumption might be paying for Google services warrants better support in case of an issue.
Maybe this is a New Jersey thing, but here you don't need to be a Costco member to buy gasoline at Costco stations. It's also not that good of a deal, at maybe 10-15 cents less than regular gas stations. Sometimes it's just not worth braving the gas queues just for $1.5 in savings.
is it https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives/ ? This is done by framasoft, a French association which is doing a nice job in promoting alternatives.
Can confirm. Battery life on my T420 went from about 3 to about 7 hours after installing. No manual config necessary.

I mention "T420" because I think it's pretty manufacturer-specific. ThinkPad and XPS usually have good hardware support on commmon Linux distributions, but other laptops may not.
I understand the practicality of that. But it sets up an expected-value loop, where a dark horse candidate can expect very little reimbursement. Which limits how much campaigning they can do. So they get few votes.
Message density and peer pressure is my guess.

I've long wondered if it's easier to influence people in more densely populated areas. There's so much concentrated advertising and messaging to such a large number of people, it seems inescapable.

What constantly reinforces this idea is the amount of, what appears to be emotionally driven political conversation that comes from densely populated areas.
That of course depends on how popular your videos becomes, but for the 99% videos I would say none since you already pay for hosting your web site.
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It's all open source. Not sure what info it is leaking tho. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#Description
Hipsters are defined by the obscure and retro, so would probably use an Eclipse.
"The crux is whether existing stab trim runaway training was sufficient for the MCAS equipped Max. Evidence suggests it was not."

So, you agree with me? I'm confused.
>Could you not say the same kind of thing about mortgage backed securities, Fannie Mae etc?

Human based checks are easier to subvert than automated ones.

>We've had flash crashes

Which is exactly the problem that most banks and markets try to prevent. Any system that uses what other people are doing as a strong enough input is going to be susceptible to this to some degree. If you try to buy too many shares of something or for too disparate of a price compared to the market the bank will almost certainly kill your order. The exchange might kill it too. Depending on your contract with the bank and exchange they may kick your session for the day if you do it too much (once may be too much). The limits most banks place on what you can do mean that runaway algorithms can really only be a slow tug in one direction or the other which is no big deal.
I am fairly sure I recall reading somewhere that because the engines on the Max are mounted farther forward than previously, there is a region of high AoA and high thrust where the pitch-up force increases with AoA.

I can't vouch for this. It's possible I misunderstood it; it's possible the source was misinformed, though I seem to recall it was written by a pilot. But I have trouble imagining what lesser problem would have required such a heavy hand as MCAS to fix. If it were really just a matter of the controls going light, surely that could have been cured with motors that were not so powerful as to be almost impossible to overcome.
Can you elaborate on what do you mean by Windows update cycle? I have a Mac Mini, that I rarely touch to check a new release of something on Mac, and practically every time I have to use it, an update is pending.

Not sure how this is worse, than Windows.
And a bit further north there is the Pentland Firth which, of course, is nowhere near the Pentlands!
In Ecuador, you have internal strife between two political groups and the main apparent goal of the protesters is to get the reinstatement of fuel subsidies. It's a tragic situation, but from a media point of view its understandably not nearly so compelling a story.
Doesn't mean the public should let them get away with it, or whitewash it. Ideals mean something to the public (I hope). We should make that plain. Its about the only leverage we have.
Do you want Godzilla? This is how you get Godzilla.
> You would have to stretch credulity to interpret this as an enthusiastic call for literal violence.

Is it reasonable to assume that violent metaphors are meant to be taken 100% figuratively and not imply actual violence, given that China has been more than happy to employ actual violence against its own citizens before? It feels like nitpicking to say that it's malicious to assume violent intent at all, just because the wording doesn't literally, explicitly call for violence.
Censoring information about Hong Kong protests may be taken as a bad thing. But it seems obvious to me, that banning pro LGBT content in app for kids is very desirable.
I guess the real condescending elitist hipster latte drinkers have moved on from Macs for some time now.

(I'm about to. Probably to a Thinkpad with some Linux.)
Had to free space with tmutils for XCode 11 as well. TBH it is a rather anemic machine (Air with 128GB SSD).
Technically its pretty easy with the video tag and HTML5. Financially it will probably not be an issue unless their videos become very popular and at that point they could always move elsewhere or pay for more bandwidth. But discoverability is an issue. People search for videos on Youtube, but no one will know about your personal domain.
KOReader seems to be exactly that.
As someone with two tiny humans, "neat" doesn't really describe it :) That shift you see from mostly random to mostly predictable represents not only good healthy sleep for the kiddo, but also a return to good healthy sleep for the parents.
> I’ve lived in a house from the 1940s and it only needed a new roof.

That's one of the major differences with Japan too -- a lot of housing is not meant to be multigenerational; it's built with the knowledge that the next person to buy the lot will be tearing it down and building a new house.

A lot of the cheaper stuff in Tokyo is older wooden housing that either survived the firebombing or was tossed up cheaply in the post-war years, so it's very no-frills. My current apartment, for example, is raised about 30 cm off the ground with nothing around the actual building -- you can actually peer under the building and see the light from my kitchen going through the floorboards. There's storage built into the floor and if you pick it up, it just exposes a giant hole to the ground. No insulation, single-pane glass, a bathing room with rotting concrete and tile.

I'm not saying all old housing in the US is better, but I definitely feel like building codes and/or initial quality was much higher in the US, so you have more buildings that were able to last longer (or through survivorship bias, the ones that lasted this long are just better) -- but in Japan, for whatever reason, you have a lot of these (almost literal) shacks with uninsulated walls and corrugated plastic panels on the roofs or across the windows.
So REST instead of SOAP is a “coffee shop trend”? That migration has been going on for at least a decade.

We already know the “trend” that .Net is going in from no less than the program manager of .Net. That “trend” is no major new features for .Net Framework and it will be stuck at 4.8.x forever while all of the innovation is happening with .Net Core.

We also know the “trend” of MS’s focus from no less than the CEO of Microsoft - a de-emphasis on Windows and an emphasis on cloud and moving to where the customers are - Linux and services for both web and mobile users.

Don’t you think it’s quite telling that the biggest news for Windows 10 lately is improved support for Linux via WSL 2.0 and how much emphasis is being put on VS Code?
I was imagining desire paths in a park or something. It takes a lot of walks to wear down the grass, and probably hundreds before a path becomes visible.

Desire paths: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/05/desire-paths-...
Serious question, which I'm hijacking this thread to ask since it's on everyone's mind:

- What's the best way to fully back up a G-Suite instance, so you could get back on your feet really quickly if something like this happened?

I use G-Suite for email and docs and a bunch of stuff for my company, and I'm willing to pay money to have it all backed up in real time and ready to switch in the event of a disaster.

What's the best way to do that? I know Spanning and Backupify are two popular solutions. Would be curious if anyone has experience.
Can you expand for a scared dummy like me? Is your email infrastructure currently a gmail backend that you can hot-swap with any other provider?
You're right in that there is an undertone of brutality, even as the Mandarin Chinese phrase is used figuratively. But keep in mind that the intended audience is Chinese people. This phrase is very commonly used when talking about Chinese army defending against Japanese invasion during WWII and crushing enemy to death. I feel it is intentional that the government would like its people to consider the protesters as enemies to the Chinese nation.
He’s not (directly) referring to HK though, the sentence he said was ‘Any attempt to separate a part of China will be met with $IDIOM’. Now, protester were explicitly refraining from mentioning separatism in their demands, so take that into consideration.
I must assume that you built your own cell phone, erected your own service towers, wired them to the rest of the grid, and have service agreements with other providers allowing you to connect @josteink's homegrown phone network to everyone else.
cryptocurrency mining comes to mind...
All your points seems like they are trivially solved by using another DE and distribution
The keyboard also feels like slamming your fingers against a wall. There is no travel distance, and a speck of dust can disable keys. There are also thermal issues with the chassis, and the lack of ports is also a hassle for developers.

I totally agree though that the touchpad experience is the best on Apple hardware + osx. Pure joy to use the Apple touchpad, really wish other manufacturers would take a leaf from Apple.
The irony of this comment, given the content of the article.
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Disagree. Kids can learn about all sorts of people. Not sure where that comment was supposed to be going. Should images of black people be banned from apps for kids?
The thing is such a ban ammounts to a subcontractor ban - those who own them may still advertise. It is less fungible but still a propaganda channel and made more exclusive as parties need to buy the whole hog instead of the ribs metaphorically.

Foreign governments funding grassroots and "grassroots" is an old trick to the Cold War as well from both sides.
Are there any data centers in these areas? It would be interesting to tie this information to site outages to see who has proper fail over.
Mostly hardware support. I need my NVidia GPUs until AMD is on par in TensorFlow performance.
Until you link them in some way, in which case Google might suspend the linked account too. There are some nasty stories about those things going around.
I enjoyed that. Thanks!

Well, I've hitched my wagon to the Apple packtrain, so I'm in for the ride.

I know a number of folks that work for Apple, and have confidence that they will get their stuff together, sooner or later.

I'm not sure they have managed the transition from "brink of failure upstart" to "big ol' blue chip" too well.
>Not at all. The US legal tools that let the government demand data substantially limit what can be demanded.

and in some level(s) they definitly believe the Chinese way to be a better way.
> However for general web layout

well, that was not the point of flash, was it ?
Regarding Windows update cycle, you have the option of using LTSC, pausing updates for up to 35 days (yes, that's a built-in option now), or adjust update settings with GPO.
I think you're making this a little more black and white than it really is. How about

a) Take the one job you've been offered right now, in your location, doing evil things

b) fail to cover your mortgage payment this month and your house is foreclosed on.

That choice is a lot more likely than just "you die". And the choice between bending your morals and losing your house is still a hard one.

_(I don't know how mortgages and foreclosures and the like work in Germany, I'm just giving an example that I'm familiar with)_
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A couple of thoughts:
* That's exactly the point. I don't want to give up on my 4k resolution, I specifically bought a laptop with high resolution.
* I'm running Ubuntu on my Dell XPS 15. I solved the problem by scaling the external display (--scale 2x2 in xrandr), which also solves the problem but allows me to keep the 4k resolution on the built-in display. The only issue is, that select programs with nonstandard UI components (telegram client) break, everything else works like a charm
* Thanks for the gist.
We tried to force the issue with both kids. Our first we kept in a rock'n'play (all of them recalled since then) for way too long, and then almost as soon as we put her in the crib she was on her belly.

Our second we used a Snoo, which helped, but she didn't actually get solid sleep until the day we moved her to her crib. We didn't even try to back sleep her at that point, she wanted to be on her belly so she was. That kid sleep trained herself, which was amazing.
Literally every day I come to work I have to fiddle with my usb-c to hdmi connector (yes, I replaced it once).

Not to mention a bunch of other weird things, like relocking 10 seconds after I login occasionally and having to restart so my headphone jack works (2017 macbook pro).

I have relatively other complaints (keyboard, dongles) as a first time mac user, but weird stuff like the above does remind me of past linux experiences.
It's worth noting that frogs will in fact jump out of hot water no matter how slowly you bring it to a boil.
This sounds very much like amazon is actively participating in conspiracy to mail fraud, across state lines. Have you called the FBI?
I got the filtered glasses mostly because of the purported benefits regarding eye strain, so I hadn't put a lot of thought into trying to compare the effects on sleep.

Definitely wouldn't discount blue light having some effect, but I'm totally on the same page as you here regarding limiting stimulation and I'd have a hard time believing anyone that claimed lighting had anything even close to the effect that other habits did.

Had trouble sleeping for years. Made my bed and bedroom a place for sleep and only sleep. When I go to bed the phone goes on do not disturb, there's no computer/TV/etc in the room at all and no clock (I can't look at a clock without thinking of all the things I have to do!). I just get into bed and lay there until I'm asleep. Some days I'll try and read a little, but I find these days that I don't make it very far at all before I'm asleep.

Haven't even had to go as far as limiting activities before bed or anything all that much. At some point my body and brain got conditioned to sleep when in bed, so it's usually a pretty painless process now.
I'm of the opinion that more of this would be a good thing.

The point that I am making is that regardless of my personal feelings, I don't see any state giving up sovereignty in exchange for nothing.
“Lenovo running Windows with WSL” is _so_ 2017.
I think the pilots were trained in what to do. Runaway stabilizer trim? Cutoff the stabilizer trim power, as you've been trained to do as one of the only 14 memory items on a 737.

They weren't trained specifically in what to do in the event of an MCAS failure, because the thinking at Boeing was that the presentation was one of stab trim runaway, something that is already trained for. I have a lot of sympathy for this point of view when looking forward from several years' ago. It turns out to have been proven wrong in the field.
They're absolutely terrible here.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24672: humankind (including "trusted" bodies such as the IPCC) have underestimated the dangers associated with anthropogenic climate change

- https://www.pnas.org/content/115/33/8252: we have also underestimated the speed at which the climate will depart from the relatively stable Holocene equilibrium we've lived under for the past ~10,000 years

- https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-operations/usda-crop-progr...): we are already seeing consequences to crop yields in the U.S.

- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/201...): heat waves are becoming more frequent and more damaging

- https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab13bf), etc: so are other extreme weather events

- https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/1/CLI...: the DOD recognizes climate change as an extraordinary threat to the U.S.

- https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/docu...: so does the intelligence community

- https://iflas.blogspot.com/2019/07/compendium-of-research-re...: a good aggregation (the commentary is speculative; read the papers)

Our global industrial society relies, more precariously than most realize or admit, on conditions which will soon diminish or disappear. For example:

- Stable, predictable weather patterns (industrial agriculture depends on this)
- Just-in-time global shipping/logistics, by which food and other necessities get to supermarket shelves (threatened by extreme weather, political crises, fuel availability, etc)
- Relatively cheap, easy availability of fossil fuels (extraction costs will continue to rise over time, and competition will likely grow more intense)
- Plentiful fish/marine life stocks (we are destroying coral reefs extremely quickly, which are a key part of the ocean lifecycle; ocean acidification due to carbon capture also threatens sea life, as does oceanic warming) on which many rely for food
- Low atmospheric CO2 content for breathability (cognitive ability decreases as CO2 levels rise)
- Thriving coastal cities, as centers of both population and economic activity (many are under threat of regular flooding if not complete loss this century)

It will likely take indefinite human intervention to keep the climate system habitable for anywhere near our present numbers, if we're even capable of the sort of coordination required.
I'm not convinced, but there's a possible setup: a fund. Entities donate to the fund, and then the money would be distributed among the candidates (either equally, among a smaller number of qualifying candidates, or for all candidates, proportional to e.g. a party's representatives in the legislative branch)

(This would do nothing about money buying influence — as long as the donors are known, their wishes would be carried out by at least the major parties)
CSP was very competitive 10 years ago before the bottom fell out of the solar panel market. Solar panels and batteries are now so ridiculously cheap that it's kind of silly not to just use battery backed PV solar.
… without the openness. Soon RIP OpenCL, and OGL. Also non existing bare metal Vulkan kext. (I know about moltenVK … but this is 3rd party metal wrapper)
I manage fine with the touchpad on my Surface Book 2, not as good as Apple's, but certainly usable. Tap clicks work well.
For sure, I just don't think we should gloss over the nature of such ecosystems, since many people really don't know.
But YouTube and Search ads are what pays for all of the other services...

If you really want to break up Google, people are going to have to get used to paying for a ton of other services.

I’m not saying this is wrong, but it will come as a shock to many people when they have to start paying for email again (or start seeing ads in gmail again).
I frequently export my data just in case. 'Google Take out'
> G8 meetings in western cities regularly draw hundreds of thousands of protestors that are dispersed with tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets?

No, they draw smaller protests and violent police oppression with mass arrests and the occasional dead protestor.
show me a successful peaceful revolution anywhere in world ever in the history of the world.