skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and half your potential user base will say "what the hell is this crap, it is totally unintuitive and doesn't do the things i need it to" ... sigh.
Please elaborate. How is this achieved in one step with the CLI?
How do you differentiate an earthwuake from common behaviors while the phone is in a pocket such as running, jumping, walking etc.
wholesome goals!
I helped my son open up a toy for Christmas. Inside the box was an arbitration agreement. I am wondering how they think that works when I have not signed something.
Aspera is among the most frustrating technologies I've been forced to use. I used to work at a video website where we would acquire film files from studios directly, and the amount of times Aspera would fritz out easily justified the time to try and develop and internal alternative. We ended up terminating all the Aspera connections at a service and transferring over direct datagrams for the rest.
You should realize that primary and secondary school are already provided "free" to anyone, and the reasons that works are just as valid for college.

There's nothing magically impossible about using taxpayer money to provide 16 years of education instead of 12.
If Turkey intends to sell domestic cars at lower taxes than imported / ones manufactured by foreign companies in Turkey, then it can expect repercussions in its free trade deals with other countries.

Not that Erdogan couldn't have such arrogant ideas, but it's not going to fly like that.

Also, I don't get that idea about Turkey being perfect size for making through its area with an electric car. Turkey is not a small country, Istanbul-Ankara is 450 km, Ankara-Gaziantep is 700 km, and that's not yet even close to "through" the country. Not that this is necessarily so relevant.
MinIO, a S3-compatible file store, running on top of a cluster of ZFS VMs. It just uses the available disk space from my other servers.
I’ll add the Photos on Yelp embedded in Apple Maps locations with accidental taps launching the Yelp native app or falling back to the App Store to download it.
It hasn’t been around too long. In a few years it’ll probably be pretty competent at what it does.

I don’t use it but that was certainly the trend with Apple Maps which was pretty crummy when it first came out.
Note that the example I posted is written in C++, by Jonathan Blow (you do not need to like him but I hope we can agree that he is an accomplished programmer). And he is still cursing (mostly about other stuff, but about that COM abomination, too).

Can we write the COM part of that code in a better way?
Could'nt netizens add this kind of data as a layer on OpenStreetMaps?
Over time, it could be comprehensive?
But the way China turned into a modern, mostly-developed country was to turn away from what Marxism said about how to run an economy, and turn back at least part of the way to capitalism. What they kept from Marxism (or at least the Soviet Union) is the one-party dictatorship. So not that great an argument for Marxism after all.
Yeah but how do you not get preferential treatment when you have one of "the names"? If it doesn't end up influencing policy decisions and such, it may not be right but it is tough to stop. Should these brothers and kids of famous people not have jobs?

Obama, probably one of if not the most well-known person IN THE WORLD, wants to write a book. How could the deal not be worth a ton? Makes complete sense.

Also the book is just a book. If people buy it, then he should make money.
The leaders of the govt have at least basic rights to retract lots of things that are public, unless there some specific rule requiring something to be out there. This seems pretty clearly to be bad, is there any defense of this? My older relatives insist the current us govt 'changes' with Trump are what we need to succeed in the future. They aren't aware of things like this, but is there any defense of actions like this? My dad would probably say increasing business activity is the central goal of the govt, so it's okay not to cause trouble by pointing out all these pollution sources. But I can't see any good for this kind of stuff.
Yup, and it's also something that all apps can request, and the user is always asked for their preference until they say 'don't ask again'.
While I am what he calls an "accidental moderate", there is an argument to be made for the intentional moderate stance. If you think the damage from your error is proporational to the square (or some higher exponent) of the actual error, then an intentional moderate will have far fewer (perhaps no) fatal errors. They may choose 50 when they should have chosen 30, but they won't choose 100 when they should have chosen 10. If the damage from the one is like (50-30)^2=400, and the damage from the other is (100-10)^2=8100, then you can have a lot of modest, intentional moderate errors that don't add up to the damage of the one thing an accidental moderate is really, really wrong about.

As usual, there is a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1170/

Again, I myself am mostly an accidental moderate. But I think he's underselling the case for intentional moderates.
Ted Heath -- former UK Prime Minister, who won the Admiral's Cup in his racing yacht whilst PM put it thus (back when £5 was probably worth about £30+):

Ocean racing is like standing under a cold shower tearing up £5 notes.
>If he thinks that having middle-of-the-road opinions requires the most courage of them all, he has had an extraordinarily easily life in which he is used to be hailed as brilliant. It seems as though due to his comfortable position in life he has never faced any significant opposition to anything he's said, anything he's done, or anything he is.

When you break this down into social groups, being moderate generally results in a person being able to pass in multiple groups if they are willing to be quiet and tolerate it, but not being able to join in any groups. And as for that passing, that holds true of most people in most groups. It is the lack of having a group to belong too that is harder than having such a group.

I guess the question then remains as to why such people don't form their own group, but I think that ends up being that they are as incompatible with someone else who is incompatible with established groups as they are incompatible with established groups.

Think of it this way. Imagine people's opinions super simplified into an array of 3 dozen boolean values, each representing one of the 3 dozen most charged political issues (even if it isn't charged for most people if it is really charged for some people it can average out as being charged enough to count). Arbitrarily pick 0 or 1 to represent one of the two party views within the US (places with multiple parties are harder to represent, but they may also have far less of this problem to begin with). Now calculate the distance people are based on how many are the same or different. Someone who is mostly a 0 with only 3 or so 1s is going to only be a distance of ~3 away from one of the main groups. But someone who is randomly assigned half and half is going to be a distance of ~18 from either group. But two people who are randomly assigned half and half are also going to be a distance of ~18 from each other, despite both of them being moderates.

Now in reality you will find some clustering beyond just the existing division (such a group that may tend towards socially conservative and socially liberal), but the overall all point of difficulty, and thus courage, can be understood as the calculation of a difference from other people in this simple model, and in such a case, being moderate has higher distance.

Edit: I would like to add that courage does feel like a bad choice of words to me. As someone who is often moderate (more undecided on issues because I see either stance resulting in extreme conclusions that I don't like), I don't do it because of any sense of bravery. I hold the views I do because they are the views I have. The extent I may espouse them might count a bravery, but in general I'm careful enough at reading the context and, when online, remaining anonymous I still wouldn't see it an act of courage (though what I am envision as courageous acting may be crossing that thin line into foolishness). I would much prefer calling it more difficult, but not an act of courage.
> Has anyone cornered him and beaten him up for having moderate beliefs?

Going again to the 'not actually reading the article' point, he has sneakily defined a moderate as someone potentially only holding extremest beliefs and probably as likely to be beaten up as anyone else.

An extremist moderate, say.

> I'm in favor of ... but I refuse to vote for Republicans

There are good and bad people in every part of the spectrum. If you think only the Republicans are dangerous to elect you are either talking about the very-short-term of one election cycle or you are not thinking for yourself.

A good check of if you are thinking for yourself is not feeling comfortable accepting or rejecting either side, or becoming almost a single issue voter (because nobody has time to be across more than one or two issues).
Anyone who enjoyed this article will likely enjoy watching the rebuild of Tally Ho, a 110 year old wooden sailing yacht. He's replacing everything and his series is amazing to watch.

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"All inconvenient truths shall be wiped under the carpet. "

That's more about the motives of people, all people, rather than a commentary on capitalism or anything else.
> If you leave the root password empty the Debian installer will install sudo for you.

That's a heck of a gotcha.
I’m old enough to remember the last “first fully homemade Turkish car”. It was named Imza (Turkish for signature). I don’t remember the specifics but it was total flop with some financial fraud in the mix. Hoping for a better result this time.
I use email for security notices so I can subscribe to the lists I use and view it on my phone.
> Induction motors are pretty well known at this point.

So what about this switched reluctance witchcraft that apparently gives the newer Teslas a significant advantage?
> There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard.

Except for the vendor lock-in, which makes this a problem to begin with. Other services work on a majority of devices.
Definitely. If a comic doesn't have an RSS feed, I won't keep up with it. It isn't worth keeping track of the different update schedules and platforms.
Dinner is often literally work when you are meeting with clients, partners, employees, etc.
One time I started working on one open source alternative, but one big problem I found was that their PSD file documentation was incorrect at a few places, and it lags behind what is currently available.

And though Photopea[0] is not open source, it can mostly get things done for my minimal use-cases.

[0] https://www.photopea.com/
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Excellent reply, thank you for writing it, and for bringing more light to Maciej.
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> I'm not even saying this is bad.

You should, though.
What if you live in it?
Has anyone ever A/B tested meat / vegetarian diets here?
They don't have to do anything special. Once it's made in their country, import duties a will not be applied, just like it works everywhere else.

That is a significant discount on the price.
I don't think that argument holds at all. The low hanging fruit from 10 years ago has been picked. But in a lot of ways we only see it as low hanging fruit in hindsight. Today there are new business opportunities that in 10 years will seem like they were low hanging fruit. There are new technologies today that will enable new businesses that wouldn't have been feasible before.

Even then, there are only going to be but so many companies that get to the kind of scale of Shopify and that was true 15 years ago, and it's true today. But there is plenty of room for new small and medium sized companies to make millions of dollars. Success doesn't always have to be at the 3 comma level.
This is true but happily I will never run it again thanks to office 365 and gmail.
> Communists, anarchists, anti-imperialists, anti-germans. The only thing they have in common is that they all despise like the misanthropic tendencies of the right.

Here's a working theory I'd love to discuss:

Having friends all over the political spectrum, I think some policy topics reveal differences in how most left-leaning / right-leaning people understand human nature.

My conservative friends generally hold that humans tend towards laziness and greed, and that any social policy which fails to consider that will fail before long. E.g., Marxism, UBI, or universal healthcare. From their perspective, liberals who advocate such policies are being stupid, short-sighted, and will ultimately cause more harm in the long-run. They see liberals as wanting to run experiments whose outcomes are predictably bad.

My liberal friends hold that because conservative policies accept the worse aspects of human nature as inevitable, they end up cementing the status quo, which is unacceptably bad. E.g., feudalism, Citizens United, etc. They see conservatives' unwillingness to change as (at best) heartless or (at worse) an evil self-serving power-grab.

In the end, each side finds the other's stated policy justifications so unbelievable, they conclude those public justifications are a just smokescreen for secret, nefarious purposes.
The Only Way to Beat Algorithms Is to Retrain Your Audience
> Are you saying that as the Democrats became distanced from working-class issues, the republicans got closer to working-class issues?

I don't know that the Republican actually got closer to working-class issues. In the last election, though, they at least got to the point of talking about such issues, in the same election that the Democrats didn't bother to do so.

So if I were a working-class minority person, whose major pain point was economics, in the last election I still might vote Republican, because they at least were talking about the thing I cared most about, even if the Democrats were talking about my secondary issue.
Yeah, the model is definitely contrived and I could try adding a lot more to it, but I still found it very useful just to understand how the path changes with the wheel turn.

Also, as a beginner, it's very hard to "feel" how much you're supposed to turn with variable rate — I guess this only comes with a ton of practice. In the driving school, the way we were taught all the parking maneuvers is to reverse straight until you catch some reference point, then immediately turn to the max for the sharpest turn.
My dad aches after a good and powerful typesetting tool (for less technical users than *TeX is aimed at), in the vein of the Ventura Publisher of old. Nowadays it seems all about Adobe Indesign but the workflows seem inferior for many book-type workloads. Scribus needs a lot of help.
"...not about hiring a 'DevOps guy'"

Yet, this is one of the most common scenarios I've seen. "Oh, this guy/gal started devops at Xyz company.".
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> There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard.

Sure there is. If you try to "text" someone (as in SMS) and the Messages app (which is the ONLY way you can send SMS on iOS) detects your number as registered to iMessage, it will send an iMessage by default.

So even though your number didn't change, and everyone is still using the "Messages" app to talk to you, it inexplicably doesn't work anymore for group chats, and your regular private message colors have mysteriously turned green.
Ew, you got some Windows 10 in your Linux.
This was true 10 years ago, but the US finally has a few genuinely left politicians (firmly center-left outside the US), and many European democracies drifted to the right (liberals to differentiate from 15 years of neoliberal center-left parties, center-right to head off the far right).
You cannot work at 100% in 4 uninterrupted hours. You need to take some breaks in between, and also do some mundane things.
> because you accidentally watched an artsy noir movie six months ago and didn't realize it was subtitled until almost 30 minutes into it because there was no dialog.

This is a really weird thing to do, and a really weird basis for complaint about ML recommenders. I'd imagine that 99.9% of people who watched _30 minutes_ of an artsy foreign-language noir film are people who are inclined to enjoy artsy noir films (or at least trying it out). The only reasonable complaint here is that recommender systems can be overly sticky when they don't provide a way to provide strong negative feedback (eg YouTube's "not interested" option).
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7000000 country could probably produce more engineering talent than it can utilize. And building everyday cars is somewhat easy compared to the aerospace, weapons, nuclear reactors or big dams/bridges/tunnels - you don't push neither material science nor laws of physics to the limit.
I know someone who has a similar boat.

The closest I ever came to wanting a boat was something like one of those tiny one man sail boats.... for messing about on the weekend for a few hours.
Depending on how long ago that was that could be any neighborhood in Norfolk :(
Spotify to Follow Twitter in Eliminating Political Advertising
Video editing. Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. I guess the price might not be that high to justify, but still I have not seen anything like these as open source.
This article needlessly and incorrectly shits on art school. There are many, many good careers that come out of going to art school, or better yet getting a design degree at an art school. So, maybe have a talk with your kid about _applied_ arts, not just blindly writing off a BFA.

No college teaches creative problem solving and critical thinking better than art school. Not every art school costs $75k, either (which is a price almost no one pays anyway thanks to financial aid).

I went to art school. I work in software engineering now and make good money. Art school made me fearless and pragmatic in a way I wouldn’t have gotten with a state engineering program. It was worth every cent.
> Looks like a major redistribution of wealth, from taxpayers to educational institutions. :-/ This is my surprised face.

This is my beef with free college. It's a huge amount of public money going to benefit people who don't need it, all for an extremely tenuous promise of upward mobility. Kids growing up in real urban poverty aren't going to college, tuition-free or not. The hurdles keeping them from upward mobility are happening at a much earlier point than the tuition payment deadline.

And the lower middle class kids who might go if college were tuition free--are they really being helped? AOC graduated with a BA cum laude from Boston University and went back to bar-tending afterward. Absolutely no criticism of that--it's honest work. But what does that story--which is common--say about the value of a BA from a college outside the top tier? I studied for the LSAT in Atlanta. I was working as an engineer at the time--all my Georgia Tech classmates had gotten good jobs in Atlanta within six months of graduation. But the folks in my LSAT class, who mostly graduated from places like Georgia State with a BA, were doing things like bar-tending, or administrative roles they could easily have done without a college degree. One of my friends works at a brewery--he says that all but one of the guys bottling/packing the beer have college degrees. Is college really adding value for these people? Or would making it free just transfer wealth from taxpayers to college professors and administrators, while graduates end up doing the same jobs they'd be qualified to do without a degree?
Hey, I never said that this would be a great argument; I just think that it's the best available one.
FWIW the gut is often referred to as the "second brain", and the microbiome wrecks havoc on the gut
I have a Republican in my district who I quite like but cannot vote for because congresspeople aren't able to vote for themselves, but with the rest of their party. The Republican party consistently votes against, and does damage to, many things I hold dear, so voting democrat is the lesser evil unless the democratic candidate is corrupt or inept.
Ironically its the large media outlets that usually have categorical and comprehensive rss feeds, presumably by virtue of being around during the peak google reader years when rss was expected and not bothering with purging the functionality.

It's the upstart outlets that I notice not having RSS at all, with a twitter handle in its place. Pass for me.
I think GP is saying that other countries will charge similar tariffs on imported Turkish cars
Apple Maps is still pretty far behind Google Maps.

I don't have high hopes for News, given how much it keeps pushing features that are either user-unfriendly (giant ads in the middle of articles) or designed solely to push you to News+

I used to be a regular (many times a day) user and their changes have led me to stop using it entirely.
It benefits us as a country to have an electorate who can read and write and have a basic understanding of civics and history. It doesn't necessarily appear to benefit us the same way to have a bunch of folks spend 4 years getting English degrees to make mom and dad happy.

There are a lot of benefits to college, but a lot of those benefits go away when college stops becoming a choice and starts becoming mandated state education.
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Interesting how 'Ups' didn't register with me as 'UPS'. Influx with grafana is nice to graph a lot of stuff, nice that you can do a electricity bill estimate too.
Exactly! BTW "locator dust" IRL is already becoming a thing: "smartdust" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust
>Has anyone cornered him and beaten him up for having moderate beliefs?

The question would be has anyone beaten him up for having conservative or liberal beliefs when in a group who has the opposite.

But then I wonder about this judgment in general. How political groups are generally getting beaten up for their political opinions. Back in my college days I use to try supporting some really out there views as experiments in taking human stances to their natural conclusions, and while I did have a few professors sit me down and have a talk to determine if I was being serious, I was never beaten up for any of them. The entire metric of if people use physical violence against you is partially dependent upon a person's ability to know when they are crossing a line or not, much like how I stopped this behavior after college because it would get me fired.
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And WhatsApp and Facebook are just paragons of virtue.
> Not sure what advantages an imessage vs sms groupchat even give me in this era of unlimited texting. Pretty hearts?

Some cellular carriers still charge per MMS message, so group chats (which use MMS) can get expensive. MMS group messages also have some undesirable properties -- in particular, adding or removing users from a group is unreliable, because each device is responsible for generating a list of recipients itself.

Plus, iMessage uses end-to-end encryption. MMS does not.