skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emacs keyboard macros can easily operate on thousands of things. Just give it a prefix argument like C-u 1000 <macro-key-combo>.
Researchers run a simulated factory network for seven months to prove a point
Well, it's not criminal and it's very hard to succeed in a slander action in the US. So it's very rarely punished. Which is why he could run a channel of lies for two decades. Most of the time it was bizarre fictional allegations against the government.
Funny that you should mention it. To me it looks like web development is mostly driven by fashion rather then practical choices. Also I suspect that unless something radically good comes out (I do not consider Rust, Go and likes to be the case) C and C++ will stay very active, including new development. I actually do hope that this happens but so far no real candidate.
Thanks, thats a great insight!
An Elegant Python/Flask Starter App with Bootstrap and Sign Up/Sign In
> I struggle to motivate myself to do the dishes and other household chores.

One thing I have found is that truly mindless chores like dishes are great because I can let my mind wander and do whatever it wants. The chores that I struggle with are ones that require focus/attention/thinking. Stuff like organization, where I have to sit and think about where each thing goes, and arrange and rearrange, those are a nightmare.

> Unfortunately, it is difficult to get, and I have to visit a doctor's office once a month to keep my prescription filled

Not sure where you are but my psych used to make me come every month for a refill. I moved and before I found a new psych I had to make an appointment with a regular family doctor. She was more than willing to write my script and only asked me to come every three months. I think the key was that I had been on the same dose for years and was organized with all my medical history. But don't take it as a given that monthly appointments are required.
It’s my understanding that banks in the EU must make their APIs public after PSD2. So...regulation is about the only thing they will get the incumbent to share their data
Looks like it starts at only $500 more than the desktop version but I didn't bother comparing specs. I have a friend with a 192GB new Mac Pro he's using for video production and he's currently testing it and finds it outperforms his HP Z8, he's very happy so far.
+1 for election day as a national holiday; I'd even go so far as to make voting mandatory (with support for blank protest ballots, health/circumstance exemptions, etc).

That said, while the RFID system you describe seems achievable (and clearly an improvement over closed-source easily-hackable voting machines), I think it misses an important component of a democratic process: voter trust. Even if the tech is fully auditable, requiring the average voter to trust an elite technological caste does reduce trust, compared to pen and paper, which are auditable by the vast majority of citizens.

Also, the RFID can't be the only mechanism; having a fixed address can be used for authorizing identity (as with mail-in ballots), but is not and should not be a requirement to vote.

At any rate, I agree that technology is no silver bullet; solutions should be sociopolitical first, and technology is merely a tool to that end. I do think there are worthwhile innovations to consider; if anything, I'd like to disrupt polling moreso than voting, which I think has a surprising political influence both during and between election cycles, and yet which we outsource to private media companies with their own biases and incentives. If we could crack the problem of distributed identity that is resistant to Sybil attacks, we could have ongoing/persistent voting, liquid voting, public choice economics, etc, enabling more fluid feedback loops with our representatives (and maybe someday, even "pass-through" representative direct democracy).
This is one place you don't need a switch.
Put the sensor there, make it always on. If the filter is not official, display it to the owner somewhere. Done.

A device you paid for refusing to work for just any reason is absurd.
There have been a number of posts over the last few days like this about giving (more) of your (sensitive) data to Google. Lots of comments in the threads about exporting and uploading messages from e.g. WhatsApp and Telegram, and a surprising lack of concern about it.
Love it, someone who cares and is willing to drive the issue all the way home.

I'm currently visiting San Francisco (SF) and experienced an opposite issue where GMaps reported cheaper and it ended up being more expensive. The BART train is a relatively fast, very cost effective way to get from SFO to downtown SF, Powell station in particular.

I was debating Uber at $30-$40, but looked at GMaps for public and it told me $2.50 to make that trip! Sure it takes 40 minutes with a bit more sketch, but I'm visiting, I'm willing and it's cheap.

Loaded up my Clipper card (BART's transit payment card) and went - ultra surprised when exited the turn style that my charge was $9.80.

The to/from the airport is significantly more expensive, which is understandable, but $9.80 vs $30 is much different than $2.50 vs $30.

Mildly frustrating, but in the end, not the end of the world.
Have you heard of Aumann’s agreement theorem? [1]

Consensus is possible, provided that the interlocutor have a shared goal and maximize for information exchange.

Otherwise, the whole notion of discussing one’s “beliefs“ is philosophical (non-empirical) nonsense. If I shut my mouth there is no way to empirically determine whether “I believe in God or not”.

I don’t have beliefs - I have methods of various degrees of effectiveness that get me what I want. To those ends knowledge is only instrumental. Which makes me an unapologetic opportunist/pragmatist/instrumentalist.

To you it may be “knowledge” - that Earth is round, to me it is inconsequential and immaterial even if I “believed“ (whatever that means) Earth was triangular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann%27s_agreement_theorem
> or are you in a non-tech job

Believe it or not, many of us techies really like our windows desktops along with other machines.
I like this article, and it makes a great business point: find what it is about the current way of doing something that irritates everyone, and offer a way that doesn't, and the world will beat a path to your door.

I started using Dollar Shave Club many years ago. I did so because of one thing -- buying blades at the store was very annoying. They're locked up, requiring me to find a store worker to unlock them, and they are crazy expensive.

DSC completely eliminated both of those irritations. I'm now considering trying out Warby Parker for very similar reasons.
Were you deploying using a Python webserver (e.g. SimpleHTTPServer), or was it nginx routed to an app server?
Can someone share how Ritalin helps with the issue of attention switching? How does it reduce distractibility?
I've tried starting things solo before and I think my skillset is not diverse enough. I have a very engineering-heavy skillset and I've been met with failure a few times before doing things solo.

It's a fair point though and I don't see this as stopping me, but it's a sore spot and I've been trying to find a partner so I can try to take a different approach with someone who has a different point of view than me.
This kind of law should be the norm. We are transitioning into an era where more people have more leisure time and many of these people will choose to travel. Imagine if every tourist decides to take 90 pounds of local resources. In time the area would lose all that makes it attractive to visit.

What irritates me is that all that sand would have eventually ended up in some trash dump doing no good to anyone.
I view self-reliance a bit differently. I see it as taking the initiative to solve one's problems, and accepting the consequences of one's decisions.

It's the opposing viewpoint to being a victim.

For example, I recently had a root canal. The dentist told me it was not my fault. But I know it was, and I accept the consequences of my choices, despite being unhappy about it. Maybe I can choose better and avoid getting another one.
This is a strawman. Nobody endless tinkers with their .emacs file, unless they really want to. I change my .emacs file less than once a year.
>No hardware is being made obsolete, or getting sent to the dump.

I assume this is in response to Sonos' program where they brick perfectly-usable devices (which then get sent to the dump) to prevent re-use after you take part in a trade-in program.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191231/07584043658/sonos...
How do you know the binary in the App Store is actually compiled from the published source. Is it possible to reproduce iOS binaries?
Do you need to raise fast, then?
That's what I do. And I'm not hiding behind a pseudonym.
This is a very interesting map, but the political boundaries look wrong. Germany is shown as two countries, though they unified in 1990. But the USSR is shown post-breakup, at least looking in the Baltic, though that breakup only happened in 1991.
Algorithms and the Future of Medicine
> This keeps coming up by people who are seemingly confusing 23andme with GedMatch. They are very different platforms, and even the latter has greatly changed their law enforcement policies.

This confusion matters if the average customer is making decisions based on that info. It doesn't matter (yet?) that they require a warrant and are transparent. All that matters is that enough people believe 23andme will share personal data for sales to be affected
>Being cited doesn't make anything true, so I'm not sure what that has to do with it being correct or not.

Being cited lends more legitimacy to it being true. Think of it like a vote. One person cited it because he thinks it's true. A vote from academia is worth more than a vote from a popular science magazine.

>"Ostrom received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her groundbreaking research demonstrating that ordinary people are capable of creating rules and institutions that allow for the sustainable and equitable management of shared resources. She shared the prize with Oliver Williamson, a University of California economist."

I think you missed the point. No one is saying that humans can't change their behavior. The article is describing a phenomenon that happens when people act rationally in a certain context. Of course with higher level knowledge of higher level contexts like how shared commons can be destroyed with rational individualistic behavior people can change.
It’s really not always connected in the way of internet or satellite two way communication. The beacon’s are only there if you need them for emergencies and do not allow people to contact you. There are some like the Spot devices that allow 2 way text via iridium satellites, however.
Here's a video of removing the aluminium from the insert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQHFQoFoxvQ [video]
Ones that don't will no longer get updates past May.

It goes beyond that, because they won't update any devices on the same network as old devices either. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/sonos... In May they plan to have a way to segregate old devices onto a separate network, but they still won't work together with new ones.
The link is dead for me but what I assumes it says is that they aren't instantly killing these products but they won't update them which means eventually the API on the other end will change and these devices won't work anymore. Speakers are a product that should in theory last an extremely long time. The surround sound system in my grandmas house is some bose system from at least 25 years ago and it still functions perfectly fine because it relies on no software updates or external APIs.

Do you think these sonos speakers will still be fully functional in 20 years?
Thanks for your detailed opinion on the subject, I agree with what you're saying, I'm currently watching the documentary "Marking a Murderer" which is on Netflix and I have to say, you can really see the shift of the story when internet began to become more and more available and popular.

I might have underestimated petitions, but seeing so many of them when internet was getting kind of popular probably gave me the wrong idea, things changes so quickly these days!
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, only the cost and timeline for a grassroots effort to prevent disaster. If we leave this up to local parties to solve our great grandchildren will be having the same argument
> Your exome changes all the time.

I work in DNA analysis (not for 23andme). Citation needed.

> Your gut biome changes all the time.

Your gut biome isn't being tested by a genetics company collecting your saliva or epithelial cells.
I've not heard of Pointing and Calling before, but this perhaps explains what I do to keep from forgetting my wallet or phone when leaving the house. I pat my pockets before I exit and say "wallet" or "phone" as I pat the appropriate pocket.
Even in San Diego, we have people get stuck and even die while out on recreational hiking trails. Some people just have no idea what they're doing outside - I see them carrying a single Dasani water bottle on a 7mi hike while I have about 4L of water on my person
Legislation can be changed. Including retroactively.
> If you'd read this stuff, you'd know that Critical Theory is the continuation of Marx's ideas.

Some of it is, yes. But what's wrong with Marx? His main work, Das Kapital, was actually an extremely thorough and sober critique of capitalist systems.
Keep in mind, democracy functioned in America for about a century without secret ballots.
I like more personal contact, nature and simplicity than amenities. I always list the reviews from worst to best. If the bad reviews says things like "there are no TV in the room" I just ignore it. You must read the review, specially the bad ones instead of just counting the stars.
So... TL;ADHD

I'll admit, I skimmed it. But I bookmarked it!
One doing it is bad so 2 doing it is great? Competition is usually good but I don't think this kind of competition is actually helping get rid any of those problems just changing who's name might be on the particular problem today. No amount of giant tech companies shuffling is going to result in the return of an even playground for all in those areas.
You seem toxic with this completely unnecessary gatekeeping attempt. I bet working with you is a joy. Let me put it to you this way, if your concept of competency in this industry is driven by knowledge of tabloids and not actually skill and talent in engineering, then I'm willing to bet you lack the latter two and rely on the former to fake it.
It'd be nice if more hardware had like a "logic board upgrade" capability, but the business incentive just isn't there. Obviously most of the value in high end audio is the audio components, and those are probably not obsolete. If you buy a smart TV, most of the value is in the display panel which is probably not obsolete.

But old processors, old software platforms, etc. tend to doom a lot of these types of hardware, and I'd love to just replace the "computer part" of them. But the only way I could see that making financial sense for these businesses who'd rather just sell you the whole thing again, is if there was some sort of financial penalty/tax for bricking hardware.

(I am currently lamenting that my 2016 TV, only around three years old, can't get the CBS All Access app, even though it got Disney+. Apparently CBS and LG thinks only people who bought TVs since 2018 want to watch Picard.)
Although it would be funny if your results were different than your brother's.
Its just the next phase of capitalism. Once you have sold your product to the entire target market where do you expand from there? You have to remove the previous products so you can sell it again.
It would be extraordinarily rude . But it's definitely not what the parent comment meant. :)
No theological statement intended. Just meant that people clearly enjoyed the "sin" of malicious deceit even two thousand years ago.

Nothing new under the sun.
You don't need Helm for that: smart M-x aka "smex" accomplished that for me and let me stay with ido, as I find Helm too intrusive.
They were saying that new devices would not get updates either if networking with an old device.

Really this is their fault for announcing that while the device bricking fiasco was still in play.
Rocket League Will Drop Support for Mac, Linux Versions in March
I didn't buy the test because all it would say would be "Congrats! You are 100% asian."

I feel like 23&me is literally only useful/interesting to white people because they can see which one of the 50 European countries they have ties to.

It's not that useful for me. I've had friends do it and get 99.97% Chinese or Indian.

Amazing, I could have told you that for free.
> unconditional faith in a single technique or technology

Or language (but I suspect that you might count language as included in "technique or technology").
You're taking my statement out of context. Better facial recognition would fix the one particular privacy issue that you brought up. (False positives.) I've said nothing about adtech, Google, Facebook, or any of the other topics you're just now bringing into this discussion.
It's connected in an emergency--which is what really matters. Though TBH, I'd probably get one of the messaging devices if I got one so I could do "All going well" to people who might care especially if I were running late.
Thank goodness for that. They definitely won't break that law. Nope. Corporations don't do that.
I think @Richicoder is right. USAA's tools haven't been updated in a while and are a pain to use. Their tech is still really good for a US bank. Personal Capital has been pretty painless (besides the occasional bank/investment syncing issues). Personal Capital's investment and retirement tools are quite nice. The only downside to Personal Capital is their advisors calling to try and sell their service. I eventually blocked their numbers and haven't heard anything from them in years.

A long time ago I used Mint. If I remember correctly, I had tons of syncing issues and problems navigating their UI. I tried USAA for a while, but eventually stumbled upon Personal Capital. I passionately dislike Intuit due to their pricing practices of Quickbooks Online, so I'd never use Mint again ;)
The Mint trends let you look at net worth and income over time... what makes Personal Capital so much better for looking at net worth progress? Genuinely curious because I might switch over if there's actual differentiation.
Do not fear! I hated Lenovo after the T480s and sweared to never buy anything from then ever again.
But I bought T490 to my new job and spent a day tweaking it to my liking (I come from mac) and was pleasantly surprised how well it runs. Compared to T480s the touchpad has better feel and the laptop is able to cool itself so I’m not facing the fan issue (it is still present when on AC but hardly noticeable)

I’m running Fedora 31 with Cinnamon and with disabled Ethernet, Fingerprint and SD card reader in BIOS, the power consumption with 40 tabs on Firefox and brightness on 40% is around 3.5W which gets me ~10 hours. Pretty sure you could get it even lower with minimalistic Arch setup.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love Macbook (2015) in the linux world with stelar touchpad, great battery life and out-of-the box setup, but this as close as it gets and I believe there is no other option right now.
I'm sorry, I'm not understanding what you're saying on a grammatical level. Can you rephrase?
If you are in the USA, Libby
https://www.senecafoods.com/valpure
also this might be acceptable (they name acrylic as the liner and Valpure is acrylic but they never say what is the liner)
https://www.amys.com/faqs/is-your-can-lining-non-bpa
I cannot find my source, but even BPA free means they just coat it with BPS which is structurally and functionally similar. I suspect the toxicity studies just have not been done yet.

I have a friend who used to work in the coatings lab for PPG circa 2007. He had a handful of chemicals to choose from that he would blend and test until the outcome fit the manufacturing requirements. It was not tested for toxicity before it was sent on to manufacturers and into your soda/veggie can.
Sad news for you endorphone: you're a 100% match for a serial killer based on the limited analysis and shoddy lab work that contaminated your 23andme sample. Here's a court order requiring you to submit a new sample to us. We're also going to need your passport so cancel that vacation you had planned.
Intel beats profit, revenue estimates
their data could be very valuable depending on the evolution of personal medicine.
Is this the best way to create a chatbot with my personality? I feel like I would want to fine tune some things so it is giving real responses about my preferences, hobbies, etc.

My use case is preserving my personality for loved ones after I die.
Sin Tax
It seems more related to undermining users' trust by selling their data to GlaxoSmithKline two years ago.
Yes, but a science lab isn't going to hire a high schooler with no science degree. And no business will pay a physicist with a degree minimum wage. That's the point. The result of obtaining higher education categorically results in you earning more income. And most people filling minimum jobs are not people with higher education.

Are people with higher education in low wage jobs? Yes. Is this common? No. And the only reason it would be common is if there was no income incentive to gain higher education, which there isn't.

I'm beginning to think you really don't understand what I mean.
Here's a good resource: https://betterallies.com/
Damn this is right on I needed this bad. I just started reaching out to coaches and psychiatrists about my ADD
Did anyone learn anything meaningful from these tests?

I saw some results, for example, "I'm 3% Syrian, 10% Portugal, 8% Korean ...." etc., but do they provide more important results like "Sorry, you will have cancer in 2 years"?
Isn't this a traditional thing to do at Apple? After all, Steve Jobs condoned it :)

"After several months of being sidelined, Jobs resigned from Apple on September 13, 1985. He told the board he was leaving to set up a new computer company, and that he would be taking several Apple employees from the SuperMicro division with him."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT
I'd always write a basic macro by hand in such a situation: F3, ", END, ", comma, DEL, space, right arrow, F4 however many times I need.
Warning: there can be a honeymoon phase where after diagnosis and beginning medication you enter this ecstatic period of normalcy on the one hand and insane productivity on the other. Don't get lulled into complacency. Use this period to improve lifestyle routines and get to a place where you can cruise at a better pace than you otherwise might once the acceleration stops.

By lifestyle I don't mean some of the things enthusiasts like to advocate--weight training, etc, although by all means if you're so inclined. But just small stuff--kick caffeine, habituate yourself to completing boring tasks as quickly as possible, exercise (if only a few pushups in the morning), etc. Maybe you were already doing those things, but if you were doing them cyclically (weeks, months, etc), now you can do them consistently.
That was probably the justification for a high valuation. Also explains the recent pharma pivot.