skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replying a bit late, but the items I need are not available for ordering to a store for pickup. I only have the option to order future delivery to my home for (what appears to be $79 on the website but I haven't dug into that option because I'm not interested). I'll just wait for them to restock.
Correct, until a couple of years ago, VA was pretty much owner by Air New Zealand, Singapore Airlines and Etihad each having about 22%. Richard Branson's Virgin Group had less than 10% and the rest was publicly held by mostly retail investors. Then Air NZ sold their shares to a Chinese consortium.
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I'm confused how a compagny who goes bankrupt ~8 years later is supposed to be the end of the world
> When I managed teams with flex hours, several parents explicitly preferred to work 4PM to midnight because they could spend the morning with their kids while their spouse worked their day job.

This seems like it would be good for the younger children and then invert once they started attending school.
Considering that we're talking about professional writers, it seems really unlikely that this argument was made with genuine sincerity rather than simply out of need for a passable defense to give their peers. "That's not even what doxxing means! You're being melodramatic!" sounds a lot better than "Who cares? It's a small blog and we're the NYT".
it might be related to covid, but I fail to see how touch interfaces are problematic for the store, people (and regulations) don't care anymore.
I’m working on my fifth $Billion...

I gave up on the first four...
Quite a lot of Greek myths, when not stripped down to the "simplified for story-telling to kids" versions, are straight-up case studies / moral lessons to adults.

I'd never look at the Odyssey and mistake it as something to emulate. That people do is kind of surprising.
I'm using Paddle for payments and it looks like something wrong on their end. I'll contact them and keep you posted. Thanks for the heads up!
I had a Fairphone 1 once. It fell on the floor and the display cracked. I was able to order a replacement screen and replace the cracked screen in about 2 hours thanks to iFixit [1]. And I have no idea of electronics whatsoever!

This is remarkable but unfortunately not sustainable. The manufacturer needs to enable repairs, provide howto's and he needs to guarantee, that you can buy those replacement parts.

At some point after Fairphone 2 was released, which was priced a lot higher, I was unable to download newer android versions even though that was promised. It was just too complex for them provide an update.

That's the sad truth: Support for old hardware diverts manpower from more lucrative things in the business: Creating and selling new phones.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Fairphone_1
Reading this was better than reading a book. Incredible style. Gripping narration.
Would you say it’s a conspiracy theory that politicians lie? If not, why so for police?
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some companies could choose to make their product shittier, others could choose to pick a more expensive/efficient power supply and improve device design.

Have you ever heard of delta electronics? They manufacture 90% of power supplies on the planet and their CEO is a huge environmentalist. They have a philosophy of improving efficient for the hell of it, because a 1% improvement in their efficiency = thousands of megawatts saved due to their sheer volume.
Yeah, that is something that always puzzled me. German police is armed, always. Seeing unarmed police always strikes me as strange.

Have to agree, so, that a gun not carried cannot be used.

Just out of curiosity, is police violence and discrimination a problem in Ireland? Outside of Northern Ireland, off course.
Load the page, and hit CTRL+A then CTRL+C real fast. Paste in a text editor.
Having become very interested in police brutality for obvious reasons, I recently finished Danger, Duty, and Disillusion: the Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers [1] by Joan Barker, an academic book from 1999 that takes an anthropologist's view to understanding the LAPD after the Rodney King riots, and pretty much the only work I could find that tries to understand the police officer mindset holistically.

It is utterly fascinating and I highly recommend it, but one of the most interesting takeaways (consistent with this article) is that police officers quickly become utterly disillusioned with the integrity of the police department as an institution. They complain about unfair recruitment and promotion policies, injured officers who become "disposable", an emphasis on quotas instead of applying the law consistently, on politicization of policing priorities, and above all the city always settling cases against police misconduct so that accused officers never get a chance to clear their name in court, when innocent.

With this mindset, when they don't trust their own institution, the only people they trust are fellow officers -- not captains, not management, not the department, not the mayor. Which aligns with this article -- that Marines view the Marines as a trustworthy institution, while police don't see their own police department in the same light.

Now obviously police misconduct and brutality exist and are a huge problem. But the book very much opened my eyes to the idea that it's not only the behavior of police officers that needs better standards and accountability -- that treating police officers themselves better and more fairly may also be just as necessary to achieve full transparency and accountability. What if the "blue wall of silence" dissolved because police officers trusted their own institution, rather than just each other?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Danger-Duty-Disillusion-Worldview-Off...
General-purpose OS, special-purpose OS, and now: vendor-purpose OS
"They" should just have an emulator for all these machines on the raspberry pi, with a shell keyboard that makes it look like these machines.
This is the cyberpunk future. Finding bodymods and shirts or stuff that hides you from the algorithm is the new pasttime.
Just to clarify: the book you backed and got burned with in 2010 has no relation to this author nor this book.
> qualified devs all seem to be overbooked.

did you try giving them more money?
You don’t have to almost die to get ptsd. You can get it from
* responding to a bad domestic violence call
* responding to a bad child abuse call
* getting attacked by someone on PCP where you ended up shooting him five times because he wouldn’t stop coming until you physically blew out his knees
* any situation where death feels possible, but unlikely, in the way that car accidents can cause ptsd because you thought you would die, but car technology makes it unlikely for that type of accident.

In all these cases, watching the amount of damage someone has taken can easily cause ptsd.
From the article:

Elbakyan says bitcoin only constitutes a small part of all donations. Most often, it’s the online payment service Yandex.Money that is available in Russia and nearby countries including Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. However, for all the other parts of the world, crypto is the only direct way to support Sci-Hub.
Are the police trying to stop you taking cellphone video? Your rights.
I'm in the same boat. I have two Mac Pro 3.1 with dual Xeons and 32 GB/64 GB RAM. These are still very powerful computers and I love their internal build. Still, in order to run Mojave on them I had to resort to the patched version. These machines cost over $4000 each in their original configuration, so I'd expect Apple to show a bit more respect to their loyal customers. It's ridiculous that the same machine can run a competing operating system without any problem.
This is improessive.. Not sure why I've never played with JSON+LD before.
I think one point people are missing:

Apple stores, even if they exist mainly to promote the brand, are MASSIVELY profitable. In fact, they are one of the most profitable store chains in the world. By contract, I believe that Microsoft was always running most of their stores at a loss. Even for a massive company like Microsoft, continuously running an unprofitable division is hard to maintain.
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The "deps portfolio" gets updated whenever the deps change. In practice the flow goes like this:

0. A dev wants to use a new dependency, likely after experimenting with it a little bit.

1. Preliminary evaluation, which includes a transitive dependency scan. ("Too many dependencies" is a valid fail condition all on it's own.)

2. If everything looks good we bring it and it's deps into our internal repo. This includes the plumbing to add it to our dev|test|production envs. (Using Docker or whatever.)

3. Now the devs can use it in code destined for prod. There's a nice page in the company wiki that lists the exact version(s) with links to the docs, bug trackers, mailing lists, etc. and also the internal company lore for that package.

It's tight.

- - - -

This might seem like a lot of work up front, but think about all the work it saves down the line.
Same here! and Apple Watch unlock, no password to unlock anymore :)
> ought to consider why

It's a stunning indictment of the entire concept of telemetry. They know what people are doing but have no idea why.

You can root out and eliminate bugs this way, but improving the experience is a crap shoot.
I'm bummed about that. The store was nice but no where near as full as Apple's. They did a number of things for the community there. They held training classes for kids etc. I'm sad to hear them leave.
We have different definitions of computing - For me computing is the ability to perform work and get information on a computer, which I think is a lot better these days.

Not everyone cares to be a programmer, and to put computers behind that wall serves to stop people from accessing them. That feels kind of like gate-keeping, especially as the modern internet is so incredibly complicated that casual dabbling isn't really good enough to get things done - where in this case "getting things done" is pulling information from web pages, paying bills, emails, etc. It can be a hobby, absolutely, but one that you need to be dedicated to, and as such, not for most people.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. I was going for a visual metaphor that might be lost if I just said some number of bytes.
Thank you! It was the first time posting my code here, so I was kinda nervous, haha.
> AI, however much we love it, and however good computers are at chess and go, has done relatively little to increase productivity in already existing processes.

Is that true?

Uber's ETA prediction is, to me, a very impactful and technologically impressive application of ML.

Recommendation engines--from Netflix/Spotify to paid advertising platforms--seem to be pretty powerful.

Image classifiers, from automated tagging to monitoring solutions, seem to have made a big impact. This isn't just Facebook suggested tags or whatever, Wildlife Protection Services recently doubled their detection rates of poachers throughout nature reserves by introducing ML.

And what about smartphones? Speech interfaces and conversational assistants are a standard part of every flagship phone now. Mobile cameras use ML to improve images without upgrading hardware.

I agree that there is a lot of snake oil AI nonsense out there, but I think it's a bit of a false dilemma to deciding whether or not machine learning is "valuable" by evaluating the over-promises of sales teams. The reality is that almost all of the most popular apps on your phone (Uber, Lyft, Maps, Gmail, Spotify, Netflix, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) all incorporate ML.
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I should know that, I'm a regular Wikipedia editor.

Despite that, for groups where people come from very different origins and cultures, it is better to spell out the expected rules of behaviour to some degree. "No rules" only works when participants are homogeneous enough that all them already know the rules.
Snow Leopard didn't stop working after they introduced Lion. In fact it received security updates long after that, and programs like Chrome supported it for a very long time.
I agree that the government shouldn't be able to deploy this tech. We should have some expectation of freedom and pseudonymity in public. However, everyone always forgets that it is trivial to track your (almost) exact physical location at all times with our constant mobile phone use. We don't seem to mind this much at all.
You dont need any conviction, even setting aside the horrors of the US justice system, this is simply not a sacrifice I and many others are willing to make just to secure more convictions. There are manyblong standing issues of the system that must be fixed before something like this is even considered. To start, law enforcement acting with malicious and criminal intent repeatedly get away with framing suspects, falsifying evidence and brutalizing suspects. I don't need them to be tracking everyone's movements too. I think I'll pass on a genocide this morning (some of them actually say they want a race war). And thats just the very tip of the iceberg. Rule number 1 of getting out of a hole: stop digging it.
Apparently not enough to offset the costs of dealing with retail problems and customer service. Much easier to sit back and collect rent on software.
For now. Given the sharp rise in US cases, they will care soon.
David Brin went down the rabbit hole of asymmetric surveillance in is novel Earth. He also explored the idea more in the non-fiction book The Transparent Society. In both he imagines a world were privacy is essentially illegal. This levels the field between mega-corps/governments and individuals: instead of the false sense of privacy we have now everyone has equal access to everything.
The four they own, we're fitted with small cargo doors, as opposed to standard ones, to save pennies. Now, in a world of Dreamliners and A350s, The major life of a second hand 77W is as a freighter, but no one wants these birds cause they are not suitable for freight operations. So yes they own them, but no one is going to buy them.

John Borghetti and his team made a lot of stupid decisions during their decade at the helm. This really was the cherry on the top.
"Longarms" or "long-arms" generally refers to rifles and shotguns, as opposed to handguns.

It's an important distinction, as something on the order of 80-85% of gun violence in the US -- rape, murder, robbery, suicide, etc. -- are with handguns.

Attempts to ban handguns have met stiff resistance, though, e.g. Heller v DC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793/tab-figures-data
I guess you upgraded the RAM to 8 GB? Because I don't see how the web is usable on a machine with 2 GB of RAM...
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A lot of people mention that the MS stores were a 'brand image' or 'marketing' front, but if that's the case, I can see why they closed. The three or four I visited were very near an Apple Store, and while the Apple Store across the way was always bustling and had people standing around with their Apple devices even outside the store front (I guess waiting for Genius appointments)... the Microsoft stores were always sparsely populated with maybe 5-10 brightly colored shirt employees and one or two customers.
I second this comment. While I am probably not going to pay for this yet (I dont have that many recipes), this site was able to scrape a recipe I cook often and put it into a format that is much better than the original blog post.

The scaling and editing recipe functionality is top notch.
Ill probably use this tool now.
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I am in the same space for my personal computing needs. But it took a while to get there.

I bought iPad Pro at the end of 2017 after reading various blog posts of programmers using their iPad for programming. I loved the form factor and snappiness of apps but it was pain to do real programming on it. Yes, I was using Blink shell to login to remote VPS but debugging JavaScript was tedious. I was having buyer's remorse but I kept it because I enjoyed drawing and reading on it.

However, after 2 years or so, this iPad has become my default device for my personal projects. What is crazy that iPad has changed the type of projects I start at home.

Before I was mostly focused on building webapps build using Laravel and Vuejs/Reactjs. Now most of my personal projects are command-line only such as using python/data science, algo trading. I am working on a command-line based CRM.

Going forward, I might still keep personal desktop or laptop but not upgrade as often as I used to. (unless iPad changes for worse).
And the original Mac had a very similar concept with a single file that had an embedded resource fork. And even DOS applications were very often distributed as single folders with all the application files in them, you just needed to run the actual binary manually.

The idea that one-object = one-application is at least as old as desktop computing itself because it fits seamlessly into the file/folder metaphor. Sadly, modern desktops have largely degraded in this regard.
This is a real shame. We have (had?) a Microsoft Store in the Triangle (Raleigh-Durham), and my visits to that store were always really enjoyable.

I made several warranty claims in-store, and they went above and beyond to help me out, even when my grounds for a claim were kinda shaky.

Microsoft did a really good job of hiring diverse talent, and every store-clerk I ever interacted with was smart, nice, and seemed to genuinely care about fixing your issue. Throughout the day, they held tech demos and video game competitions, and all the kids I saw in the store always seemed to be enjoying themselves. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that a kid visiting the Microsoft store in the mall was inspired to learn more about computers and technology based on their experience.

This sucks.
I really enjoyed reading your post but I have a comment regarding your final football analogy.

Football players goals and statistics are publicly available and analysed. Additionally, every football team plays the same game, so the rules and context are understood by all.

As an employee, you do not necessarily have this kind of visibility so you necessarily need to market yourself in some ways. This way, your achievements are visible, but also understandable to others who are not familiar with your company's context and situation (to put things in perspective).
High school teachers generally require post-baccaleureate education, police officers require a high school diploma, and are the only profession I know of where employers have gone to court (and won!) to defend using IQ tests in hiring with a high score being a negative factor. The latter getting paid slightly more represents a very high premium for danger, given the difference in entry qualifications.
> Mr. R&D: Hello, what I can do for you?

> MC: We think there is a dangerous situation developing, because oxygen levels have gotten higher every year and they might now be at 35 percent.

> Mr. R&D: So?

> MC: With indigestible lignin, there is nothing to keep it from continuing to go up.

This part is misleading. Evolution has no capacity to look ahead to future disasters (as the mass extinction later demonstrates). I understand that lignin digestion was evolved for the same reason we burn coal - a hitherto untapped source of engergy.
I would have started infant school in the UK in 1995 and we still had one of these in my classroom until I was in Year 2. Great educational computers.
It seems like a fair compromise to say “you have to work our hours because we believe it’s important to have this overlap” rather than “sorry we’re only hiring in North and South America”
Why do we need another generation of DB tools, what is wrong with what we have?
I think your right, the Microsoft stores... they always just kinda felt like they had to try harder. Where the Apple stores they kinda took being Apple for granted. I can't exactly blame them.

The Microsoft Store in Boston would regularly hold Halo tournaments and similar events later in the day.

However I am torn on being so near Apple Stores. I feel like it caused them to choose worse locations. In Boston, Apple has their 3 story street level location, while Microsoft was across the street but hidden in a mall.

I can't think of an event where I needed to go to the Apple store and would have been able to go to Microsoft Store instead.
recommend waiting for http://dosdude1.com/software.html

who will most likely patch non-native APFS boot too
Is $1B a lot? It would certainly be a lot for me, but:

> "Zoox has already raised about $1 billion in funding — and once was valued at $3.2 billion"

More and more I'm reminded to search for context when presented with a big-looking number.
Pity it's all vaporwear and hype used to pump a token
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering about these concerns early in the process, but my target audience, programmers, seem to be getting the point as I am satisfied with ther reaction to the current model.

Maybe it could work better, maybe I could get more money with different approach, but I am a programmer; my goal is to concentrate on writing good software and good books. If I was a marketing genius, I would have probably chosen different career path :)
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There's the Erasmus Programme within the EU[1]. I think it's one of the greatest ideas the EU has ever had.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme
There have been thousands of protestors out on the streets for nearly a month now. If there were burning buildings and having gunfights in the streets this whole time, there wouldn't be any cities left.
I have to echo what others have said: great book idea, but not so hot on the model.

I studied linear algebra in college and I could use a refresher for AI, but I don’t want to study math in the traditional way, with convoluted abstract examples that lead nowhere. Hated it back then and hate it now. The prospect of doing it in code makes it infinitely more exciting so you’ve definitely got something going on there there...

However, I’m not going to get into another subscription, mainly because I don’t want to check every month to see the state of the project.

I’d personally pay you around $40 for an early access fee that also gets me the final product... It’d be a discount from your target price but I’d also be taking a risk (what if you don’t finish it?).

I’m favoriting this and will check how it evolves. Worst case, I’ll buy the finished product if the reviews are good!
I mean...it is what it is, but my desktop is based on the previous year's Intel CPU, cost about as much, and still runs Win10 and Linux just fine.
"I'm sure when birds get together, they gossip abou how pathetic our lungs are"

How is this a book for young children?
Whoops - scope -> score.

Right now the site provides no insight on how the calculation was made, or even what the components of the calculation are. The end result is that it really provides no value to a visitor unless they want to take a gamble and pay for vague "conversion optimization" services.

What goes into the "site score"? How do you get from "site score" to conversion percentage?

"Your site score for desktop devices is 61. Your conversion rate is 1.4%. Out of 10.000$, you are losing 8600$."

If I'm converting 14 out of a 1000,shouldn't I be converting 140 out of 10000? so losing $8860?
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