skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that Facebook encourages you into echo chambers. I think that's even more true of Twitter. Reddit is also like that. In my experience YouTube is better in this regard than the others, but perhaps also problematic. The users of these platforms don't make this easy, however. As an example, if you try to cross the "party lines" and engage on a post in a Facebook group you may not be aligned with, you will be met with ridicule and vitriol, rather than neutral intellectual discussion. A flood of reactions will occur. Memes/gifs will be used. People will use phrases like "OK Boomer" or call you a "Karen" or accuse you of being a "Communist" or "White supremacist" or whatever else. It's not pleasant.

The other, bigger risk, is by engaging outside the echo chamber you also need to expose yourself to actions outside of Facebook. First, your social circle may observe your comments or what you like and that may have social consequences in a world where no one is allowed to harbor differing opinions. Worse, people do doxx others, try to shame them in 'real life', get them fired, and so on. This is a particularly common practice on the left side of the American political spectrum (see 'cancel culture', https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/opinion/cancel-culture-682272). There is little psychological safety even on anonymous platforms like Reddit, so I think it would be much harder for anything but echo chambers to form on a platform that requires de-anonymization like Facebook.
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They do notify me 30 days before my iCloud storage plan renews, with clear instructions on canceling it. They also offer a grace period if I forget to cancel before.

I wouldn't like renewal reminders every month for my services but I think it makes sense to do something similar to iCloud renewal notices in a few scenarios: for long-term (e.g., annual) subscriptions, for expensive subscriptions, and for the first few billings of a user's first subscription (so they get used to it).

It's also easy to "report a problem" from the receipt e-mail for the renewal, and while there's no stated policy of doing so, I think they would refund an undesired renewal. They even have an option on the form, "I did not intend to renew subscription(s)."
One of the things I really like about the iOS subscription billing ecosystem is that there is one centralized place to see all my subscriptions.

I hate that it's hidden behind four clicks in "Settings", but, once you find it, it's very nice to be able to have one place to go "oh yeah I should unsubscribe from that crossword app I haven't opened in three months". By comparison, for other sites, I have to go find my username/password in a login manager...
I miss the old days of Ruby, Mongrel, and Zed Shaw (and drama).

Though I also think I took a liking to the guy when I decided he looked like Neal Stephenson.
That's what I've been wondering too, especially now when more and more applications are starting to use hardware graphics acceleration.
Hope so, then I can find something else to do.
I agree with the previous poster, I didn’t discover magic hat until about 5 years ago and it just didn’t stand out at all among the local craft scene. But I’m all for more good breweries.
> is a reaction against the powerlessness of users and governments against the unassailable power of these corporations

Its about governments powerlessness to control the message from foreign cooperations likely influenced by foreign governments.

Maybe 0.000001% of it is 'protecting users'.

> essentially, the ability to control their feeds

Again, probably 0.0001% of Users will so even if you give them the option.

> making the exploits and faults in these platforms as visible as possible by "hacking" them.

So hurting users even more in the process?
The amount of care put into preparing this is amazing. The back-up lights even illuminate on the car when moving the slider backwards.
That's more to do with identity politics than the broader left, which includes class reductionists that view political struggles on a class basis as opposed to the racial/ethnic one of identity politics.
Is Taiwan’s democracy “pro-colonialism” too?

PRC is itself a colonialist power. See all the Uighurs in concentration camps.
If they've gotten this far, they've already been iterating. In fact he says so at the beginning. "A year ago I welded two bicycles together..."

Having built two recumbent vehicles (a bike and a trike) I can say that the options for a rear wheel drive are either:

- Single wheel drive

- Dual wheel drive with freewheeling action

- The inside wheel is driven in turns

- A differential

- The outside wheel is driven in turns

- No differential at all

- Both wheels are driven equally all the time

He's chosen the latter. It's simple, cheap, and provides the best traction in almost every situation except a turn. It's a good compromise for where this thing is intended: Dirt. If it were optimized for street use, he'd just drive one wheel, which is what I'm doing with my own trike.

For reference, this is my current trike build. It's not done yet. Needs finishing, and paint:

https://i.imgur.com/pnrDQMS.jpg
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Heh, when I went to search for what GP recommended, this apparent rebuttal was the first result.
A chapter in Shen and Kong's Applied Electromagnetism helped me a lot back in college. It is graphically explaining the integrals and vector differential equations, something I didn't see in other textbooks. My intuition was then subsequently reinforced by coding a lot of FDTD (Finite Difference Time Domain) for research. The FDTD algorithm is so simple, that I wish physics teachers covered it in class.
I'm an academic who has never been to Antarctica.

But I've done at least one mountaineering expedition (recreational not professional) every year for the past 30 years, where our lives would have been on the line if we had incompetent people with us, even taking precautions there have still been a handful of questionable moments over the years. I've only done 3 long-haul type expeditions that were 4+ months. I also worked as a guide for 2 years back in my 20s on much less technical trips, but those were always the most dangerous because you have people you don't know who have varying skill levels and experience.

In my experience (other than the guide work) we never had a de facto leader unless one member was vastly more experienced in general or had more previous experience with a given region or specific route.

That's obviously different than being in a research station with a large group of people for a year. But I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable leading an expedition to Antarctica if I had only seen snow once before as was apparently the case with the author of this article. Also, on real expeditions (not just living in a research station) you are constantly touching other members of your group, it's absolutely necessary and there's no way around it.

I realize there are going to be differences between a research station gig and even a moderately technical alpine route, but this woman's approach just seems unreasonable.
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I guess there's also an aesthetic component to limit the extent of generalization
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Even if it correctly describes the relationship between constructs, that doesn't necessarily mean it should remain unchanged. And it's not really separated from human relationships. If the human relationship we call master/slave had been called foo/bar, we'd call the machine relationship foo/bar. They're intimately linked concepts.

Personally, the terms neither benefit me nor hurt me, so I just defer to people with strong feelings. If it hurts them, fine call it something else.
It depends on your job. Software Engineer wage is way lower in Hong Kong than Canada. Low income tax in Hong Kong does not make it attractive at all.
Given it is x1 PCIE 2.0 you are likely to see little performance benefit vs using a USB solution for connecting sata drives while introducing potential stability issues.
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Something that is not a wheelchair is the Genny.
I used to work there in IT Dep. many years ago and still i think is the only real useful application of a Segway.
And the best part it doesnt't look like a fucking wheelchair, when i was trying it many people stopped me and ask if they could try it.
luckly for me, I'm not paraplegic so they had a ride.
The only const: Is not that cheap, 20K Euro.
But if don't live in a retarded country (yes US, I'm talking about you) the biggest part is on the state

https://www.gennymobility.com/int/products.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23702169

Case in point, here's a HackerNews link to an article by Nick Clegg, the former British Lib-Dem party leader now FB VP of Global Affairs and Communications, using AdAge to impart some semblance of legitimacy. The article's headline is complete BS: "Facebook Does Not Benefit from Hate" my ass. They benefit from hate speech every damn day that shit's on their site, because eyeballs == $$. The article ends with the ridiculous notion that "We may never be able to prevent hate from appearing on Facebook entirely, but we are getting better at stopping it all the time." A company with the resources of Facebook can do practically anything it wants. If hate speech was look at with the same level of disgust as child porn, would the above statement still hold true? And getting better all the time? By what measure?
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Isn't it exactly the same with Google/Android?
You can use ctags/cscope to handle that, FWIW languages like C and C++ have a massive toolset built around Vim, so even for the most obscure use case, I'm pretty sure there will be a way.
"What is misleading"

Tons of stuff.

First, the article starts with a misleading report on a Facebook drone. There's nothing in the above summary about that.

Second, much of the article is about the eagerness of journalists to cover Facebook. Again, the above summary says absolutely nothing about that.

Third, the article talks about Facebook cultivating relationships with journalists or writing articles itself. Surprise, surprise, the above summary says nothing about that either.

Then there's a large part of the article on Facebook security measures to track down leaks. Once again, the summary doesn't even hint at that.

Yet another example is discussion of Facebook's reactive strategy, in which Facebook responds to bad press but does not proactively do anything to address issues before they come to light in the media. And, once again, the summary says nothing about that.

Saying that Zuckerberg is contemptuous of Facebook's users and that even he thinks they shouldn't trust him is actually not a summary of the article at all. It might be related, but touches on NONE of the concrete points the article makes.
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Because that is what sells now.

Write a book for Packt on X you are learning as you go => Leading expert in X and charge 100USD/hour

Write a bunch of blog spam on X, a lot of it wrong => Leading expert in X and charge 100USD/hour

Create a bunch of projects that have more bugs than Swiss cheese has holes => Leading expert in X and charge 100USD/hour

There is a story today here that says GitHub is the Instagram of programming, and more and more I agree. Technical knowledge has been trumped by marketing. You are only someone if you have a blog/github profile/stackoverflow with more than 1M+ points.

And then people wonder why software is so shitty now days, why a todo list in React makes any laptop run out of battery in 50 minutes (not attacking React, just how beginners use it).
That seems like an awful lot of assuming. Even if it's true that they needed to raise the price of their existing channel offering, and only added new channels to help justify the price increase, that still counts as bundling being used to increase the price.
By project I mean any project. Related to work or not.
As Taibbi wrote in the linked article in the OP, "It’s almost like someone thinks there’s a benefit to keeping people divided."
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This. When I structured the standups for our own team, I budgeted 15 minutes for updates and 15 minutes for open conversation.

The result has worked almost exactly as intended: there's breathing room to discuss issues or ideas that come up in the course of conversation, but discipline around keeping those conversations brief enough to stay on the rails.

IMO at previous companies getting told "this isn't the time for that discussion" really frustrated me. As the OP stated, these conversations never happened, and it's healthier to allow some time and space for people to talk off-script when they're all meeting together.
Right. I think Apple's intent is the opposite of what the developer is suggesting. Apple is conditioning customers to manage subscriptions, including easy cancelation, in app store.
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It is a kind of racism my friend - it is not mentioned in the Hindu scriptures that those who are born to a Brahmin are also by birth brahmin. But in reality, that's how it is - a person is born into a caste, by birth.

For example, if a brahmin person has a baby, then that baby is brahmin by birth. But this is not what the scriptures prescribe. The scriptures mention the caste system by the nature of work one adopts.

But as you can see, it was easily corruptible. Even in 2020, there are brahmin people who explicitly state that they are the superior caste with no repercussions when the constitution mandates equal rights to its citizens. If this is not racism, what is ? Calling some fellow human being as inferior ?
I want a plug and play hardware interface that can handle digital and analog io in a hackable package, capable of running cpp (easy to compile for) and if possible python.

If there are convenient alternatives to rpi, especially if they're cheaper for comparable performance, I'm all ears!
> if don't live in a retarded country

Probably not the best terminology to use on a post about people with disabilities.
I dunno. Coding is the easiest part of programming, in a sense.

The challenges in programming aren't literally "writing code", once you achieve a certain degree of facility with the language and libraries you are using.

The challenge is, of course, solving the problem - doing the intellectual work.

I get that people often say "writing code" and also mean the intellectual work of programming / CS / software engineering (whichever may be appropriate), but I really don't think that's accurate.

Hope that makes sense and isn't pressing too fine a point on it.
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Correct. Apple is providing a consistent customer experience for enrolling, free trialing, auto-billing and canceling.
What is the tech stack? Can you clarify this part?
Keep in mind that you are referring to GNU Make specifically and won't be truly portable. BSD Make, for example, doesn't have -p:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?make(1)
In particular as GP didn't even make a political statement about theoretical political systems whose veracity could be discussed on some abstract grounds, but made a personal statement about themselves and their direct experience.
There’s a trick to #9. It is 10x better freshly brewed! I went to the magic hat brewery and had #9 there. The taste was so much better, you could tell it was due to the freshness. It ruined the beer for me though, because now I know what I’m buying off the shelf is a bit old.
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I have another version based on awk[1], which instead of listing all targets, it will only list targets with a help message in the format of `@: #`, e.g.

install:
@: # Install the application to the given PREFIX.
@: # Unless specified otherwise, PREFIX defaults to /usr/local

which will generates

Usage: make TARGET

You must run make with one of the following targets to continue:
Run make VERBOSE=1 TARGET for verbose log.

help:
Print this help

install:
Install the application to the given PREFIX.
Unless specified otherwise, PREFIX defaults to /usr/local

It doesn't read from MAKEFILE_LIST, though.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/sirn/6a2f4c0b1cb917ef54b1fb813330d8e...
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There's certainly something to the increased competition in the craft brewing space and they seem not to have kept up, but I don't really follow your comparisons.

By American adjunct lagers, I assume you mean budweiser, coors, etc? Maybe Magic Hat also made a lager but I was most familiar with their #9 which was a floral, light IPA that was definitely a big step above a cheapo lager. And the article is saying that if anything they were too out-there and experimental, which is basically the opposite problem as being undifferentiated from all the other cheapo lagers.
They'd be wrong.

A bill passed its 3rd reading in house of commons. It needs to get through the House of Lords. It still has some way before becoming law.

https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/laws/passage-bill/common...

And when the UK crashes out of EU with no deal we'll inevitably re-allow free movement of EU workers because we have no bargaining power.
Looks like a proposal. I guess it's yet to be decided as the default FS.

> Btrfs is a mature, well-understood, and battle-tested file system, used on both desktop/container and server/cloud use-cases.

Is that the consensus nowadays?
You seem to be conflating ideas. jaywalk said it best with:

> It simply handles differently than pre-MAX 737s in certain scenarios

It handles differently than previous 737s due to airframe changes (namely engine position). MCAS was meant to "correct" this for the purpose of skipping re-certification. The airframe isn't fundamentally flawed, the process of certifying it this round was flawed. Which caused Boeing engineers to implement a flawed MCAS system.
It's being rolled up into Genny.

Vermont doesn't have much going for it economically. Winters are hit or miss for skiing, dairy is dying, etc. Small scale agriculture is the business there. Once you leave Burlington and the immediate vicinity, things look alot less prosperous. Moving a small operation like this is a slow cut that impacts local farms, etc.
Go to a senior living facility and check out the permissions on each user's Chrome install. Web API abuse is rampant, the notifications API will be full of spammers. Ten malicious Chrome extensions are installed that are for "maps and directions" but hijack your home page and search default.

Chrome team has done a terrible job at understanding how less technical users interact with their browser and how to keep them secure.

My senior citizen support checklist is editing their Chrome shortcut to always launch without extensions, and block all new requests for notifications, location, camera, microphone, etc. (Switching browsers is better, but generally seniors prefer their computers don't change much, so I'll usually carry forward the browser they already have.)