skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found out about it on https://killedbygoogle.com/ just now. However, after double-checking, apparently it's some G Suite Hangouts variant that's getting killed: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/08/updates-to-hang...
The barrier of entry appears to be billions of dollars worth of VC cash, so I’m a bit less optimistic.

But regardless of whether they can pull it off, I’ve always viewed Uber as a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Sure, they’re pro-consumer now, but they absolutely intend to go anti-consumer the moment they’re given a chance.
I'm a big fan of Fastmail.

I agree with your point about YouTube. I'll try out the combo you have.

I like YouTube for the videos on there and nothing else. I hate all the ads and how if you watch one video that is off topic from what you usually watch then the algorithm gets messed up and your recommended videos become way different.
The mark of a true champion is to come back from behind!
Your last point is a cause of some apprehension for me. In the team I'm currently working with one of my coworkers calls himself a React Developer, and my experience has been that anytime an issue arises that may not be specific to React, this person's ability to problem solve significantly diminishes.

I've seen it in a couple of other individuals as well, and I feel it's becoming more widespread, though I hope I'm wrong. In these instances, I see the framework existing both in the code as well as the mind, and operating outside of it is often a leap too far.
1. Parents are not always good role models and homes are not always a good environment for learning soft skills. Some homes are quite toxic. I'm sure many here can relate.
Copyright is brain damage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc
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Yes that's pretty much the question I'm trying to answer, and how outside activities with other kids could maybe replace that aspect of school.
Wouldn't that be reflected in the graph (as rendered originally) if so?
I knew who this would be about as soon as I saw the title, mostly because I have an ancestor which his successors claimed was of minor nobility. Their claim rested on a court case in the mid 1500's where a purported letter of nobility for their ancestor was presented as evidence of their own nobility, and accepted by the court as genuine.

When I came across this claim, I got curious and wanted to see if it was possible to dig up official documents (it'd have no practical meaning for me other than a fun part of family history - all titles of nobility were rendered invalid in Norway 200 years ago).

It didn't take much digging to realize that there was a major problem with the claim: The supposed date King Erik III of Norway (the numbering is ambiguous - he had a different number in each of Norway (III), Sweden(XIII) and Denmark (VII)) would have supposedly signed this document is right in the middle of his period as a pirate, and so well after he was deposed.

Which means either the document was a forgery, or they somehow managed to get either the date or the name of the king wrong in the court documents. It'd be very fascinating to find some more scraps of information about how that went down, or even the purported letter of nobility, but I suspect I won't get anywhere further - no sign of more documents still existing.

I do lean towards my ancestors in question being forgers rather than nobility, though (frankly that almost makes the story more interesting than if the claim was true).
> an extra $10k a year to families

That’s my point - it isn’t an extra $10k/year - thats what we currently give families per kid.

> Do you suggest we simply ignore them?

Is there a reason they can’t simply keep going to school?
If you have enough of a guarantee of leading a comfortable life (e.g. you inherit a large fortune), then sure.

But for most people, leaving their professional career is hardly reversible in the long term, and means becoming economically dependent on their partner. Which only works if the couple stays together (and the partner keeps their job).

I hope I can stay together with my partner for life but even if so, I wouldn't be too comfortable if she left her career and became economically dependent: what if I die early, for example? A career is a hedge against adversity.

Even staying together, if a big economic crisis comes, with two jobs it's easier that at least one of us will keep their income than with one.
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Because it's overhyped to the point it's being used everywhere even for projects where there was no reason to ever go beyond basic static HTML + maybe vanilla js, if at all, by devs who want to pad their resume. At the same time, it taxes your mobile battery, and generally leads to a world of overcomplicated appified Chrome-only web sites when actually the web was meant as a straightforward mechanism for self-publishing and exchanging ideas. Finally, reading the umptieth take of a junior dev having his React epiphany, or worse, a staged React consultancy/course ad piece provokes counter-reaction, if only because it's intellectually insulting.
If you want a serious answer is because peer to peer webRTC doesn't scale beyond two people.

If you have 4 people every client would need to maintain 3 streams, a total of 6 streams between all participants.

To have any kind of scalability you need a proxy in the middle that can act as a single stream to each participant.

This middlebox can also handle normalisation, interpolation and other useful features you might want to smooth things out when clients have connection difficulties.

Why don't we have a Free Open Source webRTC proxy server implementation? Because these days just publishing a protocol isn't enough for adoption; not to mention that proxying large amounts of data will incur a significant cost.

And that hasn't covered the need for authentication, which is yet another required service.

And if the proxy box is interpolating and gracefully handling frame drops, does that mean it will be handling gasp decrypted video traffic? Yes, it will, unless you want to move all that to the client and then have a key exchange happen not just at the start but a renegotiation every time someone connects or disconnects.

So you see it's not as simple as, "everyone just opens this URL, webRTC is a thing duh".
> Any idea why it ended?

Looks like it's on hold because of COVID-19: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/fj4u35/look_w...
I wonder how big a percentage of business sex work is for hotels.
Hi. I'm using fastmail (having left Gmail) - can you expand on why you stopped using the calendar?
Gentle seems to understate it, in my opinion.
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Is that a good thing? One of the more important skills in engineering is meeting the design requirement as efficiently as possible.
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I don't think it is harsh enough. The comment is devoid of substance and wrong.
Very good in-depth analysis and low-level bug hunting. It's always interesting to see blogposts that give an insight into a bug found in a userland application only to start digging into the internals of the Linux Kernel. The technical background in this post really does help setting up the whole context into understanding the data structures and concepts involved in fixing this bug.

> There are a number of places where the packet could be dropped, too many to inspect every possible line of Linux kernel code. To find the offending code, we turned on all routing trace points via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/fib/enable.

I wonder if that this is one of many trace points one could use but for another particular component or subsystem in the kernel, if that makes sense? That would be very interesting to know.

It's also great to see that it's upstreamed as an actual contribution as also linked in the article. [0]

Impressive!

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> The health ministry's infectious diseases chief Daniel Koch said scientists had concluded that young children did not transmit the virus.

That’s pretty big news and if true then schools for children up to 10 and nurseries must open with immediate effect, pretty much worldwide. Everything else is negligence to the education which young children are entitled too.
You should read books and blog articles instead of YouTube videos
But I have, it just had a different name,

https://www.bitquabit.com/post/the-more-things-change/

https://wiki.haskell.org/Functional_Reactive_Programming
RoboCup was founded almost 23 years ago. While the physical robot leagues often garner most attention, there has always existed a simulation league, of both 2d and 3d varieties. https://ssim.robocup.org/
I want to right-click on the icon and access the menu right away.

Alfred; Ok. Just wishing that I used just one single Keyboard Shortcut for both. I use Alfred very often, so if I can continue to use that and do something like -- CMD + Space > "MM Get a Haircut."
Yes, of course, I realized how the html re-render part works just now reading your reply, which I had known before but forgotten. sort of embarrassing.
The 2015 Macbook Pro? As in, it has Magsafe and Thunderbolt 2? You can indeed remove and replace the SSD, all you need is one of these adapters and then you can put in any M.2 NVMe you want. I'm using an Intel 660p in my '15 MBP, I can answer any questions you have about the upgrade process.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-201...
Surely the gravitational mass of all those virii in the intervening social space would exert a gravitational pull that would slow down the expansion?

[Yes yes I know that the virii are made from material in the organisms so overall the system’s mass is conserved.]
Yes. That is the only reason we dont try them at work.
The latency is too high for our case.
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Maybe someone can make an entirely offline app doing this, to allow you to WhatsApp your contacts?
Now this is why it's all happening.

Numbers are bs, it's been around at least 12 months and most people have had it. There is an Oxford study showing this but that doesn't follow the storey we're being told so is slandered.

Its not when the government (puppet show for the military industrial complex and bankers) told a lie, the question is when have they ever told the truth?
Besides Hetzner, I can also highly recommend netcup.eu, especially for hobby projects. Their prices are even lower and include more data volume. Their interface is not as nice as Hetzner or Digitalocean, but I am fine with that.
https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php
Billing: If you have access to an European bank account they offer SEPA direct debit, which works like a charm.
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Honestly, I think that the reason why Haskell never got adopted is that they never really tried. A ton of the decisions over the years they’ve made would’ve been insane for an industry language, but appear to have been non-problematic for their goals. What would’ve happened if they’d tried is an interesting counter factual.

My biggest problem with Haskell is that is damn near impossible for me to mentally parse. I always end up liberally sprinkling my code with parenthesis and “$” hoping to make the compiler happy. I never managed to develop a mental framework to help me out here.
they've already been fined. They are a EU company based in Amsterdam so there's no getting away from it simply by closing shop in the country where they got fined...
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This is a special kind of snobbery which allows you to enjoy your own concept of luxury unexamined while sneering at the luxuries of others.
Maybe this is a silly question, but exactly what was the risk? If knowing a random SSN is problematic then it's not exactly hard to just generate a couple yourself.
I can't scan documents when my daughter is asleep. When she is awake, all is fine, but the minute she goes to sleep, and I'd like to use my free time to scan documents and suchlikes, forget it. I could still print documents on the same device though. Here's what I found:

The printer-scanner was connected to wi-fi. The wi-fi router was in my daughter's room, as that is where the cable socket was, tucked just behind a bench in her room. It was also near that bench that her baby monitor camera was standing. It wasn't wi-fi connected, but for whatever reason it interfered with the wi-fi signal. Same with the receiver, if I put it near my laptop, the wi-fi connection would die.

The monitor was off most of the time, and on precisely when my daughter was asleep.

As for why I could still print, just not scan: presumably that's something to do with the bandwidth, I'm guessing it took more wi-fi bandwidth to send a scanned image than to print a document (I never printed pictures on this printer).
Great opportunity to discuss internet as a regulated utility
Audio encoding is not of particularly high complexity. Even the highest complexity modes of the best codec right now (Opus) are like 60-100x real time on commodity hardware, and not too far off on phones.
You're right that we're coming to the same thing from different sides.

I would definitely not argue that BMW is default wrong, but I also would not argue that they are default correct.

I think our difference of opinion here is rooted in our different understandings of the power of money, time, and people.

All three of those are very important and are definitely a multiplier on the ability of an organization to both advance and implement some solution.

However, my opinion is that those things aren't the only factor that lead to a successful solution. Your root ideas that you're using those three things for must be based on a core idea that's correct. I'm saying that, that core idea could be completely wrong or misguided. Especially in this case where BMW seems to be targeting a new demographic, with a new product. Right now they're in a learning phase in my opinion. And yes they can use some of their institutional knowledge from similar marketing pushes in the past to make sure the message for this EV is polished. But that past knowledge only goes so far. Drawing analogies and parallels between the two (historical marketing efforts and this modern one) fall flat in key ways. They are not and cannot ever line up 1:1 where the knowledge transfer just gives them a working cookie cutter recipe that works 100% of the time.

So going back to approaching the same thing from opposite sides, I think I'm really getting at this same thing you said "It’s my belief that until we understand the thought, theory, and progression of events that led the system’s current state". However, I'd take a different fork and say that while understanding all of those things is important, it doesn't mean that the theory and the process of implementation are necessarily fault free. I'd say that there's actually 3 options here: BMW is default wrong, BMW is default correct, or BMW is somewhere in between default wrong and default correct.

I think it's the latter where no organization is ever on the extreme ends. So really I think our disagreement is base around how various factors unique to them play into which way they "lean" on this continuum leading to the likelihood that they're correct.

Marketing gaffes and the need to readjust after getting feedback while launching a new campaign are common in my experience. (Yes, I know, my experience haha). But the best way I can judge a situation without having first hand details... which many of us here don't and we're just all talking for fun. Is to use my experiences, value system, etc. to voice an opinion that is definitely up for debate.

But I definitely don't think this specific situation is as black or white as "you're not their target"
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He wasn't attacking, the grenade was thrown into his humvee and he picked it up and threw it out.
Under the DMCA (technically Section 512), they have to reinstate access to the content at least 10 days and at most 14 days after receiving the counter-notice, in order to keep the safe-harbor (they have to wait 10 days to give time for the rights holder to decide if they want to sue the uploader).

> any idea what Youtube don't just let people counterclaim and leave everyone else to argue it out in court?

Essentially YouTube in the pre-Google days was purposefully uploading infringing videos, and Viacom (and others) used that to sue them and under the settlement agreement forced YouTube to build the Content-ID system and have a more lax takedown system.
> Firefox is more or less Chrome.

Not really. Chrome is closer to Safari, since it uses Blink, which is a fork of WebKit (which in turn is a fork of KHTML used in Konqueror). Firefox uses Gecko, which comes from Netscape.
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So, no matter how short he could write it, it won't beat a meme-like image
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I suppose you must be chuckling at yourself then. And me, now. And everyone else who replies.

This thread is silly.
The one I opened was made up mostly of glue and solder with some components in between. It was a Surface Laptop. iFixit are way better at describing the pains of trying to open it up: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Tea...

They give the newer (2019) variants a far better score, so Microsoft are at least on a good path there.
A surprisingly large target of this kind of ad is people who have already bought the product, in order to validate their decision and change them from "person who bought a car which happened to be a BMW" into "person who identifies as BMW owner".
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Just a regular monthly plan.

Some plans will claim it's an "unlimited texting plan" but really the charges are still there hidden. Maybe the provider has an agreement with other mobile phone providers to reimburse them for texts their customers send.

My last provider refunded the cost if I forwarded the message to their spam department text number.

We have pretty terrible mobile phone plans and rules here in Canada.
> takes some credit for the Wall coming down

Does he? In the very article you linked:

"It’s fake news. I never ever said I had anything to do with bringing down the wall. I never ever said those words. I was semi-responsible for protesting to keep it up [such as in 2013]." "I was just in the right place at the right time with the right song. I was just a man who sang a song about freedom."
It's 128 kbps to have music quality almost indistinguishable from a music CD. Maybe the latest codecs can do something decent with 96 kbps, not sure.

64 kpbs, whichever codec, gets this small by cutting all frequencies outside of human speech. It cannot record instrumental sounds well.
Also, if you get a new laptop (or any installation) keep it free of google. Avoid it from the start.

Also, I have a website which isn't precious; I'm going to reject chrome requests, with a message recommending firefox.
Accept that writing is subjective. Then find a critique group, which will usually be writers in a similar position. Certainly this is how fiction writers do it.
About 40% at a 3 star hotel where I worked a long time ago. First floor was for girls who ran a high class operation as in one customer per night.
“A magnitude cheaper” _today_. As soon as the focus shifts from acquiring cloud customers to making them profitable, expect the screws to tighten.

As long as Larry lives and breathes, Oracle gonna Oracle.
"GCM encryption". What? o_O
David Burn's book really changed my life for the better :)

Even nowadays I have the list[0] of cognitive distortions bookmarked and every time I get triggered by something I go through the list and check to which disortions I'm falling victim.

Every time I feel better after doing that.

[0] http://www.pacwrc.pitt.edu/curriculum/313_MngngImpctTrmtcStr...
Giving everyone UBI just means the cost of living goes up.
Big news is its been around for over 12 months. I know someone in UK that died from it just before Christmas after just recovering in hospital from another issue. But then it was only meant to be in China so nothing.

Now politicians and media call it a 'epidemic' which it isn't officially, they are trying to add more cases to it when it's not. My sister just passed and they tried to with her and the other week my mums friend died and they did call that corona.

Its all about keeping you in fear, and now they can get you all stay in at a press of a button.

Small companies are dead now. No funding to people who need it but big companies are blossoming.

Same shit, different day.

Edit: plus this is a BBC article, the same people who arbour pedophiles and never tell the truth to push a narrative.

One of their last articles pointed out one of the points of all this, to remove cash from society.

And who's behind all this? Well, we've been told and warned for millenia, 'gods chosen'.

Even in a minority of 1, the truth is still the truth!
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For me an interesting part of this (other than slapstick value) that these are all web-apps. In previous eras (Delphi, say), you had IIRC total separation between “interface direction” and writing direction in labels/fields+, but they’re a lot more coupled now that most apps are really just html documents behind the scenes.

I don't know of any UI frameworks that deal with GUI in a reliably writing-direction-agnostic way (RTL,LTR,TTB,BTT) that would allow for easy localisation of text and layout. In principle it should be possible in CSS I think, but I'm unaware of any guidelines for this - anyone here have any pointers?

+ which is also maybe a bug - often it seems you want the interface to be mirrored between RTL and LTR apps.
Interesting article. I’ve taught three masters level classes this week and even these motivated students can find it challenging. Most are OK with passive listening, even if that’s not my favorite thing, and having some discussion, but as with in person, there can be issues trying to flip the classroom to make things more engaging and for pedagogical reasons. For example, I noticed that over 10% dropped off the zoom session on Monday, rather than discussing a case with other students in a breakout session for 15 minutes. I much prefer teaching in person where I can see their faces and get some feedback about where they are in terms of learning, interest, tiredness... and where I can more easily push them into doing group discussions that are pedagogically useful and enhance their networking skills. (Business students, not CS.)
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Edit option’s gone but I meant “number sentence”, of course. Heh. And yes that’s really what they call them. Half the kids can’t even kind-of tell you what a sentence is in English and they’re using them as a metaphor in math. Clearly a good and useful idea.
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BWP was intended to look crappy, homemade. To a trained eye it doesn't because shots were definitely produced by a skilled camera man and director, not an untrained amateur.

It is not about the gear but about your skill and creativity. If you have experience you can take scrappy tools and figure out their strengths and weaknesses to produce interesting results.

In all comparisons I ever saw of amateur with expensive gear vs pro with cheap gear the pro always wins.
One day almost all the phones started ringing in the office one by one. Turns out someone/some automated system started dialing our phone numbers one by one with the above Chinese message scam.
At that time I realized I never needed my office phone before and unplugged it. Problem solved.
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