skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say "fashionable," more that it's not widely looked at with fear, disgust, and moral judgment. It's still hard to come out: the stakes are high, and it takes a long time for your loved-ones to re-adjust their view of the world and how you fit into it. But once that happens it's no longer an "identifying" trait for many, so it's no longer a "weird" thing.
You're not wrong, but I've had to force myself out of this kind of negative thinking and instead try to approach someone like that from a place of genuine compassion and honesty.

I've been called a "dumbass liberal", "commie", "socialist" and other names at work because the majority of the employees are die-hard Trump fans and/or religious fundamentalists and I made the mistake of expressing compassion for the immigrants in cages when it was big in the news. I've found that explaining my point of view, that as one who follows the teachings of Christ (I'm not overly religious but it's a discipline of love towards all other people and I'm down with that, plus it keeps my religious family happy), I can't in good conscience find pleasure in the suffering of others, seemed to make some of them stop and think about their own prejudices and biases.

I doubt I've actually won anyone over (I tend to just keep my mouth shut about current events these days), but I've definitely seen an improvement in how I'm treated since then. Hopefully expressing positive feelings instead of reacting to negativity with more negativity will continue to improve my relationships with coworkers.
This seems to be a thoughtfully critical take on it:

... This general "crisis of democracy," the commission held, resulted from the efforts of previously marginalized sectors of the population to organize and press their demands, thereby creating an overload that prevents the democratic process from functioning properly. In earlier times, "Truman had been able to govern the country with the cooperation of a relatively small number of Wall Street lawyers and bankers," so the American rapporteur, Samuel Huntington of Harvard University, reflected. In that period there was no crisis of democracy, but in the 1960s, the crisis developed and reached serious proportions. The study therefore urged more "moderation in democracy" to mitigate the excess of democracy and overcome the crisis.
...

The Trilateral Commission study reflects the perceptions and values of liberal elites from the United States, Europe, and Japan, including the leading figures of the Carter administration. On the right, the perception is that democracy is threatened by the organizing efforts of those called the "special interests," a concept of contemporary political rhetoric that refers to workers, farmers, women, youth, the elderly, the handicapped, ethnic minorities, and so on-in short, the general population. In the U.S. presidential campaigns of the 1980s, the Democrats were accused of being the instrument of these special interests and thus undermining "the national interest," tacitly assumed to be represented by the one sector notably omitted from the list of special interests: corporations, financial institutions, and other business elites.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/Necessary_Illusion...
You missed its context.

In real mode, the interrupt enable/disable status is controlled by the global CPU flag, in bit 9. If you saved the entire FLAGS register when interrupt was enabled with "pushf", and later you use "popf" to restore the flags, there's no reason to use "sti", since the interrupt bit was already restored, it was perfectly legal in real-mode DOS. However, in protected mode under an OS, it's unacceptable for a single program to disable interrupts of the entire CPU, so the global CPU interrupt flag is always enabled and controlled by the OS, but each program had its own virtual interrupt state controlled by "sti" and "cli", and cannot be changed by "pushf" and "popf" anymore.

What actually happened: This problem was already recognized in the beginning, documentation contains multiple warnings and examples of correct code, but developers ignored all the warnings and instructions, continued misusing "popf" and doing it wrong in as many different ways as possible.
Glad you liked it! Workspace will be going live sometime mid-june.
To be fair, even within the national recommendations, there may be different levels suggested for different groups. There are usually separate numbers suggested for infants, children, teenagers, adult men & women, the elderly, and pregnant/nursing women. The numbers that get tossed around most often are for adult men, but the separate recommendations do exist. The goal of the recommendations is to cover the needs of more than 97% of the group. Your doctor should be able to tweak those recommendations for your individual needs, as required.
In 2012, I took a photography class led by a professional photographer, and she actively encouraged students to use their phones if they couldn’t get access to a DSLR, and her reasoning was exactly what you describe. To her, composition, color, contrast, textures, lines, framing, and pose was everything. That’s what she was trying to teach us, because that’s the hardest part. Mastering your camera’s settings just takes a lot of time and trial & error.

And this was in 2012, when mobile phones had terrible cameras, mind you!

Of course, resolution and noise are distracting when you print big, but she was trying to judge us for our eyes and hands, rather than for our cameras and mastery over their settings. They’re orthogonal if the observer wants them to be.
The issue is the points are all equally spaced. Working back from a circle that’s not an issue, but suppose the optimal solution had varying side lengths. You could approximate that with very large n, but that’s about it.
I find 2) to be a very real possibility - first off in the To Kill A Mockingbird not sure how mild his social ostracism, furthermore what would his punishment for being a weirdo have been if he hadn't hit on the convenient cover of being a drunk (and as I recall wasn't he descended from a rich family?)

As far as 1) the example of Doc's two weird bits seem pretty benign. This is the argument that would well it seems pretty benign to us but perhaps there are things that are weird to us but that back then would have seemed benign.

As a general thing anything I can think of that would be considered weird enough nowadays to get you kicked out of a Diner would have been considered weird enough decades back to get you kicked out, if not the police called on you.

If your theory is that there were things considered benign in the past that would get you thrown out of a Diner today you should show what those are, the nearest I can think of is having the trophy head of an African Elephant with you, but I bet you wouldn't get thrown out of almost anywhere for that unless it was just too big to have in the place. Maybe try Bengal Tiger, wouldn't be bad.

Dressed up as a member of the KKK would hopefully get you kicked out of a lot of places today, but I'm not sure if it wouldn't have got you kicked out in 1935. At any rate I'm not sure if it would have been considered benign actually, despite membership's popularity during that time.
In that vein, Zig also uses syscalls directly on Linux in its standard library so as to avoid linking with C unless desired. This is not possible on the various BSDs.
Thinkpad E495 with Ryzen/Vega 3500. Not sure it's still available because it should've been superseeded by the newer Ryzen/Vega 4000 chipset by now? Be sure to put in a 2nd memory stick to not slow it down (see the review on notebookcheck why), and also to have at least 16GB RAM.

Edit: I picked mine because it was on stock for take-away (there isn't usually a choice of "pro" notebooks with matte screens in retail); for the same kind of money, you could get better value I think; I had hoped for a little more performance for sure (but it's still a solid workhorse)
I just think it would be productive to focus on reducing any violence. I suspect focus on particular groups exists to qualify some artificial us versus them dichotomy.
For those who have made the decision to use their camera phone over a larger DSLR, I urge you to consider a compact mirrorless camera such as Fujifilm X100F (or the newer X100V).

It's small enough to fit inside a spacious pocket, and inconspicuous enough to take subtle photos - plus the thing looks gorgeous. And of course, the beautiful built in film simulations.
> supporting Tektronix

That'd be awesome, but it'd need to be green, flash bright when drawing and reverse-flashing the screen on erase. ;-)

> The real problem was that boldface and italics quadruple the kernel font memory requirements,

In ancient times we OR'ed a character with itself shifting it one pixel horizontally. Italics were usually done with shifting the top part of the cell to the right and the bottom to the left. Some terminals could shift things by half a pixel, which made for great screen fonts (I did that on Apple IIs).

The same way overlines, underlines and strikethrough are trivial to generate without adding any glyphs to the font.
Right there with you. As I get older, if I get dramatically little sleep it can mess up my ability to concentrate for days. A rough night of near zero sleep or a hard on call rotation with lots of sleep interruptions can leave me as a zombie. No advice really aside from prioritizing sleep and taking naps, just noting you are very much not alone.
For stills the new three camera iPhone is amazing unless you want to zoom. I own a bunch of L series Canon zoom lenses including an F4 600mm prime and it’s unbelievable. In particular, compressing backgrounds into foreground subjects is what zoom lenses are great at. Or collapsing a scene. Google ‘seven powerlines scene’ on google images for an example.

Other than zoom lenses my iPhone does everything I need for stills and the new wide lens is amazing.

Video is different. Cellphones still suck at producing video with a wide dynamic range and color depth. I make films and we shoot on Blackmagic cameras. We get raw partial debayered output with 4:4:4 12 bit color and 14.5 stops of dynamic range. Your cellphone won’t come close to this, which is fine because you’re not grading your video much. We put the footage in davinci resolve and push the hell out of it, and if you don’t have that data depth it’ll fall apart fast.

But cellphones will get there with video too and then we’ll be left in the same situation, where the only differentiator will be things that you simply can’t achieve with a small platform - like fast zoom lenses or intentionally large sensors.
I don't know enough anthropology to debate that, but my feeling is that even in societies where cannibalism was allowed there were clear rules around it. I expect that you wouldn't just be able to kill and eat people randomly.
Some comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20509428
I had a professor who drank (presumably water) from a vodka bottle during an exam to mess with us.
True. I've upgraded through all of the iPhones since the first one. Every time I was impressed by the new version of the camera. And yet, ever time I look back at photos from the previous models, I'm always disappointed. Happy with my A7R and Leica M6, it'll probably continue to stay that way.
Nice. Looking forward to the launch.
Interstellar visitor was probably a 'dark hydrogen iceberg,' not aliens
Ha. Well, they were probably smoking mellow weed plucked from the ground, as opposed to modern day laboratory high THC weed.
Most (if not all) of these are in defense of property. It's sad to give up your life for property. Remember, property can be replaced, lives cannot.

Personally, I think that protesting and destroying property is a true valid form of protest. For instance: the Civil Rights Act of 1968 wasn't passed until after the riots.
"Public Health England will keep personal data of people with coronavirus for 20 years"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/28/nhs-will-keep-...

"NHS under fire for plans to store track and trace data for 20 years"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/05/28/nhs-fire-p...

"Demand NHSX spell out Covid-19 app privacy risks"

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/protecting-digital...

"Hostile environment may stop migrants from using NHSX tracker app"

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/hostile-environment-may...

"NHS test and trace privacy doc throws doubt on app’s “anonymity” claims"

https://tech.newstatesman.com/coronavirus/nhs-test-and-trace...

"The privacy risks of the NHSX tracing app are both less and more serious than you think"

https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/nhsx-contact-tracing-...

"Immigration Bill brings surveillance to EU migrants" (This is about exemptions to data protection law for immigration purposes, which affects citizens and non-citizens alike.)

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/immigration-bill-brings...

"Scotland’s different path on contact tracing is to be welcomed, but questions remain"

https://scotland.openrightsgroup.org/blog/scotlands-differen...
What is a card? For me that is purely stylistic and should live in the CSS alone. What does a card mean to a blind user?

This is all very easy when you're in the business of marking up documents. It turns out that the handful of element types defined in HTML are good enough for the vast majority of documents. It's quite rare to need to introduce a new tag. The difficulty starts when you're actually trying to create a "user interface" rather than a document.
All of the cool computer science problems are in the other sciences. This one in particular looks like a challenging engineering problem to scale up.
Totally

I got my first DSLR in 2006. When I got a new one a few years later, my choice was mostly about what the new camera made _easier_. Because the old camera could do almost everything I wanted to do.

So the new camera had knobs and buttons for things that I had to do in menus on the old one. And a couple of automatic things that I had to do manually on the old one. (Shooting brackets!)
I agree, have you ever seen a cleaning company use a Dyson vacuum cleaner? If they were the best and most reliable then they would all be using them.
Sure but what's the path that ends with FIRE? If you're lucky you can maybe work on things you like, earn a good amount of money and then have enough to be financially independent.

But if you have to slog at boring jobs for a lot of years in order to accumulate that big pile of money allowing you to become FI you'll have to consider if it's worth it. Maybe after being FI you'll keep working but you'll have the privilege to choose only jobs or projects aligned with your needs and desires. If that's the case: is it worth it the years and years working at boring jobs? do you really need to be FI if you'll keep working after?

I'm not against having money on the bank, my approach is having enough to live several years without income, allowing me to reject things I really don't want. But I don't want to spend years just trying projects with no results, I want to do things valuable for other people and getting money in exchange is the way to be sure you're actually doing it.
> I'm curious what kinds of sites people think should be returned for a search term of "mattress", if not mattress shopping sites?

You'd never know it by the google results, but there are robust hobbyist communities dedicated to exposing the underlying information (and misinformation) about mattresses and the companies that make them. The Mattress Underground is a good example [0]

This is an interesting case in point - you might never even know what you're missing if google doesn't even hint that it exists, because it buries things under ads! A generalizable way to "hack" google into showing you useful results when a keyword is so polluted with SEO and ads is to add the word "forums" to your search string, although even that is no guarantee.

[0] https://www.themattressunderground.com/mattress-forum.html
Suddenly Orson Scott Card's "Speaker for the Dead" makes a lot more sense to me.
Well, with Hercules you could do :)

But no, as I said below, I'd hate to see the desk!
If it has good conductivity, they probably just write in "potential for electronics" out of habit or reflex. It's probably good for science fiction writers to be able to find this stuff.
>There is no competitor of WhatsApp that has the same reliability.

Riot? Telegram?
This exact use case - sharing many GB of raw movies and pictures - is solved really well by Resilio Sync.

https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
We feel the current communities around remote work only focus on jobs in the form of job boards. They miss the basic human need - to interact.

So, we built The Remote Clan, a community for remote workers to build a strong career with the help of those who are pursuing the same goals.

We are in a very early-stage and would love to hear your feedback!
No.

It's that blocking traffic is a material, aggressive escalation of a protest that could have very negative ramifications to the cause. Not only does it really really piss people off, it puts human bodies in direct conflict with vehicles and could potentially block travel to someone that needs urgent medical attention.

If that's your jam then go for it. For my part, if i am in a vehicle with family and we are in a traffic jam due to a protest, i'm going to be in an agitated state...not because of the delay but because of the inability to escape. I'll wait it out, but if people start attacking my car and breaking windows, i'm hitting the gas till i see daylight. That innate sense of how i would respond and is why i think people should approach blocking traffic with caution.
Big sensor cameras are needed for
1). Low light work
2) printing
3). Dynamic range

Stacking photos introduces artifacts- the subject moves in between sho5s
This seems confused about who are on the front lines.

It's mostly not the $300K year MDs just like it's mostly not the $300K police captains. That's "the 1%" (figuratively).

The front lines for riots are the $35K - $85K cops and the front lines for COVID are the $35K - $85K year nurses.
+1 for SaskTel. I've done work for them on their monitoring systems, seemed like a decent org.

More imporatanly, as someone in AB I am jealous of their cheap phone plans...

> Australia or Iceland have rates that Canadians can only dream of, with similarly geo-population situations

I worked on the NBN in Australia -- they've got their fair share of ISP-related issues down under.
There are multiple issues with X1s on 19.10:

- Fingerprint reader
- Sound
- Microphone

I'll see what 20.04 can help with.
This is true. Japanese policeman look like street crossing guards. I've had a few run-ins with police that were pleasant and helpful, that would have otherwise been minor infractions.
As other people here have said, Java was a death knoll to large Smalltalk adoption.

I had some early experience. A Xerox Special Information Systems salesperson gave me a one month Smalltalk license for my 1108 Lisp Machine. I really enjoyed it but I had already gone down the Lisp rabbit hole. Years later, a friend at Parcplace gave me a license but I got sucked into the Java world soon after (Sun had a link for a year on their main Java web page to a blog article I wrote on Java; for about 10 years I was the number one search result for 'java consultant').

I am back to using Common Lisp almost exclusively for my own projects and research but I do enjoy Pharo Smalltalk, and can't help but wonder if a free Pharo had been available in the mid to late 1990s how that might have changed things. Probably not much because Java does fit a good enterprise niche, but with the high license costs of Smalltalk, that war was lost.
What in that comment led you to believe I ended up getting on Facebook? Serious question; I didn't feel like I needed to explicitly make the point that I didn't, haven't, and won't, and that as far as I'm concerned, the only thing Facebook is good for is killing it with an axe. But by your response I get the sense I failed to make that clear.
am I wrong or is the code the interesting thing here-- and not specific to this devboard? Is there anything special about this board other than it 1. looks nice 2. supports the project 3. has the requisite 8+ Mib of PSRAm 4. has a silkscreen bug?
genuinely asking as I am really still trying to figure out what i don't know about microcontrollers and embedded devices
> Could this way of representing the problem (radius) introduce bias to the solution?

Yes, but you're always going to have a prior.

You could model it as, let's say, a shape in a square grid with a certain area. Or a collection of line segments that are closed.

This is an issue common to most optimization problems, you want the simplest model that will be efficient, otherwise you might risk overfitting (or just taking too long to optimize)
No, he's a more old school English type, who would do this

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leave-voter-james-dyson-h...

and this

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-dyson-singapore/b...

and this

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/dyson-will-not...
Of course, if you can't justify the cost to a company, you will be stripped of its services. Is that not expected of private corporations?
This (inadvertently) highlights a major part of the issue right now. Cops are largely invulnerable to civilian oversight. Democratic elected officials won’t save you from the NYPD - they can’t really be fired, the police union doxxes the mayor’s daughter, they instigate police riots, and they do work stoppages when criticized.

An example from Minneapolis, from a City Council member:

https://twitter.com/MplsWard3/status/1267891878801915904

> Politicians who cross the MPD find slowdowns in their wards. After the first time I cut money from the proposed police budget, I had an uptick in calls taking forever to get a response, and MPD officers telling business owners to call their councilman about why it took so long.
Similar here, I was rockin' a pretty serious beard while working for a company that maintained POS equipment in independent grocery stores. Many of our clients were smaller ethnic shops, mostly Arab of various derivations.

There were a few where, the first time I walked in (moments after calling to say I'd arrived), the staff greeted me in a friendly "hello brother" sort of way, once in exactly those words. I didn't see any point in arguing, but when prayer time rolled around and I said I'd keep working, the shock was delicious. All good-natured, just unexpected all around.

I had to ditch the beard recently to get a good seal with a respirator, but it'll be back someday.
Lots of folks don’t have time to watch 60-minute YouTube videos. Can you explain the principles he cites or give a time stamp?
This could be handled by convention of treating directories as though they were a single structured "file" under certain circumstances. There is precedent in the form of Application Directories from NeXT, RiscOS, and ROX Desktop. Modern MS Office files are also basically just a zipped up directory of files and metadata.
The outsourcers hoping to gain from the crisis
Not "significantly technically challenging" enough, so no promotion opportunities there.
Note that it also applies to consumers of photography as well. Not all consumers of photography necessarily draw any artistic value from the photos they look at.

For example, my mother would complain about my travel photos that didn't contain people, or would look for things like whether the people looked happy. She couldn't care less about the rule of thirds, bokeh or dramatic lighting.

Don't get me wrong, artistry and craft matter, but I think they would be considered "enhancements". Most people would gladly accept a poorly composed image of a loved one or special moment because they value the memory over other attributes.
Sorry, no, I meant on ILCs, to eliminate the focus delay before release. I don't know of any phone camera that lets you. Maybe with an app.