skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. If you're being rational, it would possibly make sense to buy a 2 bedroom house or even a 3 bedroom if you think you might need an extra room for a kid plus a home office.

But it's not as rational to insist that you need 4 bedroom house with a three car garage inside a top school district when you aren't even married/pregnant yet. Yes, life can change fast, but paying a premium mortgage for a top school district that you won't even use for 6 years minimum (if you suddenly got pregnant today) and an extra bedroom that is going to go unused for at least several years (second pregnancy, perhaps)? I can't see how that's rational.
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Nope, you are correct. Wow, both examples from that image are wrong.
It blows my mind that anyone can say this in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. He was literally sued, and lost, for his racism.
> But housing is not more expensive in the majority American metros

My parents bought their NYC home in 1976 for $76,000. Adjusted for inflation brings that to around $350,000 in 2020 dollars. The house is currently valued at $800,000.
99.23% is not 100%. 1/130ish
But, the wrong examples don't seem a good demonstration of that...
> Why wouldn't you use Android then?

Frankly, because everyone I know uses iMessage.
I'm curious about the "glorification of suicide bombing" you mention. I mostly watch Al-Jazeera in the UK and my understanding is that Al-Jazeera English should be considered an almost entirely separate entity from the other (Arabic language?) Al-Jazeera that is regarded to have ties to the Muslim brotherhood etc.

From my perspective with the pro Qatari bias in mind Al-Jazeera English is one of the only quality news stations available; especially since, due to their bias, they will focus on underreported stories such as the Rohingya.

Are the issues you mention relevant to the English language channel?
Thought it was some groundbreaking new database technology....

Speaking of,

What would an interesting version of "database of databases" look like?
Free access to the paper here: rdcu.be/b7h29
Question - why are apple downloads slow - I don't get it.

I've downloaded lots of stuff from google. Its rarely slow.

I use cloudfront on AWS - also rarely slow.

Apple - often slow. They have billions - is there something wrong with their caching layer at ISPs etc?
> Java is freer and more open than it ever has been

but pron of Oracle says, a few comments over:

> No one offers free LTS ... those "free LTS" distributions you should know that you're using a JDK that's not fully maintained ... Maintaining a JDK is a lot of work ... For real support for an old version you must pay.

So it doesn't sound like it's really free. If the free version doesn't get security updates you can't really use it in practice.
UC Berkeley launches center for psychedelic science and education
There is one major feature I wish it had... version comparison. I wrote about it a little bit ago:

"Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?" https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/whycanticomparefileversio...

I do also wish it didn't lock up my entire computer whenever I make a big change to Selective Sync. I talked to a Dropbox PM after my blog post got some traction and he seemed surprised that this is still an issue.
Unfortunately this is typical of the elites in bith sides.

They know whats best for you.

So they can give you Iraq, Credit Crisis, Vietnam, Covid19 in nursing homes, etc
Your house has smoke detectors and a dishwasher. Your car has airbags. When you decide you want to build a garden shed behind that brick box you need to get permission from the town and pay for that permission. Your dad didn't have any of that stuff. You more or less need a smartphone to function in modern society. There's more wealth sloshing around and more (in terms of quantity, probably not proportion) of it comes your way but you're not getting any freedom to do the things you want to do from that wealth because society takes a huge chunk of it and earmarks it for things and you don't get to use it to take a vacation or whatever. Basically standards of living have inflated and there's no choice not to buy in.

Also the interest rates vs asset prices thing other commenters have mentioned isn't helping.
"While we started as a storage company, we‘ve grown to be a hub to manage your digital life."

I guess there's just no money in "very easy, super reliable, many device file sync."
I moved from Dropbox to SyncThing because of the feature creep
Source? Here's mine, a comparison of Joe Biden's achievements and Trump's on issues of race https://www.bitchute.com/video/IehA9bM3AQl1/
Yes. I don’t want to press the “no” button for a 100 times.
And? Schools should obviously support the software developers for their work. But even if they won't, the kids will be using free software later in their businesses and the money for support will flow.
Windows even offers to resolve the issue which, as I understand it, has never in the history of time resolved anything.
> Forget party politics for a moment.

Why? That's a pretty significant chunk of reporting where bias is introduced.

> The BBC buried the story they had about their former 'star' and Prince Charles' friend Jimmy Saville being a mass-pedarest.

Everyone did though. Not just the BBC. Is it right that it was buried; no of course it isn't. But this is an exception rather than the trend and it wasn't even something that was unique to the BBC.

> It's a big place with many competing interests, styles of journalist, editor and so on. There is no /one/ bbc.

There's still guidelines journalists have to follow, editors that review pieces and editors themselves get reviewed. Then you have the effect where people who apply for the Beeb will be tend to be people who also believe in BBC's mission statement of impartiality, much like how Fox News attracts news casters who support the Republicans.

> I am trying to recall the last time the BBC was critical of British foreign policy or their secret service. Be it in Ireland, Iraq or elsewhere. Regardless of which party had a leader who was Prime Minister at the time. I'm not coming up with much.

Of course they're not going to be directly critical -- if they were then they wouldn't be impartial. Impartiality literally means they can't be critical. But what they can do is run stories about mistakes and discuss them "matter of fact" and have guests on the Radio / TV broadcasts who are critical -- all of which the BBC have done on many occasions.

> Burying this story is exactly in keeping with my recollection of how the BBC does it.

BBC haven't buried it though. They just haven't run as many articles as the OP would have liked. But they have still reported on it.

> The contrast with the amount of coverage of some ridiculous hollywood divorce which is literally of no importance to anyone whatsoever is utterly stunning, is it not?

Not really. That's just the modern state of news broadcasters these days. Sure, you wouldn't get that from broadsheets but BBC news isn't intended to be a broadsheet. It's intended to be more accessible to the masses and thus that does mean they do have a lot of entertainment content. You might prefer broadsheet style of reporting over the dumbed down and often entertainment-focused articles published by the BBC (like I do too) but that doesn't mean that the BBC is burring articles nor that it isn't impartial.

As an aside, if you are after something more like a broadsheet then I highly recommend the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 (weekday mornings). On that show they do cover many of the topics you claimed the BBC normally do not.

> They don't do advertising though, do they?

Outside of the UK they do. They're also in the tough position that many license fee payers think the BBC should compete with popular programming (I disagree, I think the point of having a license fee is so that you can have unpopular programming that normal TV and Radio networks wouldn't fund).
> their main focus will always be users instead of developers and that the latter will just have to suck it up if they want to get a piece of the lucrative Apple user base pie

Developers are users as well. In the early days of computing, both terms were actually synonymous. If Apple designed the user interface of its programming environment so that the software developer cannot find out what went wrong and why, Apple deserves all the hatred it gets.

Also, this "lucrative Apple pie" is the only reason anyone even cares about it. If money is removed from the equation, I have no doubt developers would rather invest their time on a Linux system that doesn't insult their intelligence.
OK, ELI5: Why should a neutron star have a strong magnetic field?
"She's still your mom."

yeah, and these are still the scars from the cigarettes she put out on my thigh. Sometimes bridges are burnt, and sometimes they were never built in the first place.

"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb"
It seemed like a lot of words to say "His reservation code is visible on his ticket and I typed that into the website and saw the data they sent me". I do like how you got to see all the false starts though, which is more realistic than just knowing what to do immediately(ie trying to scan the barcode and then finding the data just printed in ascii)
I think Dropbox Paper is pretty nice, and it's only really been a fully-formed thing for a few years. :)

Caveat: I don't use any Dropbox desktop apps, and I think Paper is the only mobile app I use, so I may not notice/suffer feature creep the same way.
I can relate to your sentiment about getting good at treading water. I think growth can happen in adversity but a lot of growth also happens from a place of feeling safe in the major areas of your life.

2020 has made me not feel safe in many areas of my life (and I'm privileged), everything from the pandemic, to the upcoming election, to the economic uncertainty. I think giving yourself as much of a break as possible is absolutely warranted. This is pretty hard, even for introverts who do well with solitude and software developers who can work remotely.

My own pessimism has also grown. I doubt that the threat detection circuits in our brains, that evolved to detect uncertain threats, were ever equipped to handle the scale of some of the uncertain threats that loom over us (and the speed and accuracy of the information about them.) Hang in there, you're not alone, 2020 is pretty fucked up (2019 was hard for me personally, too) and focus on your immediate connective relationships and well-being.

This article was a recent and good read (sorry for the Medium link, I know HN hates Medium): https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted...

[EDIT] I re-read my comment after posting (as you do) and realized it has an advice-giving tone, I didn't exactly intend for that, I was intending more to relate and empathize (and hopefully be helpful.)
This is why folks use techniques like greylisting and why you should almost never use a catch-all mailbox.

Spamhaus usually stops a big chunk of them too.
The first real programming task of my apprenticeship when I was 17 was porting a Boeing Ada avionics project to C. Looking back years later that just feels wrong.
> While we started as a storage company, we‘ve grown to be a hub to manage your digital life.

This line from the linked post is a great summary of exactly how I think Dropbox's product direction has taken a turn for the worse.

This is no sleight against the author (who seems to be doing great work; I enjoyed this read!) or the engineering team. Just like, the general direction of the company. This line also stands out:

> it had been a while since we delivered new value to our personal users.

I can't speak for all paying users, but the value I derive from Dropbox is how it syncs fast and "just works". I do _not_ find new value in popups and notification badges about features that other companies have already perfected (much like I don't need to go anywhere else for file syncing).

I realize I'm not representative of the userbase as a whole, I'm just frustrated.
Of course you haven’t seen them abused yet, iOS doesn’t allow it. I remember developers abusing notifications in Android Cupcake.
From personal experience (which I am by no means alone in) you can absolutely have a 'good trip' while contemplating Jesus Christ or other aspects of Christianity, and believing fully in it all. I am quite certain both good and bad drug experiences have driven people to that religion, and many others.

To be honest, this sounds like some b.s. my mother picked up from 'Christian' radio (i.e. GOP propaganda meets X-files) and terrorized the kids with. There was a book called the beautiful side of evil that informed a lot of the kind of thinking you describe, and it is 100% purely anecdotal assertions from one person with extreme views. If you look across the spectrum at more individuals, those assertions fall apart pretty quick.
> ~1 billion Tesla

Magnetars supposedly have up to 10¹¹ tesla. But I guess the evidence for that is more indirect.
> I'm curious why network-manager should hard-depend on libpam...

Meanwhile, some people are trying to work out why a printer driver should require switching init system to systemd.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863974

> Tags: wontfix
"Starter homes" were bought up by wealthier older people or businesses to turn into AirBnBs or rentals.
https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/7-signs-starter-homes-may-...
I don't know if you talk to any "millenials" but most of them are _extremely pragmatic_ by necessity.
Steve Jobs famously said "Dropbox is a feature; not a product."

Now Dropbox has become a product and we don't like it.
I love this recent xkcd about Depedency: https://xkcd.com/2347/
The mythical man month.
Republicans consistently won California before 1992. But it's never been a swing state.
Yes, absolutely! Just like I'd rather pay for Apple Arcade so that I don't have to wade through the sewage of free-to-play games clicking "no" on in-app purchase requests and hiding spammy notifications. Just like I'd rather pay for streaming services with no ads rather than having to mute commercials on live TV or skip commercials on DVR'd TV.

It's not absurd to me to pay for platforms that attempt to preemptively remove filth rather than need to be on the constant lookout for filth. This is particularly true when most of these entire ecosystems (the web, app stores, video content) seem to be based on sneaking filth in front of your eyes at every available opportunity.
>Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 2 million sites globally.

Sorry but this is not an effective way to gauge market share of a browser or a platform. That 60% figure you're throwing around is not an absolute metric. It's based only on visitors to websites that use the "Statcounter" tracking code. There definitely is a large margin of error using this to gather statistics about market share.

In comparison, the other commenter's link is actually more accurate because:

>This report is one of the series of reports which tracks mobile handset: Smartphone and Feature Phone shipments every quarter for more than 140 brands covering more than 95% of the total device shipments in the industry.

Tracking site visitors based on sporadic implementation of a tracker, vs getting actual numbers of units shipped/sold. I'm going with the actual numbers, not the sort-of-guessing of Statcounter.
Yeah, the current state of Python is the worst. Especially in machine learning, it's common that a project only supports one of conda or pip installation, which are often but not always compatible. The idea of storing all dependencies in "requirements.txt" is a good idea but has not standardized across the Python community. IMO all the 2 -> 3 upgrade difficulties have slowed down the development of the Python tooling ecosystem.
Housing in the Netherlands is really awful, in the '90 the boomers have build smaller apartments for their parents to move in and actually profit in an illicit way 2x of their real estate gains of sometimes 6x. No boomer is living smaller to make room for the next generation. I think the best way to combat current shortage in housing is putting up a limit on m2 that an individual could claim. 300m2 for a single person in a metro area while being on a pension is not sustainable in current conditions.
But you don't actually _know_ none of the things I've cited are intrinsically outside of neural structures. Nobody actually _knows_, except the very religious. It might be a reasonable assumption, but at that level I'm not sure it's simpler an assumption than that there are things about the universe we don't understand that many naively file under "extra dimensions".

If you want to compare two explanations for the experiences of one who is hallucinating where one invokes extra "dimensions", and the other invokes "hallucinations mean you hallucinate", and you want to say one is obviously simpler than the other, from a certain perspective you might be right but from where I sit you're leaving a lot of potential discussion on the table.
Is Containers as a Service Serverless?
How about providing an explanation for those words?

- minimal: limited features set aka either you like it in 10 seconds or you don't

- streamlined: good looking?!?

- sleek: combination of streamlined and minimal?

- simple: IMO even more overused than 'modern' and as diverse in its meaning

- opinionated: There is exactly one way of doing it right and either you like it or you don't, but it might come with an extensive feature set compared to minimal.

- spatial: no idea; Endless space? 3D? Depending on my geolocation?!?

- comprehensive: 'Oh, I have to learn something, but not too much'

Modern, on the other hand, means to me: Mainstream look & feel (kinda polished) and with considerable feature set.

Whats your definition?
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No, it's why apple shouldn't allow notifications from the web. People are already drowning in notification spam from native apps. To the point where Apple has added three different ways the OS prompts you to disable notifications.

People just allow everything and then get overloaded by all the worthless interruptions.
The same reason earth or the sun have a magnetic field. But the collapse of the star's core compresses the dynamo into a much smaller volume and speeds up the rotation due to conservation of angular momentum, thus making it more powerful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_dynamo
I don't think you should be downvoted, it's a reasonable misunderstanding.

The goal is to create a constant pipeline of new planes with short lead times, so that they don't need to have extended lifetimes with expensive maintenance. Personally I feel that's a better approach overall for many mobile capital-intensive systems: military hardware, public transportation and so on.

As the interview points out, smaller, more-frequent procurements reduce the risk to suppliers as well. Currently every weapons system project is a existential risk to contractors, so they quite naturally try to push as much back as possible. And so we wind up with parts being built in every Congressional district at vast expense and added complexity.
Can't speak for FANG, but that's certainly not how Apple works.

Leaving aside recruiting events (universities, etc.), candidates are interviewed with a specific role / headcount slot in mind. Sometimes there will be several; it's rude to drag a candidate in multiple times to talk to different teams and so sometimes several will pitch to the same candidate on a given day. But the search always starts with a team or teams that are looking for someone.
My theory: In any organization there is a magic number of committee members, that once achieved, assures that the project will fail.
>Maybe the damage he has caused in just 4 years can be repaired in that time.

At this point I feel the problem with the US is less the system and more the people. It's less than two months from the election, nearing 200,000 covid deaths, and the outcome is somehow uncertain. That's an indictment on Americans and frankly it's hard seeing common sense return anytime soon. The fissures are generational. Enough people don't want to see the damage repaired to affect the everyday political process to ensure it won't be. US is in need of a great leader , Biden doesn't feel up to the task. T
can somebody tell this joker that it is illegal and stay the fcuk away from my car.
This seems like a major effort to push the Quest into the mainstream by bumping the specs while dropping the price. I wonder if the pandemic made them see an opportunity for a VR platform to have a pop culture moment. I also wonder if they'll try to get Horizon launched this fall as well to try to get a toehold in social VR. Also, it was interesting that Zuck spent so much time talking about VR for the workplace in his keynote, mentioning VR meetings, sharing his own experience of holding metings in VR, talking about virtual workstations and saying that he sees VR as a big part of FB's plan to go 50% remote. To me, it was clear he had a personal desire to integrate VR into his own management style. This seems like an interesting milestone for VR.
Here is one of many articles about it:

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495955920/donald-trump-plague...
I tried tiling WM: i3/i3gap for a year, then sway and bspwm for a few days but finally went back to Gnome.

I got fed-up spending way too much tweaking the UI to my "needs". (To be fair, most of the time was spent on the toolbar (polybar, i3bar) configuration). I also realized that I mostly needed tiling for the terminal.

Thus I embraced Gnome UI with a few extensions: unite, dash-to-dock, system-monitor, etc. and started using tmux for the terminal.

I might try Material Shell but I am actually happy with today's Gnome3. Performance is decent, and the level of configuration is enough for me with a few extensions. It is not as stable and polished as MacOSX but there is no blocking point.

N.B: I kept i3 for my work Linux VM due to very limited system resources.
Al Jazeera is my go to channel for on the ground reporting in places where few dare to go -- Syria, Kashmir, NWFP in Pakistan, ...
Their repo shows the "DummyCache" (no caching) as the default for the Python/Django setup: https://github.com/cmu-db/dbdb.io/blob/master/dbdb/settings....

I wonder if that's how it is in production.
Yeah. It's too expensive now.

G Suite is $12 USD / user / month. It gives you unlimited storage. AND everything else like Meet, Forms, Docs, Slides, Mail, Sheets, Apps Script, etc.

Dropbox is $15 / user / month. For 5 TB. How does that even make sense? The features are also lacking. SSL is apparently a feature now.
On Ships, and Shipping Incrementally
I dont think this is a regional problem -- it is a problem of income/price and income/rent ratios off the historical chart almost regardless of where you live. It is a worse problem in SF, NY, LA, and DC but still a universal problem.
Review: We do not recommend the $299 Oculus Quest 2 as your next VR system