skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And that is why we need laws banning these

You need those laws, because current situation doesn't fit you. I've heard the tank argument for last 20 years over and over. There are tons of use cases when bigger is required, say bigger family, lots of goods being transported etc. I don't have a big car myself, but such statements are pretty ignorant of reality. and what about all the cargo vehicles, trucks etc?

If you want to punish those evil rich capitalists in good ol' communist class envy way, then I have few ideas - we should ban people changing phones in less than 7 years, have only 1 computer per family, every 10 years, only 2 pairs of trousers, no meat for anybody ever, in fact no car and of course only 1 kid max. Its for the greater good, right?

What Switzerland does is, with its car tax is, at least in some cantons, the tax is calculated in equation which considers HP of the car and its weight.
Britain to United States: We want a trade deal and a digital tax
I had a similar conversation with myself recently. In the spirit of sharing coping mechanisms...

What I found helpful was to dig deeper into why I enjoyed playing the genres of games that I do.

My favourites are MOBA/ARPG/MMORPG and there was quite some overlap in what I was enjoying.

Stuff like:

- MOBA
- Skill based gameplay
- You get better over time
- You get to play with/against people better than you and learn from them
- There exists an optimal strategy for each encounter you can discover
- Team based gameplay
- Work with others to secure objectives
- Win/lose as a team
- Sense of camaraderie
- Ability to be altruistic
- Winning/Losing streaks
- Easy to track
- Easy to turn into a short-term goal "Win the next game"
- Short turnaround time
- Games last between 15-30 minutes
- Little downtime between games
- Very easy to get back "into the action"

Now I'm trying to organise my programming activities to give me the same sort of satisfaction:

- Programming
- Skill based gameplay => Skill based progression
- You get better over time
- Join a slack/discord and ask questions to learn from others
- There exists an optimal strategy for each task you can discover
- Team based gameplay => Community
- Join a slack/discord
- Sense of camaraderie (E.g. "We're all gophers!")
- Ability to be altruistic (Help newbies)
- Start something//Contribute to open source projects to work with others
- Winning/Losing streaks => Commit streaks
- Easy to track on github
- Easy to turn into a short-term goal "Commit once today"
- Short turnaround time => Short coding sessions
- Setting a timer for 5/10/15 minutes and following a tutorial
- Little downtime between games => Try to minimize distractions
- Move straight from one tutorial from another

It's been working well for me.
I finally switched to duckduckgo and its fine! No complaints so far.
If you are using Firefox, they have started the war against browser fingerprinting:
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/how-to-block-fingerprinting...

So, with a strong hosts file, a blocker/noscript/privacy badger we are in a better place. It is always a cat and mouse game though..

My go-to for HOSTS is:
https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
It will be literal killer app, if the algorithm inadvertently alters faces or car license plates on camera feeds so that the error is not obvious. Today's codecs cause mostly predictable and obvious artifacts, yet there are problems already [1]. Can anyone guarantee that ML algorithms get these crucial details right?

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/xerox-scanners-alter-numbers-i...
Let's draw similar graph for Windows 10
In countries with national health system, doctors have the opposite target to not referr people further for expensive procedures. A good example was in London,where a hospital was paying to GP practices so they won't refer people for certain treatment ( because of the workload the hospital had). You need to go to your GP at least 3 times before they even start listening what's going on or prescribe more than just paracetamol.
>But almost all websites are getting out of control

And they don't care if you're a paying user! I susbcribed to the NYT, paying them fair money every month for a couple of years now, just to be subjected to the same mess regardless.
It's infuriating. Why should I even pay for the service when they still bombard me with ads and tracking?!
I can't believe the state-of-the-art thinking was genuinely that it's a time management problem. Surely some self-awareness of the mental battle goes a long way to quashing that quickly. I'm not thinking "I estimate this will take 1 hour". I'm thinking "I don't want to do this", and there's a tension between inevitability and the unpleasantness.
I think I'd pick the iron ball? I'd have to feel the clay first.
Yes, it currently provides one assembler function, but I plan to extend it to support multiple named functions.
Whether fiction or technical, read a _physical_ book. As soon as I open the laptop I am sucked into a black hole and many times, I forget the reason why I opened it in the first place. I end up always reading the same sites, doing the same shit, ...

You could also cook: not necessarily complicated things. Just cook you meals from basic ingredients, fresh or frozen.
The Mount Vesuvius eruption was so hot, one man’s brain turned to glass
Most modern cars are also unibody, so the center console interior design element isn't entirely without merit.

The axial bulge that would normally be concealed by a center console acts as structural support in vehicles without driveshafts. Furthermore, if it exists, the cavity will also serve as exhaust midpipe routing to the rear for improved underbody aero performance. Some manufacturers also offer an AWD variant of a chassis primarily sold as FWD--e.g. Acura TL, Mazda3--so design reuse is another path to consider.

The Model 3 doesn't appear to fit this generalization, but a center console still makes sense. It's a 5-passenger vehicle by design, so rear seating arrangement will drive width constraint. You can't put a 6th seat in the front-center position for obvious safety reasons, while leaving it empty would miss the mark when compared to competing luxury vehicles around the same price point (something about how America loves cupholders comes to mind), so filling it in with a sleek and generous center console strikes me as the natural direction to steer towards; it's cheap, serves a functional purpose, fills a void and flows with the overall interior aesthetic. Besides, a closed luxury cabin whose volumetric efficiency approaches 100% is a luxury vehicle that simply won't appeal to the masses.

For a good idea of just how inconvenient not having a decent center console can be, look no further than the ND Miata. Anecdotally, mine is a weekend solo/track toy so not a deal breaker, but it's one of those things that can be easily taken for granted until you don't have one anymore: fitting a pair of sunglasses in the laughably small center compartment is like working a puzzle piece, the large rear-center storage compartment can't be conveniently accessed while seated unless you're a human pretzel, some smartphones won't fit in the cubby hole designed to hold one, and retaining non-bottled drinks with a passenger seated is a spill accident just waiting to happen.
The wanted to do something the liked in their free time I guess?
Delphi does however cross the stack better than VB - with inline assembler being available, and a pretty decent debugger with integrated disassembler.
See Porting uLisp to a new platform: http://www.ulisp.com/show?2JZO.
"He is currently Director of Engineering at Netflix, working on Open Connect, Netflix's home CDN also known as the CDN moving about 30% of the total US Internet traffic"

There is something about CDNs and DNS, usually not good. According to Paul Vixie, that is how we ended up with EDNS0 despite the objection of IETF. Wonder if this company gets permission to share data with Netflix. I would read the terms carefully.

Hopefully people will choose to run their own Pi-Holes on their home networks, preferably without pointing them at third party "upstream" DNS providers.
> Social media makes democracy stronger because people can communicate more. There's little to say beyond that.

Except when the platform censors one side of the debate. Reminds me of The Joe Rogan podcast with Tim Pool and Twitter execs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbTXqrS9l5E
>This is inconsiderate. Would you write "hire a babysitter, maybe?"?

I'd love if people hired babysitters (or left children with family) instead of taking their SCREAMING children on airplanes, sure.
You mean like how toy cars remove the dangers and perils of driving an actual car? Or how plastic cutlery removes the dangers and perils of sharp steel cutlery?
Is there a platform that does? I've (not a developer) looked at IndieGoGo for help funding my software development since I've had trouble putting together an equity team to help get it from concept to at least prototype.
> Also, liberal arts education has always included math and science.

Math and physics are solidly on the STEM side when people argue the merits of STEM vs liberal arts.

So instead of arguing semantics, understand what people mean. When they say "Don't study STEM, study liberal arts" what they mean is not "Don't study the more practical sides of STEM like engineering, study the liberal arts side of STEM like Maths", but instead "Don't study anything which requires more math than Algebra 1".
Create an unattended installation disk for on-premises IoT
Every time I see a ".gg" domain, I read it out as "gee-gee" -- a colloquial term for a horse...
Projectors are the future of education:

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/08/rotten-stem-how-t...
There's likely a lot of truth to this. They say that every human is a liar. But I wonder if every human has the courage and ambition it takes to lie big?

Most of us are way too fearful to even lie to low ranking people, so of course we'll never be caught in enormous lies to high ranking people. So when you imply all people are liars, yes, that's true without question. However, I'd wager that only a select few have the guts or desire to go all the way to the top with a lie.
How to use drones and Machine Learning to improve crop yield in agriculture?
The use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) devices is revolutionizing the world of agriculture. When discussing Precision Agriculture and the use of drones in the report: “An eye in the sky for agriculture: the drone revolution” the Food and Agriculture Organisation writes “In the current milieu, use of sustainable information and communication technology in agriculture is not an option. It is a necessity.”

According to a study by Munich Reinsurance American Inc., almost three in four U.S. farmers are “currently using or considering adopting drone technology to assess, monitor and manage their farms”.

Jason Dunn, Strategic Products Expert from Munich Reinsurance American Inc. said: “Whether a farm has less than 100 or more than 5,000 acres, drones can be the eyes and ears for farmers that want to efficiently and cost effectively monitor and manage crops, livestock and soil conditions.”

One of our clients, an arabica grower in Brazil, uses the Picterra platform to detect and monitor his coffee crops. Using a drone, he produced detailed imagery covering 8 hectares of fields, at a high resolution of 5cm. He then created a personalized detector to automatically detect the coffee crops within his fields. In utilizing the detector, he was able to arrive at an estimation of harvest yield, which proved much more accurate than previous manual counting methods, as he knew the exact number and placement of crops. Later in the season, the grower identified the least productive areas of these fields by comparing the number of plants in each area. With such analysis, he was able to focus on zones of the field that needed particular attention. Moreover, he now uses far lower levels of pesticide overall. The final result is an increase in his crop yields by 10%.

You can read the whole story and a step-by-step tutorial on how to create a custom machine learning detector here: http://bit.ly/30THDC4

I'll be happy to answer your questions!
When “ASLR” Is Not ASLR – Incorrect Assumptions and Bad Defaults (2018)
Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer
What really grinds my gears: they do the same thing when you're a paying subscriber.

I'm with the nyt for two years now, and I can vividly remember seeing the first ad that was displayed despite me being logged in. How is that okay?! And btw: I wanted to cancel my subscription afterwards, but apparently you can't do that via web from the EU (or not for my subscription type?) - so I need to cancel on the phone, during american business hours. I appreciate the times for their journalism, but their business practice with respect to selling their customers data is beyond inacceptable. I'm already paying you money, get your act together please...
I suppose that's true. I was saying gp's point that portability was a burden was weird. As if anyone who touched sysvinit was cursing at themselves in fury because they needed to support BSD (which doesn't use it).
Harmony OS: How is Huawei's ecological strategy going?
This is why greed is bad.
The people I know who I was regard as exceptional seem to have done it despite their parents, not because of them.
Swift and Kotlin are used for application programming there, not systems programming. Also, Google does Rust as well. And Microsoft is slowly switching some pieces to Rust as well. These are big companies with many teams and use many different tools.

Don't know how iOS, but Android does offer native APIs, so Kotlin is not the only officially supported choice there. Actually for anything that needs performance, e.g. games, Kotlin is a nogo.
The amazing part, to me, is that many people are either unaware or this, or (worse yet) vaguely know that the US tortures people when it likes, but still think of the country as a place that respects human rights or the rule of law.

I used to think that the concept of doublethink in 1984 was satire. It pains me to realize that it absolutely is not.
How to Choose Colours for Your Fall Décor?
As a slight counterpoint (I haven't looked into the claims of the patents too much): There is the well known Kerr-Newman solution of a rotating, charged black hole. It is well known that a relativistic rotating charged disk approximates in the limit of (v = c) the Kerr-Newman solution with (B = 0): https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0410109.pdf. However the total field energy of such a rotating disk would be infinite, this is one of these examples in physics, where you run into pathologies. As is remarked in the paper those might be removed by a quantum treatment. For v < c the field energy is finite, which is in any case the only realisable regime.
In Germany there is a strange policy for hospitals. If you do not do a minimal amount of operations of a certain kind (e.g. hip replacements), you loose the admittance to do any further surgeries of the same kind.

The incentive was probably to focus competency to certain hospitals, but you can imagine how this plays out in reality.

Especially people not familiar about medical necessities should always get a second opinion. Otherwise you might end up with an extra hip or something like that.

At least it begins to be common knowledge that hospitals do operate too often.

Still, with all its problems, and there are many, I certainly would prefer to be operated in any country of the EU compared to the US. Not because of capabilities of doctors, but to me it seems US health care as a example how private business can be worse than governmental services. Common market mechanisms don't work if your life depends on it. It is just about extracting the most amount of money from suffering and this article describes a problem to which there is no solution in my opinion.
Isn't Google based there? It didn't work out that way for James Damore.
The one time that “piracy law” was invoked upon in US judicial system
My brother had an ex-girlfriend who was the same, always spinning a different version of her life. Another friend briefly shared a house with her and discovered that she kept two diaries. One detailing the things she had done - and the other detailing what she said she had done.

To be a good liar you need a good memory.
I put together a image to try and explain the difference: http://a.gln.io/blue.png

There's 16 different shades, or colours, there. If I was to point to any one of them individually and ask my young children what colour it was they'd almost certainly say "blue". And I'd understand them fine and consider it correct. Likewise if they were explaining something they saw during the day and said it was "blue" I might make an assumption about which of these shades it was, but I intuitively know it could have been any of them. And most of the time the distinction isn't that important for understanding and sharing experience.

When the distinction is important my kids would probably simply say "light blue" or "dark blue". Additional adjectives will get used to clarify the relative difference between the colours.

Soon they'll learn "sky blue", "baby blue", "navy blue". Then teal, turquoise, aqua, cyan, cerulean, etc.

Assuming the language has those words. That only occurs when the need to distinguish is common enough to established a shared understanding across a large enough group of people that they effectively reach a consensus that it's now a thing, like English speakers did a few hundred years ago with the introduction of the colour orange. Nobody invented a new colour, we started using a new word to describe something that had always been.
Lisp didn't pioneer lambda calculus, come on!
Artificial Intelligence – Human Augmentation is what’s here and now
> “Or is it your reputation that's bothering you? But look at how soon we're all forgotten. The abyss of endless time that swallows it all. The emptiness of those applauding hands. The people who praise us; how capricious they are, how arbitrary. And the tiny region it takes place. The whole earth a point in space - and most of it uninhabited.”

> “Soon you’ll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most—and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, and trivial. Dogs snarling at each other. Quarreling children—laughing and then bursting into tears a moment later. Trust, shame, justice, truth—“gone from the earth and only found in heaven.” Why are you still here? Sensory objects are shifting and unstable; our senses dim and easily deceived; the soul itself a decoction of the blood; fame in a world like this is worthless. —And so? Wait for it patiently—annihilation or metamorphosis. —And until that time comes—what? Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Here in Germany we occasionally have similar headline making cases and scandals. We also have similar incentives, since how you make money as a doctor is the same basic principle.
That's a meme in the US, but not really elsewhere as far I know. Private organisations are also very good at wasting money, especially if it isn't their money.
Probably you would be interested in https://dynamicland.org/ or Bret Victor fame.
Sounds like how the sale of a large chunk of the amateur radio IP space allocation (AMPRNet) was justified, too.

http://www.arrl.org/news/millions-of-amprnet-internet-addres...
This reminds me of a classic, which, it seems to me, should apply to surgeons as much as anyone:

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
> It's actually bad for doctors if preventive healthcare takes off the way it should, we all eat healthy, balanced diets and exercise to take care of our bodies and mind.

Maybe in the short term. In the long term, people will get older and will get more ailments due to age and still go to the doctor. When I visit a GP in the Netherlands, I mostly see children and old people in the waiting room.
OMG, that explains so many things.

Thanks!
English is deficient in context, absolutely.

But the advantages of English is in a "modern" society, whatever that may be. There are deficiencies in these languages even that are not just about vocabulary. Things like "I have never" or "I would never" are a strange example.

In the dialect where I come from, you say in Sotho: "Ga ke tsebe ka ya kua." This means: "I don't know about going there." But contextually it means that you have never been there.

I am not saying you can't write a scientific paper in these languages at all, but I am saying that you need to standardise the languages better before you can do that. At the present state of things, esssentially, you can't write scientific papers. By the way, Afrikaans was wittingly and deliberately developed into a scientific language. It did have a significant head start though, having been mostly derived from Dutch.

An example of superiority of Sotho is in idiomatic language. There are running metaphors that don't even come close in English. It kind of makes sense, because if you think about it, precision of meaning trades off idiomatic richness.

There was a funny meme that essentially illustrated how different Sotho grammar can be, and how your figurative use of language can essentially hide meaning through ambiguity. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCU2Uh42qS4. Explanation: She is actually just saying that she stole her mom's money that should have been used to make pots with for people that had paid. Literally: "I did the thing that made that the pots couldn't be made."
Yep. Dunno the best way to send it out, though.
The top paid software engineers own their own companies.
I assert NACK, and the block read terminates. Then I service the interrupt.
There is an issue of terminology happening here. While Georgia Tech might have a "Liberal Arts College", that's not the same thing as a "Liberal Arts degree".

From wikipedia: "There is no formal definition of liberal arts college".

Here's someone else explaining better than I can: "A bachelor's degree in liberal arts means that the courses you take will be in general areas of study such as philosophy, mathematics, literature, art history, or languages, rather than in applied or specialized fields."

If you think that Biochemistry is a "liberal arts degree" then you've really misunderstood what the above poster was talking about. Biochemistry is a specialized field, and no one would consider that a liberal arts subject.

If it helps, you want to be looking towards degrees like:
psychology, business, literature, arts, sociology, women's studies, languages, history, political science... Does this mean these degrees will never touch math? By no means! But it's foolish to think the level of mathematical and technical rigor would be similar to a degree in, say, Physics.

Generally speaking, even a Physics student will take some liberal arts classes as electives, as part of a "liberal arts education"; what we might call well-rounded. But while the physics student might read a few books and find it interesting, and keep that as part of them for the rest of their life... it's generally not the case that a student of Fine Arts is going to take Calculus and occasionally wistfully perform derivatives.
I heard this on a BBC radio 4 radio program related to disability issues aired on either a Tuesday or Thursday around 9pm in around 2014/2015.
Amen. I play and watch Pokemon with my son these days, and can't help but frequently be taken back in time to the mid-late 90's when websites were raw and so many pockets of the internet didn't have a lick of even bare bones CSS. Memorials like this incapacitate me with nostalgia.
NextDNS is great. However with these tools, problems appear when you specifically want to display your Firebase dashboard etc. directly going to a service from the "tracker" itself = analytics.google.com

Marking at domain level is too generic to wrestle with this problem.