skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, that's very poorly implemented. You should have reference stories for what is a 1 in complexity and the highest value should be low, like 13, which forces you to break things down and forces the PM to write better specs.
>> it is very difficult to get them off it

and quitting drinking is easy? AA exists in every corner of the globe, for a reason.
>You can have fun at any age.

Yes, but you can't have the same type of fun at any age.
That’s great for showing people that the violent people are bad guys, but the violent ones aren’t going to get any less violent by being exposed.

It’s the threat of reprisal from the entire population that does that.
I think it was in the instructions for using the Internet Explorer/Edge VMs (see page 3): https://az792536.vo.msecnd.net/vms/release_notes_license_ter...
$29k is not that much is it? That is about what I ended up with for my degree in Sweden where higher education is free but you borrow for living expenses. I repay it with about $100 per month for 25 years.

Perhaps the biggest difference is the interest rate which is government backed and around maybe 1-2%. According to first result on Google the interest rates on US student loans seems to be around 6-8%.
Active discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21892492 (489 points/217 comments)
Is age designed to encrypt large binary files, which seem to increase the file size by 2KB.
Fed study finds US tariffs backfired
Is this true? My electric toothbrush runs on one double-A battery. That isn't enough power to electrocute me.

Of course, high-end electric toothbrushes have rechargeable batteries inside of them, and maybe they have more capacity. But on that note, I think I've needed to replace my battery exactly once in the past year. These things don't take much power, that's one of the reasons it didn't feel worthwhile for me to upgrade to a higher-end more expensive model. And rechargeable electric toothbrushes get plugged into cradles -- they don't need enough capacity to run for days and days.

I am mildly skeptical that a non-waterproof electric toothbrush would be dangerous to anyone.

Edit: I just checked my toothbrush to make sure, the only waterproofing is a tiny, easily removable rubber ring where the battery case screws on. This doesn't seem to be something my manufacturer is worried about, which might make sense, because I don't put my toothbrush handle under the water when I brush my teeth; I hold it.
I am an audio engineer and this is going to be a long thread. TLDR; I hate companies like Sonos. They add no value to people who know about audio.
You see, everything about speakers is really simple. From the way they work to the way they're made. There's really just 4 pieces to make a speaker system. The speaker, power supply, amplifier and a pre-amplifier to modify the sound (eg. DSP, Equalizer, etc.)

That's why if you search on the used market today, you'll still see equipment from companies like Aiwa/Sony from the 80s and 90s simply because these speakers can be re-used even now as you can connect anything to them before the pre-amplifier and they'll still reproduce your source (iPod/TV/Computer/whatever). I posses a 40 year old Aiwa system that still functions flawlessly today like brand new. This is also possible today because speakers themselves can last so much longer. More than 40 years as you can tell.

All companies like Sonos do is add just another layer before the pre-amplifier stage - which is to make the speaker "smart". This is usually all those wifi chips and bluetooth and Google assistant and what not. This is the proprietary part of their system. Normally, you are able to throw away this proprietary part and still use the speaker system. But, in pursuit of more sales, to reduce the lifespan of a perfectly fine speaker system to simply increase revenues is the most hardcore, cruel thing one can do.

Sonos' speakers are so bad that many models aren't even serviceable. Meaning, you can't open them like you could on those Aiwa's and Sony's and put them back together. Once taken apart, they're useless. They use tons of glue, proprietary shaped screws sometimes even wire the speakers in such a way that they'll damage the units if you try to take them off. They purposely do this so their speakers can't be used anymore without damaging the appearance.

That's why I will any day buy a mediocre music system from Sony or LG than buy trash like Sonos. First of all, I know the quality of components they use is not that great. They use ordinary stamped steel, sometimes plastic baskets for their driver units as opposed to high quality aluminium construction. Paper diaphragms too. Their units don't even have proper crossover circuitry in some models. And besides, the drivers they use are actually based off rebranded generic Chinese, just tweaked a bit. They're very good at fooling people pretending to be an audiophile company. In reality, they're not even half as close to the stuff from the 80's and 90's.

So, having ranted this, there's literally no reason to support such terrible ethics backed company simply for the sake of their profits. Fuck Sonos and get a Sony (or whatever else you like that doesn't do this). This is not just for the environment, but to set a full stop to such terrible practices. The audio land is already so full of snake oil already that the last thing we need is another snake oil sales man like Sonos.
Absolutely doable over local network only.
Unsupervised Cross-Lingual Representation Learning at Scale (XLM-RoBERTa)
Medicine from 70 years ago can be superior to modern medicine. Which would you prefer if you couldn't breathe on your own, an iron lung or a tube jammed down your throat?
> Later at some point during the day, a young student placed a glove with red paint on it on one of the flags as she wanted to demonstrate her displeasure with something…I’m not quite sure what.

> These hardworking kids are very kind and thoughtful. A far cry from the picture that is often painted of them.

I'm... Confused, to say the least. In fact, those two paragraphs encapsulate my confusion at the post in general.
What you are portraing is your exploitation of your countries education system for your own benefit. The NZ tax payer invested in yours for your future ROI into NZ and you put this ROI in your sack.
The lira is inflating out of control and you think high rates are bad for Turkey internally...

sigh
What is the point of recycling mode if you ship the speaker to them? Why wouldn't they just credit you upon receipt of the speaker?
They're not saying that Canonical audits the sources. They're saying that because the person running the PPA uploads the source and Canonical's servers build the packages from there, as long as you trust Canonical you don't have to worry about the binary matching the source. For the majority of us who aren't qualified to audit the source itself directly, being able to trace the binary we're running to source that someone could audit is the best we can hope for.

Of course in the years since the PPA system was introduced we've seen a lot of projects push in to reproducible builds which somewhat negates that concern, but there are still a lot of us who would rather not go through that process for every random binary we want to run. Having a third party that we inherently trust because they built the rest of the operating system building the random packages we want has an appeal. Also for the devs/packagers free hosting by the OS vendor is nice too.
Any opinion on the approach taken by duck duck go? Only analyse the query or context and not trying to learn anything about the user.

It seems very sensitive to me...
Additionally, you have artists and level designers working on these files. These people tend to be semi-technical, and confronting them with the full details of git is usually met with a lot of resistance.

I know some smaller studios that use git to some extent, and they tend to struggle with it on occasion - again, primarily in the art & design departments, mainly with binary files. All the larger studios and some of the smaller ones seem to use perforce. Publisher-owned multinationals might have their own proprietary systems, I don’t have any insider information there.

In any case, people who aren’t familiar with the requirements of gamedev like to argue about this. It’s like proponents of forks arguing with someone trying to eat soup with a spoon.
The other question to ask, is "What actually works better?". Precious few governments in the history of man have not been large-scale atrocity generating machines. Democracies generally seem to offer most, more of a chance than the others. There's always Trump... in democracies, the Trumps are constrained by law. In most other cases, the Trumps wield absolute power. Pick your poison.
So, I think about this a lot. I know a lot of really good sysadmins with no education; like of the people I consider really good sysadmins, close to half might not have degrees, and this is one of the reasons I equate my job to the trades. (I mean, along with the fact that our job is to create and maintain infrastructure so that other people can work) I know a fair number of software engineers with no formal education, though the proportion is a lot less than half. I know very few good electrical engineers who lack formal education. I don't know any good chemical engineers who don't have a formal education.

My own experience (I've tried at school several times. I'm currently enrolled in the computer information systems "competency based" degree at nau.edu, but I've tried a bunch of others) is that school is actually way more difficult than industry. You can't just be brilliant twice a month, as is my experience of industry; you have to show up and perform at 90% every day which seems impossibly brutal to me. I mean, this is probably a quirk of my own personality; I'm actually really good at coming in and dealing with disasters every now and again, but my consistency is... really pretty bad.

I mean, I personally think that a love of and respect for learning is fundamentally more important than education; but I also think that education isn't nothing. There are a lot of people who do a lot better with some formal education, and there are a whole lot of jobs, that as far as I can tell, are almost impossible to do well without a good formal education. I personally don't think I'd let a self-taught doctor hack on me if I had any other choice at all.

My personal opinion is that if there are any young people with the capacity to be good at those things that require an education who are prevented from doing those things because of money, our society has made a huge mistake, one that will cost us much money in the long term, just 'cause having those people perform at peak value is hugely valuable to society. Further, I think that the unwillingness, as a society, to pay for the education of young people evinces a lack of valuation of learning that might be an even bigger problem.
I never said the argument was true. An argument can be powerful without being true. I didn't express my personal values in regards to democracy or any other form of government.
Not according to my experience. Regardless, it is a matter of philosophy behind the product. And it is now quite different from before. I will probably find a balanced combination of Apple products and open hardware + software that fits my needs.
Disappointed in the lack of discussion of R-Shiny or Plumber.

R-Shiny is a full stack platform for web apps, and it’s how I leveraged my data science background to get into web development. It’s incredibly powerful in my opinion, with the only obvious limitation being the speed of R itself.

And Plumber. It’s become the defacto method for deploying R code in a REST api. It too is still maturing, but I see it eventually becoming the Flask of R.

Truth be told, however, after developing quite a few projects on the Shiny/Plumber stack, I wouldn’t recommend anyone do it.

If for some reason you can only have an R interpreter, go for it. But learning multiple languages really is the best solution if you want to manage efficient applications. I say this, however, realizing that all of my colleagues writing R don’t have engineering backgrounds.

I can’t help but feel like R is like JavaScript in many ways. Ease of use and the ease of publishing packages very quickly clutters the repository.

R will always have a special place in my heart, after all it’s the language that made me discover programming. However, I can’t help but feel that my thirst for efficiency is making me outgrow it as a language quickly.
How is it similar? I tried to learn but do not quite understand how this is similar.
Rust implementation: https://github.com/str4d/rage
It's funny to me that people can immediately see the issue with falling returns here as prices increase, but can't see the same thing when it applies to the stock market. In the stock market, the prevailing wisdom is "buy and hold no matter what the price is, because you can't time/game the market." Why doesn't the same logic apply to college? Shouldn't the efficient market cause college costs to rise to the appropriate level? Given that, shouldn't you just do it and ignore the cost?
The usual argument is that by imposing an artificial ceiling on price, you cause the quality of the good/service to drop (in this case, you make rental properties worse) and you prevent people from selling it (in this case, you prevent owners from offering up rental properties, causing rental property to become scarce).

To claim that something is great, you should at least address the standard arguments that it's bad!
Nitpick: EU standard for tension is 230V (used to be 220V)
Gravitational astronomy.
> probably a clusterfuck

Why do you believes this? I'm not an advocate of direct democracy but I have no idea why this valuation is so ubiquitous.
I'm thinking of applying to YC this fall. I have capital, but little business experience. My product and niche is pretty cool and very research heavy.

YC's 7% is a pretty heavy take if I already have a few million in self-funding. Is this negotiable?

I think an exit for what I'm pursuing is very high if we can grow fast enough. (Possibly become the incumbent.) It's a new market and absolutely trounces an existing one.
Structure can and do go up in value if replacement cost increases from higher material costs, labor costs, building code and permitting costs (that just add cost, not directly to buyer utility), etc.
Well I think the main reason consumer products are declining in VC funding is a combination of market saturation and a high level of freemium solutions for consumers.

Consumers are already spending monthly subscriptions on spotify, uber, netflix, games and countless others... consumers also expect much more out of a free app these...

B2B enterprise software is also a massively competitive market but businesses have a business-case to pay for things, making them a more lucrative investment IMHO.
I neither believe or disbelieve in this hypothesis. Given an absence of evidence upon the issue I see no reason to believe either way.
That's missing the point. $2 of RAM in exchange for security is a good deal. Go ahead and use the command line version yourself, but if you're not going to contribute to a native GUI version then don't be a party pooper about Electron.

Electron's only a problem when there's lock-in of some kind.
I think containers have been a great introduction to applications deployed as minimal, immutable images. I imagine operations teams will be more ready to deploy unikernels because of their experiences with containers.

Also as a note, microkernels are older and not necessarily related to unikernels.
I have a Google Home mini connected via Bluetooth to my amp, with 25 year old Gale speakers. That works for casting, and of course directly controlling by voice. I previously tried connecting an old Echo Dot via the wired connection, but the quality was a bit rubbish. I'm guessing a crappy DAC in the Echo or something. The sound via Bluetooth is great though.
I didn't even mention the word "pollution", are you sure you responded to what I said?
In the past, discarded fabric would be turned into rag paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_paper
If you buy a LAN or WAN connected speaker you're a dumb guy. No exceptions.
There is ways of keeping it up. The one I can explain here, is to do a snapshot as soon as you have your apps setup, then just roll back at the end. There is "other" ways that I can't explain here.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Sup... and https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colbert-gets-a-super-pac-so-wha.... Citizens United (2010) after SpeechNow (2009) created Super-PACs. Prop 8 was on the CA ballot in 2008. So the comment above is technically wrong to use "Super-PAC", which was coined in 2010, but it sounds scarier than PAC. The double standard and special pleading for Google stink.
This is fascinating - the individual prices are so low that they really must be moving a great number to turn a worthwhile profit.
The document that says right at the start that it's only talking about browser Javascript crypto, and not standalone?

Not that the crypto itself would be handled by Javascript in an Electron app in the first place...
FDA approval has nothing to do with patentability.
>OMG they bought a wood boat, the only way to keep a wood boat is to start a foundation or be a billionaire.

absolutely. On the other hand, buying an old, requiring a lot of restoration/etc, boat is practically the only way to get such a beautiful wooden boat as they don't build them anymore for a couple of reasons:

1. those beautiful graceful lines were designed to "hack" the mid-20th-century CCA racing rules - the short waterline of a free standing boat becomes longer when the boat is heeling during actual sailing. Half a century ago the IOR rules de-facto replaced CCA and thus all those fat boats of 197x-198x which in turn seem to be more and more replaced during the last couple decades by the boats designed more for the downwind planing.

2. the introduction of mass produced fiberglass resin boats in 196x completely killed the economics of wooden boats at both stages - building as well as maintenance.

A mildly related sidenote just for visual pleasure for anybody who loves the boats - i think it is just magnificient how smooth and fast this Draken is sailing https://youtu.be/XORSpUUy0lQ?t=168
Feedly does all Google Reader did, and then something more. I don't miss Reader at all
There's no part of me that follows anything you said.

We absolutely understand what the intention of the button is.

I do not understand the actual sane incentive for anybody in this transaction.

How would Sonos be worse off if those machines weren't wasted?
You get a sale either way; you reward a loyal customer for an upgrade either way.
If it weren't a large company, I'd say they do it out of spite - but in reality, it's just the bizarre, surreal method large corporations end up with ridiculous policies through a set of seemingly logical steps.

>>they have to trust you're actually recycling it instead of keeping it or selling it

Why? What is the benefit to them (Sonos)? What is the harm if you DID keep it?

>>The credit helps encourage people to recycle them at all instead of just throwing them in the trash, right?

There's absolutely positively nothing about this mode / button that prevents people from throwing it in the trash. In fact, by any logic I can see, it does the opposite and encourages them to chuck it in the garbage - since it's now a worthless non-functioning brick.

>>the recycle lock is a clever mechanism to ensure that.

Let us please NOT call this travesty "Clever". At least not outside of SV tech-bro blinders culture :O. It does NOTHING to ensure recycling.

>>Otherwise you could "cheat" by getting the credit AND still using/selling your speakers.

Oh noes!
Wait.. HOW would Sonos be at all worse off? How would ANYbody be impacted for the worse?

>>this seems like a win for all sides

Sonos didn't get anything out of it. Recycling company got less out of it. Earth got less out of it. And there's no reason I can understand why consumer has to go through that hoop to get an upgrade credit.
Seems like a lose-lose for all sides.

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I'm not going to downvote, because you made a lucid argument and downvotes are for those who do not contribute to conversation, not for disagreements. I'd say your post contributed a lot to conversation, seeing the number of comments:).
But I fail to understand the argument you're trying to make and the framework / world outlook where it makes sense.
I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise but need a lot more to even begin changing my mind :-/. Just because consumer "have choice", doesn't make one of the options automatically sane.
These are my observations/opinions based on both graduate and undergrad school in the US.

(1) In this utopian world, college owned dorms would be part and parcel of the free college. This allows control of the costs rather than allowing landlords to profit off of the university. The US has massive issues with expensive housing, even around rural universities.

(2) I'd set the limit at, say, 6 years. 5 years isn't uncommon, 6 is rare, and 7 is .... extremely rare, and questionable for a full-time student... Generally speaking. I'd expect a 2.5 GPA or better.

I have no real interest in an unending "free ride". But I do want an educated citizenry without enormous debt burdens. I will shoulder the tax burden that I, a high-earning citizen, will have to pay out, in order to get an educated citizenry with an interest in taking risks. I think a lot of the lack of new businesses etc in the last 20 years can be directly traced to that. And on a more nuanced scale, I think the lack of a wide college education has reduced the discourse in the country (prior cheap college in the US was largely contingent on the Cold War and the GI bill; it's very complicated, but I do think it helped us collectively in the 50s-70s).

Anyway. I'm not per se drawing off of any other country's specific educational systems. I'm not personally fond of the West European systems I've looked at, although they do solve these issues to some level. The US has enormous resources and enormous capability.
Could you explain more? That is like a hundred pages of regulations and I don't know anything about this.
Air passengers are feeling the squeeze
Well, I discovered this topic via RSS in Feedly.

Pretty lively dead standard!
What annoys me most about this kind of position that I haven't seen addressed enough is the assumption that politics is some kind of grocery basket of personal taste where positions on issues are all independent opinions.

Anyone who thinks about politics seriously and argues politics with people needs to base their opinions on something besides personal preference. This means trying to develop moral and logical principles and goals on which to base positions. When people do this, opinions on many topics will be highly correlated.
What software is used in the cleaning and analysis?
A look inside the factory around which the modern world turns
Clicks through EULAs without reading
Sooo you need to trust someone that does have that experience to do the verification. What alternative are you suggesting? Is there some cool way to write your crypto so that a layman can successfully verify the integrity of a binary?
RPi + Rust, Sept 2019: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-raspi3-OS-tutorials
Download Document Writer is the most flexible and multipurpose document editing
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are stating.
> Notable that these articles about the doubtful value of a university degree are written exclusively by people who have one.

Why is it notable?
Let’s make an open source Sonos clone and call it Fauxnos. It can be powered by a raspberry pi integrated into a speaker running mpd.

Who wants to join my git repo?