skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For Python, we don't need to supply the optional initializer 1.

Without the initializer, factorial(0) doesn't work.
You can short on Binance, Kraken, and Poloniex, off the top of my head. None of those exchanges have a relationship to Bitfinex/Tether.
I have a Fossil Q Hybrid. I would say buy it, but make sure you can return it after opening the box.

Their bluetooth stack seems rock solid. Especially coming from Garmin where intermittent issues were the norm for me.

I'm only interested in 4 things: counting steps, getting calendar notifications, getting call notifications and getting text notifications.

Steps counting and syncing works without issues, calendar events work without issues. Text and call notifications stopped working for me altogether.

Basically, it either works really well or not at all.

I'd be willing to invest time into this to get it to work, but their support is not much help. It doesn't go beyond checklist and "have you tried re-pairing and enabling all permissions".

It's a shame they sold to Google. They seem to have had some really good talent there and I fear it is going to be wasted at Google.
Once floor planning and depreciation are factored in, it still makes sense to put certain new cars on our platform, because off the lot depreciation is less substantial and rental revenues thus offset these costs. On other cars, namely luxury cars, you're absolutely right that it's not profitable to put new cars on our platform (though it still makes financial sense for used luxury cars).

The reason we're targeting institutional owners (i.e. dealerships) rather than individual owners a la Turo is because it's generally less expensive to acquire dealership cars (i.e. much easier to onboard a dealership group with hundreds of cars than to get consumers one by one).
I have a similar setup with Syncthing and a ~/.dotfiles directory, but I recommend GNU Stow to manage symlinking. Simple, ubiquitous and very useful.
I'm usually pretty good with obscure trivia and this one has me stumped. The only thing I can think of is the show The Bionic Women. The character in the show was named Jaime Sommers but that show didn't come out until '76.
Ooh, never heard of that. Thanks for the tip, I will try it out.
240$/month is a heck of a lot better than most indie projects.
The lean startup is not for creating radically new products and markets
> Google is buying technical debt.

They are buying (a lot of) data and a list of customers.
They don’t care about the app code.
$1m/mile is off by like a factor if 10. PG&E thinks it costs $3-5m/mile to bury _distribution_ lines: http://www.pgecurrents.com/2017/10/31/facts-about-undergroun...
Top Linux developer on Intel chip security problems: 'They're not going away.'
Headcount up 21% in 1 year. Can we get a breakdown of which roles they are in? Or which cities/countries?
Thanks! We'd absolutely love your feedback. Reach out to me directly at amos@drivecarve.com when you have a minute!
The thing is that a battleship is huge. You can kill a tank with a modern subcaliber penetrator because a tank is literally an armored box. Penetrate that and the splinters etc will kill anything inside.

Shoot something like it to a battleship and you make a tiny hole and maybe break a laundry machine. Sure with enough shells you could disable it but that requires a ton and more of shells.

To damage a ship you don’t only need to penetrate the armor you also need to deliver substantial amount of explosives inside said armor.

Don’t get me wrong. The fleet would be wiped out. But against a BB puny 4.5” does nothing, except maybe when delivering incendiaries to the superstructure. Modern fire control allows it to absolutely wreck all destroyers and smaller though combined with autoloaders.

EDIT: More importantly in order to even have that reasonable penetration chance with 4.5” gun you need to be within few kilometers. And at that distance the 1918 RN is really dangerous. Ideally stay farther than maybe 20km.
> just make the clipboard visible when you copy, preferably on an OS level

It's kind of impossible in general on an OS level†, since clipboards (a.k.a. your OS's drag-and-drop system—clipboards just being asynchronous DnD-events) are a negotiated multi-format data transfer. Maybe everything you'd copy from a browser window is just HTML, but if you select e.g. an embedded Excel spreadsheet in a Word document and hit "copy", there's nothing comprehensible to the OS on the clipboard; and maybe nothing at all (until a particular drop-target responds to an accept-formats query.)

† Okay, it'd maybe be possible in AmigaOS, or any other similar OS (not that there are many) where all content encoding is inherently an OS job, not an application-layer job, such that the OS can see into every possible container format.
> "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

That is absolutely correct. However, an equally correct statement is: Whenever you think the market is being irrational, you just don't understand the situation well enough.

So, if you think you can read some blog posts and determine that a freely trading financial market is being irrational...well, it's not the market that is irrational.
Market failure: a journey of extreme places where markets did *not* deliver
> And the same person is a driver on one day and a biker on another.

Yes, but cyclists try to act like pedestrians and move at speeds typical of vehicles. Pedestrians typically move between 2 to 6 mph. Cyclists move between 10 to 30 mph.

While a motorist can see a pedestrian approaching a crosswalk and yield to them, it's much harder for them to see a cyclist in time to yield to them because of how much faster they move.

Also, if cyclists switch between pedestrian mode and vehicle mode constantly, it makes it much harder to predict what they will do for both motorists and pedestrians. When people can't predict what will happen, then a collision is much more likely.
how so? I didn't see any mention of the content of TV or radio being regulated (other than the disclaimer of who paid for it) in my quick search.

This article appears to say that the content is unregulated.
https://www.thebalancecareers.com/should-tv-stations-ban-fal...
I don't see you winning a lawsuit against a company for closing your free account.
Logging is included out of the box in recent OTP versions (21+ I think?) with no need to include lager!
Agree, and one of the reasons I skim github repos is to ask questions about some of the projects.
I've seen you repeat these arguments over and over in this thread, without suggesting any solution. I am guessing you are content with the status quo of Facebook.
>All electronic voting machines should output a paper human readable 'scantron' type ballot that is safely stored for verifying the internal digital tally.

We should just have paper scantron style ballots that people fill out. Then have scantron counting machines to tally them up after all voting nationwide has closed.

All the other issues people are trying to do to "fix" some aspect of voting are fundamentally flawed and those who are advocating for them are either desiring the ability to violate election integrity or don't understand the requirements of voting. Or trying to get money because someone in power sits in one of the two prior camps.
How is it a special place to expect decent infrastructure, when NYC of all places has it for driving, walking and public transit?

The cumulative investment in each of those has gotta be 100x as much as for biking, and you're accusing bikes of getting special treatment?

For the cost of a mile of new subway, you could probably coat most of NYC's arterials with protected bike lanes across the whole damn city. Not that I'm opposed to subways, but bike infrastructure is extremely cost-effective, redirecting money away from it is ridiculous.
Mao tried to have Deng killed, and Xi was sent to a re-education camp during that time. I’m not sure “they” is the correct term here.
I still use a pebble 2 se, and notably the pairing of music controls and shortcuts is amazing. Without having to look at the screen, sleeves still covering the device, you can:

- Hit the back button a couple times to make sure I'm back on the watchface/home screen

- Hold down a button to shortcut into an app (e.g. music controls, music boss)

- Play/pause, control volume, go forwards/backwards (or 30sec skip in some podcast apps).

Hoping I can continue to use the device. Have any competitors come close in matching pebble's button UX?
We have this. It's called a paper ballot.
> Nevertheless, Democratic chair Damon Circosta reached across the aisle to join two Republican commissioners in opening the North Carolina market to a barcode ballot-marking system. The vote presents a setback to a multi-year effort to provide secure, accurate elections for North Carolina voters.

nice to see that this is a bipartisan issue.
> why can't more C/C++ projects be distributed as source amalgamations

* Build time and memory increases.

* Debugger locations are less clear. MSVC debugging doesn't even work past 64KB lines.

* You still need to link it anyway when using as a library.

* Linker optimization has improved (especially clang).

* It's more difficult to modify.

SQLite has some decent reasons for it especially historically; I'm not sure those reasons are as strong for other projects.

For applications, distributing binaries is even more convenient than source code (assuming they exist for your platform).

And for libraries, "header-only" can be more of a convenience than "single-file".
Facebook employees 'strongly object' to allowing false claims in political ads
From what I read, cloud is massively expanding headcount in sales, marketing, and support.
Yeah, I recall reading that. Does it include everything lager does to the point where people are removing lager from their projects?
Apple unveiled AirPods Pro with new features that AirPods should have had
interesting - but then, no pricing info.

there is 'click to start with 14 day free trial'

but nothing showing what possible future costs could be - so it's already cost me time, and now I assume it will cost me more time to sign up with info, possibly get spammed later, possibly have to deny cc charges, and how knows what else - just so I can found out how much it costs.

If a tech thing wants my money, and wants me to spend time filling out a form, I need more price transparency than an Emergency Room visit.

If I click try it out, I get a screen asking me to sign in by giving my google, fbook, twitter or email info.. I'm assuming password as well.. and then I notice it says 'sign in with your play account'

so using my 'notsure-I-trust-this-place-email-addy' won't work if it requires a play account sign on.. assuming this means 'Google Play' aka Google Store / android account? Or is this a play around account, one to test since I clicked 'give it a try'

Do apple people know what a "Play account is" - do they have one? Wait, is this some kind of android app not a desktop thing. Is this going to be able to take random money from my cc via google? IS google going to be able to shutdown my access to it after I have paid for it?

Would I lost access to this if I lose access to my google account?

Might need to address these things in a FAQ or something.
Pro-Tip: don't.

The hype isn't worth it.
> the other posts about the ownership issues aside a good amount of people will find it ethically reprehensible to make money off a scam like this and to participate or be involved with it at all so I've always considered these "why don't you bet on it?" arguments to be in borderline bad faith.

How, exactly, is it unethical to make money off of something like that? Your bet would be providing information to the rest of the market. You would be helping other people to be informed about the situation.
> It's also really tiny, and has a great async event-loop framework. It has built-in support for sockets and non-blocking I/O. It has a GUI toolkit that's pretty useful for making quick-and-dirty tools.

There are implicit "OR" statements between those sentences.

Example: suppose a newbie wants to use tk do make a quick-and-dirty GUI and leverage tcl's async event loop to make it responsive while processing a bunch of files. It's my experience that while this can be done it is less than easy.
There's a summary of what the alpha status entails here:

https://sourcehut.org/alpha-details/

And a longer explanation is coming in two weeks, for the anniversary of the public alpha's commencement.
> I downvoted you

I initially frowned upon your comment, interpreting it as self-involved, ego-stroking, grandstanding. Upon further reflection, this is a forum, and one that that aims specifically for intellectual discourse. If we are not simply to degenerate into some kind of karma farm, i think opening the conversation in this manner is a good idea.
What's a Soto community? No luck googling.
> with nicer battery life

Don't discount this feature on a fitness tracker. The most recent Apple Watches are better in this respect compared to the first one, but the battery life is still measured in hours, rather than days.

The UX for a Fitbit as a smartwatch is honestly horrible. The Pebble acquihire prioritized watch apps, in (what I see as) a belief that watch apps are necessary to compete with Apple. Resources would be far better spend improving the first-party UX and apps first, before opening up the ecosystem to outside developers. The iPhone dev kit trailed far behind the initial iPhone launch.
Is less than 1% of an employee population expressing disagreement worthy of a discussion on HN?

NYT has completely dropped their mask of objectivity. This is clearly agenda pushing by an extremist minority.

WaPO called 'al big-daddy' an "austere scholar" yesterday. Beyond ridculous.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sommers_(The_Bionic_Wo...

And this data suggests the spike is around the date of that show:
https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names-jaime-8765.htm
Thanks for giving us a try! Really looking forward to seeing what you think of the service.
Implementation of voter ID laws leaves some room for improvement, to understate it, and there's a reason why I put it last on the list. That said, it does appear that NC will accept student ids from most schools [1], thought of course it's possible that your daughter goes to a school that does not conform to the voter id standards.

The attack vector for signature-based roll verification is mostly along the lines of submitting votes for non-voting eligible voters, whose names can easily be harvested from voter rolls and looking at historical voting records (coupled, of course, with inside knowledge of which identities have already been used in previous election cycles, so appear to be active even though the agent in question knows that they are actually inactive). I don't know how common this is -- nobody does -- because it's almost impossible to detect without more information about who is voting. You may be right, and it may be insignificant.

It is easy for voter id to verge into voter suppression territory, but to throw an old meme on its side, "voter id is impossible to implement, says only country that does not implement voter id".

[1] https://www.ncsbe.gov/Voter-ID
When I downloaded the original Satoshi paper and reference implementation, I recognized most of the deficiencies you relate, here and elsewhere. Tragically, that is why I never bothered to install and run it... Oops. "The best is the enemy of the good".

The problems with global-consensus cryptocurrencies run much deeper, and you are correct that they will never be a money substitute.

It is surprising, however, that so few technical people bothered to ask "why", and look for the solution. Perhaps it was my decade of work prior, wrestling with distributed monitoring and control systems, that made me inquisitive about general solutions in this class of problems.

One class of solutions broke quite recently, and has received little recognition. I dropped everything, and went all-in, and have been developing with the team since.

As the parent has observed -- I see very little substantive discussion, and plenty of unfortunately cringe-inducing dismissive "aktualy, ..." statements, paroting trivial and obvious "deficiencies" as proof that cryptocurrencies are a dead-end.

You seem quite interested, though. Reach out, if so.
Also, any third party apps that create timeline pins unfortunately need to go through a server.
The rules are not clear or well defined, and often result in litigation. Often, what becomes determinitive is the context around the ad or the situation of the entity placing it, and not the ad itself. So, to do this Facebook would also have to track entities, etc.
Interesting and not-necessarily-useful JavaScript tricks
Another merger? Is this good for consumers? If Google had to license the tech or start a competitor from scratch it certainly would be good for consumers. Instead, now Fitbit customers are dealing with the thought have having Google hoover up that data too.
Only indirectly via traffic, but authority itself is not passed to the root domain.
If bikes drove on the left side of the lane it would be impossible for cars to overtake bikes. (Overtaking on the right is illegal.)
Fire protection, schools, healthcare, they are all specific cases of the general issue that wealthy people are... wealthier than poor people, which some people find unfair. That's a valid and complex debate (capitalism, communism, socialism, social democracy, progressive taxation, inheritance tax, etc) but it's annoying to slog through every specific applied case that doesn't add anything to the overall analysis.
> Firefox will route all DNS requests through CloudFlare regardless of user settings.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https#...
The scaremongering here is entirely unnecessary.

If you want to spend more time with your family, go and spend more time with your family.

They're more important than the server clusters, tinkering or no tinkering.
True. Oulu, Finland has a high biking rate despite its extreme northern latitude, though, and being quite cold like eight months of the year.
Last year it was abnormally low: “Our provision for income taxes and effective tax rate decreased from the three months ended September 30, 2017 to the three months ended September 30, 2018. The decrease is primarily due to the effects of the Tax Act that became effective in 2018 and a decrease in unrecognized tax benefits in 2018 as compared to 2017.”
From what I've read on the subject, it seems like limitations like this generally serve the incumbent (who benefits from default name recognition that challengers lack).

This is perhaps reasonable approach (many people in this thread are suggesting this!), but it seems like this a thorny problem because there is no "neutral" position.
Indeed. I've recently discovered NetLogo, which is a variant designed for making simulations, and it is amazing how you can get a sophisticated simulation in about a page of code.

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml
> just make it more environmentally friendly so however millions of people times the size of the paper ballot isn't wasted needlessly.

this is one of the biggest straw men i've ever seen on this site.

you realize that building computers out of various plastic and rare earth materials sourced from all over the world isn't free, correct?
Facebook already bans ads that all for violence or try to intimiadate voters. That's taking some element of social responsibility.

Gauging what is and isn't true is not a trivial task. Say a party runs an ad opposing nuclear power calling it dangerous and unsafe. The opposition phones into Facebook and complains about a factually incorrect ad, pointing to the fact that nuclear energy has inflicted much less harm per megawatt hour than most of not every other energy source. Should Facebook pull the ad for being false? Swap out nuclear for pretty much any other controversial opinion, like the effectiveness of busing or effects of taxation on the economy, and we can see that determining truth is a nigh impossible task.

Making Facebook an arbiter or truth seems like a remedy that is worse than the illness.
The problem is, you get a Fitbit as a casual person just getting into exercise - and before you know it, you've outgrown Fitbit!

That's not a great business model. They should have devices that either scale with you, or different models with feature-sets that target different ranges of users.

The people that are active and stick with fitness tracking are exactly the ones that are most likely to purchase new devices over time - either as replacements or upgrades. Instead, they switch to Garmin or some other more "serious" fitness tracker. That's a crying shame for Fitbit... the original fitness tracker.

Supporting chest-straps, or selling their own chest-strap, doesn't mean a casual users needs to buy one. But it does mean a growing serious fitness enthusiast can continue to use Fitbit, buying new devices over time.

From my experience, Fitbit still has the most polished App. It's a darn shame you can't get more out of Fitbit devices though.
Surely someone with a username that says "datashow" would think that this isn't the proper way to measure it.
Not to mention the Great Depression and two world wars, all under the tender ministrations of the US Federal Reserve...
As an aside, I've found the Sourcehut source to be really nice. Super concise, very straightforward implementations, easy to read, and cohesive (it seems to be mostly by one person over a relatively short period of time, so that shouldn't be surprising). I like seeing barebones implementations like this, as it sort of shows how much one can accomplish if you don't get bogged down in bullshit like a fancy dynamic UI (that may be important for many markets and users but nonetheless it slows down development tremendously even when outsourced to another dedicated UI person).
Your second point could only be true if markets were infinitely intelligent.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2284.pdf
No you weren't. That period includes one of the worst recessions in recorded economic history. The other guy either intentionally picked and chose his years, or is simply bad at research.

An inflation adjusted long-term trend is over 7%.
Your mileage may vary. My pebbles, the OG and the round, both had screen tearing issues.
I have a lot of issues with the framing of this article (it's hard to imagine any major strategic decision of Facebook that you couldn't find 250 employees to sign their name opposing it, and nearly everything that happens at Facebook has a corresponding, public, Workplace post).

Moving past that, the ideas mentioned in the final paragraphs did have one interesting suggestion: change the visual display for political ads. Zuck has consistently made the good point that it's very difficult to set a clear boundary for what constitutes a political issue, but it is not difficult to determine whether or not an ad is being run by or in service of a given politician. Changing the visual display (even something as draconian as a persistent disclaimer stating that this is an advertisement with claims made by a politician and that everyone should do their own research) would at least remind people of the policy.