skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I cannot imagine how you'd come to the conclusion that holding moderate viewpoints requires any real courage at all.

Expressing moderate opinions on the internet will cause a lot of people of accusing you of being a "fence-sitter" or siding with "the enemy", as well as accusations that you are a coward by people who are agitated that the opinions they hold in such high regard are not shared and are even challenged. It is inviting vitriol from people highly polarized on either side.
This may be obvious, but for me, reverse parking got a lot easier once I realized that (on my Mini Cooper) if I pull forward until my B-pillar is exactly aligned with the next dividing line past the space I want to enter, then I can reverse into it almost without looking. (Does that make sense? I'm not great at describing visual concepts.)

Presumably there's a spot like this on every car; you just have to figure out where it is.
> I don't think anyone uses a Canonical distro and is genuinely upset or surprised about this particular benign case.

I've had to use Ubuntu in an environment with high security needs/regulations. I've had to disable this exact feature because leaking OS versions, network information, etc. externally via that user agent string was unacceptable from a security standpoint.

I was upset that something as simple as a motd had been retooled to leak data.

> and my sense is that virtually nobody cares about this particular case of telemetry.

And in my real-world experience I've been paid to care. When forced to work with Ubuntu (which is everywhere these days) I have to "reign it in" with custom images/scripts/etc.

> I dislike the idea of tying particular political or economic philosophies together with a tech stack like Linux.

This isn't "political or economic philosophies" this is security 101. Leaking data like my OS version, IP addresses, when admins are doing their work, etc to the public internet is a hard "no" for anyone who's operating in any semblance of "best practices".
US Citizen here -- some activity under the Federal umbrella can be privitized, of course, maybe with different and/or better results by some measures. BUT those sort of activity, tend to be commercially valuable. Some company is able to do the same, plus add their own marketing or efficiencies to it, and turn a profit by charging some fee to others.

Pollution is not like that. Pollution, toxic wastes and looking after industrial activity to make sure it plays by the established rules, is simply a cost center. No one wants to pay for looking after someone else's wastes, someone else cheating the rules to reduce costs or simplify an industrial process. This is a responsibility of government because the actions of a few are expensive to others with no control over it, and pollution and toxic wastes do not have value, they are a cost. So society decides to use tax revenue and the authority of government to deal with pollution, toxics and industrial regulation.

Your older relatives have probably seen a tax money used badly, and this is true. However, not many people have the time and resources to even know about pollution and toxics, let alone do anything effective about it.
Certainly more copper in an EV compared to an ICE vehicle, and the batteries more expensive as well, I presume.
I know Tesla's use electric brake calipers as oppose to the normal hydraulic ones, not sure if other manufacturers are doing the same.
Since the electric motor is so much smaller than an engine/transmission combo they'd have to rearrange most of the front end crumple zones.
Add to that the cost of x5-10 software and UI devs.
One of the goals of the FreeCAD project [1] is to be a high-level interface for tools like OpenFOAM (via the CfdOF workbench [2]), and other solvers/meshers like CalculiX, Elmer, Gmsh, and Netgen.

Its modular, workbench-based, Python-around-C++ core approach provides an environment for people to make their own specialized tools, like the Arch Rebar tool [3] that was created as part of a Google Summer of Code project. [4] like airfoil design as you mentioned. There was a recent forum thread started by people interested in doing exactly that. [5]

[1] https://freecadweb.org/

[2] https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewforum.php?f=37

[3] https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Arch_Rebar

[4] https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=22760

[5] https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41159&start...
Additionally, you have to be careful how the rankings source the salary number. Obviously distribution of majors at different schools is a big factor, but on top of that many rankings look at earnings within 5 years of graduation. If your program tends to produce doctors, lawyers, etc. (in particular when they choose to further specialize) the salary 5 years after graduation is obviously not very good, but lifetime earning likely is. My guess is if you take a random Ivy and a random state school, the Ivy is going to have a notably higher percentage that pursues a graduate degree, which means those 5 year numbers probably underrate the Ivy.
Havok-wreaking or not, that microbiome is effectively part of the gut/brain.

Thought experiment: What would Dawkins say about gut/brain memetics? How do those "ventremes" propagate?
My impression is that Microsoft has sweated the details of Excel, the way that Apple sweated the details of the iPhone, so that it is extremely smooth and quick. This in turn makes it literally less physically laborious to use. Things like casually swiping the mouse across a range of cells to select them.

I suspect making it work this way requires an army of developers and some corporate will power. Having an inside track on exactly how the OS works may be an advantage.
Do you have a point or just a pointless link?

EDIT: Being associated with someone who at one point worked with communists 50 years ago makes you a modern day Marxist? Do these words mean anything to people anymore?
I interviewed with a quant hedge fund in 2004 whose systems where all in FoxPro. They loved it. The general partner of the fund believed that Microsoft had figured out that they could unbundle FoxPro into 3+ components (DB, IDE, Reports...) and sell each separately. It's been a mystery to me why no one, using sqlite as the DB foundation, has attempted a modern-day FoxPro\MsAccess-like tool.
The fact that the argument is not complex does not mean it is not deeply explored.
The video linked from the article [1] only shows a robot picking up an already packaged t-shirt.

They don't show what I assume is the more challenging part, which is to actually fold a t-shirt.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=h1_aZhmL5vw...
Just. Make. College. Free.
> many GNU/Linux distros are becoming more like Windows

And others aren't. Though I disagreed with the SystemD move, I've quite enjoyed arch for years. There are also some excellent other options, for instance, Alpine is a Musl/Busybox/Linux distro that works great on old machines. I think most Linux users will move to a different Linux before moving to BSD for comfort reasons.
FreeCAD (https://www.freecadweb.org) is also on an accelerating pace in terms of quality, although it still has a ways to go depending on your workflow.
Working as a dev doesn't inherently prevent one from being healthy and active enough to be able to run a marathon, just gotta spend some time being active in your spare time. But killed knees and back due to a job in trades certainly will prevent you from running a marathon, no matter what you do with your free time.
Absolutely false, the PTK is sent over the air and is constructed from a hash of the PMK, client/ap MAC, and client/AP Nonce. The attack the parent comment is describing is exactly why WPA3 was made with SAE. One need only capture 2 packets of the initial handshake to start offline cracking by comparing MICs and then you can decrypt the entire conversation since there was no perfect forward secrecy in WPA2 and older.

Also what you describe with RADIUS is incorrect as well but there are too many ways to configure 802.1x and RADIUS to cover all of why in a comment. Overall it is considered safer than WPA2 though so the conclusion is sound.
No domain has a monopoly on original thought, so calling some of them 'creative' is just lazy and imprecise.

I'm just pissing into the wind. Ultimately it doesn't really matter and I agree it's not worth getting offended about.
The Case for Removing All Politicians from Twitter
May it be unlike Erke Dönergeci, a fraudulent group that attempted to produce a perpertual motion machine.
I worked in restaurants and bars when I was younger, and pulled in 80-100 hours every week for a few years. When I got my first engineering job I did the same thing, trying (successfully) to learn and develop my career as quickly as I could. I’ve also gone through phases of working 60+ hours as a contractor, trying to save as much money as possible.

For me at least, doing that much productive work in a week was never very difficult, but it was only possible because I had no real responsibilities at home. I had friends, but barely spent any time with them, and I once went 5 years without taking a holiday. I wouldn’t do that again today, but for a young person trying to set themselves up in life, it makes perfect sense.
Thanks for this website! I read a few other articles, thought I'd be bored quick but ended thinking "it's already the end?". Seems like they're putting into words many principles I found out for myself, a pleasure to read. Wish I could afford the sub.
A Lego-CAD tool for touchscreens i.e. Android tablets. I've used LeoCAD on Linux, which isn't bad but finding parts is a nightmare. And the existing non-OSS alternative on Android, Draw Bricks, doesn't support many special bricks like those from Simple Machines.
Hotel PMS & operation.

We pay roughly $7000 per year. If I want api access it cost additional $700 per year. It took them 9 months to transfer the licence when I bought the property.
https://tech-insider.org/software/research/acrobat/8308.pdf

“The promise is that the existing machines could do the job much better-more easily, more efficiently - if software were better designed.”

'Vista 8'
How about if a bunch of folks spend 4 years getting English degrees because sophisticated communication is a critical skill when your entire economy is based on information?

It's really striking to me how the arguments against college for all today mirror the arguments against secondary school for all 120 years ago.

Hopefully the parallel continues and our great grandkids can take their advanced education for granted the way we take secondary school for granted today.
Yeah exactly. It may be the case that 100% of the canned goods you donate to the food bank finds its way into the hands of those who need it. It may also be the case that those canned goods have a lot of costs you're paying all throughout the supply chain. A can of chunky soup may cost $2 but what are you getting for that? Pennies worth of potatoes, carrots, and meat, fractions of a cent worth of spices, seasonings, salt, and other preservatives.
Barebones Git
If Debian offered the same things Ubuntu does, people wouldn't use Ubuntu. But, alas, they don't.
>Buying an RV feels like buying an asset; renting one feels like throwing money away.

To me, assets are things that make me money. Things that continually require me to pay money are liabilities.
Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?
> 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.

You see, that's funny because having read the article, the above nicely nails the views an extreme moderate would hold.
I agree the content is not terribly profound.

> I say this as a moderate, of the accidental variety, myself!

I had to laugh. As you are a reasonably prolific contributor here, I've seen dozens if not hundreds of your comments. It's gotten to the point I can reliably tell when it's a tptacek comment before I even read the byline. And it's not because you have stances on both sides of the political aisle.
I remember reading some articles[1][2] where it talked about older games where the source code is long lost.

[1]: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/06/13/square-enix-digi...
[2]: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1014845/sega-loses...
Even if everything you wrote is 100% true (and I think it is), that's all tangential. The point is that nobody should be curling anything in a login script, not "HAHA DERP BSD BETTER".

People having emotional reactions as if some tribe they imagine they belong to has been insulted by someone else who they imagine belongs to some other imaginary tribe, instead of just, "yeah that's wrong nobody should do that, let's do better" has always been one of the most off-putting things to me about the whole free software community, such as it is. It was annoying on Usenet in the mid-'90s, it was obnoxious whenever RMS prioritized that sort of thinking over actually just turning the other cheek and making the world a better place, and wow does it not do anyone any good decades later.

My theory is that people get sucked into these black holes of rational thought because, like me, a lot of people drawn to the open source world tend to be obsessive introverts who often feel more comfortable with computers than people, and like me, are susceptible to getting sucked into feelings of belonging and camaraderie with often imaginary subcultures/tribes/families online or elsewhere, when in reality the only common thread is they're random people from mailing lists trying to work together towards a very narrow range of common goals.

The instant people get sucked into the dark side, next thing you know they're going around IRL saying stuff like "ACTUALLY it's guh-noo SLASH lee-nooks and anything else is disrespectful and I will personally feel disrespected by anyone who defies me". And then all is lost and this whole thing becomes a net negative for everyone involved. No fun, no fun at all. Nobody should feel personally insulted by anyone pointing out obvious technical flaws in anything really, including their own work, but certainly not in open source operating systems that they may or may not even contribute to.
Tangent: I find subtitles easier to follow than audio dialogue. My biggest complaint about subtitles, if I were going to complain, would be that they draw my attention so much that I might miss visuals appearing elsewhere on the screen. I don't really understand why people object to them.

But this does appear to be a minority position.
Obligatory link to folding a shirt perfectly in 2 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6rjbw0ZA0
Google Desktop Search (it is dead now anyway). Was brilliant while it lasted.

There were some other alternatives as well but I think GDS starved them to death before Google got bored and killed GDS. (Please le me know if there are good alternatives, free/paid/open source, everything is interesting as long as they fo the same things GDS did and can convince me that they don't upload my data.)
There's some mainstream literature (with data) that corroborates this point of view: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-10-30/free-c...
> I went to a 4-year college, but earned almost all of my money from self-taught programming and design skills.

College has other benefits like signalling and networking though.
So... why not Europe? Germany, Switzerland, France...?
> Magazines write about stuff like "The Most Important Agile Trends to Follow in 2020". It's part marketing, influencing kind fluff where people write opinions about soft issues where you can't be clearly right or wrong.

The mainstream ones sure, but there's others out there that don't. At least 2600 still the same.
The article says that this software vendor had, among its clients, “64 of 67” of Florida’s counties. A few percentage points in Florida alone can be the difference in a general election.
The biggest correlation on success later in life is how wealthy your parents are. Chances are you would be living in a safer neighborhood with better role models and exposed to more opportunities for further success, while being relatively insulated from opportunities for self-destruction.

College functions to get you out of your class bubble and expose other opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have living at home. You play college right like many do, you advance up that economic ladder, and in the process set up your future kids for trivially easy success.
My student loans have auto re-financed to lower interest rates with no action on my part. But I got them in the 00's, maybe the rules changed.
"single init=/bin/bash" has served me well since forever
The best thing that improved the consistency of my baking was better measurement. I started weighing my ingredients, as Cook's Illustrated found the mass of a cup of flour varied by as much as 15%. I bought a separate thermometer for my oven because I didn't trust its built-in thermocouple. After this, I never had bad batches of cookies.
True enough, but if the distro I used did that, I would move elsewhere. That distro only updates /etc/motd when the first line contains 'Linux', otherwise it is left untouched. The update only is changing the first line to the the output of "/bin/uname -sr"
I want to be careful not to criticize the post on its own terms. Paul Graham should totally write things like this on his own site! It sucks having to be careful about what you because of what other people will do with it, and the weird debates you'll be forced into as a result.

I'm just saying, to the extent this post is political, it's political in a totally routine way that doesn't clear the "interestingness" bar for this site, other than that Paul Graham wrote it. It doesn't belong on the HN front page.
The CyberKart half-way down the page shows a good sense of humour.
> Further, as an avid user of Ubuntu, who reaps the benefits of millions of work hours of Debian &/or Ubuntu employees, I'm ok with advertising whose source code I can audit, and modify even.

Despite all of this, the number of people switching from Win/Mac to Linux is in negative territory. Why? Because they first advertise their switch on a blog-post or Twitter, then they later realize that they can't do basic tasks or keep up with new features added on Windows and Mac. They then have to live with half-working unstable hacks which they then ultimately switch back or dual boot.

It's a bit misleading for Ubuntu to call itself "open-source" and "privacy respecting" when they're teaming up with Amazon planting adware and telemetry in the OS, which gives the impression that they already abandoned the idea of "privacy".
It'd be a stretch to say political opinions are for the most part a result of internal reasoning and self-formed world view, rather than indoctrination by a social group that suffers hard from confirmation bias. People are, overall, NOT good at thinking critically, and tend to accept the paradigm to which they have to most exposure. They tend not to reach outside of their bubble for clues about what could be wrong with their paradigm. It's more work.
You compare it with other phones in the nearby area.
I use both, but prefer Debian. Care to elaborate on what you miss in Debian?
> Next line, "Continue Watching": 2 shows that I found so bad I stopped watching them

At least your "continue watching" is relevant; mine tends to show movies I already watched in full, with a progress bar showing them being 98% done. Well, that last 2% is obviously the ending credits. Perhaps people over at Netflix do watch the couple of minutes of names rolling on black screen. I don't.
Using sqlite will be good. This is part of my plan (to build on top of sqlite (better) or lmdb (crazy!). Honestly sqlite, not kid ourselves).

P.D: I think for a company like MS FoxPro was not a good business, but it could be very good for a smaller player. Fox have a decent market and was very loved by the community.
Honestly? I see Republicans unable to explain their own positions, perhaps because they don't understand it themselves. I see them stumbling around, too often not operating on principle or thought, and sometimes stumbling into saying things that manage to win an election.

It's unfair to say that that's all Republicans. But it's some of them, and it fits the one that collects all the press at the moment...
Aren't there several issues at hand?

They could communicate to their customers through means other than the label, eg, through advertising buys, or informing the media.

They would stop producing the chemical until things are corrected.

Is your point really applicable? California has labeling laws which are independent of the US ones, eg, "This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm" due to 1986 California Proposition 65.

This suggests that there isn't uniform labeling across the US.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/the-chip/

This is what you were referring to, I'm guessing. 1982.
Less morbidly/cynically, I wonder if this business model could extend to, say, the little old lady who likes baking pies and wouldn't mind some extra dough for her dough?

There's already this sort of market popping up on e.g. Facebook, but it revolves around pickup instead of delivery; combine it with a delivery network like those provided by these food delivery apps and you've got a killer recipe (pun intended) for one hell of a business model.

I'd imagine the big hurdle would be health code compliance, though.
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> Your studies are mostly bullshit written to drive an agenda.

It could be that that's true of of a variety of scientific studies from diverse sources with no reason to have common agenda, or it could be that that's just true of your unsubstantiated pseudonymous anecdotal ranting in an internet discussion board.
Definitely. As long as we can get some guarantees that a good fraction of people who study for free contribute back to society without being treated like slaves.

All carrot with zero stick is not good just like all stick and zero carrot is not good.
The robots are standard pick and place robots using suction to pick packaged t-shirts and put them in a box. If you were expecting to see a robot picking up a t-shirt, folding it and putting it in a package you will be disappointed.
Note that macOS has two different kinds of default application associations.

The first one, the one that you might expect to apply to all files of the same kind, but which actually applies only to the specific file you are doing this for, is under “Open With” in the context menu that comes up when you right click the file (two finger touch by default on MacBook laptops). When you choose Open With > Other and check the “Always Open With” checkbox, you are only creating an association for the file in question, not for the file format in general.

This to me is confusing.

In order to create the association for the file type and not just a specific file, you need to instead select the “Get Info” entry in the context menu for the file. Then, under “Open with” in the window that comes up, this is where you select the application that will apply to all files of same kind.

Did you try the latter method?