skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saved my grandmother's life with this. She was embarrassed and didn't want me to. Super weird. She looked all round soft but her diaphragm was surprisingly tough, and it took a couple tries. A year later I learned that I had broken one (maybe two?) of her ribs.
All I can say is that I agree with everything in this article.
Google did about the same with Youtube when they pillaged it.
Whether or not Bitcoin should be worth anything.
Possibly. Government agencies (Australia most recently) are starting to require citizens to use e-mail addresses from "trusted" partners. Google is one of those partners.
We are having this conversation now without significantly impeding the work of astronomers.
Even faster connection establishment with QUIC 0-RTT resumption
You either use that brain time to generate income at work and then hand over that money, or use it in real-time to pay for the content. Ads are much faster and easier in that regard.
If you covered up all the screens in America, it still looks like 1989.
The two are mutually exclusive, so the "cool tech" can always be appreciated for what it is.
I'm pretty sure that already in 2019 losing a linkedin accout might have serious effect on your career. Not completely unemployable, of course but this could have significant impact in some industries
The NATO spelling alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, delta ... yankee, zulu).
I learned it through my background in amateur radio, but I've found it to be very useful, even outside my IT career, where I had to convey some precise series of letters over a voice link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Haha, always funny when an EU watcher starts singing the « wrong » theme song to a show and confuses all the Americans on the couch.
Figure eight bend > square knot.
If you lend me $X at 3.5%/yr for 30 years and I can earn 7%/yr elsewhere, like by investing in a S&P index tracker. Say there's no minimum payment on your loan, just to keep the math easy. In 30 years, I'm going to owe you 2.8 * X (via 1.035^30). My investment of that $X loan has grown into 7.6 * X (via 1.07^30). After tax, call it 6.5 * X. After I pay you off, I've earned about 3.7 * X.

If the initial loan was $400k on a $500k house, then yeah it sucks that I've payed you $1.1M, a clear overpayment, but I wont be sad because I'm coming out ahead by about $1.5M.

In reality, loans come with minimum payments, so you can't come out quite so far ahead. What this all means is if you can do something better with your money, (e.g. market tracker at 7% on a 3.5% loan), then just pay the minimum and do that better thing with the rest. If you can't (e.g. market tracker at 7% on an 8% loan), then pay it down as fast as you can, or don't take it in the first place unless there are other factors.
It is whataboutism, but the U.S. is guilty of a lot of similar things that China is, not as bad in most cases, but I think it's fair to compare the Uyghurs to Guantanamo, the way we're treating immigrants at the border, or how discriminatory our justice system is towards black people.

We have a higher percentage of people in jail then China by a lot (5x). Many of them are in jail for political/racial reasons (the Drug War, Immigration).

We have the NSA spying on all of us. As well as Google, FB, etc.

We treat our protestors horribly as well, look at what the FBI did to black rights protesters or look at how the Dakota Access pipeline protesters were treated.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with Drew on this article, and I'd support a boycott, but in the words of someone I'm not a fan of: "Set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world."
I have had many customer service supervisors give incorrect information. They've generally only got what they see in the CRM/ticketing system to go on; it's entirely possible that they may not be privy to, say, a note from the legal department.
Honestly, Ansible. I spent a week on Puppet a couple years ago, and was barely making progress. (Disclosure: I'm not a Ruby developer and only have basic understanding of that language).

I picked up Ansible in about one hour and already had a server's setup automated by the end of that hour. Now I automate 99% of everything using Ansible... and it's not much more complicated today than it was when I started.
Modern economists are completely out-of-line with reality on many things, "life outside of George Mason University" being one of them.

Pick your flavor of elitist sub/urbanism, it doesn't matter, none are substantially different.

(HN's poor Markdown formatter transfers asterisks cross-paragraph, so what was originally "George Mason University (asterisk)" and "(asterisk)Pick your flavor" just made everything between italicized.)
That's what IE did in the past with high security enabled

Ironic ain't it?
Doesn't make it any less ridiculous. They support enterprise businesses, many of which are not going to switch to Catalina for many reasons.
That makes somewhat more sense. Trading a signed title without a lien for a check places a lot of risk on the dealer. Although there are ways to mitigate this, maybe the dealer in your case didn’t feel like bothering or it didn’t occur to them.
Iperf is really useful to test your own LAN. Didn't know you could use it to test your ISP speed (in some cases)
The new house of statisitk in berlin alexanderplatz
He definitely isn't.
On the crane thing, I used to work in a warehouse with 150t overhead cranes and we'd never walk under loads, but we were also the operators, they were remote controlled, so the safety was engrained from the beginning.

I also worked on sites where you don't have a conventional work space such as construction sites and it seemed to be pretty casual with being under the load if you were working in the area or holding the guide rope. In my case we didn't really have an option most times to not be in the way because it was a confined space, that's fun to think about.

I think because depending on the job crane safety and awareness are not primary concerns for a lot of construction workers and those safety practices never get taught unfortunately.

In the same factory with good crane safety, I also almost got killed by an oversight in loto when I guy through a sheet of plastic and there was 240v line running behind it, not in conduit, and I was standing on the top of a ladder. Burned through the entire razor blade in my hand. Thank fuck the blade holder was plastic.
The risk of this sort of thing is why I have never, and will never, develop for platforms that I need a "developer account" or the approval of the company for.

It's far too dangerous to allow any company to be in a position where they can flip a switch (intentionally or not) and turn your business off.
can you share the range at which your business was acquired?
but it doesn't work on a bunch of machines - this is not about individual machines but a network.
Where I fell off the MMM train, within hours of discovering it, was a post about healthcare costs on the individual market where he wrote about how cheap they could actually be...

- If you had enough money in the bank to cover an extremely high family deductible for a year without it causing serious pain, if something bad happened, AND ALSO

- Two adults either of whom could, in months if not weeks, land a job with decent to excellent pay and a much better family insurance coverage, so there's almost no risk of having to pay that high deductible more than once, worst-case scenario is one of you has to work for a while.

Like yeah, no shit buddy, if you have in demand skills and are already rich health care can be cheap. Stuff's cheaper for the rich, news at 11. Thanks for the advice.

Then what really got me were the people in his comments section (can't recall if he was down there too, but he certainly didn't discourage it) shitting on anyone who even ever so timidly pointed out that this advice was entirely useless—no part of it actionable—for people who were still trying to become FIRE-tier rich, despite its being presented as generally useful advice and a tone of "I don't get why people complain about health care costs, what dummies!" throughout the post.
> don't blame the player, blame the game

I don't think this is a good excuse when dealing with public safety. We should, however, acknowledge all parties culpable.

"Over the past decade the company contributed around 245 times to political action committees which in turn made their own donations." [0]

The government is also to blame.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/pge-california-politic...

More coverage.
[1] https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/governor-n... (sorry for the ads)

[2] https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...

Edit: Formatting
Looks like PR to me
robotics != animatronics

I dont care how sympathetic my mechanical slave is. I just want it to spot weld my car bodies perfectly, repeatedly and cheaply.

People adapt to technology -- you dont need to anthropomorphize the outputs, you need to make them simple to understand. LEDs, tones, motion etc can all do this without getting in the way of a robots core functions the way a sophisticated expressive system would. R2D2 'nuff said
I'm using a Kinesis Freestyle 2 split keyboard with a separate num pad in between the left and the right side. Works nicely for me.
A difference is that while copyright restrictions as such are nearly universal worldwide, any further restrictions like those imposed by DMCA are USA-specific, so for decades there have been actions (and software tools) that were considered 'shady' in USA but legal and condoned elsewhere.

Region-lock is one thing. Selling "chipped" game consoles is another - while piracy is obviously a clear driver, as long as no pirated software exchanges hands, in many places outside USA it was legal to sell consoles with pre-installed mod-chips that can play "game backups", so major legitimate electronics stores did so.
And cutting off access is quite possibly reasonable. But they've gone quite a bit farther than "no notice" in refusing to answer any questions after the fact (or even point to the contract and any provisions they may think he is in violation of, if this is not just wild speculation) when approached by him. It makes their position that this is some sort of contract dispute far weaker. I assume there is an arbitrage clause in the contract? Has Apple contacted that party yet?
https://launch.blendle.com

They still are doing it - the issue of course is blendle wants me to be the portal from which I read all my news - and I want to read it from wherever, my account bring debited when I read a blendled page.
First of all Apple earned the criticism that led to this rule. In what universe do we not have the right to denounce dumb shit corporations do? They simply have no right to quash free speech. This is exactly what being vindictive is.

In the buildup to this rule Apple was wrong, inconsistent and sometimes just ridiculous in their app rejections.

Calling broad attention to their problems, like their keyboard issues, is the only way they choose to listen.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=funniest%20apple%20app...
The Holo / Holochain project was founded with this principle as a primary goal:

https://holo.host

We’ll be implementing CRDTs soon, but the concept of local control of all data, authenticated and encrypted communications, etc. is implemented.

One fundamental difference between apps that support this and those that cannot: agent-centric vs. data-centric design.

Strangely, many “distributed” applications (eg. Bitcoin) didn’t make the “leap” to agent-centricity, and thus missed out on some key enabling optimizations.

As a result — they are forced to implement “global consensus” (expensively), when they didn’t need to, to achieve their goals: a valid global ledger, in Bitcoin’s case.

It turns out that, to implement things like cryptocurrencies, you don’t need everyone, everywhere to agree on a “total order” for every transaction in the entire network!

Agent-centricity, FTW!
This is all over Reddit as well unfortunately. I don't spend much time at all on Twitter, but I recognized what the author was talking about as I'm on Reddit.

"Cringe" really doesn't require or merit this level of philosophical analysis. Since Reddit banned subreddits built around mocking/shaming minority groups and overweight people, "cringe" became its replacement.

It's a way to signal to other people whose lives revolved around abusing people online, that something is a target to pile on against. A 20-second video of someone playing rap music from a BT speaker in the subway? "Cringe", aka "let me use this to make a broad generalization about the lifestyle and career prospects of this person".

I don't know how old the average Reddit user who posts on those subs are, but I sincerely hope they grow out of it once they get out a bit more and meet people not exactly like themselves.
this is why I literally created a new user ID yesterday solely for Google's Stadia

Not enough. Google's ban hammer can hit not only an allegedly infringing account, but also any account it suspects is even related to that account. Share an IP address? Log in from the same place regularly? Machine has cookies for both? It's all gone.
As a Hong Konger, thank you for writing this.

One nitpick: Hong Kong has its own legal definition of "rioting". It's from the Public Order Ordinance[1], and carries a maximum 10 years jail sentence. The entire law itself is quite draconian and was struck down in the final days of British rule, but was reinstated immediately after the handover.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Order_Ordinance
Loki Reaches GA with v1.0.0 Release
>increase in price

I, and I’m sure many many others, would be willing to pay a little more if I know that money is staying here and supporting families in this country. I can do without more plastic crap from China, and I consider it strategically important that high tech manufacturing comes back to the US. For defense reasons, among others. I’m sure someone will link the Wikipedia page with some neat plots from “economics 101”, which is fine. But some things are worth paying a little more for.
> "Scalable" no idea what it means.

Generally refers to the idea that a microservice should be designed to scale horizontally (with more instances) vs. vertically (more compute power). If you can scale horizontally you're more likely to be able to meet changes demand at a lower price.
I imagine he crossed some terms of service with obvious legal clarity... so, I guess I’m not sure Apple should separate his “official” and “unofficial” actions.

IDK. Maybe I’m just big into personal responsibility and knowing that you shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds you. He did a thing, and now pays a price. I guess I don’t see a lot of gray area.

Could you make the argument that Apple’s walled garden has issues, sure. But this guy clearly broke his contract so why would he or I be surprised when he was kicked out?
> I wasn’t quite alive when this happened so

But also not completely dead I see
Iran's internet blackout approaches four-day mark
"EPR involves rapidly cooling a person to around 10 to 15°C by replacing all of their blood with ice-cold saline."

That part seems to be new.
currently, i use split and concave mechanical keyboards with 38 keys[1] and 42 keys[2] and i have no problem so far. i also put mods on the homerows for left and right hand. whenever i want to type numbers, i only have to move down my thumb and then move down one of my three fingers. for symbols, i write haskell and racket, i don't have any problem either. as for f-keys and common shortcuts, i also don't have any problem. while writing prose, i literally don't have to move my wrists at all[3]. and here's my current layout [4].

[1] https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/248892149/IMG201...

[2] https://github.com/ibnuda/dactyl-keyboard/tree/coffin or tree/master

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIBFrzXZbec

[4] https://github.com/ibnuda/qmk_firmware/tree/rarded/keyboards...
> we are not paying for it

"With location sharing data, 60 billion messages sent per day and access to users' entire contact lists, Facebook has access to a ton of personal information – all uploaded and saved on its servers."

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/04091...
Said it better than I could've – there are some pretty obvious reasons why Rambo's account could've been suspended, the clear violation of NDAs being the main one, with him publishing information about unreleased products. I'm honestly kind of surprised they let him keep his Developer account all this time.

My bigger issue here is the complete lack of transparency or visibility into the process. It's this kind of stuff is why I strongly support some government action to change the current state of affairs with regards to the App Store being the only way to get apps on iOS.

These companies have been notoriously opaque in how they make such decisions (and sometimes inconsistent), and the fact that their stores are monopolies on their platforms makes this much worse.
The destruction of much of the working class industrial base also provides the opportunity to shift them into a right wing alliance with the ruling class through scapegoating. And because of both their location (the industrial Midwest) and undemocratic structures like the electoral college, allows the ruling class to maintain a tight grip on executive branch power.
I think this is a terrible idea.

For starters, I can tell you from firsthand experience that saying "I don't speak X" does not "kill the interaction." It is invariably taken as ironically humorous, and a sincere effort to fit into the local culture. I've never had anything but a positive response to it, and I have traveled extensively throughout the world.

Furthermore, putting myself in the listener's shoes, if a foreigner walked up to me and recited a random movie quote in broken English I would be utterly nonplussed. I mean, think about it: a random stranger walks up to you and the first words out of their mouth are, "No palace, no palace." I can't imagine any reaction other than: WTF?
A bit of shameless self promotion: I built a more basic merge bot for GitHub that efficiently updates and merges PRs because we were wasting a ton of time keeping branches updated at work.

https://github.com/chdsbd/kodiak
My power is scheduled to be shut off by this outage. It was literally raining all night, the roads were still wet as i was leaving for work this morning.

The ground is soaked. I don't see how a fire could spread in this weather.
The only problem with that is we are living longer and longer, but wanting to retire earlier... it's really an individual thing, and you have to make sure that whatever you're invested in, you will have the principle + earnings to be able to cover your needs for however long you live.

Keep in mind that costs for elderly care have gone nowhere but sky-high in the past decade or so. It's not crazy to plan on paying 10-25,000/month once you reach your 80s or 90s (or more if inflation rises).
That's surprising, didn't left-leaning employees at Google heavily criticize Dragonfly? Why weren't they worried about offending Chinese nationals?
Richard Nixon carries a lot of responsibility for the current situation. He never ever put the human rights issue on the table, he never pressed on the issue, because from the beginning his sole goal was having access to a cheap workforce, and damned the rest.
The Communist Party situation at that time rested on the abuse of power. Nixon just strengthened their position by given market access and capital without pressure on the human rights issues.

Actually, the cynic in me thinks that this was by design. By reinforcing the power of the communist party, american corporations wouldn't have to worry about the chinese workers fighting for better labor and environmental conditions, thus keeping costs low.
I applaud standing up to China's human rights violations.

But this post grossly underestimates the short term economic effects that cutting trade ties with China would have. Companies would go bankrupt. It is quite likely that the US and possibly the world would enter a recession or depression. These events will have devastating effects on people around the world far beyond the 1%.

We are part of a world economy. We are dependent on China and China is dependent on us.

Surely there are better ways to effect change in China than waging economic war. War of any kind will cause suffering.
Indeed, HK was the main inspiration for a classic cyberpunk scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTLckN9e7I
Most reporting about intentional cut-offs makes vague claims about PG&E wanting to avoid future culpability.

All the reporting I’ve seen is missing a key, interesting fact. A judge’s court order from January requires them to do these intentional shut offs.

Source, w/ link to the court order: https://twitter.com/mikeknoop/status/1189400411175710722
The 1980s was such a great time for imagining the future. That feels all but lost now. Are there any contemporary visions of the future that are as forward thinking as the cyberpunk universe imagined in the 80s?

It feels like all we're left with is retro-futurism to get our fix.
Is it ? https://web.archive.org/web/20141226094343/https://developer...
That is my vision for https://edible.estate, version 2 (version 1.0 should be done this year).
What is the alternative to Apple?

I don't see Linux being solid in a few years time (or ever really). I say this after trying Linux again every year in the hopes that this is the year it is solid.

My anecdotal experience for this year is that the latest Ubuntu release had a problem where after performing a clean install and rebooting, the login screen will not allow me to enter the desktop. Turns out the desktop was crashing in the background because of a Nvidia driver. If they cannot even QA the login procedure with the default software then I don't have long term confidence. I will definitely try again in 2020 in the hopes that I am wrong.

Windows is degrading as they add more cruft to the OS while ignoring fundamental flaws that have persisted for years. Basic things such as smooth mouse movement and dual monitor scaling still do not work correctly. Meanwhile I am bombarded with more and more cruft that steals focus from whatever I am doing.
Not surprisingly vox cites the most contested study ever on minimal wage by Krueger.

The law to rise minimum wage was scheduled to come into effect months ahead of actual law taking effect. Fast Food restaurants had time to lower employment before. Actual study wasnt taking that into effect
https://www.google.com/search?q=before%3A2016%20china%20huma...
To be fair, having a contract terminated by violating it isn't really the result of "monolithic software pipelines controlled by a corporation".
Plus you have to get rid of the old oil, which usually requires a trip to a garage type business anyway. So you're not even saving a trip.
Satoshi Treasure Hunt Launches New Quest on Tupelo
It's more like sci fi evokes the lore of Hong Kong: https://medium.com/@ray.zhu/bridging-the-gap-sci-fi-cinema-a...
I'm not talking about 3rd party cookies.

I'm talking about a sameSite cookie made for the publisher, via a proxy on the server.