skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- When you open a door, its hinges don't provide nearly enough friction so it starts closing immediately, instead of being able to be propped open (like when you're cooking and holding other stuff so need time to take stuff out)

- The drawers are all basically impossible to use without fully opening the door, but (see above) fully opening the door makes it swing back super hard as well so now you're fighting two different parts of your fridge at once

- It's huge but somehow the space inside the fridge is super small compared to comparable fridges. Probably a shelf thing.

- Some of the design leads to little cracks that are hard to clean up without pinching yourself with the door.

It's basically door-related stuff but it's also stuff I don't experience with my ... $200? Fridge from Hitachi. I feel like my own fridge is fine. It's a fridge. Nothing to write home about. It would probably get a wirecutter recommendation if they did "small-ish fridges for 1-2 people"
For whatever reason they all seem determined to put Google in the worst possible light and ignore any arguments to the contrary. I can't speak to the motivation other than "hate Google".
Probably in sports broadcasting/sports analytics. They do a lot of manual lookups for replay, identifying important moments, filtering out wrong camera angles etc. There maybe some simple cases that can be automated. Looking at what Hawkeye, Playsight SmartCourt etc do might give you some ideas.
“It was rude, by and large, to people who deserved it: amoral and venal team owners, predatory sports media personalities, bandwagon Warriors fans. “

Being rude to people that deserve it is the same sort of justification used for punching Nazis. It’s easy (and a good idea)when they are wearing a Swastika, but it’s actually not so easy to discern most of the time. And when you are a media outlet, you peddle in most of the time scenarios resulting in nonstop clickbait.

Good riddance.
I would love to make an iOS version of this in the style of Jira :D
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> Barstool is referenced more than once in the piece

Yes, it's said to be part of the "anti-PC press": The anti-P.C. press certainly delights in titillating its audience, but it always, unfailingly, endorses a completely servile relationship to authority.

As you say, the actual point of the article isn't even about rudeness, it's about standing up to power, or not.
"legacy text encodings..." That sounds horrible !
For anyone looking to use perf, Brendan Gregg's page on it is the best resource I know of: http://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html
that is/was a problem with zeroMQ, not gperftools:

27 SIGPROF terminate process profiling timer alarm (see setitimer(2))

its use is specifically what that signal is for.

Additionally, it seems fixed in zeroMQ for some things already in 2016... so i doubt thats still valid issue.
Do you know if the ancient Linux kernel on your router has any security issues?

Do you receive any notification if there's ever an issue found? Is there even a centralised tracker for security issues affecting the router software?

Sometimes, things need to be updated. And consumers can't be bothered to flash a firmware image.
Perhaps you're right about the stories. People don't want to read real life horror stories. I have actually wondered if VR with realistic reconstructions of war might be of value, to shake them up viscerally, which is really where people think from.

Privacy, well I guess it's up to you in that if others are willing to sell themselves you can't stop them but there's a lot to be gained by blocking ads/JS/cookies in your browser and not having a smart phone. Although as ever there's a cost to doing that, one I'm ok with but others aren't. Good luck with whatever you do.
This was one of my favorite books I've ever read. So much fun imagining how other intelligences might function.
well most interaction with these assistants is usually in the form of voice and many prize their privacy.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
I have that to look forward to then.. :(
I don’t know about ideology. I know Gawker alerted Torontonians to the fact that their mayor was off his gourd on drugs, hanging out at a crack-house. That seems like a public service to me.
Those are largely one and the same in the current culture, though. "Progressive rude journalists" like Gawker's use "punching up" and "we're rude only to those who deserve it" as an excuse and shield for shitty epistemology, and as a justification for refusing civil engagement with those they disagree with. It's who they deem to be "up", and their judgment is dictated by their personal and political biases.

"Punching up" in general is a concept unique to modern progressive philosophy, as well. I don't believe that's a concept for the right. I understand the thought behind it, but I think it's a very dangerous and slippery slope.

The fuzzy "up" concept for the modern left is kind of the equivalent of the fuzzy "degenerate" concept for the modern right. They're just labels you use to tar people you disagree with or dislike, and then you use the label as shorthand to merit any kind of judgmental or malicious behavior towards that group.

Also, even when one does agree with their "upness" assessment, it doesn't necessarily have any relation to the nature or deservedness of the criticism. I agree billionaires are powerful, but you can still write hit pieces against billionaires which misrepresent their words and positions, or imply hidden intentions behind their words or actions with no credible evidence.
If the video is flagged by ContentID as having music or video that's registered to someone else, they can still run ads over it but the revenue will go to whoever registered it. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en
https://www.victimsofcommunism.org/2019-annual-poll

> Communism is viewed favorably by more than one-in-three Millennials (36%), up 8 points from 2018.

> About one-in-five Millennials (22%) believe that “society would be better if all private property was abolished,” compared to 1% of the Silent Generation.

Also, far left is a relative term.
I think this is a trollish response.
What effect will this event have on my mood, plans, and chance of success?
> huge collection of skills I've [been] developing

One thing I've noticed about that is that if the skill was developed more than about 5 years ago, it's frowned upon, if not outright rejected. I'll be presented with a problem that's a perfect fit for, say, a relation database, or a cron job, or a shell script - but the simplest solution is rejected as being too archaic. Instead they insist on some workflow management tool, or Spark, or a GraphQL database that doesn't fit the problem, just because it's newer and must be "better".
I've got a Lite key if you want to give it a shot. I have Suite already so I won't use it.
> I'm thinking of just about all UK airports

Thankfully Heathrow T2 is one glorious exception to this. Given that I fly most often to German-speaking countries (it's the Lufthansa group terminal), and I really can't abide British Airways, it's the one I use most often. T5 has the reputation for 'grand architecture', by contrast with T2's anonymous exterior - but that experience of walking from the security line right into that big, open split level space, full of daylight and a clear view right onto the tarmac (no forced march through a labyrinthine duty-free emporium) is an absolute joy every time I pass through. Just occasionally, for reasons of money or timings, I find myself going through Gatwick or Stansted and feel like a lab rat in some horrific experiment to see how much stress the subjects can take before they start biting each other.
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So are dictators.
> The argument is that it makes it easier for the professors/teachers to grade homework...

The entire world is always looking for easier and more efficient methods of doing work. I don't think that's an invalid argument at all. It's the professor's job, yes - and why can't they seek out "better" methods of doing their jobs? (I use quotes to suggest that 'better' is subjective.)

Is there an argument against these tools that says they're ineffective? That says they make professors less effective? Maybe, but that's not the same as "...makes it easier ... is a stupid argument..."
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You could set up a local access number for her on voip.ms that just forwards to her T-Mob number.

Would cost a few dollars a month, but can’t receive SMS to it.
I mean, if you wanted to be maximally confusing, or insist on pointing at what amounts to a pun, but the person you are responding to neither stepped in your joke nor is saying something unreasonable: most people would use the term "design" to mean "how it looks" not "how it works", and while the word can be used for both purposes, it robs us of an easy distinction. To draw an analogy: Apple is still great at making clothing that looks amazing and feels great to touch, but has become increasingly inept at making sure that clothing fits comfortably in different poses or even simply doesn't fall apart / tear at the slightest stress. Sure, these are both part of the "design" of the dress, but there is a reason why in engineering we don't assume a "designer" knows anything at all about how to make a keyboard that doesn't break.
I read this post so many times when I was working on my startup (https://first.io). I particularly love this quote: "Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep typing!"

In fact, I even had it as a banner on my desktop for a while: "JUST KEEP TYPING!"
Amazing! I hope more small scale organizations in India migrate to Free Software and escape from the Microsoft OS Lock In.
Either really good math or really good insider trading.
There is market for rudeness. But you still have to have worthwhile context.
Could be that Apple is tired of getting the bang taken out of their announcements by internal leakers so they feed them false release dates.

Or Apple learned from their apparently terrible management which caused software quality to plummet. If you announce plans well ahead, more people can say if these plans are feasible.
I'm over 50. I use Alexa and Siri every day. Of course, I've always been this way. I've heard that the old thing "does everything I want it do it" for decades.

There are plenty of people on the Internet, for example, explaining why electric cars won't work for them today because they need to drive 500 miles every Monday...

People think we'll have self-driving cars within a decade but voice assistants will remain primitive?

Now that there's a financial incentive to improve voice user interfaces (VUI), they will improve rapidly. Hopefully, there will be a great open source option (like Linux), but I'm not waiting... After watching Star Trek and HAL as a child, I thought we'd be talking with computers decades ago.
Mozilla is full of either cowards or sellouts. When the page visibility API was added to Firefox for Android and used to automatically pause nonvisible YouTube pages they ignored user arguments for blocking it.
Yeah, I think that's a good point. While the contradiction may exist when taking the country as a whole; there are few individuals for who that contradiction actually applies.
Of course, I'm mainly pointing out that if Mozilla retorts to use compatibility as a reason for deprecating parts of the webRequest API, they'll most likely be dishonest.
> I wonder how many people could be elevated to comfortable middle class status with all the money hoarded so Jeff Bezos can have over 20 different extravagant homes?

Jeff is worth $112 Billion. Amazons total assets are $162.6 B, and it has 645,000 employees.

So if you create Amazon equivalent jobs, you could presumably create 645,000 * (112/162) = 446,000 jobs with Bezos fortune.

However, Amazon jobs with $174,000 assets/job may not be what you consider middle class. If you are talking about manufacturing jobs Ford, for example has $256 B assets and 200,000 jobs or $1,280,000 in assets/job.

So good manufacturing jobs would be more like $112 B/ 1.28 M = 87,500 jobs.
I’m not sure what about this article specifically that makes you feel that way.

You are correct, in general, that firms that are successful because of an innovative technology, typically get surpassed by the next innovative technology to come to the market. See Clayton Christensen’s The Innovators Dilemma.

However, Apple is one company that seems to have broken the trend, several times, in fact. Past success is not always an indicator of future success, but I’m personally not willing to bet against Apple at this point.
> Why [...] do I have to pay a publisher to submit homework [...]?

Indeed this is ridiculous. This should be part of your university tuition, whether they self-host or outsource, students shouldn't be paying beyond tuition to get their homework submitted.
Biggest issue I found with Alexa is... Amazon doesn't know enough about me. Specially here in South Africa, where most stuff is still Google Dominated.

Alexa, doesn't know:
-Where I live

-My Music Preferences

-That I have YouTube Premier

-That I listen to afrikaans artist

-My Search history, and what I expect whey I ask/search for general stuff.

-Can't talk to my ChromeCast(sic ?)

-Didn't know where i drove to yesterday.

Basically I need to get a Google-Home
I spent some time taking apart how Alexa must work myself. My thinking on this is guided by the fact that there are only a handful of Wake Words available. Given that there are only 4, I'm thinking the ability to recognize those Wake Words is in firmware on the device (such tech was commercially available back in 1995 when I played with a demo piece of hardware that did just that). Decoding a wake word from a stream of audio locally on the device without making a persistent recording of it or sending a recording off-device is fine with me.

However the more complex parsing of what ever comes after the Wake Word needs to be sent off as an audio stream to some cloud operation for parsing where more horsepower is available. This also seems quite reasonable to me. Sure, it could be done on the device but this would mean a hotter CPU on the device and a generally more expensive Alexa. Certainly no more $29 Echo Dots.

Is Alexa listening all the time? Hell yes it is! Is Alexa recording everything you say, everything you watch on TV, every time the dog barks and sending it back to Amazon for archival? Its possible but consider the economics of storing that much data as audio. Storage is cheap but thats quite a burden. Is AMZN keeping a parsed version of everything it hears from your device and dumping the raw audio version? Its technically possible but again, consider the economics of such a thing.

Not to mention, how many Alexas are going to be sold after someone here posts smoking gun proof Alexa is constantly or even at some batched interval sending off large chunks of data which are in fact full voice recordings?

I'm not going to waste my time on this experiment but anybody who is good with Wireshark could perform an analysis to quickly disprove this whole notion.
> it's all a bit odd of course, because in typical japanese fighting games (or even chinese wuxia films) the characters normally yell the name of the skill before doing their special skill, like "wave fist" or "dragon subduing 18 palms", rather than yelling something the hero intends to achieve. they'll never say something like "die!" because that's just not heroic.

While, yeah, calling your attacks is common, I've also seen Kurae! ("Eat this!") in anime and toku more times than I can count. Honestly, that would make a good translation for those phrases...
Apple has capabilities that others don't have. Apple can design their own batteries, cases, utility chips, CPU, GPU, screens. They have exceptional assembly factories, where they can assemble with very low mechanical tolerance and calibrate HW better than most of the competition.
They have patented several new methods for making glass. They have non garbage collected UI capabilities, low level GFX API developers.

Apple is in a unique position to get an edge on the AR/VR market.
Do you mean the Cube? It’s a nice computer. Fanless and practically silent, with very easy to access internals. It was too expensive, obviously.
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The federal budget is $4 trillion per year. Bezos has $100 billion once. Whatever problems we have, Jeff Bezos having $100 billion isn't what's stopping them from being fixed.
Perhaps we live in our own tech bubble where many people understand the downsides of the technology. Since it's more likely to surround yourself with similar people it's easy to assume most people (don't) use it.

The number of people in my close circle using this tech has been pretty much constant over the past few years, hovering at 2. The rest try and discard.
Every so often, generally when Android updates, I give Google's assistant a try. It's awful. It never fails to understand me, and after manually correcting it, the assistant fails to find items that are _on_ the device; if it's not on Google's cloud services, then it doesn't exist, apparently.
I find it fascinating talking to Americans about this. I tend to agree with you, that this is racist, but apparently it's only racist if it affects the people concerned negatively.

I have liberal friends who would be horrified at the thought that they were being racist. But they do factor race into decisions, usually trying to be positive about it.

I don't understand it. I'm fascinated by it.
I still don't get where people are coming from on this. It's a fictional reality filled with fictional physics and a bunch of made up words. But a technically-correct archaism gets everyone's panties in a twist?

Also, I honestly thought Woolsey wrote that line because it was so his style. Apparently this is a common misconception.
And "rude" an is euphemism for a website that was publishing lists of gay people to out them.
Maybe, but maybe not. There was another recent YouTube controversy where dozens of people were banned from all google services (including Gmail) for spamming on a gaming livestream chat (which is considered perfectly acceptable behavior by most streamers).
I find the Alexa pretty useful having small children. Being able to change the thermostat, turn on and off lights, start white noise for the baby, play music for the kids, all without having to have my hands free is nice.

I set up a nap routine for my baby's room where it turns off the lights and starts the white noise.
I know a lot of people with androids and iphones. Nobody uses Siri and GA. I know of nobody with alexa.

I guess it mostly show the tech and tech adjacent bubble.
Point out the specific inconsistentcy.
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I think that was BMO? Passwords could only be 6 characters, and mapped to numbers. So only 1m passwords max.
I might be missing something obvious. Couldn't the ants have escaped the bunker through the same route the scientists used to enter?
Those they disagree with often don't deserve to be engaged with. We have a serious fascist problem in this country and most people in this thread sound a LOT like they are part of it.
While I would agree that this might be just a overt way of saying "when", that statement came from Mozilla, and so far I don't think I could accuse them of misleading newspeak. If that was any other big corpo, then you are absolutely right.

As far as organization Mozilla have my trust and I don't look for false bottoms in their statements.

I would point out the previous statement they made there:

> Firefox is not, however, obligated to implement every part of v3, and our WebExtensions API already departs in several areas under v2 where we think it makes sense.

I trust Mozilla to be on my side as customer than ad industry. Well, we will see what future brings.
This new US Navy acronym is going to make googling for Linux installation issues a lot more tricky:

"Ruggedized High Energy Laser (RHEL)"
Like the House of Saud can't prevent dissidents from being murdered by Saudi thugs, the House of Uber can't prevent pedestrians from being run over by Uber cars. They would prefer other outcomes but if somebody's in the way, mistakes are going to happen. Take note and step out of the way, little human.

The Saudi regime is legally executing people for "witchcraft" and other choice infractions. The extralegal murders only happen when the legal options are exhausted. I'm not sure where the parallel to Uber is there. Maybe the comparison was a mistaken one from the start?
> there is demand and they are selling their product.

I agree with this, but reducing the ships' speed will reduce the rate and the price at which you can potentially deliver said products to the consumers, which in effect will reduce the effective demand.

As an example, I bet there's lots of people that would want to have rocks delivered to them from the Moon, i.e. there is a notional demand for Moon rocks, but because transporting rocks from the Moon to said customers is prohibitively expensive the effective demand for such an item is close to 0. Making trans-oceanic transport more expensive works the same way.
Internet culture is always changing. A devoted core of people is doing something cool, new people come in who are just there for the scene, finally (in the cases discussed in the article) business interests co-opt it and it becomes sterile. This is described in the article geeks, mops, and sociopaths, if you're interested.

I liken fb to reality TV. Everyone can be a star. Like Warhol said.

Twitter is pushing some weird buttons. I think it attracts narcissists, and gets people hooked-up on their own chemistry. I've always had a really low opinion of twitter users.

Missing old shit is death. Just start making the things you care about or are interested in.
It seems like the algorithm is just biased towards actual income of a given person, and doesn't take marriage into account. If that is the case, is the program just sexist by proxy, and income inequality is the real issue here?
I only know it from the show. But the term captured something about our society so well that it instantly felt familiar.
Well, they didn't seem to have an effect, and it says on the help page https://github.com/secretGeek/devShop#walkthrough that they're not implemented.
You might consider running "EXPLAIN" to see for yourself.
Voice, with results sourced from their cloud storage.
In Oracle land you have no choice but to use a long list of OR because IN has a low clause limit (1000). So if you need e.g. 1.1K rows, even using a fast indexed PK, your choices are OR or pain. The workarounds are horrible, like splitting your IN clauses and UNION ALL two copies of the same query (runs twice), or using a global temp table (which is awkward as heck to setup/destroy each execution, particularly with IN clauses that could range from 1 through 1K+).

Postgres has no practical limit, there's examples of people using 100K+ IN clauses (not recommending). People keep telling me that Oracle is "enterprise grade" and that Postgres is not. To be honest all I see is Postgres is flexible and modern, and Oracle is kludgy and outmoded. I'm forced to use Oracle but I'd never voluntarily start any new projects on it, I'm all in on Postgres from here on out.
The Valley Effect is real.