skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look through about:telemetry and let us know what you think the US government thinks is so valuable they would threaten powerful people with jail time to find out. Whether my CPU has MMX? Maybe times so far in this session there was auto-starting audio playback which you allowed even though Firefox defaults to never allowing this?

I can /maybe/ if I squint really hard, imagine some murder detective figuring out a way that a value in their suspect's telemetry data helps prove they did it. Only thing is, the murder cop can just ask a judge to let them go take the suspect's whole PC, no need to bother any Mozilla employees with crazy requests.
> bright and hardworking people rise, dull and lazy people fall

I'm with you on the first part where hardworking people rise, but I don't think the second part necessarily follows. Consider the actual reason at the heart of why we work to accrue wealth in the first place. We try to accrue wealth so that our failings and misfortunes don't set us back. If we accrue $300 dollars we don't lose our apartment when we have to pay for a flat tire. If we accrue $30,000 maybe we gain the confidence to tell our boss to get lost if they ask us for too much overtime. If we accrue $3 billion we can afford to take some risks and still land on our feet. That's the point of being wealthy!
I think you mean this package? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/calibre-python3-git/ Judging from https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107/comments/11 the Arch maintainer doesn't think highly of Debian as it has been buggy in the past. OTOH he's biased because he's on Arch.

Here's a recent post from the Debian maintainer: https://www.preining.info/blog/2019/10/state-of-calibre-in-d.... The tl;dr is that most/all of the work is done but he's holding off updating unstable to Python 3 because he doesn't want to break external plugins. He also mentions that he can't update to 4.0 or higher because Debian still hasn't updated Qt to 5.12. That seems slightly inaccurate as it's in experimental (https://packages.debian.org/experimental/qt5-default); I think the maintainer could do an upload of a Calibre 4.x using Qt 5.12 & Python 3 to experimental. But experimental is not in common use regardless.

The post seems to be an extension of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=936270#87
How hard is it really for a voter to reregister? You guys are making it sound like it they're taking away driver's licenses or something. All you have to do is hit the website. If you don't have internet access hit a library.
“Having a college degree is most beneficial to the kids who aren’t that smart,”

So lets just water things down so the "kids who aren’t that smart" can get a college degree.
2. Many people said that 8chan was bad because some shooter posted there.

Maybe these people think the same about meetup.
If a Robotic Hand Solves a Rubik’s Cube, Does It Prove Something?
Do you know what is happening to their cloud offering?
TikTok has Mountain View office near Facebook, poaching employees
Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares has a 0.04% expense ratio, it does perform at the same level as the S&P 500 Index.

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/performan...
Unfortunately a new generation of the funnel is gaining popularity in the last years: "sign up with your work e-mail", where Gmail etc. are rejected. So you need to make some effort to find a free e-mail provider that is not on their banned domains list. Unless of course you actually don't mind spam and pseudospam ("Hi it's Mike from MyStartup. Just checking up as you haven't replied to my previous message...") in your work mailbox.
The question isn't "biz" or "technical", it's "biz" or "biz plus MBA". That last bit brings no value to a person straight out of university and there's a good chance that by the time they have a chance to use that knowledge it's already lost.
I don't see how capitalism couldn't be compatible with a 100% redistribution of your wealth after death. It seems more capitalistic because your children and grandchildren cannot depend on you covering up their mistakes.
Dudes, I'm not sure how to tell you this but if you want quality content without advertising, then spending money will be required at some point.

Edit: I'm rate-limited so I can't answer below. Medium pays authors through the Partner Program which is a Flattr-like interaction-based model.
Great article!

Your note on the divergent meta strategies that develop in geographical (server) regions, resonates with me. I remember in the days of Brood War playing on the Asian or European server with my trained-in-America skills usually resulted in quick matches. My strategy always seemed to be more macro heavy, so all I'd need to do is survive the micro-heavy early game harassment and by mid game I could just A-move to victory.
>> Trapped behind the paywall.

While the site it loading, just hit the escape key.
I completely agree, but you'll notice similar startup overheads in almost all non-native languages: Java, Ruby, Node.js.

I wonder if there is anything that can really be done, outside of something like Cython.
UK Top Gear tried to destroy a hilux a few years back. They left it in the sea, set it on top of a tower block as it was blown up, and a few other things I cant remember. It still ran (to a degree) when they gave up and put it on display in their studio.
Well, no. His father has honestly earned his fortune by creating a big business that employs thousands.

I suggest you stop preaching this Marxist crap. I was born in the Soviet Union and I tell you what: countries built with such "Rob the rich, give back to the poor" mindset are extremely bad to live in.
Even a hollywood mask wouldn't trick it unless it had some way to simulate the temperatures across the face. IR determines the points and the relative temperature to make sure the face is live.
> I’ve never seen the more horrific examples from the NYTimes article years ago about people crying at their desks

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
You don't find out you need to re-register until it's too late.
Yes, electronics are highly coupled, but in the case of the e-Golf it will at least function as a car with no infotainment system (unlike the Tesla). And MIB replacement in the VW MQB platform is simple so I don’t understand what took the techs so long. It’s one unit in the glovebox and guided coding using ODIS, the VW dealer tool (which is also available to independent shops albeit at a $1000/year fee, which is stupid and should be illegal). The VW units do have Component Protection which keeps them from simply plugging in, but with the aforementioned dealer tool, so long as it is legally obtained, a subscription to VW’s anti theft coding service Geko is already included and the process is very straightforward.
I co-organize a React meetup, and seeing the price change update last night made me so... upset and confused - that I decided to build an alternative.

My plan is to charge organizers (like meetup does today) to cover costs - but never to charge members to attend free events.

I've been looking for a solid project to spend time on, and this just became it.

I put up a landing page this morning, and I've already started coding:

https://meetingplace.io/
Checkout compilerworks.com they work on exactly this problem.
Honestly, this seems like the easiest possible thing to fix of all the things that might be broken about older code.
But if you throw out meritocracy because an advantageous position is partially inherited, what do you replace it with?
They beat their own estimates:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/amazon-plans-to-move-off-ora...
Semi-automatic firearms versus fully automatic. It's legal to own a personal killing machine, as long as it can't kill above a certain rate.
Another alternative aimed at technical meetups is https://meetabit.com which we built at Toughbyte.

I organize a number of technical meetups, such as HelsinkiJS which is the biggest developer meetup in Finland, and have found Meetup.com lacking. To scratch our own itch, we built Meetabit which includes some additional features such as the ability to accept talk proposals and sponsorship offers, have speaker profiles, archive of talks and related materials, export data etc.

It does what we need and we haven't been actively developing or promoting it recently, but it has still grown organically to around 10K users and multiple meetups organized each month. We are likely to put more resources into it given the recent changes at Meetup.com. Worth adding that the service is free both to organizers and attendees; our long term plan is to have the same business model as Stack Overflow by promoting relevant jobs to members.

I'll draft a blog post explaining things in more detail, but in the meantime feel free to ask questions in the comments below. Also, if you'd like to take the service for a spin and your city isn't listed, shoot me an email at oleg@toughbyte.com and I'll add it.

PS. Nicolas has added us to the linked post since I made this comment, many thanks for super quick responses!
This is the first time I have wished Hacker News showed upvotes. They have got to be over 100 with that right?
> Apple may deny users in China VPN protection, it may deny Hong Kong democracy protesters an app used to avoid police, and it may remove references to Taiwan in localized versions of iOS 13 for the Chinese-controlled Hong Kong and Macau.

With recent HKmap.live deleting this is EPIC FAIL, amigos. Seems like now China just bought most Apple shares and make new Huawei. Just imagine it 3-4 years ago.
Any reason why Larry Ellison is still running the company?
Exactly. I'm excited for the pendulum to swing back to pay. I don't understand why I'm being downvoted for that. Pay is so obviously better for the consumer, especially a tech consumer. I know not all of us who read HN are making FB salaries, but we all have pretty good earning potential. And so the ROI on paying $5 to read smarter, more curated, more accurate information seems like a no brainer.

I'm excited to exchange money to get back my time and to get smarter.
I was disgusted by myself when I was writing my year in review blog [0] last year, and discovered I had only read 20 books.

So, I deleted my social media, and at this point I am at around 52 books, plus a bunch of abandoned books.

Was a great decision. There is no wisdom to be found in social media.

0: ( https://cresten.pizza/blog/2018-12-16-books-i-read-in-2018/ )
Maybe you need to start rewarding yourself even if the rest of the world doesn't.
How much did the actual migration effort cost them?
Don't Forget about Open Graph
That's likely attributed more to gun culture than a lack of racism
I think instead of framing this issue as "how easy would it be to re-register" we could instead ask "why should anyone have to register to vote at all?" In the US, voting is a right, which is something that cannot and should not be taken away. Invalidating voting registration, especially in a targeted way, is deplorable.
Devil's advocate only works if the person is truly informed about the underlying science of both viewpoints.

Most often the people who call themselves that aren't even competent enough to explain their own viewpoint.
But functions in the where clause are an unsargable mess :(
The point is: if you do it too early, you eliminate also those who could care, if you didn't break the delicate bonding proces with a brutal sign-up form.
Windows does not support “aux” as valid directory/file name
Well, it's higher frequency resulting in high localized absorption, so it's not no different from 4G or 3G.

(I haven't seen any credible study saying it actually increases cancer risk, but from first principles, 5G increasing cancer risk, particularly skin cancer risk, doesn't seem all that absurd, similar to how sunlight increases cancer risk)
Today, one colleague of mine was claiming that he was not able to clone my repository. I'm on Linux, he's on Windows. In disbelief, I fire up my Win VM and try. Indeed, I get "cannot checkout to invalid path aux/foo/0001-bar.patch". At first I thought Windows cannot support 5-character extensions, but then I realized it just doesn't support "aux". Coincidentally, I also had a aux.py somewhere in the repo, which was also badly received. I meant to use aux for auxiliary stuff, and the name didn't sound too crazy at the beginning, but then it is for Windows after all. Just a tale for precautionary naming.
Yes, there's an extra barrier with D because of type checking, but in exchange, you get compile-time checks. I actually kind of like those template errors because they tell you what kind of Python-like compile-time duck-typing D is trying to use!

Oh, and you can also use type deductions for function declarations! Just make it a template and let D figure out for you what type you want, or use typeof to record the type you want and use that typename in your function declaration.
for me when I got google wifi, it was:

- Mesh

- "Simple" objects (They blend in to my house)

- "Security"
That will still put immense downward pressure on American wages.

The simplest way to solve the H1B problem is to scrap it and allow open immigration for skilled professionals from the top 20 most developed countries. The reality is that someone from India will accept much lower wages and poorer conditions than someone born in Australia, Sweden or Switzerland.
What I've heard is that Canada pays significantly less for Software Engineering talent than the US does. True?

https://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Software_Developer/...
I love D and one space I want to see more of is DMD on SBC's and moreso than that D running on WebAssembly, Go and Rust do it. I consider Rust and Go the main competitors to D, not sure if others would agree, but that's just my view. Other than that it's a great language.
The problem is that pure rationality leads into abyss.

There might be a rational decision not to punch people directly into face but a purely rational psychopath can choose many other profitable avenues that are disastrous to society at large "in the long run" (fentanyl, global warming, etc etc). And we know what happens in the long run.

It all goes back to Ecclesiastes(and Job), you can be an "evil" person and prosper in this world.

If this tiny lifespan is all there is, this is quite distressing. And physically there is nothing else.

Apparently the best solution is to realize there are no rules but live as if they do per Voltaire(not necessarily Pascal).
I got the letters that my voter registration was going to be purged, but I left Ohio like 7 years ago at that point and hadn't voted since I left. I had actually looked into de-registering way back when but it required filling out a form and physically mailing it, so I didn't bother.

Edit: Also I was slightly impressed that they found my current mailing address. I've moved like 6 times across several states, since I left Ohio.
> Usually, I work 6 month per year for taxes.

Having worked as freelance in switzerland, that sound weird and make me thing : "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
From the article, it sounded like many of the people who were to be deregistered had no idea that it was about to happen, and they likely wouldn't find out until they showed up to vote on election day.
The oldest meet-up (not Meetup) I went to I think worked because 1) bald faced ads were not allowed (except during a ten minute period at the beginning) and you were not invited back if your presentation turned into one.

And 2) about 15% of attendees went to a bar afterward to talk shop.

I’ve really started contemplating adding #2 on my own to meet-ups if the organizers don’t.

Running a monthly meeting is a lot of hard work and many people get it wrong, or can’t keep the wheels on.
That much is clear. This is only a few months after SCOTUS found Ohio’s new election districts to be illegally gerrymandered.
What happened to Andrei?
This is turning out to be the py2k bug
Also the article is light on details and mostly just links to this blog post: https://didrocks.fr/2019/10/11/ubuntu-zfs-support-in-19.10-z...
Problem is you have no reason to believe you've been dropped and show up to vote but are given a provisional (throwaway ) ballot.
> Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices graduated from just two law schools.

The latest two went to the same high school.
Yea, I don't like all-in-one Router/Switch/WAP/Gateway devices anymore either. All of those functions are separate devices at my house. Now the only one of those things that's a PITA to replace is the Router.
As I've gotten older, my desire to be more intelligent has gone down while my desire to be more charismatic has gone up. It seems to me the ability to create and grow the social connections I desire is the key to happiness. With that ability comes to the necessary intelligence(s) to navigate through other parts of life as well.
Hows your selflearning going?
When the janitor cleans the authors home does the janitor then get to charge a royalty to everyone who enters the home?
If you respond to these lawsuits, they generally have no documentation. Ignoring them is a mistake.
You may hate the argument because it doesn’t fit your neat view on what your country or society is. But from a purely factual, scientific perspective, studies have repeatedly shown that black families fare worse on all indicators of economic and social wealth. And systemic and widespread racism in America has been the most pervasive cause for that.

Meritocracy is great, but not when you start with unequal conditions, and make it difficult at every stage in their lives for folks to escape their predicament and do better.
Any tricks for mobile?
"A statute of limitations is a law passed by a legislative body in a common law system to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated." - Wikipedia
uNexPlAInEd
They were more “Deadheads” than “tech bros”.

Paywalls annoy me too. That said, for historical accuracy, the idea that content should be free of charge was hotly debated in the early days of the Internet and WWW. People like Jaron Lanier felt that online discourse would suffer if there wasn’t some nominal cost to, say, sending an email.
>can't figure it out, why are software engineer salaries in Europe are so much lower than the US?

Because in the EU there are no visa restrictions for importing foreign workers like in the US.

EU companies can secure working visas to almost anyone outside the EU in a couple of months so instead of raising salaries to attract local talent they know it's a much better deal to pay a recruiter and wait to find an outsider desperate for a job or a sucker who doesn't know the market/living costs.

Do you think SV salaries would be as high as they are if the US would have unrestricted immigration and give working visas to anyone who fit the job description?
That’s actually a good argument for registering guns. I have to register for my voting rights, you have to register for your gun rights.
2019.41 New Wineskins – Weekly Changes in and Around Perl 6
At every place I’ve worked in the US my employee share of health insurance does not vary by age, only by plan you select and if you cover dependents.
It uses a radar device in the phone, so it's probably due to airwave regulations.
I use Google Home with a 'normal' Google account and have my GSuite calendar events synchronize via Zapier.
The reason why it's removed before any such issues arise or become known is because Debian can't remove it afterwards - if they have included it in a release, they have committed to ensure that it's supported until the EOL of that release; and if noone upstream is supporting it, then it would fall upon them to provide these fixes.

You can't simply remove packages from a release after it's shipped; either your release includes that package completely (including a commit to support them for the whole lifetime of your release) or not at all.
My mac pro sometimes does the same thing, whil other devices in the house don't seem to have this issue. Reconnecting the wifi seems to fix it.

I'm not sure if this is a google wifi problem (I have the OnHub) - or an issue with the mac pro wifi drivers.
I'm curious, what are the technical reasons OpenJVM won't work for you?
Meritocracy was always supposed to be a bad word.

Michael Young put out "The Rise of the Meritocracy", and thereby coined the word, in 1958 to present it as a dystopia. He satirised the then current tiered and selective UK education system, to show it as an alternative class system, just as problematic, just as corrupt. Just as likely to produce an unfit ruling class, and to create a lower or under class.

Edit: I should add that it wasn't arguing against merit per se. In modern context, the evolution of selecting by skill into all the baggage we now have around it, like soft skills and the chasing and gaming of particular measures, or hiring by whiteboard algorithm recollection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
It was a bit harsh on the Dell kids; they actually seemed to have learned from their mistake and never sought to be on "rich kids of Instagram" in the first place. Except for the fact that he's on a private plane, the thought process isn't that different than any "bro" ordering 100 Chicken McNuggets and getting a picture taken.

Nevertheless, rich kids are clogging up the system, both in competition for capital investment (rich kids know how to ask for money), and in saturating the market with money-losing businesses that crowd out those that actually need to make money.
> little to no empirical evidence that it prepares students for business success in the real world.

I haven't seen much evidence to the contrary, either. All I see is anecdotes from both sides, so I'll give MBAs the benefit of the doubt. Speaking for myself, I am an entirely different person after completing my MBA. I've become an analytical thinker to a fault and maintain my soft skills. Learned a metric shit ton of corporate finance, business strategy and decent macroeconomics.

> Also, a lot of people have endured "elite" MBA's entering the workplace into positions of seniority with no prior experience and exactly the results you might expect under the circumstances.

Shitty people exist everywhere. You don't have the counterfactual to know if those bosses would be even worse without an MBA. Seems to me like that's more of an issue with HR hiring processes than with the intrinsic values of a rigorous MBA program.
Have you worked on MSSQL licensing in the age of Virtualization and per-core licensing? It's gotten VERY complex according to some of my friends that still run it.

It seems they have changed their pricing strategy:

Oracle: What is your IT budget? We'll take it. (all of it)

Microsoft: Hey, at least we're not as bad as Oracle.
"One of Reeves’ studies found that 43% of the members of upper-class households had skills and intelligence that predicted lower incomes."

Wow, that is a large percentage! There are some interesting data points, but that percentage stands out to me. There must be some sort of evolutionary-economic angle to this.
Every consumer router vendor, yes. If you spend a bit more for something in the prosumer line, such as Unifi or pfSense you get updates virtually forever.
Perhaps it's regulation around whatever technology Motion Sense uses? The keynote suggested it's some kind of radar.
Yes it would. All China needs is a correlation. Most users don't input URLs manually, they follow links. So if a user starts from 'taiwan.gov' and goes from there to 'freetibet.org' and 'IhateXi.com'* the firewall would eventually detect from enough matches - even matches with partial hashes - that the user is a 'bad-thinker' and deduct social credit accordingly.

Apple could have tried to avoid helping the Great Firewall (e.g. a proxy could hide times and anonymize IPs) but chose not to.

* fictional names inserted only for example's sake.
Don't most places allow same day registration at the polls? Every state I've voted in does.

Edit: ok, 2/5ths isn't most but it's still a lot. Chill with the down-votes, it was an honest question, not an attack on your ideology.