skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. Some icons for network infrastructure and it could also be a network visualisation tool
Predictions:

1. CIA becomes obsolete, they will not be able to keep their secrets and they have no asymmetric advantage in killing other country leaders while protecting their own leadership from being killed in retaliation. (mutually assured destruction on a small scale)

2. Garbage dump mining startups will have a capital hey-day (story about "bitcoin ladened trash-PC recovered" blows up in the headlines)

3. UFO stories become more and more prevalent in the news. Non-Newtonian aircraft presented by US space-force.

4. Quiet surveillance on the rise with sudden opportunities appearing for movement-leaders; security services disband-through-kindness rather than through cohesion.

5. Wealth becomes impossible to hide, oligarchs, corrupt politicians exposed through a series of leaks.

6. The internet is fragmented, but Elon Musk creates a network of networks which allows the American's to continue its colonization of all information systems.

7. Uni-gate, dept burdened millennials and post-millennials align politically and go after the universities/officials who have bankrupted their futures.

8. Meme-force established. Information cascades are monitored and foreign influencers are shut down or even forcibly stopped.

9. Google over-steps, internal anti-trust emails exposed, the search monopoly is broken and other search engines come online

10. Backlash against Chinese funded foreign nationals in western STEM programs.

11. First brain hack and thought probe occurs via a brain-to-computer interface mixed with an AI system.

12. Telepathy RFC introduced

13. Rene Girard's memetic theory gains in popularity as post-modernism continues to fall.

14. First massive state sponsored bank account attack wipes out hundreds of millions of electronic records; creating chaos in the western financial system. Crypto surges.

15. "Identity politics" based political arrests start to occur due to thought-crimes.

16. Small scale micro-voting systems innovate how small groups make decisions. (voting nerdom becomes a thing, democracy disrupted in a good way)

17. First asteroid mined

18. Mental health task-force (Chinese like system) established and funded to identify people who are competent enough to harm the whole (frequency of mass shootings reduced)

19. More political parties entirely bypass traditional (captured) media and talk directly to their base (Trump style political approach catches on)

20. Re-invention of the university system outside of the United States (Maybe from the African renaissance)

21. Factory farms are out-competed by lean and ethical agricultural systems. Ag-gag laws are unenforceable because drone surveillance become so inexpensive.

22. Mark Zuckerberg becomes president of the United States.
Understood as I was worried about the exact same things but after a week or maybe even a day of driving a model 3 I don’t miss tactile at all, the screen makes sense, and I like the Tesla software better than I did CarPlay on my previous car. I know those seem like bold/ridiculous statements, but it’s really all surprisingly well thought out
The difference between X and Wayland is way more than needing window-manager integration. You are forgetting that keyboard and mouse inputs run through Xorg so the problem goes way deeper.
I'm using ChromeOS on Macbook Pro Retina 2015 and on Thinkpad x230 as a spare for just everything.

Thinkpad x230 is 10 years old and it's current market price is below $100, I think. Or you can get it for free from a friendly company admin. Except for screen estate (compared to Retina) x230 is everything I need. It still has in it another 5 more years or so.

So ChromeOS could be cheap and performant at the same time. Chromebooks are different story - never found one with price to performance/quality ratio that suits my wallet.

PS. I disagree that ChromeOS has stalled out. Can't wait till February for version 80.
Expensive and fancy are two different things. You're right, though, those prices look steep to me.
Parent was talking about Microcenter, not Fry's.
I wonder if there could be an option for your vehicle to only turn on the internet connection and check for updates while it's charging?
Exposing the raw battery capacity? I guess all these people who are having their 2012-2017 Model S' range reduced and charging speed cut in half or worse are just delusional: https://floridanewswire.com/battery-gate-warranty-gate-charg...

As for your speculation on EA's pricing, have you ever visited let alone used a station? You seem unaware of their membership program which offers $0 session fees and reduced prices per kWh. Given how new their network is, pricing seems completely fair.
AAbundant past examples have shown if a business “just build the product”, it will soon does not need to build any product any longer ... since it will be belly up :-(
I checked the prices for the Surfaces on the official store before posting, the most expensive one was the Pro X + cover + pen at 1998,99 € (others were in the 1930-1960 range).

But my point was the same as yours: same price, better hardware, good screens + build quality and a capable OS instead of a full screen browser and mobile apps
This subthread was about Microcenter.
Banning people from smoking at work seems fine. Banning them from smoking when not on the job seems tyrannical.
Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier – Cotten.io
LCA's are only as good as the person who performs them. But we'd be much better off if everyone at least knew what they were, and what they try to accomplish, specifically capturing all of those externalities.

Re: the tax and ban... Tires and lead batteries in most states in the US is good example of this. You can tax or ban or regulate to put a cap on the problem. But if you want to collect the existing waste already out there, an incentive refund accomplishes much more, in less time.
Privacy is not something Elon or the U.S. writ large cares much about beyond the superficial, so it's not something Tesla cares about handling well for those of us who do value it. Not saying it will necessarily be any better with other manufacturers, but it is an area where they could differentiate. I would consider jumping ship from Tesla on this basis alone.
I’ve always kind of wondered how it’s even legal for a restaurant to have menu items that go over 2k calories a serving. Even some marketing healthy restaurants can push 1500 easily.
Looking for post from ~6 months ago about a type of historical diary
Hi

There was a post here about a type of diary that people kept in the 19th century, which was a kind of a mix of daily entries and clippings and notes kind of stuck in at random. People compared it to a blog or bookmarking tool.

Any ideas? I have searched but 'diary' and 'journal' bring up nada.
Ten Great AWS, Azure and GCP Courses for 2020
This subthread was about Microcenter, not Fry's.
> Even if you're making a desktop-environment game (E.g. using GTK without SDL) there isn't a good, widely-supported Linux API for audio.

Depending on PulseAudio is fine now. The amount of people not running PA is negligible. If you don't want to do that, use an intermediary API like SDL or PortAudio.
Melting Himalayan glaciers increase risk for glacial lake outburst floods
In British English, that's called an (electric) moped.

EU vehicle category L1e, if you want to look up the exact word in your own language.
> driving a brand new 25MPG Audi instead of a 40MPG 10 year old Nissan Versa

I know this is not your substantive point but ...

The extent to which CAFE standards have improved mileage even over the past 10 years should not be ignored, and you should check your assumptions about fuel economy. e.g. 2020 Audi A4 gets basically the same combined mileage as the 2010 Nissan Versa.

https://fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=29866&id=4...
I've been commuting using a class-1 (limited to 20 mph) e-bike around Santa Barbara, CA for the last year and it is a dream. Far better experience than I expected. It won't work in all cities but if you have reasonable bike lanes switching over from a car can have many benefits.

1. Cost. Sure it's a high initial outlay (3k) but I'm not paying for insurance, gas, parking, and auto loan payments.
2. Faster. I can hop on my bike, ride to my building at 20mph, and park in my office. No dealing with paid parking in the city and walking from the lot.
3. Better for my physical and mental health. The daily exercise, fresh air, and feeling of connection to the bustle of the streets makes me happier.

If you have a short commute and have a safe route to work or errands I highly recommend giving it a try. Being able to pick up speed and keep up with traffic helps make it much safer and easier than a non-assist bike.
When machine learning packs an economic punch
FWIW, here's some IMO interesting and maybe even good advice "on language design":

Frank Atanassow, "Some words of advice on language design"

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/687#comment-18074
1. Manufactured "green" hydrocarbons will become a big business. Taking advantage of the existing fossil fuel economy, but using alternative processes to extract the carbon from the air, making for a high-density carbon neutral fuel source.
Cheating is a real problem, but I don’t see why we need to solve it with what’s essentially invasive spyware. If it’s degrading the experience of other people, let them tell you about it, not your kernel hook buried deep in the computers of all your users.
> - electric scooters would become a billion dollar business (Bird, Lime, etc.)

Valued at a billion dollars by venture capitalists. I'd be genuinely surprised if they are anywhere near a $B in revenue
This is the only sane way of using C++. All C++ dependencies in the same repo, because there is no standard C++ ABI.

I am compiling my C++ codebase with gcc, clang, emscripten to wasm, visual studio. Impossible if all dependencies are not present in a "third-party" folder.

Google's Abseil library is intended to be used this way.

Otherwise, use the C ABI between dependencies.
not sure where you're from, but i LOVE huge portions in restaurants because that means i have leftovers to take home for the next day. do most people not do that?
I like https://teamtreehouse.com/
It's fun the first 2 times you do it as you like. Then you start thinking about doing it right.

Then you start thinking about building stuff right from the beginning which is basically intelligence you've gathered.

It takes finesse to craft things quickly but with quality.

Bias to do stuff quickly is very hard to let go off. Doing things in an organised way has its value. Basically if you're not going to rewrite something in the next year, do it right now. Otherwise you're just borrowing time from future.

Short term hacks vs long term meaning.
Sure. That's the point. There are lots of variables that all need to be looked at and evaluated to find the sweet spots. It's why LCA's should be done for every option, including a ban. Identify what variable(s) are the low fruit to go after.
Come join my Church of the Smoking Christ. Tobacco is an a sacrament, in addition to wine, beer, and whiskey.
Really? Apple sure seems to be shoving a lot of ethical privacy crap down our throats right now. They may even have a point, but it's still obviously holier than thou and not any different than Google claiming to not be evil.
What makes you think they are not..?

I don’t know what to make of this pointless back and forth..

If you think someone who creates products is less productive than say...a supermarket check out employee, I have nothing more to contribute to this back and forth. Have a nice day.
In the US, it's the government that created the free market, and did it for the people. The US government is "of the people, by the people, for the people."

...Or at least it used to be. Now maybe in 2020 now, "people" can be replaced with "corporations".
I converted a nice traditional steel frame bike to with an e-bike kit. I would not really recommend that route - especially not if you’re hauling around a kid or gear like me. I was blowing through brake pads every 3-6 months and for most people it’s probably best to buy a nice e-bike that’s well built and tailored to the task.
Still early in the technology's development and permeation of society. Was just a few years ago that EVs were simply not feasible. Now they're downright common in some areas (Atlanta), have reached "affordable" (Tesla 3 in $30k range, good used Leaf for $6k), and options extend to 7-seat vehicles. The 6-seat Cybertruck will start in the $30k range. "Affordable 7-seat" is just a matter of time.
If you think the eTron competes with a Tesla you haven’t really looked into them. The range in the eTron is pathetic, it’s tiny, a lot less efficient and slower. The 20% battery is guarded because their chemistry sucks, not because of any reliability advantage.

The iPace on the other hand, would have made a wonderful gas car, it’s poor electric drivetrain is a setback.
...you're still playing Desert Combat? Holy shit. I might have to join
The real solution? Send only information players are supposed to see. Sacrifice some speed for true cheat proof games.
How does it run on the x230? With which specs? Android and Linux subsystems are working?
Smoking can easily be detected without a urine test. The disgusting smell lingers on the smoker after they smoke for example.
Months and thousands of miles on our Model 3, and I would still prefer tactile controls over the way Tesla does it. And this from someone who experienced input on the iphone working way better in practice than the keys on a Blackberry.
Hmm how hard did you try? If you turn on the linux integration you can install a lot of things. If you turn on the Android integration you can install a lot of things. If you need a mac or windows machines...well no luck there.

To me, the biggest drawback is most Chromebooks (not even the pixels) don't have a good GPU not that you can't get things to run.
A list of books recommended by Rolf Potts
On that thought, is there any way to prevent shootings without making guns harder or impossible for citizens to own?

Seems many will not disarm in the US, so should we be exploring other options rather than repeatedly saying the US should be more like other countries?
I would be interested in this, too. I read an interesting write-up by the guy who wrote the first .dll to hook functions in some FPS, I forget if it was quake or counterstrike. Sadly I can't seem to find it, now

Detailed discussion of how cheats and anti-cheats work is somewhat lacking as all the experts on either side of the issue would prefer to keep their secrets. These days an anti-cheat team that's serious about their job will lurk cheat forums and even try to poach talent there.
My early experience (ages 13-19), which consists of a mix of projects in Game Maker, PHP and JavaScript is at least as important as my later professional experience.

It's not equivalent: when I got my first job at 19 I was incredibly naive, I'd barely used source control, and I had a bad case of NIH syndrome. BUT, it's given me a depth of experience that is rarely matched by my people in age group.

Actual professional experience is often quite routine, and time pressured. You don't get the same opportunity to experiment and learn things in depth that one has as a teenager. It might not be the most efficient way to learn, but it's certainly effective.

Do I sometimes feel a bit of a fraud putting "12 years of experience" on my CV? Yes. But I also know I can hold my own in a room of people who have 12 years of "real" professional experience, and that it was this early experience that enables me to do that. So it seems equally disingenuous to not put it on my CV.
> Programming language design is stagnant with type theory dead-ending with too much complexity

Interesting. Maybe this will be the case for languages with bad legacy like C++, but the whole design of new type systems? What sources this prediction is based on?
Guess it's time to rebrand this as a fintech startup that informs investors about high-risk pharma stocks.
Care to explain why not? This seems like a very hand-wavy excuse with no mathematics behind it.
Use raw strings.

std::regex myre(R"(^hello\w*)");
This. Currently looking for job and it seems that every single company out there is just looking for someone who knows angular, react, node, etc. I always emphasize that I can learn the tools required by the job, but no, they just want someone with n years of experience in just a specific tool, instead of someone who can learn and adapt. Not a whine, just a concerned observation on the industry.
> If I as a taxpayer am funding someone else's healthcare they better not be drinking heavily, smoking, doing other drugs, eating excess sugars, avoiding vegetables, etc.

How much time to you spend advocating for this position WRT medicare, medicaid, and insurance for government employees including the active and retired military's Tricare, all of which you are currently paying for with taxes?
You can add a literal operator:

auto operator "" _r(char const* str, unsigned long) {
return std::regex{str};
}

To avoid all the backslashes, you can use a raw string literal:

int main() {
auto myre = R"(^hello\w*)"_r;
}
tl;dr: "help us build the eye of Sauron"
My employer has a $100 per month surcharge if you fail to pass a physical and another $75 per month surcharge if you fail to pass a nicotine screening. Their justification is that they self-fund insurance and they're trying to keep rates down.
The ending was fantastic
Call me nuts, but I’m more interested in propulsion than weapons.
This isn't sufficient. Smoking's effects lingers on the smoker for quite a while after they smoke. So even if they leave the company premise and come back, there's still the effect of third hand smoking. This was studied and shown to enter the HVAC system and even affect rooms where the smoker isn't sitting in. It's quite the dangerous, selfish, and disgusting habit.
It's Not Too Late to Save the Internet
1. While neural network research continues at a somewhat steady pace (slightly increased by the influx of new grads influenced by the last decade's glow around AI), neural nets become very small building blocks for task-design (by that I mean that all current small advances with neural nets can be integrated in a bigger-picture kind of design software to quickly prototype higher-level concepts such as modelling certain subsets of the brain, such as many of the Vs in the visual cortex)

2. Surveillance increases throughout the world (in numbers of cameras, privacy-invading devices and techniques, changes in legislation, improvements in AI), as well as counter-measures to AI-powered tools (wearables/clothes with specifically crafted noise to deceive detection algorithms, randomize gait, etc). Very little is won by people on the legislation front despite protests, since tracking ties in so well with advertising that there is enormous financial leverage and lobbying working on it.

3. SpaceX puts rich people on space trips mostly in orbit around the earth & spacewalks, maybe on a moon trip

4. VCs overall bet on remote work, ecology, as well as more upfront sustainable business models than in the previous decade

5. EU learns (a bit late) to cope with migrant crisis and improve its immigration (in part due to a more diverse aging population), albeit at the cost of perhaps losing a couple Eastern-European members.

6. Still, the improvements don't compare quite as much with Canada, the population of which increases at the highest rate in western countries thanks to immigration (including a lot of skilled workers), its increasingly better weather (one of the only relatively lucky countries facing climate change), and its bridge between US-UK-EU via new agreements (with UK and perhaps EU).

6. Decentralized networks become mainstream for specific fields (not sure which), prompting an evolving dialogue about the future of the internet

7. A new form of betting-investment mimics the bitcoin craze of a few years ago, mixed with a patreon/kickstarter/gofundme-type structure (something that makes it easy for the layman to invest in exchange for perks or financial promises that supposedly beat the market at short term)

8. Either a non-white or a non-male US president is elected at least once

9. FDA-approved research around drugs that were traditionally shunned by older populations (thanks to the war on drugs) proves fruitful for very specific needs (certain types of depression, PTSD, BPD, insomnia, etc), thus progressively bringing them into mainstream at a pace only slightly higher than what happened with cannabis. Drugs involved are mostly psilocybin, ketamine and mdma.

10. A bit farfetched but why not: one astronomical event scares the bejesus out of the world, leading to substantial improvements in the following years. (Asteroid passing far too close without being noticed -> sharp increase in NASA and ESA budgets.. or Solar flare destroying power grids and electronics over an entire continent -> huge investments in shielding, or in alternative power sources perhaps even for individuals - depending on where the event happens)
>The German foreign minister did that on the basis of an interview that wasn't even publicly available at that point. So nobody could actually read the full context of Hallam's statements, but plenty of people ended up reading Mass unique take on it.
How Mass got hold of the interview prior to publishing? Nobody knows, and apparently nobody even cares because who would want to defend somebody who supposedly relativizes the Holocaust? Certainly nobody in Germany, because that would be the equivalent of character-assassinating yourself.

Maas linked to the article when he made his statement on the issue. The article was already available:

https://mobile.twitter.com/heikomaas/status/1197113471546134...

The AfD started as an anti-euro party. Most people who look at the party somewhat objectively don't think it's only filled with neo nazis. The five hundred op-eds about how Union and SPD missed the mark and have to take the "besorgte Bürger" seriously were all published in media across the political spectrum.

But it's absolutely obvious that the far right wing part of the party has won over control. It's also obvious that people with neo nazi affiliation do exist in the party and a person with strong ties to the scene like Kalbitz even leads the party in one of their most important states. Look at their last party meeting. Look at Petry leaving, Lucke - the party's founder - leaving a lot earlier. Your assessment of the AfD is extremely naive as this party is consistently talking about putting caps on the freedom of the press. Just look at Höcke's comments after his interview on ZDF this summer.

To your other point, no, I don't think Gauland's comment was all that different in what triggered the response. Again though, what kind of persecution did anyone here face? Is there a travel stop to Germany for Hallam now? Was his interview removed? Is he now not allowed to sign a book deal with another publisher? What terrible fate did he endure? You think this is more devious than what's happening in India. I've rarely read a more first-worldian approach than this.

We are very divided on this. I don't think you're being very objective here, you seem to fall prey to simplistic notions like "Nazikeule", and your perspective does not sound all that thought out to me.