skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading through the comments, sounds like it's a blip.

But yeesh - would've been just my luck! I'm in the process of putting together my de-Google plan lately.
No. Please no. There's no need for this.

The reasoning behind this is because some people occasionally forget to include the `f` prefix? Then there's this:

>Smith would add a new "p" string prefix for plain strings, which would behave like ordinary strings today.

So what happens when reports start rolling in when some people occasionally forget to include the `p` prefix?
Ah yes, the typical problem of Open Source applications, especially ones without a company behind it.

The implementation of the actual sync is pretty good (I never had a problem with it).

But, the UI is not intuitive at all. Its hard to setup a new sync, and if you're not careful you can set it up in a way that deletes all your files without any warning.
Anti vaxxer? Educate yourself. Tuskeegee and guetamala syphilis experiments. 60 million cancer tainted polio vaccines. Big pharma lawsuits exempted by Ronald Reagan. Try to disprove these.
I used to have a fax number one off of a pharmacy .... I got someone's prescription every week or so ....
Plenty of others in NL appear to have been hit [0]. Seems to be resolved now anyway.

[0] https://allestoringen.nl/storing/gmail/
Hmm, that's definitely not typical for me, it only takes a second or two for files to show up. It should be using inotify to be notified of changes, but I don't know if there's a difference on OS X (I'm on Linux).
We need more Tims in the tech world.

From a place for renegades, the valley has quickly become a safe place for "yes men", that all they do is to obey to their corporate overlords.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfyuWFH7Sec
Apple Watch is the only mainstream fitness tracker watch that does ECGs to my knowledge (but I’ve honestly not looked extensively), but AliveCor had a product on the market before Apple offering a similar function on Apple Watch (via a watch band w/ sensor), so Apple’s marketing claims of being first are dubious at best. I prefer the Apple Watch version over AliveCor’s by far, but it’s certainly not the only option, let alone the first.

My main beef with AliveCor is the fact that the sensor can pop out of the watch band and when it does and you don’t notice, you’re out $200 (as in my case). It also isn’t as good a user experience, but that’s not a blocking factor to me in this case, just the triviality of losing an expensive sensor which is barely held in by a piece of flexible material.
Breaking changes will inevitably be necessary in any language. Take the recent-ish discussions about cleaning out the deadweight from the Python stdlib, there's a bunch of modules that are basically unused by users, untouched by maintainers and are therefore effectively deprecated. Taking a "no more breaking changes" philosophy means continuing to semi-support these into eternity, when realistically many can be cast off with a reasonable notice period and a well-documented migration path.
Looking for an excuse to GTHO without losing a cent, eh?
Isn't this essentially rewarding behaviors that spread the virus?
Yeah, running isn’t my natural sport. I did it with some friends because someone dropped out, and it actually sounded pretty fun. It wasn’t a hardcore marathon in very many ways. It was the Medoc marathon in France, in which each stop is a vineyard where you drink some of their wine before running another 2km. At the 40km mark there are oysters, and then at 42km there is ice cream (!). I think my time was 7h30 (certainly nothing to brag about), but I did drink about three bottles of wine on the way around. It was actually a lot of fun mixed in with a lot of suffering. Glad I did it, I wouldn’t do it again.
>I very strongly feel that we should be very careful to avoid adopting a legalistic attitude towards freedom of speech. That is, I am opposed to the argument that private corporations are not bound by the first amendment, and therefore it's okay for them to suppress content. I agree that they're not bound by the first amendment (I don't claim to understand the nuances of the "platform" laws so I won't address that), but that's different from saying that we as a society should want our private platforms to engage in such censorship and suppression.

Not to mention the "first amendment" is a US thing.

We need better global laws imposed upon them, because those private corporations operate globally, and have influence (as social media platforms, etc) in all countries, not just the US.
>What benefit are you really getting from using mainstream distros if you find their choices to be so objectionable and don't agree with their decisions?

Well, that's an easy one: popularity = support. I dislike Ubuntu these days, but I run LTS on my work machines because no matter what obscure program I might need in the course of my job, it will almost certainly run on Ubuntu. Build instructions will target Ubuntu. Prebuilt .debs will target Ubuntu. Static binaries, or AppImages, will have been tested on Ubuntu. I get a choice between "install the snap, or build from source?" I can install the snap and get on with my day.

It's not inherently better in a technical sense, it's just overwhelmingly easier to swim with the current.
How many trips do you have to make to the store to equal one Costco run?
Another explanation: certain people - or an algorithm - will do anything to get hot topics off the front page.

The moment any discussion starts to get "interesting", regardless of who it is about, that moment it drops like a stone.

I guess it happens to any post where a number of people get lots of both upvotes and downvotes or where a number of answers are flagged.

In that regard this site is like a young child of mine who has grown up in such a happy home that when I sometimes say no to some idea my wife has that child is wondering if we are going to divorce :-/

In the same way, on this site people are so polite that either the flamewar detector or a number of users has become way too sensitive.

(That said: IMO it is a good thing that my children never see their parents argue in anger and it is a good thing that people are used to everyone being polite here, I just wish we could be a tiny bit less sensitive. Some hot topics actually should be discussed some times, like this one.)

There's a link to contact the mods at the bottom of the page. They (most often dang) usually reply, and it seems they use the feedback to tune the system.

(Yes BTW, this account is young, but I have been here a long time)
> I think the “30 second finger ECG sampling” is unique to the Apple Watch.

Check out AliveCor. They had an Apple watch band that provided similar functionality before Apple offered it directly.
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>The MOOC rush is over. We know the organic retention rates are abysmal.

I don't think I've ever completed a MOOC. When I get what I want out of it I drop it. Now if I was paying for it or if completion was a requirement for a job or promotion I think I'd be more invested in completing the course.
This is a very dangerous viewpoint in my opinion. There is no true science without free speech. Kepler for example was censored due to his highly controversial views about the sun being at the center of the solar system.

If the science is so shaky as to be blown over by some crackpots then it is no science good at all. Interestingly, some among the flat earthers have independently verified the curvature of the earth. This is a beautiful outcome for these true skeptics and critical thinkers. These are true scientific minds in my opinion.
One thing seems certain about Michael Moore. He "calls them as he sees them".
Great! We're like a year away from that then. I remember installing Ubuntu in 2011 with no issues. It installed with Windows using a burned CD, and had a store that I could download everything from. Updates were via gui. Of course I played with the terminal because I was a geek, but a layman could use and update the computer with absolutely no issue.
Named Distributions as Artifacts
Unfortunately it's one of those series that you can't get the unaltered original because of music rights. (It's also pretty much a complete fantasy view of a small Alaskan town but it was a fun series in any case.)
>These guidelines seem like a private corporation censoring content. Are platform guidelines like these also an example of censorship?

Obviously they are. Nominally they censor certain content.

That said, not all instances of censorship are equally bad -- e.g. a parent forbidding their kid to swear at strangers, or some small forum like HN is not comparable to a large platform with big global political influence like FB or YouTube.
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HN 'Hug-of-death' is what we call it around here.
Self-Organizations
This. I honestly love the f-string syntax but the fact that there is a clear separation is what makes them appealing - I find it far more convenient to have f"{v1}, {v2}, ... {vN}" vs "{v1}, {v2}, ... {vN}".format(v1, v2, ... vN), not to mention % v1, v2, ... vN.

The way I see it, currently:

* The separation makes them readable and easy to understand.

* Making them implicit will cause hell for many people who rely on user input (and I'm certain a lot would try to exploit that).

* The fact that they are readable, makes them easier to debug, as opposed to trying to figure out where did the "{hey ma look at what i can do}" SyntaxError came and who did what exactly.
That was not bad faith questioning at all. He was making excellent points that you refused to answer.

Companies exist to make money period. Look at the most powerful companies throughout history (British East India Company, Standard Oil, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, IBM, Facebook, Google, Apple ect). Do any of these have as good of a record as Amazon? IBM for instance played a major part in the Holocaust. Goldman Sachs was involved in the scams crashing the world's economy. Facebook and Google prey upon people's addictive behavior and use it to sell adds. Apple simply has all their employees run out of sweatshops in China, and has all their tax havens in Ireland.

I'm for workers rights and for people getting more pay, but let's be honest, expecting Amazon to fix our inequality problems is astonishingly naive. If Tim Bray wants to leave to have a good conscious about it - that's fine. I myself would never work for Facebook or Google because of how they addict people to their phones. We all have our own standards, but not our own facts.
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Except if people trivially can make (or already have) FB accounts, and for them it's not an issue whether it's a "walled garden" or not.
I see where you’re trying to go with that, but there is a huge gap between “Here are some suggested guidelines for submissions and comments, please try to follow them.”, and “Under no circumstances can you say anything that contradicts the policies of this particular political organization we agree with, repeated violations will result in de-platforming.”
Rust concurrency: a streaming workflow, served with a side of back-pressure
> What an utter disaster this society is if having a conscience makes you "radioactive" to employers...

Exactly what this whole conversation made me feel.
> Building Docker containers for ARM devices is a pain.

I do this every day from a Linux x64 host using qemu-user. What problems are you hitting ?

> Second biggest complaint is deploying Jetsons in production environments.
>
> Third biggest complaint is having to flash Jetsons manually.

I don't think these two use cases are the goal of the Jetsons. Feel like more the goal of the EGX devices, which can be programmed, updated, etc. fully remotely.
Huh. I didn't know that, and I'd appreciate references.

I am aware that the ad agency behind the "tobacco doesn't cause cancer" campaign got into the "lead paint is safe" and other pro-industry campaigns, including the climate change contrarians. And the Tea Party. Funded by folks like the Koch brothers.

> Maybe then outlets would be more careful about posting obvious untruths.

That's a very slippery slope. As I've said before, you may be surprised when you become the pariah.
>The fact that the logind developers came to a different solution than you, after spending much more time thinking about it and actually implemented it, doesn't exactly imply logind developers are the ones with an attention deficit, or that logind is bad. ("CADT" apparently means "Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers")

The logind developers went against the established wisdom of experience (that big rewrites are generally a bad idea) with the predictable result: high costs (both in migration and in handling outright bugs) for nebulous benefits, with the result that desktop linux is flakier and (understandably) less popular than ten years ago.

> This is the kind of toxic behavior that makes communities non-inclusive and leads to impostor syndrome.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing? We should be less "inclusive" of people who want to rewrite everything. They should feel like impostors. You can't produce good quality if you're not willing to call out bad quality; Linux succeeded (for a time) because Torvalds had high standards and was willing to maintain them.
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No, the Apple Watch uses wireless charging so there aren't any exposed contacts that I can see.
Getting geeky with Git #3. The branch is a reference
I took Dr. Barbara Oakley's Mooc, "Learning How to Learn" a while back. It's truly an interesting class, and I'd like to think it gave me some good tips.
There are 149 comments so far in this thread. Absolutely zero of them have suggested socialism.

Workers' rights are not socialism. Unions are not socialism. Minimum wage is not socialism.
It's quite fast if you use qemu-user.
Or better yet use the IMAP / SMTP Oauth2 auth mechanism;

https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol
The only reason that the other big tech companies don’t get criticized for the way that their low wage “employees” are treated, is because they are subcontracted/outsourced either locally or in manufacturing plants in China.
'asymptomatic non tested population' is an interesting way to refer to people with covid 19 antibodies found via immunoassays. This sizeable population shows that our cfr estimates have enough error to be meaningless.
>Disagree. Online misinformation can kill people [0] and act as a recruitment tool for Nazis [1].

Same as online, officially accepted information. Only the latter can be even more dangerous.

As a reminder, the actual Nazis had the official, state sanctioned, platform on their hands, and they also labelled whatever they didn't like "misinformation" (from Jews, communists, etc).

No war was ever started by David Icke and his conspiracy theories. But NYT "official" and "sanctioned" Saddam's WMDs stories were crucial in building support for the Iraq war. Same for many other wars -- it's usually the state, official, sanctioned, news that are more dangerous...
At least for me it's for work
It's one thing to refuse interviews, and another thing to quit a job you love and invested 5 years of your life and that paysvery well.
Another thing I wish they had. something to help pick the right sizes, for stuff like capacitors.
Thank you. I need to get better at using orders of magnitude.
> it's going to make him radioactive for the next gig

No. A couple of more questionable companies may choose to stay away, but the majority of companies would love to have Tim on board. Even if just for a few years or part-time.

Most employees and owners think of themselves and their company as good so will not be concerned with having a man of moral as their employee. Not that they all are 100% "good" but most think they are.

Also, Tim Bray is well respected and most companies know they can gain a lot by him helping out, and they know that.
It's really time to move away from Gmail & co.

Any suggestion for a comparable email service?
It’s easy to take a moral stand when you have millions and are close to retirement.
Wow this was way more interesting than I expected. Cool of her to share!
Poor people in similarly remote (similar travel distances but less circuitous routes) parts of the US and Canada with manage to get to Walamrt and back about once a week in run of the mill 20yo SUVs.

Either there's some economic situation preventing similar transportation solutions working in Europe or the people who say that Europe has great transit options have a lot of explaining to do (frankly I think it's a little of both).
I find this a little bit strange when they allow outright scam pseudoscience ads.

I think, I counted at least 4 "magic cure" ads on youtube today.
ruby does this too, and I think it's a great design. I know it's too late for python to go that route, but I wish they had way back when, rather than having single and double quotes be the same thing.
Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool
Codes of Conducts shouldn't be necessary to tell people not to break the laws which seems to be what happened here.

Codes of Conduct also has a number of downsides, first and foremost the creation of more meta games.

Also, for the record:

This very site, one of the nicest forums there is, together with lobste.rs and others: none of the have stupid CoCs and they are still among the nicest sites there is.
My whole point is that censorship is what harms society, not ideas themselves.
From BBC coverage:

[Youtube] will still allow videos posted by others that feature Mr Icke to remain live, so long as their content does not break its rules.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52517797

Icke's own channel has been removed. He is not entirely barred from YouTube.
I want to believe what you write here, but reality seems to be proving that there are just far more absurdly gullible people out there than I would like to believe.

I mean flat Earth is an actual thing. That proves to me that there are no limits.

What I don't know is whether this is new or an eternal part of the human condition that was just masked in the past. I know there have always been gullible fools, but have there always been this many?

I personally wonder if there might be more today due to too many people being too insulated from the "real world" beyond the easy cushy paths of school -> college -> office job. There are too many people who have never deviated from these paths and thus have never seen the "real world."

I don't think it's stupidity. A lot of these people seem relatively intelligent. They just seem shockingly naive.
No details on the CPU I wonder if it's going to be a Carmel (via the Transmeta lineage).
VR is still not R. At some point you want to recreate body language, relative positioning, and you want the interface to get away from intruding on the experience.

The whole point of things like technology is to make things easier, keyboards and mice make it possible to manipulate tools to increase the amount of actions we can execute by using programmed automation (for example).

VR just makes doing that more expensive.
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So as an already rich person he forewent becoming slightly richer after realizing his work supported an exploitative system that happily puts low-level employees at risk for the financial benefit of the company? A true hero indeed.

Sorry for being slightly sarcastic here, but Amazon has a long history of treating its warehouse workers badly, that behavior didn't start with Covid-19. I find it a bit hypocritical therefore to become rich on the back of such a system and then, from a comfortable position of privilege and wealth, grandly declare that you will no longer partake in it. I realize he worked for AWS but it still supports the same company and provides the infrastructure they surveil and control their workers with.

I think who deserves more credit here are the workers that protested their treatment, which are often paid only slightly over minimum wage and don't have any savings that they can live off before landing another high-paying job.
None of the speakers in the video use my local version of what passes for English, and therefore I have no training in understanding the video. It is difficult for anyone who has not lived with people having all of those accents. Which is unlikely if you’re living in a non-English speaking culture.
US laws on libel and defamation are shockingly good. Free speech is woven into our culture and the Constitution. This post is squarely in the center of what is meant to be protected.

UK laws are so horrible that the USA passed a law that UK libel judgements are not enforceable here. See https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-10940211 for more.

Canada is somewhere between the two.

Incidentally the country with the worst libel laws in the world is Australia.
The first amendment is a legal principle with clear implications, limits, and enforcement mechanisms. This makes it much easier to discuss rather than the more nebulous “free speech” which allows everyone to just make up their own definition in-situ, leaving the conversation unmoored from any common definitions.

Aside from that, removing the first amendment from my argument changes very little. You’d still be obliged to create a definition of what is and is not free speech and a mechanism for enforcement, which would be subject to the pitfalls listed above.
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For the life of me, I cannot figure out why someone would attack Kathy Sierra, a mere book author. Incredible.
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> [On YouTube] You can still go subscribe to the channels you like and be completely unaware of the content you don't want to see

Generalized, therein lies the crux of the tension.

It's not about the existence or accessibility of content, but rather its discoverability.

That YouTube's recommendation algorithm is so psychopathically ammoral that they had to rig it (several months back) not to suggest conspiracy video after conspiracy video should have been the alarm bell.

Content + discoverability composes the potential danger to society, and YouTube wholly controls one of those levers.
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As you yourself point out, 59% finish in 6 years.

In contrast, these are MOOC completion rates:

>Among all MOOC participants, 3.13 percent completed their courses in 2017-18, down from about 4 percent the two previous years and nearly 6 percent in 2014-15.

www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/01/16/study-offers-data-show-moocs-didnt-achieve-their-goals

They add:

>Certainly 55,000 people got access to education they might not otherwise have had. But "rather than creating new pathways at the margins of global higher education," the authors write, "MOOCs are primarily a complementary asset for learners within existing systems."

They do allude to a construct called "Verfied Students" which I have no idea about, which have higher but significantly varying completion rates.

> And among the "verified" students, 46 percent completed in 2017-18, compared to 56 percent in 2016-17 and about 50 percent the two previous years.

I have never encountered how that cohort was constructed, however if we are to start breaking down sub groups of students from general numbers, your data shows that non-profit and public institutions have near 60% graduation rates at 6 years.

In general a random student will more will likely graduate from a college, than a random person starting a MOOC.