skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but I just opened this person's profile to try to follow "him" and I read "queer | leftist | capitalism is a prison | he/him". Immediately closed the browser tab.
Isn't there another level which is only sufficient for crime if it is a Strict Liability law?

- accidentally: you know there's a risk of buying cobalt mined by slave children. So, you took the actions of a reasonable person to avoid that risk, but you failed.
They could have been more careful when designing the T-shirt: Both Elm and Ember are depicted as 'Em'.
> I'm trying to imagine UI that are graphical and beautiful but works with keyboard only, and it actually could be a very interesting world if that were popular.

Windows is mostly mouse optional. You very rarely need a mouse, it's just way more common to use one. My memory is a bit off, but I know Win 95 was fine, I think it got a bit worse in XP (a lot more things that were hard to tab to), and 10 is ok, but not great.
You can definitely say "read Mandarin", because particularly in informal contexts there is definitely a difference between "Standard Chinese" based on Mandarin and, say, spoken Cantonese written down.
Agreed. If it provides value then they're going to work on it whether we like it or not. Telling people they have to write a certain way to play with us doesn't help at all.
Some feminists surely do, but conflating some with all is a fallacy of composition that hinders discussion. Your reasoning in the rest of the comment seems rather questionable and veers into seeming even more like a generalization.
Or Tridactyl.
You do not want the same UI on desktop and mobile.
Facebook is a cesspool ... the sooner it goes the way of Myspace the better it will be for all of us.
A response to that paper:

https://onunicornsandgenes.blog/2018/11/04/journal-club-of-o...
awesome! it's good to see countries with actual real enforceable employee rights in this corporation owned world
MMS is just a SMS with a hash or link which combined with a HTTP proxy is then automatically loaded. It is a way to remotely load a picture, on a remote device. Not sure I actually want that feature. I always disable it on my SIM card.

Not trying to downplay, other people might prefer it. VoLTE provides a security and usability benefit over 2G, as does not using 2G/3G as backward compatibility.

Has anyone in Europe used PinePhone?
The heatmaps somehow look all wrong to me...? Almost every percentage has the 40+% color.
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(CPython 3)
It might seem like basic materialism, but a lot of philosophers suddenly loose their simple and clear-cut ontological stance as soon as the mind gets involved.
You greatly overestimate the number of users who care about how closed or how open an ecosystem is.

If the user can't interact with their bank, whatchu YouTube, talk to their friends and parents over Snapchat or Skype, call Uber, play Spotify, etc etc etc, it doesn't matter in the least if your phone is 100% open source.

Microsoft had sunk billions into trying to get the ecosystem off the ground. What makes you think that "a truly open system" will get that ecosystem?
It's Beeware. https://beeware.org/

> Write your apps in Python and release them on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, and tvOS using rich, native user interfaces. Multiple apps, one codebase, with a fully native user experience on every platform.
They also work in some airports, as I've been happy to discover.

(Mainly Scandinavia, though it appears to be at other locations as well.)
Code running in real mode has less overhead than long mode but who wants to use an OS that runs in real mode besides that templeos guy.
This is what happens when a status page becomes a marketing tool that you can use in a powerpoint presentation in order to assess “reliability” when choosing a vendor instead of something that you can actually rely on for monitoring purposes.
Snowden gained the vast majority of the electronic information from scraping web tools he had access to. Recall the "wget hacking tool" controversy, where he used the command line to retrieve internal websites. The removal of that information, and obviously the disclosure of it, was illegal.

The government didn't present a release claiming a substantial portion of the information was retrieved with that password list.
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Since the Senate has a Republican majority and every single Republican voted against impeachment, does this mean that removal from office is basically not happening?
Reason for that is, those directories are synced to your iCloud Drive.
Good at making weirdo awesome internal tools that can scale incredibly and solve problems like BigTable/Kubernetes but then suck at delivering it as a service to those outside of Google.

Amazon/Microsoft figured it out already.
Everything google is down here. Great, my phone will blow up from alarms any second now...

Edit: This is trying to access it from Bulgaria, I have no issues from my servers in Germany.
I'm fairly sure the occurrences of 'SW' in the parent comment stand for "sex working" or something akin to that and not for "software".
This makes open source phone cheaper to produce? Cheaper to ship?

13k phones won't cover even the costs of production, much less R&D
The whole threading library in Python is a mess. Python was designed around single threaded programs with shared-nothing state and the cracks show as you move beyond that. The whole idea of replacing the GIL with... multiple same-process distinct-state Python interpreters with cheap-ish message passing sort of highlights how ugly it gets.
An open internet-connected battery-powered computing device that looks great and can easily fit in pocket? I would gladly carry it along regardless of its phone functionalities. It looks perfect as smart remote for automating stuff around me, maybe one day even as voice-enabled personal assistant device.
Did you look at competition? CollegePlannerPro seems to fit the same area you're going for, did you differentiate from what they were doing? I just was curious if there's a market fit for something like this, always thinking of running w/ a failed idea that still has runway, but I have so many half-finished MVP's it's not even funny.

I've got a bookmark folder of startup ideas to clone. So far I've cloned 0. Too busy freelancing. But I usually like two types of businesses :

1. Simple w/ multiple competitors doing 5-10k+ per month, like uptime monitors, wp management, social media posters/schedulers, crm's, project management.

2. More complex apps usually vertical specific with nobody really competing or filling the void, or the ones that are out there are shitty. Whether an idea I had, or someone else on a forum/reddit/hn etc or failed.

Yours would've in my mental compartmentalization of 'apps to maybe clone/build' fit into the second category, but looking at what's out there, I don't think a 1 person team could really compete w/ CollegePlannerPro - seems to have most things you'd need as an IEC.

I'm just wondering if you saw what they were doing at any time and thought, well shit. I'll never be that good, might as well give up. (I've had that thought a lot!).

tldr; Have you seen College Planner Pro, did seeing a polished competitor like them have any influence on shutting down?
Redux is a bit like Java: it's possible to write well-designed software with it, but it's also gotten a reputation for being used by the sort of programmers who blindly apply "best practices" and create nine layers of AbstractFactoryGeneratorBeans for everything.

I suspect one factor in this is that if you know enough to apply Redux's patterns well, you probably also know enough to implement them yourself without bringing in a third-party NPM package. (Of course, not everyone will choose to do this --- maybe you like the Redux debugger UI or something --- but I think enough people do that it lowers the perceived average quality of codebases that do use Redux.) The library just doesn't do anything difficult in the way that, say, React's virtual-DOM diffing and reconciliation algorithms are difficult.
You're right that the actual number is too low. But I think he, and Pine64, are just being responsible in managing expectations. The issue isn't just that the software isn't done, but also that the hardware may not be 100% there yet. This happens all the time with devices when something along the lines of 'oh crap, this power rail isn't stable in situation X and causes the device to reset' is discovered with pre-production hardware. The fix is usually trivial but often requires a PCB/component change.

I would absolutely have ordered one already if it sounded like the hardware were final... right now it merely sounds very, very close. The message I get from these warnings is the non-zero chance that there will be some annoying hardware issue that comes to light before going into volume production. This would not be unexpected since this is the first time a wider community is getting to work with it.
One thing I miss about university is exams.

I miss being able to focus for just 2 hours on a task that would then give me a clear view on how well I knew the important mental models of a topic.
All Google services are down in Eastern Europe and Turkey. Cloud Status page also not accessible.
Yes, there are many mainland Chinese living in Hong Kong.
I use element-ui professional almost every day whose default language and some of the Github issues are Chinese but never had a problem with it. The bulk of the communication is still in english and the translation stuff was built in.

https://element.eleme.io/#/en-US/component/installation

The initial error/validation messages in the dialog box being in Chinese first caught me off guard, plus the website used to default to cn before that added geo filters later on, but a simple config change when you import element and set language to 'en' wasn't a big deal. And I never ran into problems otherwise communication wise. English is still very much the default communication language.

My first reaction was that it was awesome to have so much OSS coming out of China and it was top-tier UX/design level stuff using modern JS like react/Vue. If it helps their communities to be able to communicate in their own language while they contribute to the wider world of software with top-notch software than we all ultimately win in the end.

Localization is largely a solved problem.
Sounds good until you see the $: syntax
This is false. Integer division by zero is undefined, but floating point division is perfectly fine. Many languages have different operators to distinguish floating point and integer division, like pythons / for floats and // for integers.
Thanks, I appreciate it as I go on to the third day of trying to find why Javascript cannot get the correct width of an image but only under some circumstances unconnected to the JS code.
Tell me about it. I have tried my darndest to use types and tests to make things predictable. But there is always something that comes up.

It might be Javascript itself. It could also be the endless permutations of environments(browsers, resolutions, devices, etc) that we have to cater to.

Front End Web Development is hard.
> but he still drastically oversimplifies the space of GUI use-cases and ignores some of the key benefits of mouse-based interaction.

I think you've still missed the point. He's not saying that keyboards should be used most of the time, he's saying that keyboards are better for structured interfaces while mice are better for unstructured interfaces and a lot of what we consider to be unstructured interfaces are actually structured (e.g. twitter).

While I don't think he's 100% correct, I do think he raises a lot of interesting points if you can look past his rather unhelpful delivery.
Hah! No shit. I live in a neighborhood with a lot of steet prostitution. One night I was smoking a cigarette on my porch when a girl who was working that night popped out from behind a car, walked over and asked if I had a smoke, and I obliged her.

Apparently she was ducking a guy who had asked for services she wasn't comfortable with, and when they started to argue, she got out. He started to get out and then reached for something, and she booked it.

I asked her if she had seen changes since the passage of SESTA/FOSTA, which she wasn't aware of. She did tell me that the neighbors on the main drag wanted Backpage and the like back, because there had been a significant uptick in street prostitution.
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I'm a student at that university, though I don't have any contacts to the IT department or other sources of inside information.

I went to collect my new password already. The process was pretty smooth with only a little confusion where the queue split up alphabetically (not quite enough room, although it took place in a large gym; I guess they rightly prioritized giving the people behind the desks enough room to work).

It's interesting to see which systems of the university are more or less robust to the network blackout. Email is down, which has the nice side effect that people who would otherwise only communicate in written form now make calls or physical visits (as they cannot look up phone numbers on the web) to each others' offices. The library catalogue is not working, though apparently they successfully switched to a paper-based system for lending books after a few days (haven't tried it yet). The electronic payment system of the canteens appears completely unaffected. (I read on a sign recently that it is considered "obsolete" and subject to renewal – good thing they hadn't done that yet, I guess). The web platform with reading material for seminars is down. In some cases seminar presentations have to be given without slideshow projection because the designated presentation laptop got a red sticker. I don't now how labs with data on the central servers are doing (I'm in the humanities).
"Helpful NullPointerException" is a game changer. I haven’t tried it yet, but from the looks of it this seems to be a good enough reason to upgrade to Java 14 by itself.
Unlike English, the Sanskrit words do not change over time. Because in Sanskrit what you speak is what you write and what you write is what you speak.
That's what you get for catering to people who don't care for your work one bit.

The same people who are telling me that their computers are slow are the same people who need a flashy animated button for every single action and the same people who refuse to understand that passwords are not just a formality.

To each his own.
Have you considered how Chinese developers feel when they must not only browse English documentation, but learn English keywords present in every major programming language? How accessible do you think StackOverflow is to Mandarin speakers?

The solution is incredibly simple. Hire professionals or invite volunteers to provide an English version of the documentation. There is no need to force developers to learn an entire new language to be useful to the community as a whole. At the end of the day, it is the code that matters.

"I'm not a nice person, and I don't care about you. I care about the technology and the kernel — that's what's important to me."
- Linus Torvalds
Amazing TIL: the famous Berkeley hacker hunter and the Klein bottle guy are just flipsides of the same Möbius strip.
Well, whose theory? If you wanna see some deep stuff, look no further than Al-Farabi. But if you want more tempered things that feed into the achievement culture, this thread is full of good suggestions. You could also go to a used book store and just read old fake books. They usually had a primer or two as to what's going on.

As for the good Western harmony? I personally just watch Ted Greene geek out on the guitar. You could pick up his book Modern Chord Progressions and try a few of his voicings--they're angelic. Chick Corea and Barry Harris have also published extensively on different aspects of music theory. Both have monster ears and an elegance for explaining. I also dig the whole Almir Chediak "Songbook" series published by Lumiar editions. He's literally the guy that transcribed the book on Brazilian music.

Stephen Feld's explanation of the "lift-up-and-over" prosody of Kaluli weeping ceremonies may, however, just give you a sense of the many beautiful theories of music might you or I learn.
I still miss the old MSDN offline help system. Once you got the hang of it, most of the time, you could find what you needed right away by typing the right thing in the Index.
I would think any state in the world with decent anti-monopoly/anti-cartel laws.

But then again, maybe there aren't that many of these, right?
Bonus points on the resume!

“Successfully performed, large scale, real-world testing of future company policy”.
And all the more irritating because they had a perfectly usable image viewer which they could have used.
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> why did you reply?

Because I find the idea of taking human psychology into account interesting, as long as it is goal-oriented. I had hoped I'd learn something from this thread and from you on how to deal with others who either think climate change isn't a thing or who think that we could improve how we deal with this. This is what you're all about, right?

You claimed repeatedly that people who think climate chance is a thing are too absolute, too certain and that they should listen to the sceptics, or at least try to understand the sceptics and how they work and influence this discussion. Then, you state that the very absolutes are the problem, because they are exploited through memes and whatnot.

This entire discussion has one problem: It's asymmetric. Like with everything where conspiracy theories come up easily. One weak study that shows different results, or results taken out of context and boom, you have the cannon fodder to attack everything around "climate science". Thing is: The counter side sometimes even uses lies as their weapons.

There is no easy solution to that. It's the problem of many complex and invididually unverifiable topics. Whether it's climate science, vaccines, homeopathy or the moon landing.

And now you claim that the scientific community needs to be open to the arguments of the naysayers or at least take into account how the discussion can be made more productively? Please, I still challenge you: Enlighten us with a clear path on how to handle this discussion, if one side isn't willing to educate itself at least somewhat? Because you make it sound as if you've found a way to "exploit the human brain".
I also love it when there is an ellipsis menu … and once you click it there is just one option in it.

Edit: another of my favorites is a Cogweel icon for the contextual settings, another cogweel icon on the other side of the screen for the account settings, then a hamburger menu for navigatio, then an icon to display all apps (like the numpad icon) and then an another menu when I click my profile picture.

Every time I'm looking for a preference it's like it's Easter! :)
Yes, the nostalgia hit me hard with this.
I wonder how much easier this would have been in Borland C++ or Borland Pascal with OWL.

Or even Delphi! Delphi 1 targeted Win16.
Ignoring that you probably _don't_ want the same interface across all of those...

Qt, as well as Windows, macOS and Linux actually can do Android [0] and iOS [1], and Web is halfway there [2].

[0] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/android.html

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/ios.html

[2] https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_WebAssembly
OK and yet still, you're not doing anything to the people pushing 80% of the poison onto our communities? I mean really, are we supposed to thank you for that?

Maybe it would be more illustrative if I called it crack instead of opioids. You, in your magnanimity, are willing to show your concern for us by shutting down one of the twelve crack houses. And you expect us to thank you? Think of it this way, not one of you have mentioned, even once, doing a single thing about the other eleven crack houses on the block. Do you not see how we might have kind of a problem with that? You keep asking me to be happy about that crack house you shut down last year. Almost like you don't want me even bringing up the other eleven gangs slinging crack and killing people in the neighborhood.
Same as everywhere else: some managers needed to justify a promotion.

P.S. not from MS
If you're looking in good faith for actual answers to the question, you should only trust answers that quote the opinions and filings from both cases (or at least link to them) that illustrate the difference, else you would find it more productive to search for those opinions yourself.

Every other answering reply is very likely to be armchair conjecture.
I'm not aware of any games with an up-front cost of $100, but the model is moving towards in-game purchases.

70% of Fortnite players have made in-game purchases, spending $85 each on average.
source:
https://www.businessofapps.com/data/fortnite-statistics/
I use Everything from Void Tools.
As the article says, lots of sites in a mad panic did a purge of sex
and dating related content since SESTA/FOSTA was passed.

I've launched Libr, which won't be doing any such purge. It was built as a replacement for Tumblr. I'm in Australia, SESTA/FOSTA is an American law.

https://librapp.com
I think it's actually close to what I'd like without getting there. The "click to read more" essentially gives me an overview of the comments. When you click on an individual comment, it expands to give you a more detailed view.

I think what I really want is something more akin to org mode, where it's expanded/contracted by default (configurable) and when I hit a single key, it expands portions to reveal more detail. I often find when I'm in the middle of a thread, I start to think that I'm wasting my time and want to collapse that thread in some way so I can start searching for where I want to reinsert myself. I rarely want to read every single comment on one of these services. Basically, I think the intention is on the right track, but the execution is poor. Getting it right would be tricky, but I hope someone tries and sets a better bar than the one we have.
I'd say that the topic of "node.js" skill covers such a wide range of skills, experience and scenarios, that you'd need to be an expert already to judge how little you know. Someone who'd applied it to a single domain successfully can reasonably feel like they've got a good handle on it.

Your question is essentially a proxy for server-side architectures and applications, not nodejs itself. It invites misrepresentation.
That sounds perfect to me, I'd love to just work 2-3 months out of every year and call it good.

Do you happen to have any insight as to what kinds of specialties allow for these kinds of lucrative short term opportunities?

My biggest problem with my erstwhile career was that the only good opportunities I've ever heard of were only full time.
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> So how do people without phones participate in society?

It's not super hard. Until ~3'ish years ago I did not have a smartphone here in DK.
Life is just so much easier with it.

I think they got rid of the 10x Bus ticket you would buy at a kiosk, so now you have to buy a single tickets with coins inside the bus. (depends on the city) Which means you need cash. DK society is very much cashless, I mostly see older people still using it.

Is the bus late or did you just miss it? Check the app to see the bus location.

Train Ticket? Now you have to print that out or buy it at the station. It's so easy to search, buy and show the ticket via the app.

Letter from most public authorities / government? There is an app for that. Or website.

Want to give your mate some money? -> MobilePay app. Now you have to get cash somewhere and convince him to take cash. Or go to a computer and transfer it. Which requires more information then just this number and takes longer.