skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right-wing has been claiming anti-conservative bias in big tech for a while now. Banning political ads, even if done across the board, would be likely to ramp that up dramatically. https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20756734/trump-google-anti...

For example: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/republicans-criticize-goog...

> President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and other Republican election groups criticized tech giant Google on Tuesday for making it harder for political advertisers to target specific types of people. The GOP groups said the changes will lead directly to suppressing voter turnout and would “disproportionately” hurt Republican candidates.
I totally agree, it's not easy at all.

Anyone attempting to take on this space is going to have their hands more than full and they're far more likely to fail than succeed.

Personally I wouldn't even try, mostly because the tools themselves can enable much easier more likely to succeed lower hanging fruit and that's how I use them.

If you want to make money "using" these tools then Huginn is your best option and it gives you a competitive advantage over those you're competing with that are using Zapier to do similar things.
There are a lot of ways to skin this particular cat.

I've found vim-lsp is probably the best starting point, as you can plug any server you want into it, and have a consistent interface.

https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp/wiki/Servers-Pytho...
There’s a larger concern (at least for me) not being discussed here. There is conflicting information from Honda: the customer support rep stated (allegedly) that Honda did have the location of the car while the spokesperson later denied that Honda ever had the location of the car. If the customer support agent is correct, the driver was in a vehicle, owned by him, that had surveillance technology in it without his knowledge and that could be activated by Honda, a private company, without his consent. That’s not ok.
Have you seen the settings of the current version of YouTube? First of all, it took me a good ten minutes to find them, because now I have to scroll down on the Account screen to reach it, and there is no indication that this screen is scrollable.[1] No scrollbar visible until you start scrolling. Nothing peering up from the bottom end. No drop-shadow at the bottom. It just looks like the the last option on the page is Turn on Incognito.

Once I reach the settings menu, it took me a while to figure out what I could click on and what I couldn't. The buttons are not buttons, they're just text. In fact, everything is text[2], only the context ("Live chat" vs "YouTube, a Google Company") suggests that something is clickable.

Why?

[1]: https://andai.tv/img/youtube.png

[2]: https://andai.tv/img/youtube2.png
Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in 10 Years
Not using deep equality allows for huge performance gains. You can use an immutability library like https://github.com/guigrpa/timm to handle mutations, if you want to edit a nested property on an object and return a new object.
From the article:

Honda Canada spokesperson: "Without an active subscription, the police would have to present a warrant to activate the location services on the vehicle and no such warrant was provided. At no time was Honda or its HondaLink provider aware of the location of this vehicle."
It was a reasonable enough mechanism for the 70s. It certainly isn't now.

Now you want to do all legitimate local privilege escalations via IPC.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JaLjwSpZ6Cs

What's he building in there...?
>OTOH, turning on the tracker ASAP gets you a location now, and that's something the police can move on.

Can you get a police response in time to move on that information? In the world of police response priorities, I can totally understand that a stolen vehicle (even with active tracking in progress) pretty low on the list. Active car jacking, send a unit to respond. Reporting a car theft from a shopping mall parking lot, send a unit when available.
> they would never dream of buying a used mattress that even one person has slept on

Lol. Many people buy "new to you" mattresses.
I actually switched to Maps.me (F-Droid's "Maps", technically) for most uses because OsmAnd's renderer is a lot slower, what did you mean by "much faster"?
The front page of your blog has been archived a few hundred times since 2006. I'm pretty confident you can recover most of your posts, if you want:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060801000000*/pointlessramblin...
Facebook: a place to share things approved by a board of corporate trustees.
Whistleblower is the title of her book.
> I'm very sorry to hear that! coming from a Vancouverite.

Not even made - given everything going on, I'm sincerely thinking about heading out that way myself.
If the government wants to set up a tax structure to pay Honda for its call center staffing, the government is perfectly able to do so modulo things like votes and whatnot.
Exactly. It would be like buying an insurance policy after your house burned down, and expecting the insurance company to pay up retroactively.

Although Honda could save themselves some grief by not tracking at all if the owner doesn't have the service.
You need a routing engine on top of the OSM data. Common projects that do this are GraphHopper, Openrouteservice, OSRM and pgRouting.

I use Graphhopper and Openrouteservice - both are very actively maintained.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7w33zSxzXN5blasm8mk6cc
Pycharm still requires and assumes you have a local python environment.
My preference would be to check if issetugid() then remove all env vars from environ[] that start with "LD". Don't even getenv() them.
I think it is a bit different.

While requiring a warrant from law enforcement is likely correct, refusing to give the owner the information necessary to track a signal from their own property is wrong. The owner of property should have a right to the information necessary to access a signal emitted by their own property. A situation where an owner does not have that right is essentially claiming that the device is leased rather than owned.

(Of course Honda wouldn't want this because then they'd have to compete with other providers for connected car services. Instead they wish to maintain a monopoly over Honda owners who may only choose between their service and no service.)
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See if they have any team photos on their About page or elsewhere.

In the case of tech, generally you can just dress how you normally dress. Or watch Silicon Valley if you're unsure.
Get some 3M work tunes headphones. Really cheap and they work much better than active noise canceling headphones.
Awesome project! Super impressive and will check out later
Why do hangovers happen and what can you do about them?
Every time I feel like writing a "pastbot" I start to think it ought to be part of the site, and then I look up top and see the "past" button! :-) Maybe it should be highlighted and blinking if it's a frequent flyer...
But this is absolutely a copyright issue! If a company has copyright on something I use, I need a license from them. Now we don't know what Russian courts will decide here, and we also don't know whether courts in other countries would respect that. What could happen as a worst case "robbery" scenario is that the developer is forced to agree they never had copyright!

So whether or not the claim was unjustified, it might become a huge problem not just for the individual developers of Nginx but for everybody distributing it or using it. And that has a lot to do with how copyright works.
That's awesome - understand the game and play it...and make your money doing it. Stroked egos sign paychecks!
In addition, every additional setting multiplies the number of states your application can be in, and the combinatorial explosion of states is mostly not well-tested. If you set even a handful settings to non-default values, it's likely that you are running the application in a totally unique configuration that's not used by any other developer or user. If you encounter bugs, you're liable to get the "Idk, it works on my machine" response.

This blog post also covers other good reasons why user options are often not the right choice: https://garethrees.org/2013/06/13/options/
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Complying with police and/or court orders is a cost of doing business. If your business subjects you to that beyond a trivial amount, the cost needs to be otherwise built-in to your business plan.

Especially if you're a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. They can't exactly claim ignorance like a start-up might.
What does it even mean "to prove a PDE"? The million dollars is for proving certain properties of a PDE, in this case, whether smooth solutions exist.
*the difference between science and mathematics.

Physicists normally care little whether their mathematical tools are formally proven correct. See: the Feynman path integral. It makes sense and gives correct answers, but as far as I know, it has no rigorous mathematical basis.
Yeah, that makes more sense
If you aren’t going to play anything why not just use earplugs?
Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed - 2 years is a long time
I hate the anti-suit thing in SV. Suits look great, you feel great wearing a good tailored suit, and honestly with so many engineers wearing the "unicorn uniform" of Supreme and Common Projects, it's not like they can't afford a suit anyways.
Nicer hotels usually don't have cameras in guest corridors or fire stairwells.
Also discussed on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786760790/44-000-year-old-ind...

The NPR story quotes one of the authors of a paper published today in Nature... but then brings in an unrelated graduate student to say, without evidence, that painting was invented somewhere other than Southeast Asia: "Personally, I think ... Africa."
From your link: "go-out-for-a-beer test"

I am sure this is not a literal "going out for a beer", but still it bothers me that it exists and is called that way. I am 40yo (still junior though as I started learning to code at 37) and I don't drink.

I like to work on startups because I like to be generalist and solve problems that impact the fate of the company. So I always work with a lot of young people that like to go out. It is always a mismatch that I rarely go out with the team, and sad that this "go-out-for-q-beer test" is considered normal in some places.
For others who find they need too-loud music or noise, here's my 3 step process that works.

1. Get any in-ear earbuds (for noise even cheapy ones are fine, for music pick whatever type you like).

2. Get the foam tips to fit them: https://www.complyfoam.com/products/t-series/

3. Put some hearing-protection ear-muffs on top

A tiny amount of noise will make all other sounds disappear at this point.
> I'm surprised hotel chains don't have a nationwide blacklist.

https://www.whosyourguest.com/en
PICO-8 seems to cost $14.99: https://www.lexaloffle.com/games.php?page=updates

Is this not open source? Are there any open source alternatives to PICO-8? The idea of PICO-8 is really good and I really liked it but I would like this to based on something open source so that I know that the platform will not disappear at the whims of the vendor and that I can hack on the platform itself if necessary.
Ask the recruiter. This is a common question. I've had them blow it off as dress nice but I usually ask them to tell me what the hiring manager is wearing (recruiting often dresses nicer)
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There is also ActiveWorkflow[1], which targets business users and let's you write custom agents in any programming language[2].

1. https://github.com/automaticmode/active_workflow
2. https://github.com/automaticmode/active_workflow/blob/master...
Rude paper reviews are pervasive and sometimes harmful, study finds
These exist! Yes.

- You can still use QBASIC and compile it to an EXE. Distribute your game with a copy of DosBox, and it will work uniformly across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

- If you like Lua, go for Pico8 or LÖVE. Pico8 is fairly constrained, and LÖVE is a bit more general.

- If you like JavaScript, write a game that uses the 2D canvas and Web Audio API. You can upload this to your website and play it on any computer.

- Haxe (look it up, I don’t know it well enough.)

- If you like something more capable, try out a game engine like Unity. You can hack together a simple game following tutorials and create Windows, Linux, and macOS builds at the touch of a button.

I think it’s worth discussing why people like “constrained” systems in a bit more depth, because some of the things I’ve mentioned above are definitely not constrained.

As you get older and more experienced, you develop opinions about how software should be developed, and most can’t turn these opinions off at will. These opinions range from ones about the programming experience (compile times, type systems, testing) to the user experience (small downloads, no unnecessary libraries, support for specific targets, etc.)

Spend some time with a kid in high school who loves making video games. Let me tell you, even though I am 100% a better programmer and better software engineer than the high school kids I meet, I still get a fresh dose of humility when I work with them on game projects.

They simply don’t care about type systems, testing, or library dependencies yet. They just want to put cool things in their game and share it with other people. The tools for making that happen, and making it happen easily and quickly, are better than they have ever been. The tools are also free (as in beer), once you have a computer and internet connection.

So if you want to rediscover the experience of programming like a kid again, try rediscovering the wild and eager mindset of programming like a kid, and you’ll find that the modern tools are pretty damn cool.
https://about.fb.com/news/2018/12/facebooks-partners/
From your defensive tone it sounds like you think I was talking about you, but I really wasn't. It's a phenomenon I've observed here and on Reddit and elsewhere for many years. And it seems like a perfect fit for a tool such as yours, is it not?
To add on that, for all cases really means a lot more than bends in pipe or air off a wing or smoke which we have difficulty with today. You'll need to hit everything, plasma on the Sun, exotic matter, it leads to quasiparticles for the many-body problem.

My interest in this subject is I hope new developments lead to cardiac therapies. I send some buzzing acoustic signal with a pacemaker, I can treat blockages in the brain or tumors in hard to reach organs. A lot better to me than building faster missiles to blow more people up.
You (most likely) don't need a single-page application
Using natural resource shocks to study economic behavior
I'm excited to check this out, but I wanted to congratulate you on a truly excellent project name. Having spent many, many hours in naming struggles, I truly appreciate the perfection.

And for those unfamiliar, the (also amazingly named) historian Snori Sturluson explains: "Two ravens sit on his (Odin’s) shoulders and whisper all the news which they see and hear into his ear; they are called Huginn and Muninn. He sends them out in the morning to fly around the whole world, and by breakfast they are back again. Thus, he finds out many new things and this is why he is called ‘raven-god’ (hrafnaguð)." [1]

[1] https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/others/hugin-...
Not to disagree with you, but maybe, just maybe, the FBI agents and lawyers in this case were consciously not following protocol on purpose. And maybe, just maybe, they do that quite often, and even in completely run-of-the-mill, non-politically-relevent cases. Maybe, just maybe, the protocols they purposefully ignore are there so they can say mistakes were made if caught. Those protocols seem to have no teeth, after all.
The Maps.me iPhone app has turn by turn navigation
I have a few years muscle memory with basic vim. I'm not the most efficient yet, mostly limited to hjkl, :wq, and %s//, but I know enough to edit a file on a remote system in vi and I think that's close to all I need. I use evil in emacs because I hate and don't want to learn vimscript, and because I like the concept of literate programming in org mode and want to learn it (recently tried literate programming hacky wifi config setup, found it reduced repetition and confusion).

I'll take a look at your links, but I don't think RTFMing will be super useful to me right now. I want to learn the kind of questions I should be asking. For example, I recently heard the words "selinux" and "apparmour". Now that I know them I can Google around and eventually figure out how to use apparmour, but I'm more worried about what other gotchas I've never thought of. Any advise for something less comprehensive than the docs, with more of a focus on what works nowadays?

Thank you!
Nobody said their job was "easy" in the hiring advertisement!

When you get a Judge to agree that their is adequate reason and gain a warrant, you use your resources to surveil the target in public/private, using your considerable means as a law enforcement agency. Drones, bugs, malware, other espionage techniques.

This is nothing more or less than these agencies complaining that free peoples are making their jobs harder.

One big problem is cowardice: it is easier and safer to attack the liberties of law abiding citizens (because they won't shoot you in the face), in the hopes that, by sacrificing your citizen's liberties you might pick up a few more incompetent bad guys. Its way more dangerous to actually go out, do your job, and surveil a dangerous bad guy, who will shoot you in the face.

If that's a problem -- then the law enforcement complainers need to go get a new, safer job, and leave the heavy lifting to their braver counterparts.
According to the article,
“Ablhd told Global News that he wasn't briefed on the service when he purchased the vehicle, which he says he would have sprung for had it been offered.”
Even if that’s no true, he still payed many thousands of dollars for a vehicle, which has GPS tracking capability, which was seemingly always active, considering they told the police they knew where the car was located, but told them to pound sand because they didn’t pay an exorbitant price for a service that likely costs Honda basically nothing to run.
> Yeah rotor tip speed is Mach .7

The thin atmosphere cuts both ways. It generates less lift. But it inflicts less drag.
> Oil pressures usually don't come up enough to properly lubricate components on the engine while cold idling for long periods of time.

I haven't seen this in practice. In fact, I see the opposite. My 2003 350z has an oil pressure gauge, and when it's idling while cold (say, < 40 degrees F), the pressure is actually higher than it is when cruising on the highway once it's warmed up.

I attribute this to the oil being "thicker" when cold.

On a really cold start, the pressure goes well beyond 60 PSI until the RPMs taper back down from around 1500 to the normal cold idle of ~1000, at which time it drops a bit.
Isn't this where Linux excels?
The article btw is really really shady. Barely at the beginning of it:

"The scheme is a radical attempt to cast some light on Greece's huge shadow economy, the world's largest"

and let's look at https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/shadow_economy/

wow.. wait, Greece is barely at place #86 out of 158 countries. Hmmm someone did not do his due diligence here.

Then we have the following.

"Greece also has one of the lowest internet usage rates in the EU at 72 per cent". Per https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
it's definitely not great. Trailing by at 45/54. We can remove Vatican City, San Marino, Isle of Man, Svalbard and Jersey (all have lower rates) and say that's true. But it's written way more sensationalist than it is. The mean is at 87.7% so there is definitely room for improvement.

At least the suggested result is pointed out like that, i.e. "This suggests that some in the country could struggle to meet the 30 per cent target". Not sure why, but anyway.

And then we have a repetition of the argument above

"Southern Europe, particularly Greece, have booming shadow economies. A study by the Institute for Applied Economic Research in 2017 found that Greece had the largest in the world, being equivalent to 22 per cent of gross domestic product."

Wait, which country's Institude for Applied Economic Research? It's not at all mentioned. Googling it, it turns out it's Germany and the actual research is at http://www.iaw.edu/index.php/aktuelles-detail/734. The actual number of countries studied? 20. Not sure what the criteria for their selection were. Out of a planet with 195 countries that's barely enough to justify the above (and the original research does not make such sensationalist claims) never mind the fact that countries like e.g. Thailand have double that rate.

Overall, kind of meh.
I mean, you wouldn't just drive in to a lake if it wasn't on your map.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOW_kPzY_JY
Honestly go to any large unicorn or many FANGs and those T-Shirt and jeans are often a $200 "hypebeast" style shirt, $200 raw denim jeans, and $400 sneakers. I mean, I'm guilty of owning more than one of those items but I think it's dumb to claim that wearing t-shirt and jeans is much better in this regard.
I have Bose noise canceling headphones, and my experience with them is that they do a really good job of blocking conversational noise if you use them with music.
>I personally choose to run Huginn on my own hardware in large part so that I'm comfortable giving it website cookies and passwords.

This, exactly and all of the above.

It really is a fantastic project and kudos to you for starting it.
Google can still affect you by not delivering your emails. I've had my own domain for personal, noncommercial use for 15+ years the past few with Rackspace as the email host. I accessed my email account with Thunderbird, webmail, BlueMail on the phone. As of a few days ago I cannot send email to friends with Gmail or businesses that subscribe to Gsuite. My messages are rejected at their servers. I think the domain name itself is triggering the block since Rackspace says their servers and IP addresses are clean.

I found out about SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and set them up, followed all the other instructions on assorted Google sites, and still no go. Apparently the blocks can take weeks to clear or may even be permanent. The reject emails say to contact postmaster@google.com which, of course, is pointless since I can't email the domain. I don't even think there's anything behind it if I could. There's no way to contact any person or group regarding the block which I think must have happened due to spoofing.

From what I can see, domains these days are assumed to be commercial for mass mailings and having one's own for incidental use is an outlier.
> Complying with police and/or court orders is a cost of doing business

If the police present a warrant, yes. Everything else is customer service.
I don't understand the urgency in recovering the stolen vehicle. It's a brand new car, which means it was insured, which means it can be easily replaced at no cost to the owner. If my car was stolen I'd be shopping for a new one, not trying to play cops and robbers.
that's a good point about continuing testing reference and optimized solutions - I could see a case being made for standardizing that kind of thing
I can only listen to instrumental songs that I'm really used to.
As someone who does this in other situations: because unlike earplugs, my headphones can also double as headphones in other situations.
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Are we supposed to believe that the people receiving the $130M will be somehow independent and make decisions without influence from Facebook? That doesn't sound very plausible.
> travel across the US one week a month

That seems excessive. I work remote and only have to fly in once or twice a year for a few days at a time, maybe a week.

Do you have an idea of why they don't go all the way and let you WFH on the same basis as I do?