skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My problem with Disney+ is the 'cable-fication' of video streaming. Netflix was revolutionary precisely because it was a central repository for movie and TV streaming. Now that production companies see the value, they are slowly destroying it by separating their IP from Netflix and forcing users to buy separate 'Channel' services for each respective producer. They clearly didn't learn their lesson the first time - Piracy will be the preferred method of video consumption again, because it's not possible to justify spending $15/month for every individual service.
I wonder how many fewer arrests they'd make if they got rid of asset forfeiture.
>power cables, replacement chargers and batteries being the biggest offenders.

I've found Anker gear to be consistently solid on all three counts & frankly I trust it more than store bought.

If I could even get it - wouldn't know where to start buying a 60W USB hub in a brick & mortar.
Anecdotally, I know two people who had minor complications (chronic dry eye; sensitivity to light), but enough that they regretted the procedure. I also know more people who are very happy with it. But that's enough to dissuade me.
This seems to me to have the exact same problem that projects like Mastodon have, which is that people use social media because other people they know use social media. You can point out all the benefits the alternative sites have, but at the end of the day, 99% of people aren't going to want to completely start over on a new site that isn't going to offer anything that they can't already find on an established platform.
Amazon is a retailer - there are already millions of competitors - you just have to start buying from them.
Why do you care? If you're worried that the company isn't going to survive, go elsewhere. If you're acting out of a sense of morality, I encourage you to think about the pros and cons of making a fuss over this (you'll probably find that there is no upside and alot of downside).
https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor...

Documented as much as Lion's documentation on Unix. Gotta dance around NDAs an all, but they had to deal with that in the 80s as well.
powerful as AeroScope,ok
> I wonder if it's a US-centric view.

Not US-specific, but it's absolutely a developed-country specific view. People are treating it more like they treat alcohol - fun to participate in every so often, but not healthy to do daily.
Did you ever felt like you would be wasting potential?
Never - I always attempt to make an end to end implementation. Once the code works I go back an examine the what I did and try to make it simpler. This often requires refactoring and changing API's etc. Writing a bunch of test would simply add inertia to that process. After I am satisfied with the code or get bug reports I will add test. Test code is code and often has bugs. Every line of code I write is a liability so I try to limit it to necessary things. I have never seen the write test approach work. Once all the test code is written people become reluctant to change things because they have to change both the code and test code doubling the work/time. One just ends up with well tested but not so good code. If you a M$ and can afford to pair program it might be more feasible.
How does this compare to things like a DeskMini A300? https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/
Just signed up. I could search for topics but not join as it says I'm number 60K+ in the waiting list and need to pay. First impression it looks like Reddit. I'm very skeptical people will pay $100/year for this. Reporting the number of members is pretty useless since I'm pretty sure they are not talking about paying ones.
It seems like you missed a // here:
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to
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The newer versions finally support a HTML5 console instead of the old java webstart horror they used to ship with.
> I don't know anyone who is looking for yet another generic social network.

Right — people don't go actively seeking a generic alternative to something they already have. They do although, hear about new services that do something different. Similar to TikTok, or Instagram, it will hit on a niche interest and expand from there. The current market leaders will ignore it long enough (opportunity not big enough) that by the time they see it as a threat, it's too late.
Relax. People Like You
The problem is, for the education system to work, students need to be faceless cogs. The reality is that we're all interested in different things and would be better suited by an individualized education.
I speak to nine year old relatives: they are barely articulate simians.

What is it like talking to a 9 year old who has completed a 4-year EE degree?

Can you walk up to the kid and say, "Hey, solve this bridge/op-amp circuit's transfer function?" or ask a humanities question, "What are the ethical dilemmas inherent in an open discussion forum?"

I guess this is what it feels like to be a young-earth creationist: I simply cannot wrap my head around a 9-year old being able to answer these question, so like a creationist I choose to believe it is a fake.
The problem is the tone of voice. One thing is you asking, humbling, why did this happen, if it can be reverted since I had a problem in my specific setup and how I (as the non paying customer) can disable it. The other is to be arrogant saying that I am a multi zillion company, you're idiotic for enabling this feature and I demand you to disable it ASAP and never do this again.

The quote from this article is clearly from the later case, even if I am sure that other people reported it more humbly.
Whilst there's not really much more left to add to the laser printer argument, in my own experience the absolute peace of mind a laser printer brings in knowing your report/flight ticket/etc. will print without issue is well worth the greater initial cost.
I think the opposite. The average US worker is not entitled or arrogant enough. The GDP has skyrocketed since the 70s, but wages have remained the same. All the wealth should be going to workers, but it's not and they don't feel entitled enough to fight for it.
I should clarify: this is also the way to get them to agree. If you genuinely listen to their concerns, and consider all their points, and are genuinely willing to change direction if they're right, then that is psychologically powerful.

Being listened to, and having a point of view heard and considered, is powerful stuff. If at the end, they feel heard, and their point of view considered, then they're usually willing to go along with the majority opinion at least, and sometimes become your biggest supporter.
Taking the AP exam in high school is just a tactic. A situation like:

Student: Man I don't want to take this boring mandatory calculus class.

Teacher: You have to.

Student: But I already know all this stuff!

Teacher: Mmmmm, well that's just like your opinion, man.

Student: What if I ace the AP exam?

Teacher: OK, then I would believe you.

In my experience it's pretty rare for all of high school to be boring. You probably haven't read the particular works they're discussing in English class, you probably haven't read about the particular time period they're discussing in history. And even if you have, there's plenty more you can learn about those things. The most common area to be bored by is math, because you can pick that all up yourself relatively easily.
I'm just guessing but I'd imagine they'd take debit too.
> 1) Pensioner debt in Illinois is about $250 billion, versus $65 billion for other kinds of debt. Any debt restructuring will necessarily have to see pensioners carry most of the water.

So make both pensioners, and lenders share the pain. Don't just dump all the problems onto one or the other. It was the lender's fault for not taking into account the possibility of default of a creditor with large outstanding financial obligations.
Yup, and we don't use a rainbow colormap by default anymore! We do provide a few custom ones that were developed with viscm, which I believe was used by in development of viridis, magma, etc. I think the specific examples are all from the published literature, and we accepted them as submitted by users -- but a refresh would be good!

I opened an issue: https://github.com/yt-project/website/issues/70
Maybe Dumbo setup? The outer screens would be his ears. Not happy with the name, but best I could think of today. I'm a developer, so by definition bad at naming stuff. TIE-fighter setup is the lucky exception
I’m confused... other comments reference ME as the root-of-trust for the system, the chip that brings the CPU out of reset. How can a system be operational without that functionality?
Aside from the paper, I think one thing they're referring to is using the output (color corrected images) as input for AI. One thing they want to do is count the number of fish in an image, and know which species each fish is. So you can take pictures of coral reefs and estimate "there's 1,000 species X, 2,200 species Y". With the old images, it's too difficult to determine which species a fish is. With the new images, it's easier. So Sea-Thru is preprocessing that'll be useful for AI in marine science.
Assessment of Jugular Venous Blood Flow Stasis and Thrombosis During Spaceflight
Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
How Twitter’s Political Ad Policy Will Work
Part of Prime is getting you to give them $120 membership fee so you feel youre getting some kind of bonus buying from them ("free shipping") which reduces comparison shopping. I'm probably not going to buy $100/year memberships to costco, walmart, amazon, and target, even though im half way there and really tempted to pull the trigger on another.

The membership fees almost pay for themselves just in preventing me from going into the store and impulse buying something on a shelf once a month.

As far as Amazon Prime, I have to believe the price of shipping is built into the products, and the membership is for other psychological and behavior control reasons.

Is part of this social network price the same thing. A cost to make it exclusive, acts as a bit of a spam filter. Then after having sunk money into it, you feel the need to make it worthwhile. I never think "ive been watching too much prime I better get my value out of netflix this month" but a communication tool might be different.
Inequality goes back far beyond that. The slaves who built the pyramids in Egypt were pretty unequal from the Pharaoh.

And even that wasn't the first society with inequality. It goes back far beyond recorded history.
Chrome often list executable files as harmful IFF they are downloaded via HTTP instead of HTTPS.
> But it doesn't make sense to me to particularly punish rideshare miles driven compared to commuter miles driven.

I agree. We should be making it more expensive to operate any low-occupancy vehicle during peak congestion hours in congested areas, not just ride-shares.
You may find it interesting that in Finland academics doesn't start until age 7. They emphasize play / arts in preschool and by age 15 outperform most countries. What has this child lost by encouraging academic pursuits at such a young age? Will they ever recover, and what was at risk by having them wait a few years?

source: https://www.npr.org/2014/03/08/287255411/what-the-u-s-can-le...
http://fixyt.com

(Note that that's HTTP only, no HTTPS support.)
Spotting opportunities and trends is a skill. Building a network is a skill.

Seizing opportunities is a talent I’d say.

You’re falling for the fallacy that technical brilliance/execution is what matters. It doesn’t. It just needs to be good enough.
True story:

A project I was on earlier in the year was full on Agile, with constant meetings - daily standups, weekly retrospectives, weekly scrum-of-scrums, weekly reviews/demos, bi-weekly product backlog refinements, weekly story refinements, weekly product backlog planning, weekly sprint planning, frequent meetings about git branching strategies and near daily "way of working" meetings. And of course there were some relatively meaningful small meetings closely related to actual development work.

Everyone was losing the will to live, including myself - there simply wasn't enough time to actually work!

I had a word with the project manager, and with a totally casual manner he said: "OK, let's have a meeting with the whole team to discuss it".
Disclaimer: 100% conjecture and opinion.

I understand where you're coming from and I'm going to leave an unpopular opinion as a comment, but I think the society we're growing into one that wants to absolve anyone of personal responsibility. I understand that growing up in poor neighborhoods and shitty family situations makes it immensely more difficult to set yourself up for success, but I just think at some point you're responsible for your own person, not anyone else and not society.

I grew up in methland, appalachia and had countless crackhead friends and family. I didn't have any money and had to work starting at age 15. I think I'd be in my right to complain and want education to be fixed and my city to be improved so it'd be easy for me to be more successful.

I took an alternative and left home, educated myself, and turned myself into a halfway decent contributor to society. I really think the US still has a lot of ability to reward those who go after it even if that means becoming a carpenter and saving for 30 years to retire early.

I understand our society is not ideal, but I just think those problems are going to take generations to fix. Why not take care of yourself and do your best to fix your own shit.

As a disclaimer, I'm not writing this towards disabled people or others that need society's help. I'm 100% ok with helping in those situations. I'm talking about the average american who has their health and some direction over their destiny.

I just don't get why people sit on their asses and complain instead of getting out and making shit happen or at least trying to. I don't get the barely getting by mentality.
Expensive luxury prices are fine for certain products but can be detrimental to social and communication tools.

I can easily afford this product myself but I don’t want to pay for a social network if a portion of my friends/contacts are priced out.
I'm not even that smart—tested into gifted programs by the skin of my teeth—and I'm just about certain I could have completed a 2-year degree in some mid-difficulty subject area by no later than 18—maybe as young as 16—if I'd found a way to get my GED over a Summer or something else that'd mark me as "college ready", applied, and been accepted to a community college.

I didn't try to do it because I didn't understand the relative difficulty of high school and (your average non-elite) college, at the time, though. High school eats so much time that college ended up feeling much easier, and the course work for subject areas outside the harder end of STEM wasn't a bit tougher than that of high school (the dividing line is essentially "is any of the math required more difficult than Calc 1?"). I wasn't expecting the first couple years of a 4-year degree to often fail to go past material we'd covered in 8th grade (looking at you, Psych. 101 requirement). I just expected it to be much harder than it actually was, since I gathered that's how it's supposed to be.
I don't see why this should be expected of any company honestly. If I want to price for the country that I'm trying to sell to, why should I be forced to care about or focus on a market segment that doesn't matter much to me?
They just pointed out that Netflix has different prices per region. Many service providers do.
I believe he's using the term branch different than you : 'alternate code path'
Nonono, you've got the saying wrong. It was "DOS isn't done until Lotus won't run."

The old Microsoft wouldn't bother competing at the app level if they could just kneecap the competition at the platform level instead.
"It's easy, just use genetic programming."

Not so easy for the one under selection!
Yeah, I wouldn't doubt that wired printing would be mostly bulletproof but getting our SL-M2020W's wireless/airprint functionality (under Windows) has been painful after multiple attempts at configuring.
Yes, this is something that the user would have to check out. My ISP is Comcast (a regular consumer account, not business). My contract specifically says that I am allowed to run servers from my home, as long as they aren't intended to be used by the general public.

I've been running my own servers from home for a very, very long time and it has never been an issue.

Running a social media node would probably count as "intended for the general public", but I'd bet that Comcast wouldn't really notice or care unless the amount of traffic exceeds a certain level or they start getting abuse complaints.
You're right. I'm not sure why regulations turn a blind eye on Amazon all the time.
They just use another employee to sign up. I know a number of people that do that - really laughable how easy it is to game Amazon.
Might be a US-centric view, I live in Europe and I’ve started seeing less and less engagement on FB for some time now. Granted, me and my friends are in our late-30s, early-40s so we’re pretty busy with life generally speaking, but even so public sharing of stuff is at least an order of magnitude lower compared to 2012-2013. Most of the conversation has moved into private groups that are hosted by FB or WhatsApp.
But gini coefficient measurements show the magnitude of inequality, and the magnitude today has returned to that of the 1920's robber baron era.

And the magnitude is important because there is a correlation between higher economic growth and a gini value showing lower inequality than today.
I once visited some friends in Brussels who worked for the EU parliament. Not in a political capacity. While there I found out about children as young as 9 or 10 who already speak several european languages.

It's really interesting to see what growing up in the political capitol of europe among children to diplomats can do to a kid.
If 2-day shipping time is not an important factor, then what I've started to do is just buy items from AliExpress and DHGate based on looking at # of orders and customer reviews.

The vast majority of stuff on Amazon could be found on AliExpress, DHGate, Alibaba, Tmall.com, JD.com, and Taobao.

At this point, I just gave up and decided to buy items I don't care about that much from their 'source' for less money in exchange for longer shipping times.

I wouldn't be surprised if the same overseas sellers have items being sold across every platform to maximize consumer exposure and potential orders. So many of the "brands" on Amazon are not even brands, it's just made up words next to a generic imported product. Like "iGoEnergeeFan" or something similarly stupid.

The market is just flooded at this point. Any dingus looking to 'get rich quick' could think "I know, I'll get into dropshipping or importing with Amazon FBA!". There are so many bullshit 'guides' already on this kind of 'passive income'.

The idea of selling cheap overseas crap to US buyers at a 200% markup is nothing new - it's been going on for the last 40+ years in retail.

Except, back in the brick and mortar days, not everyone could just open up a store and start selling. There are real estate, geographic, and management constraints, among others. That makes it difficult to penetrate the US Retail market side as an overseas Manufacturer/Distributor.

Fast forward to today, and the tables have turned. I could be the Chinese manufacturer/distributor AND the retailer, thanks to marketplaces like Amazon. Why wouldn't they want to go for vertical integration, when so much more money could be made at the retail level. Plus manufacturing, labor, and shipping costs are so low, the profit margins from selling junk on Amazon are enormous for those overseas sellers - even way more than domestic sellers.

At this point, why would any overseas sellers care to stop? They know the industry, they can directly interface with the factories, and they have plenty of people willing to work diligently to be among the top sellers on Amazon. They are definitely not stupid or naive, they know what to do and how to work the ecosystem in their favor. Those good ole' "produce cheaply overseas and markup in our stores" business models of American retailers have come right back around to bite them in the ass.
I like the NUC form factor since I can mount it behind my monitor. Makes for a clean desktop.
> Instead of running on Windows or Linux it would run on VMS or Unix.

And that means it would be in some institution or company, rather than in your home.

The big difference in 1979 would be that the consumer computing hardware available then was poorly affordable even for consume hardware, and terribly under-powered.

If you wanted to do anything beyond dinking around with some 1Mhz 8-bit processor with a few kilobytes of RAM, and weren't rich, you would only have access to decent hardware through work or school.
Don't forget untenable fuel costs, taxes on electric cars, un-walkable cities, and horrible public transportation!

Bonus Edit: Skyrocketing water bills, high electricity costs, and power outages
Another way of doing it is to run minio federation , might be a worthy alternative to Ceph, which has a reputation of hard to run product.
The environmental impact of extra plastic packaging is much greater than the impact of compostable produce.

And anyway, if Amazon has to ship extra books, they pay the publisher an extra time, and you can always donate the damaged book as well.
I said most, not all, and do you consider yourself average? I would consider an 18 year old with your skills to be rather exceptional. And 18 year olds like you were tend to go off to college and not enter the workforce right away, anyway.

And your last paragraph is exactly what I'm talking about, we argue about whether a plumber needs to know Shakespeare or whether a nurse needs to know about the Civil War, as if they know those things but would be better served with other, more practical knowledge, but, in my experience, basically nobody knows about those things, anyway, beyond a few cursory facts. Meanwhile, apparently a huge number of people can't do basic math.

As an aside, the kind of people I know who do know a lot about Shakespeare or the Civil War are the kind of people who would have learned it whether or not it was a subject in school.
Interesting rant about that: https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/al0abm/libertari...
> showed the price to jump the waitlist ... as $12.99 a month or $100 a year.

Yeah, not a big fan of this. You could buy very nice cloud hosting for $12.99 a month, and run your own instance of a federated social network like Mastodon.
No ads.

No (direct) YouTube tracking.

No need to sign in for 18+ / age restricted video.

Within the past few days, YouTube's mobile website has changed the player, for me, removing:

- Removing double tap left/right to skip forward/back within the video.

- Removing mute audio control.

- Adding skip forward/back in playlist. A feature I never use (YT's suggestions suck, I curate my own playlist.)

For now, Invidious retains the old player controls, allowing me to mute annoying-ass video and skip forward/back to repeat / bypass interesting / annoying bits.
LOL... from "Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!"[1] (which is insa^Wbizza^Wa very creative hack):

"The cartridge is the dual of the Nintendo."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0

edit: for a very impressive variation on the SMW "joke" in [1], I recommend this[2] video of TASbot streaming Skype realtime to [2xNES, SNES+SuperGameBoy] through the controller ports.

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CgXvIuZR40