skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Illinois isn't particularly sparsely populated compared with the rural areas of the Dakotas and Montana. It's not uncommon to drive over 20 miles for groceries. Closer towns might have a convenience/general store, but prices will be high and selection minimal. You might make the trip only every other week, though. People tend to have freezers and root cellars to store the food they raise themselves. Canning, sadly, seems to be a lost art.
They reinvest the cash right back into development and production units. There is risk that this company will evaporate, however: https://www.pine64.org/philosophy/

None of us is as smart as all of us
~ Ken H. Blanchard
At the core of our philosophy is the notion that PINE64 is a community platform. [...] The goal is to deliver ARM64 devices that you really wish to engage with and a platform that you want to be a part of.

As such, if you can help them source better quality IPS panels, I know a guy you should talk to.
Most people who talk about Tether agree it's a scam, yet a lot of people hold money in it. It's an interesting case of mass psychology. How long can you kick the can down the road? Nobody can say they weren't warned.
What are your thoughts on time-frequency duality, in that time as a variable is able to be abstracted away for our analytical purposes (which works!)? And is the frequency domain a more qualified s-plane?
I don't need a GPS to watch someone ride a scooter.
I read in some article some time about use of SQUIDs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID) to map activity of a single neuron non-invasively. There was a lot of hype at the time for brain-computer interfaces based on that, but then same as with many technologies that were "just 5 years away" those 5 years came and went with no deliverables expected.
Volkswagen isn't going to convert to electric anytime soon.

Electric cars only make 1% of the annual car registrations in Germany and 0.18% of the total number of cars registered.

In fact, Volkswagen is planning a new factory for cars with combustion engines in Turkey. It's just currently put on hold due to the conflict at the Syrian border.
That's because you're doing something that directly competes with an existing trademarked product. Windows is a computer operating system, so of course you can't make another computer operating system and call it "Windows".

However, if you want to make some breakfast cereal called "Windows bran flakes", you're absolutely allowed to do that under trademark law, because it has zero to do with computer operating systems. Just make sure the box doesn't look like Windows 10, or the Microsoft/Windows logos, or anything like that.

What we're seeing here is total overreach. "Backcountry" is a common word that's been around for centuries. So yeah, it would certainly be wrong for someone to start an online retail business selling outdoor stuff and call it "backcountry-equipper.com" or something like that. But they're suing people who are doing totally different stuff, like making jeans, not people operating online retailers of various outdoor equipment.
> Nobody is saying you have to be an early adopter of these currencies.

This here is probably the source of our disagreement. As far as I can tell, tons of people actually are saying "get in now", which means we're no longer in the patience and investment stage, and any deficiencies in the cryptocurrency ecosystem have real consequences.
When submitters forget the 'Show HN' in the submission title it ends up in the 'Ask HN' category. Usually new users, example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450381
Awesome! I already have an activated Verizon SIM so hopefully it'll just work with the Pinephone. If not maybe I can just pick up something from Ting.
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> buses funds roads, which benefit all aspects of commerce

Thank you but no thank you. We need less money spend on inefficient roads, not more.
me too! that's exactly what I'm suggesting, that they should charge more to cover the %age of jerks that will file paypal chargebacks rather than ask people to be kind
Just let your employees be remote and they will go live wherever they feel like.
>I don't care about Google employee's opinions on Big Oil or ICE but I absolutely care about their opinions on removing URLs from search results and hijacking link clicks. The latter is something they can and should fix as they created the problem in the first place.

Such a contervetional saying, but I get what you mean.

They have more authority in their niche so they should fight for rights in something they are expert at.

But I do think that the fact Google employees are protesting against the company deal with Big Oild is good because it generates a lot of PR and awareness around the subject,

Exactly like how Blizzard cause the situation in HK to be x10 more viral
In fairness, I feel like we have closer to a Gustafson's law [0] situation; individual tasks haven't gotten much faster, but it feels like we do more than we did in the 90s. The problem space has gotten so much larger than it used to be, and at some level we got to "fast enough" for things like desktop applications.

Not to mention, programs are so much more stable nowadays; I can't remember the last time my computer just locked up for no apparent reason, and I am typically pretty happy that most programs don't leak memory all over the place anymore.

Are a lot of programs bloated now? Sure, but I think I'd rather have that than having my program crash all the time because someone who didn't really know what they're doing cleared a pointer incorrectly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law
Motocycles require a different driving license in Germany, which is harder to get and for the powerful motorcycles has stricter age requirements (24 if you want >95 horsepower)
Not only VW, any company can opt-in to the subsidies: the state pays half and the company the other half.

What's funny is how the requirement of a <= 60k EUR car price means that those buying a Tesla won't get any subsidies. It's kind of understandable though: in Germany most cars are sold in the 10-20k EUR range, so it would be political suicide to create a subsidy to pay for what most citizens consider a luxury. Subsidizing cars in the 40k-60k EUR is quite outrageous already IMO.
I feel bad for javascript for it always blamed for the fault of the environment where it lives.
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I understand the desire to protect your trademark, but if you want to make a trademarked brand part of your business, maybe don't build your business around a generic term?
I don't think it's that simple. ASCII and ISO 8859 didn't have luxurious code spaces, so they had less semantics than Unicode. Unicode, as it's name implies, tries to unify these (and other) codesets. When unifying codesets you sometimes have to decide whether to unify two distinct codepoints for similar glyphs or not, and if not, then semantics intrude via the two codepoints' names (and, therefore, purpose). You might recall that Unicode 2.x tried to unify CJK... -- that was back when Unicode did not have a sufficiently-luxurious code space, and that unification, politically, went badly.

In many ways it might have been better to have exactly one codepoint per distinct glyph, but in practice, the ability to have simple algorithms to map from existing codesets to Unicode, politics, and the ability to distinguish script (in the cases of otherwise-equal codepoints) turned out to be more important.
More details can be found here: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/pull/13069
The town in which I grew up was 30 minutes from the nearest Wal-Mart by car, and 15 minutes from the nearest real grocery store by car. Hell, "town" was three minutes by car from my house and we lived "close" compared to several of my friends. We had no police department. We had a volunteer only fire department and first responder unit. We partnered with a town 5 miles away for our school district. We were 13 miles from the nearest 4 lane highway. Most of our county roads were gravel. We had few problems with safety, food access, or economic access to plentiful jobs.

Living in a tiny, remote, rural town presents one with a ton of low level, low overhead, low skill, and valuable entrepreneurial opportunities. Property and office space are cheap. Housing, which would go for well into the $300k range in cities within commuting distance of an hour or less, costs between $50,000 and $200,000 (for a pretty luxurious place). Agriculture, inevitably the bedrock of most rural communities, provides needs for mechanics, scrap management, custom application, fuel, carpentry, veterinary medicine, real estate, law, education, commodities trading, banking, environmental protection, equipment dealerships, various parts suppliers, hairdressers, food and entertainment, communications, rental property management, accounting, coaching, and pretty much every other economical human endeavor. The opportunity is that most of these needs are met by people in the community - people who you know well and trust - and are insulated from competition by distance and the small market size. Many people were self-employed; as doctors, vets, concrete masons, farmers, restaurateurs, gas station franchise owners, specialty parts wholesalers, junkyard operators, etc. Sure, there was only one store where you could get plumbing supplies, but that family lived very comfortably in that niche, and had for two generations. You either chose to stay and start your own business that could meet a need in the local community, usually some specialized unskilled construction or mechanical labor, or got a degree and commuted to the nearby cities. Food was procured once a week from the far away grocery stores; but other than commuters and the weekly grocery errand, you often didn't need to leave the vicinity of the town for weeks or even months at a time.
In cities, even with suburban life, not needing to leave your community for extended days at a time is exceedingly rare, even for suburbs with approximately the same population as my old small town. I drive thirty minutes across town to my clients' offices, for example. New Yorkers take the subway across burroughs to get to their jobs.
The authors overstate the problems people in small towns face.
Different, unrelated Blackbird. Though, fun fact, I tried for several years to get Raytheon to license their trademark in the name Blackbird to Cloudflare so we could sue Blackbird the law firm for trademark infringement.

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/995025758278963200?s=2...

Proposed we license it for “$1 and other good and valuable consideration.” Unfortunately, the Raytheon IP counsel didn’t have a sense of humor.
If you aren't sure how you can help, I would suggest returning anything you've bought there (within the 30-day return window).

Also, click on their ads.
I would like to order both a PinePhone and a PineTime (plus a couple more for friends), but I have no idea if they will be available for order/shipping at the same time[1].

And ideally, I would like a pineTime as well. I would like to write a program to alert me when I'm forgetting my phone while travelling, for instance :)

[1] Asked here: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8158&pid=51528#p...
Blue states filled with people who claim to be liberal generally support restrictive zoning and housing policies that make housing impossible for the poor and lower middle class to afford. Looking around the country it's generally "blue" areas that have the least affordable housing with very few exceptions.

Hypocrisy is pretty universal. Most people vote based on superficial affinity signaling, not any understanding of actual policies or their implications. The present political situation is what you get when people vote based on who they'd like to have a beer with, not whose ideas they support (or even understand).
Thanks for clarifying. I agree 100%.
Please, interview a few folks and write a piece and mail it to a bunch of publications. Something might stick somewhere.
it sounds like a neat product, I'm just wishing they would charge more to cover the risk/rate of chargebacks rather than simply ask people not to sink them.
Those are some very naive assumptions you've got there padawan. Sure some software needs to fade away, but just rewriting something to rewrite it is stupid.
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> How is it “disinformation”? Do you think anyone on HN doesn’t understand the statement to mean what I said for it to mean?

At least one person[0] didn't understand and publicly stated as much. While iOS was originally spun off from macOS, it's very much it's own system, with there being no ability to run macOS applications on iOS, and vice versa (although the latter is slowly changing with recent macOS releases). Comparing the two is disingenuous at best.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21452862

EDIT: And here's at least one more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21453368
If a company is willing to do that, hooray!

What I'm saying is that it's unfair to expect it. As in, if a company is not willing to bend over backwards for you, it's not fair to condemn them for that. It's totally fair to praise their competitors who will, though.
Do you think people are confused that most major metropolitan areas are not controlled by religious groups, or that Salt Lake City is in Utah?
We're just a blink away from a new era of autonomous vehicles, which should make most of this a moot point.

For all of these small rural communities, it makes sense for each of the local governments to purchase a fleet of vehicles that offer free shipping to its community from distant urban areas and subsidize on a local level.

The future of bricks-and-mortar (or cinder blocks and cement) is anyones guess, but frictionless delivery strategies could surprise us all with the remedies and solutions to the old-world logistics problems.
Another fun story: Chicago-based poke company goes after Hawaiian restaurants over the word 'Aloha': https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/native-hawaiian-a...
Despite this consistently happening, I doubt you can name a single Republican politician who has run and been elected on this platform.
I think you're reading more into it than what is there, but I hope that's the case! Seems like a neat product and I hope they sell it at a sustainable price rather than stay at the bottom and get sunk when people file chargebacks.
Shader compilers are pretty bad an result depends on browser and driver. There is plenty of platform differences when accessing uninitialized memory, using more complicated constructs like structures, performing math operation with undefined result, incorrectly defining if function argument is in,out or inout.
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Nothing's perfect. It's generally possible to amend laws and regulations if a compelling use case comes up. Does anything prevent having one code for residential buildings over a certain size, and another for smaller buildings?
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Didn't telegraphs use paper tape in the beginning? If so, then the only way to signal line/paragraph breaks would be symbolically. Of course, a typewriter wouldn't have needed that, but as TFA shows, it came in handy in some cases anyways.
The Pro is a follow up to the 99$ pinebook, and they have been selling that at the same price for years.
But who will fact-check the organization, so that we know its checks are actually valid and true and not just some organisation's opinion on the subject? :-)
> There are some posts about it elsewhere, but iterative programming tends to make reasoning about the storage of different objects in memory quite a bit easier.

Depending on what you mean by "functional", this is not always true. Rust is essentially a functional language - in that, just like functional languages, it prevents you from mixing shared state with mutability; plus it heavily uses functional features like closures - but it makes it quite easy to reason about the storage of data objects.

I view OOP as basically mistaken, particularly wrt. choices like implementation inheritance as an "idiomatic" element of software design. And newer languages like Rust make the exact same choice there. But once you take the trouble to carefully "unpack" stuff like implementation-inheritance, even OOP is quite compatible with a functional paradigm.
This is absolutely why we need a "loser pays" civil court system: interested attorneys should be able to volunteer to take on the case on behalf of the small business, with an agreement with their client that they only get paid if they win. Then when they do, they charge the big corporation an absolutely enormous amount of money in legal fees, which the big company is required to pay.

A system like this would keep frivolous lawsuits to a minimum.
Well, I don’t know what to say other than you are totally wrong. It is not up to the user to check whether GA is compliant or not. The party accepting the personal data has responsibility to make sure that it is used responsibly by their processors.
Companies are not supposed to be a way by which you enforce your moral beliefs. You have laws and elections for that. How would you like if businesses turn you away because of your unethical beliefs?
It just seems another clone of datadog
Solution to these problems will come. Its a chicken & egg problem.
I live in a flat in London and thinking of similar issues with electric cars. Maybe 20min supercharging every couple of weeks is enough for my weekend driving.
I'm hoping soon every lamp post will have a charging plug.
Very few of those people using Macbooks are creating software for Apple devices. It is a fashion statement. They could be using any laptop.
I'm disappointed yet sadly not surprised that the current top comment here is a (so far successful) attempt to hijack and equate protests about Big Oil with AMP.

AMP came about because mobile sites suck. My only beef is there weirdly doesn't seem to be an easy opt out (for the user or content producer). While that's less than ideal how can you possibly equate that with:

- Environmental damage

- Climate change

- Developing AI to help the military better kill people with drones (a previous Googler protest)

Like, what twisted world view would try and equate any of the above with AMP? If so, I seriously suggest you get over yourselves. I find that attitude entitled and, honestly, reprehensible.

The other problem you see here is Whataboutism. Like, "oh sure, Big Oil hid research into the effects of fossil fuels on climate change but what about [my pet issue]?"

Not everything has to be about everything. Not tackling every issue doesn't invalidate the protest against a particular issue. Whataboutism is what allowed the likes of Trump to get elected.

Seriously.

Disclaimer: Xoogler.
Everything I've read said her lawyer talked her into it. He actually sent a consultant to visit her over several days, discuss her objections, and convince her to reconsider. Neither lawyer nor consultant had any authority to force her to do anything, and Ayn Rand of all people was not prone to intimidation. I don't think she'd appreciate the implication that she was that weak-willed.

You've avoided my first question twice now.
I've always had good service/support from Backcountry, but today I emailed my account manager and let them know that I was disappointed in their recent actions and that it is a factor in future purchases. Hopefully if enough of us let them know we disagree with their actions, they'll change tune.
Big and famous groups/companies usually do release their code nowadays.

I'm automatically suspicious when someone doesn't, even though I guess most of the time it's nothing nefarious. It's just extra work and effort to bring the code into presentable shape and that effort could be spent on the next paper. Once the paper is published, the material benefits have been reaped, publication count incremented. Of course this is a short-sighted view, because in the long term not only the paper counts matter, but also one's general reputation within the community.
You would absolutely have to have more adults involved per student. My kid's HS has an average class size of 30 and some classes approaching 50 students. I can't imagine what a class of 35+ disruptors and only 1 instructor would look like but it wouldn't be pretty.

Ideally, something closer to the 5-1 ratio my district mandates for special ed classes would be more effective. These kids are going to need a lot of individualized attention if you want to help turn them around.
The car dependency of rural America is certainly worth discussing, and this specific grocery store case does have consequences. As one example, in towns like this retirement homes or apartments catering to older people are often within walking or shuttle distance of a town center with a grocery store, which helps preserve independence for people who no longer drive. But the focus of the article is strange, and seems to come from a rather urban mindset. Lines like "nowhere to buy even a banana" don't square with "the only grocer within 15 miles shut down last year" or "5 million people in rural areas have to travel 10 miles or more to buy groceries". A ten mile drive is not short, but it's not actually unusual for many services in the (mid-)western US. (Which is probably why the people interviewed don't share the reporter's focus on distance.) People living on actual farms may well have been ten miles from the grocery store too!

The most telling line in the piece is: "In town after town, people said their greatest challenge was enticing their neighbors away from dollar stores or the Walmart four towns over." Meaning, one, that people are already driving for groceries. And two, that finding out there's a grocery store in down didn't persuade them to switch. I looked up Mountanair to see where people were shopping, since 45 miles to a grocer is unusually long. (It's Family Dollar or a 45-mile drive to Belen.) In the process, I ran into this review for B Street Market, the new local grocer discussed in the story: "It's the only grocery store in town... Nice people that work there but[...] prices so high that you don't even want to go in there.... It's worth the drive to Belen[...] to go get groceries plus a lot better selection." Ending Mountainair's story with the happy news that it once again has a grocery store was only half the picture.

I think that poor choice of focus causes the story to neglect any truly interesting analysis. The obvious place to start is not "ten miles to a grocery store" but "the last grocery store went out of business", which leads to a larger discussion of rural America's economic prospects, the price disadvantages faced by non-chain businesses, and the vicious cycle of box stores taking money out of communities and so creating more dependence on low prices. Or else keep pursuing the briefly mentioned topic of where people are shopping - there's a fascinating comparison to urban food deserts, which enforce a similar choice between distant grocers and unhealthy processed foods nearby.

Fundamentally, this feels like pretending that one example of a much larger pattern is special, rather than just a human-interest way of approaching the topic.