skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in the "quantitative" fields, one must have random inspiration to make a novel idea; faith to go to the effort of the researching it, ego to believe it's worthwhile; and drive to get things done by force of will to survive re: job+funding. An interesting combination of qualities.

On top of that, many concepts are only feasible to measure by using human-invented models+metrics, under very tightly controlled conditions. Oftentimes these metrics' equivalence to real-world circumstances is matter of faith or philosophy.

So everything is untrustworthy. The people doing it can be totally incompetent even in making simple observations. They can be wilfully or negligently unaware of competing evidence or errors in analysis. They can be measuring the wrong thing entirely due to historical precedent or because it's good publicity or because it's impossible to measure the thing you really want to test.

Ultimately this probably shouldn't be surprising to anyone that's experienced the real world practice of anything. But it is worth remembering that anecdotal evidence from your own eyes can be more predictive than statistical evidence from strangers.
Fair enough, but in the past all of these things (Video Games excepted, they’re part of a newer wave of media) usually came in “editions”. Careful fans know the difference between the original theater cut of Star Wars: A New Hope, as opposed to the original VHS release as opposed to the late 90’s VHS and later DVD releases.

When Kanye “fixed Wolves”, it’s not like the new version showed up as part of “The Life Of Pablo (Remastered Edition)”. He just overwrote the file on the streaming services’ CDNs, and since this is in an age where few people keep copies of their music, the old version sort of disappeared.
If I didn't rely on neovim plugins so much, I would use kakoune. Native modal multi cursors and noun verb as apposed to vi's verb noun order have to be experienced to be believed.
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune
I have no idea. I'm not a doctor, I just read a lot.

I used lead based solder as a child, and I turned out okay. That said, people used to use pewter plates and got sick from lead poisoning after eating tomatoes (the acid leached the lead from the plate); Roman soldiers would keep their wine in a lead container to sweeten it; pretty sure I've heard something about people painting their houses with leaded paint as well. On the one hand, society survived all that. On the other hand, if I have the opportunity to not risk poisoning a child by spending a couple extra dollars buying solder, that seems like a pretty easy decision to make.
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I spoke to one of the founders to explore opportunities and partnerships with my professional network.

They are not consumer facing. They are looking for partnerships and investment.
Nice article, I just wish they went into more detail as to why TiKV was chosen over other distributed stores like: Cockroach, Yugabyte, or Foundation. It'd also be nice to know the size of those 40bn rows is it 10TB or 100TB?
Rawtherapee is what I use too. I like tools that I can just point at a random directory, and get to work on. There are a lot of photography/image-management tools which insist on importing images into a "library", which ruins my filing-system.

I've got a photoshoot booked for tomorrow, so I'll try this out and see how it compares. (An average shoot for me results in 200-400 CR2 images to examine/reject/process.)
A great book particularly for learners/students is "Introduction to Embedded Systems: Using Microcontrollers and the MSP430" by Jimenez, Palomera et al. For every feature of Embedded Programming it gives a illustrated and platform independent explanation followed by how it is realized in the MSP430. This cements understanding like nothing else.
I think some of this view of Jobs needs to be anchored to the subsequent successes. Imagine if he had rejoined in '96 [when Apple seemed doomed] but then didn't churn out a bunch of successful projects ... In 1999 the outcome wasn't clear yet.

I totally believe you on terms like "bar raiser" and "accountability". (Never worked at Amazon but did have a stint in Seattle). These are tingling my "corporate bullshit" senses strongly. But I'll still say a term like "customer focus", if it's correctly applied, is very important.
We could also mention the Boy Scouts here too. I was a scout, but some of my valued peers were gay and the Mormon church led a witch-hunt against gay scouts, as well as atheists (as I personally identify). My friends felt essentially forced to quit scouting due to the policies attributable to the Mormons.
Wow, this was quite a treat to read! Do you have any recommendations to learn more about FPGA (and maybe not Verilog/VHDL, I'm thinking more about a SCALA based language). I always start with beginners tutorial but I always get super bored. Something about making LED drivers makes me really unmotivated.
> They will chide Mormons at any opportunity for sexism or homophobia, but refrain from treating Orthodox Jews or Muslims similarly.

For consideration:

* The Times does pretty regularly address the intolerances of the Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities. See recent coverage over religious school funding, undervaccination, and harassment of women and cyclists in Brooklyn. Said communities tend to be concentrated in NY, and so the Times' coverage ends up in the NY section of the paper.

* Mormons are a substantially larger and more homogeneous religious group than either Orthodox/Hasidic American Jews or American Muslims -- there are about 6.5 million American Mormons, the overwhelming majority of whom follow the main LDS church. By contrast, the Orthodox and Hasidic sects make up a minority of American Jews, and only about 3.5 million American Muslims (of all kinds). This doesn't serve as an excuse, only as an observation that intolerance among Mormons is uniformly attested and delivered from the top-down by the sole religious authority in the faith.
>Since when system-installed apps can be removed by a user without rooting or replacing the system

Why are you adding this restriction? Rooting or replacing the system are totally valid of getting rid of these things.
For archiving web pages? ArchiveBox is ok.
Those are just other forms of advertising, and the entire print industry is dying anyway. Where's the real answer?
Gigantic gas disk could make scientists revisit planet formation theories
Selective memory? MS launched XBOX into one of the world's largest markets (gaming) what was Google doing?

Ballmer re-orged MSFT's entire business model, and launched most of the platforms and services from which they derive their revenue today.

What has Satya done, materially, do improve MS revenue? In terns of new products, services or op models, etc?

We all love MS code, but it's not that important. Linux on Azure was a market-driven inevitability.

We'll have to wait and see to really judge, just as it's only really now becoming clear what Ballmer did and did not.
It's a really interesting way to think about things, that's pretty unlike other ways to think about things, and yet you can use it as a viewpoint for so many other things. It's intellectually really neat and marginally useful. More useful in certain programming communities.
French CEO Sent to Prison After His Policies Resulted in 35 Employee Suicides
It is not specifically weird, but it seems like public someway started to associate anthropomorphic animals with sexual fetishes, so when they see cat eating cockroach in that scene for example they think about vore fetish and so on.
I wonder the same.

The original musical was just as weird and creepy and lacking in any sort of coherent plot. But that was a big part of its appeal.

The musical came out at a time when you couldn't tweet to the world about how you were damaged for life by seeing something you deemed creepy, and then watch everyone else pile on. It was also before the concept of "furries" was well known, and I guess now everyone wants to make sure everyone knows they aren't into that sort of thing.
Darktable is open source, though; it's not really offering a commercial product. Besides, what will eurocrats do if they determine a copyright issue? It's not as though there will be any earnings to garnish, worst-case scenario. If I (an American) publish a software project, Euro trademark law doesn't apply to me.
> I often wonder how many of them could actually speak at depth, extemporaneously, about the subect of their talk or if their actual knowledge collides with the end of their slides.

Was not my experience at CppCon at least. In fact, the problem is usually that they are pretty pedestrian presenters and/or run out of time. But most clearly know what they are talking about. Maybe this is different at other conferences though.
https://iandevlin.com/blog/2015/12/html5/webvtt-and-audio/
Same here, same employer, but in Kirkland. The $7 cash incentive was enough to get me to ride my bike most days. Since we never run out of parking now, it seems to have been effective.
Since some people might pay again to see the "improved" version (after some of them likely saw the original version to see for themselves what all the screaming was about) - is this a film industry version of a DLC?
It could be extremely useful to concentrate efforts on usage and details of one specific language rather than spread them over all different communication forms.

The opposite could also be true.
This could end up being a really interesting precedent in film (not in a way I like, personally). akersten writes farther down:

> We're going to wind up in some terrible place where if you pre-order your movie ticket you can see the Target special edition of Avengers Endgame 8 that is only available in theaters for two weeks before it switches to some other version. Maybe we'll get to the point where movie theaters will just perpetually have the same film on roll and update it every couple of months with the latest patches like an MMO. Remember, your Avengers and Superman subscriptions are different.

Not sure about the last one, but you could imagine lots of possibilities:

- Regional versions of films with anything from chunks of dialog ("I'm from X") up through entire cityscape backgrounds changed depending on the theater location. With CG, even things like character appearance (e.g. race) could be regional.

- Brand placement: Top sponsor's products appear in the first two weeks of showings, then second bidder for the next two weeks, etc.

- A/B testing different versions of films with live audiences and tweaking.

- The opposite of what akersten said: introduce new little easter eggs or features regularly over the course of the film's theater run to encourage repeat ticket buying from the hardcore fans.

What else?
Are fiction books really that updated (in terms of the words, not formatting)? I'd argue that a movie's visuals are part of the experience, but something like the font or pagination doesn't change the experience of a book in a significant way. Movies have been changed, but it's usually due to where it's being watched (like different screen shapes) or in more minor ways.

And when movies get changed, people have problems with it. People want to see the original Star Wars, but can't. Did Han shoot first? Still, the changes in Star Wars seem minor by comparison. Yes, they updated the special effects and made some edits. This sounds like they're changing the whole visual effect of the movie because it's weirding people out. Like, imagine if they updated R2D2 and C3PO to be completely different; imagine if they changed Darth Vader to David Prowse's voice after initially being released as James Earl Jones.

I think we historically haven't seen this in theaters because of the cost involved. It's not like a streaming service where you just get Netflix to encode the new version you give them.

Yea, things have always been altered, but this feels like it's breaking the shared experience of seeing Cats. Whether Han shot first is subtle and I probably wouldn't have noticed the change and I think people can ultimately share in the common experience of seeing Star Wars even if they've seen different versions. I guess it's just a matter of how drastic the changes feel and whether it will break the shared experience we generally feel. We don't know what "improved visuals" really means yet and how that will change the experience.
You’ve already got a lot of great advice. I’ve been in the same position and would submit I’m still in the same spot. What has helped is “scratching an itch”, trying to do basic things. The feeling of accomplishing something, even small, is powerful and motivating.

One idea I didn’t see suggested is pairing up with a friend and working on learning/doing together. It will help push through when the learning gets overwhelming/frustrating and bring some joy back into the process. Good luck!
> There is no reason to focus business in the urban core,

Given your example, effective land use via parking is one.

In a spoke and hub transit model; if people go to the hub, they can use central transit to get there; If they go to the outer wheel, unless the place is on the spoke itself, then additional last mile transportation is required.
Merry Christmas folks
A good therapist can help you manage stress levels and give you tools to manage your particular situation.

Some tools are breathing techniques, learn how to communicate with management, learn how to push back and learn why you aren't doing it now.

I'd urge you to consider it before something worse can happen (e.g. panic attacks). Like you said, most of the times, the stress is self-inflicted. Remember, health should be your number one priority.
I love that kind of stuff.
Except the criticism the article levels isn’t a lack of positivity. Rather it claims that the article ignores the most salient points of a fifty year career in favor of two comparatively recent developments. It even points out the losing battle with the Boy Scouts that serves similar political ends as the points it mentioned.

Whether or not any of this is accurate, I have no idea. But he wasn’t arguing for hagiography.
It's based on fear, copying the last person, vanity, greed, fraud and elitism. Money laundering is possible but a transaction like that with art will trigger an audit in best of times and the government will demand proof of worth. Easy to give with a Warhol harder to do with an unknown painter.
Pair up with a friend and learn/do together. It will help push through moments of frustration and a partner will serve as a check on giving up prematurely. Good luck!
I agree — there's tons of space between "everything sucks" and "bloated stuff sucks". We use libraries a lot, but often less is more.
Not the best. The best option would be Brave not existing so I didn't have to care.
You mean like Google's $3.2 B acquisition of Nest, which has nothing to do with their core offer and is losing money? Or FitBit, another money losing entity for $2B? Or Alphalbet's other substantial moonshot investments none of which have panned out? They're all 'strategic' but that's what all bad investments are pinned as.

I think your statement might be driven by narrative (which is my point about Ballmer's public perception) because if you have a look at the acquisitions, I don't think MS comes out looking bad at all next to G.

Have a look at G's acquisitions [1] , and MS [2]

MSFT looks actually a little more tame by the numbers.

Satya will have to do much more than amp up all the products and services that Gates and Ballmer launched in order to keep the reputation he has right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Thanks! I always recommend getting hands-on for learning more about FPGAs. FPGA boards are cheaper than ever, and you have all different ones now. I'd say get a Lattice ECP5 based board (like this year's Hackaday Supercon badge). The open-source symbiflow toolchain works for these (Xilinx 7-series will be soon!).

With regard to Verilog/VHDL, you'll have to learn at least verilog at some point, but I stay away as much as I can. SpinalHDL (based on Scala) is my goto. Some people like the Python based ones like migen, but I like me some strong typing.

I have a couple of blog posts about starting to put together a Gameboy CPU on craigjb.com (not finished yet).
The agree that the US is more economically conservative than socially conservative than Europe. (The biggest difference is criminal justice, as you point out. We are far far right on criminal justice issues.) But I’d pick at a couple of specific examples. Social Security is actually on the more generous side compared to most European pension systems. (And attempts to partially privatize it, as has been done in Sweden, have failed.)

I’d say that the US is to the right of most of Europe when it comes to free markets at the national level, but to the left at the state and local level. The US has no appetite for experimenting with markets for big ticket public services and utilities. The US has among the highest percentage of K-12 education being in public schools in the whole OECD. School vouchers are common in Europe. Many European cities have privately operated subway systems. No major US city does.
> Are fiction books really that updated (in terms of the words, not formatting)?

Sometimes, but not often enough, in the way that's under discussion, that it's a fair comparison to what's already done in the film world, I think. There are a few famous examples (The Hobbit having a scene significantly modified to better fit the LOTR, for example) but major modifications to different releases, for reasons other than censorship (which strikes film and books alike), aren't as common as in film, I'd say.
I doubt it's currently illegal, but I don't think it's impossible to make it illegal. Accessing the API enough to prove a flaw and report it is one thing. Getting 17 million PII records over the space of 60 days is orders of magnitude beyond that.

Especially given that things like GDPR and and the CCPA are drawing clear boundaries around private data and how companies can use it, it shouldn't be impossible to make laws that regulate how third parties access and use that data.

I'd also hope that Twitter faces regulatory penalties and perhaps civil liability depending on the harm done.
uBlock is the go-to "it just works" ad-blocker for Chrome. Everyone used to use AdBlock Plus, but then they started running a protection racket where advertisers could buy whitelisting.
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So, a single over-exaggerated counterexample to a conjecture, which doesn't really explain anything about the nature of the class of possible counterexamples? Hardly a breakthrough. Clickbait.
After watching the doc - I wouldn’t want to spoil it, so I’d just say these guesses were not correct. I was thinking Cuba or Venezuela too at first though.
So those people working hard at the bank, making a living doing honest work, helping people deposit money, deserve being whipped. Got it.
most comments argue a position, which doesn't necessarily build bridges either. good satire, even if taking a position, should be thought-provoking rather than simply insulting.
There is some research that there is an immune boost to regular public transit riders. Evidence points to regular riders getting less sick than occasional riders, and that can extrapolate to occasional public interaction.

> Seasoned public transportation commuters, though, seem to be better protected against the viruses. “These data are very plausible when we think about the greater likelihood of developing protective antibodies to common respiratory viruses if repeatedly exposed,”

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20110120/catch-bus-c...
Does Brave push ads even if the page has none?
> But how can organizations encourage their employees to commute differently?

Instead of expecting the employees to fix things themselves, why not hire some busses and pick the employees up?

It is expensive to do so, but nicer commutes often correlate strongly with lower turnover. There is a reason Facebook, Google, and the like pay for it.
I don't think 5W is too far off from what this thing draws under load. I have a 10,000mAh ~4.2V battery in it, and I get about 10 hours of life. The battery is clunky, 9.6mm thick, since it was originally intended for external phone battery packs.
Brave uses the same safe browsing implementation as Chrome.

> running every website you visit through their servers.

That's not how it works.
I'm pretty sure highly-accurate audiovisual media are all tied up in fear of death at this point, in a way that a given live performance of something cannot be, so it bothers us when they're not eternal and unchanging, while live shows do not.
> I think the reason he felt safe in taking part in the documentary is because he is in a country where he is beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.

>And yet he doesn't have money ... so there's no point in anyone coming after him because a civil suit wouldn't get them any money at all, and the FBI can't get him because he's out of their reach.

Title conflicts with the statements in the article. Though IMO, there's probably good reason to wonder if this claim is true.
Nice revisionist history you got there...

Chrome is just a rebranded KDE Konqueror if your logic holds.
http://www.arrl.org/learning-morse-code
I'm not sure the word "atheist" is necessary when we have the word "sane". The article is a religious person complaining about NYT seeing Mormonism through a particular lens. But if viewed objectively, the Mormon leader in the obituary was a criminal fraudster who told lies to get money. The only reason NYT don't write the full objective truth is because of the political power of religions based on the money they earn from criminal fraud. Humility is not required to point out that the Emperor has no Clothes. The culture of religions was made by humans, but the central tenets are lies to extort money. Organised religions are just a little more subtle and less violent, in some cases, than organised crime that's all. This is the reality, but the NYT journalists can't write it because they would be murdered if they did.
> It's pretty apparent in "web apps" - plenty of SPAs grind Firefox to a halt and not Chrome.

Perhaps they’re just “optimized” for Chrome?
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Thanks!

I actually didn't originally intend it to be for retro game emulation, more for experimenting with custom hardware for each game and with 3D acceleration hardware. But, the idea of putting retro emulators in the FPGA fabric is so easy.

In fact, over the holidays, I'm working on porting some of the MiSTer FPGA retro emulators to the Gameslab: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
It doesn't happen in the West, because the West rather makes it happen in the Middle East [0], to such a degree that whole generations of people have been scarred for life [1].

While at home we jail people for viewing "terrorist content online" [2], which is so vaguely defined that it regularly ends up being "The other sides PoV", if that PoV even manages to penetrate to the everpresent layer of moderation on social media [3].

After terrorism, the next thing is now "hate speech" [4], and as much as US Americans think they are immune to such trends, they really are not. US millennials increasingly welcome and actually demand more moderation because they think that's gonna solve their right-wing extremist problem.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/saddest...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41479620

[3] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-th...

[4] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-dozens-of-raids-over-online-ha...
Yeah, I was going to mention the PS3 too. It was the most unique hardware of the generation and definitely took the longest for devs to adjust to and learn to leverage fully.