skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The latest figure bests the previous high of 88% recorded in 2003."

lol wow. 2% of difference. Am I really supposed to believe this nonsense you spew? What a meaningless statistic, all to support YOUR dogma.

See what I mean? You seem easily convinced, so stick around and I'll have your whole world upside down.
>* I use a Blackberry for my black box phone*

I don’t think you’re representative of the general market...

I’ve never heard of people talking about the “Samsung experience”, or the “Huawei experience”. These devices are interchangeable. People talk about specs or price or getting longer term support.
The document cited several times in the thread appears to be "The Camp Fire Public Report" which can be found here https://www.buttecounty.net/Portals/30/CFReport/PGE-THE-CAMP...
> Since nobody apparently noticed the wear, it would be impossible to to prove any single person was negligent.

I call this sort of thing "three wise monkeys compliance."
This data is from the Current Population Survey where they select households and then either visit or call on the phone. It's not a thing where they just mail out the survey. The CPS also repeatedly selects the same household in consecutive surveys, which gives them continuity that other surveys lack.
We all should be able to acknowledge everything isn't the president's doing.
- [2010] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/freakonomics-radio-how-much...
- [2020] https://freakonomics.com/podcast/president-matter-redux/
The Forth Methodology Applied to Programming (2001)
I feel like the call here on k8s is it could be the Datacenter OS, but the current direction isn’t taking it there.
Great review! As soon as I saw the price reduction I knew there were going to be huge compromises. Looks like I'll be sitting this one out. If FB want's to be the leader in VR, they need to get back to their roots the original Oculus team strived for - QUALITY.
Do you think the comment you replied to was about flag football?
Holy [expletive] I had no idea you could do that, thank you for the tip!

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I'm trying so hard to use DuckDuckGo. At first, it was fine. Most specific queries it finds what I want pretty easily.

But it's horrible at finding local businesses, and so many times I get garbage search results for more generic queries. Now I've gotten good at guessing which searches will be succesful on DDG or not, that I go straight to google for them.
Oh, I forgot, if it's good news it's the "Obama Economy". Carry on.
Hanlon’s razor is obviously nonsensical. Malice is fundamentally stupid and obstinate stupidity rises to the level of malice so the distinction makes no difference.
Yeah, those numbers don't surprise me. It is one of their more popular shows, and they are milking it for everything it is worth. Websites of fans discussing their own theories and what not. It has a huge hook because of that. It's a modern day Indiana Jones search for the grail and/or ark. Essentially, the History Of Oak Island would be a pretty interesting 2 hour documentary. As a weekly reality tv show, they have to fluff it to fill the time slots so the style of it gets very old very fast. I had never heard of it until Prime recommended it to me, and then it just became one of those COVID shows playing in the background while I continued to bang out code. Every now and then it would catch me, and I'd actually pay attention to some of the historical research stuff they would go into.
Same boat for movies. I used to use icefilms or torrents extensively for every film. But now my first stop is Justwatch to find out what service has the film I want to watch, and then I log into that service and buy it.

Admittedly some services, like RedBox, are more frustrating than torrenting though.
How was the poster mischaracterizing? He did not say government buildings were damaged, only that they should be protected.
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The difference between 88 and 90 isn’t important here. This is directly in response to your claim that “Generally everyone in the US views the US negatively right now.”

Perhaps that’s true in late 2020 amidst a once-in-generation pandemic and the inevitable economic fallout that’s gripped the entire world. But these pre-COVID US Census numbers mostly line up with the overwhelming pre-COVID sentiment. I don’t know why that’s so surprising/off-putting to you.
Cost is not just about processing power. There are some real hardware innovations going into the PS5 that won't be in the XsX.
If this drives you to earn more, go earn more. Get a job at Google, get the 300k.

If that's not what you want then don't. You are earning a huge amount and are working at a well respected company. You are doing awesome. Seriously you're kicking ass.

Don't take this the wrong way but maybe it's time to grow up a little bit. You should not feel this bad because someone else is doing better than you. This is the definition of envy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy. Envy will rob you of so much happiness. Believe it or not you can learn to feel happy when other do better than you do. It will be a huge source of joy to you if you can learn this. It won't rob you of your drive. It will allow you to celebrate and be inspired by the success of others while being happy in who and where you are.

As a culture we used to denounce envy but now we embrace it, it's a truly destructive force.
I imagine you don't have to worry about it for very long; next they'll announce that it's shutting down and that you can use the YouTube community tab instead
I recently switched from standard notes [0] (which was really interesting because of the standardfile protocol[1]) to Joplin and I haven't looked back.

Joplin has been fantastic so far -- it offers so much value (cross-platform, reasonable design, markdown support, search) for completely free, and with easy sync options and no feature gates. It needs to get mentioned more.

It seems like productivity apps are the wave now, but Joplin is exactly what I wanted -- a simple cross platform note-taking app.

I'm considering hosting a Joplin WebDAV/S3 sync + backup service for something like $1/month billed yearly -- I wonder if people would be interested. Obviously most people probably just use Nextcloud/Dropbox/OneDrive and there's no real reason to trust some random sync/backup service over the other options, but with encryption turned on, the place you sync to doesn't matter and it feels like people might be interested.
US Patent Trials and Appeals board inconsistent with KSR case
The same reason that some other Google products have been redesigned recently: They used GWT and GWT has been deprecated.
The other logical conculsion is the President doesn't really have much effect on the these numbers. It looks like increasing incomes and decreasing poverty have been on a steady clip no matter which party is holding office.

I think it shows the strength of American capitalism. Millions of people on the ground, making the best decisions for themselves are improving conditions for everyone. Thus giving us more improvement than a person at the top trying to make decisions for millions of people.
> For example, you can't have an ! key.

I know that was probably just meant as an illustration, but you can have an ‘!’ key — it's 07:00CF “Keypad !”¹.

Linux will ignore it² though, because being Linux they had to NIH their own key codes, and Windows will ignore it³ because it wasn't on the IBM PC keyboard in 1981.

¹ https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/documents/hut1_12v2....

² https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.8.9/source/drivers/hid/h...

³ http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/1/161ba512-40e2-4...
Prime Video quality seems breathtakingly bad to me as well. Even their "high quality, 8GB per hour" setting looks remarkably worse than a 4GB h264 rip, to say nothing of HEVC.
China’s Troubling Vision for the Future of Public Health
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22478585 was another good discussion.
I was referring to money set away for retirement. Since moving from Norway to US, I can’t really spend all my disposable income, given that maximum social security benefits are so low.
Not sure what models you trained against, but my wife looks like a Kardashian. Think I can see Ray J behind her.

I look like a drunk Simpson... Barney.

Spot on!!
What about Valve Index?
I'm not sure the term has ever been extended to multi-generational problems, though it very well could be.

The traditional, aerospace human factors explanation occurs over timescales from weeks to years.

It normally starts with something incorrect (the deviation) that doesn't cause an immediate problem. Examples would be O-ring burnthrough on Space Transportation System Solid Rocket Booster segments, or maybe a pilot who is always a few knots too fast over the threshold on his approaches. Both are problems - everyone knows it - but since it hasn't cause a problem yet its allowed to slide until it just becomes common practice.

The key point here is that the system (machine, human, organization) has acquired a deviation that means it no longer operates like it was designed and is not fixed because everyone becomes accustomed to the deviation. This degraded state is now the new normal.

One day the weather is too cold, and another assumption about how the system operates is violated. The O-rings don't seat properly when the boosters are fired. The runway has ice on it. Hot gasses escape through the booster joint and impinge on the LH2 tank, and the aircraft finds its braking authority is insufficient, and a runway overrun occurs.
It's a classic tactic of online trolls to construct a straw-man argument and then direct their efforts towards attributing their argument to you. It works because they twist your words into something inflammatory and you waste time/energy defending yourself and trying to discriminate between your point and the point they paint you as making.

Meanwhile to a casual observer you get made to look like the extremist.

In this case, asking "how will you protect government buildings?" is like asking "how will you prevent protesters from leaking classified military secrets?". Nobody said that classified military secrets were being leaked, only that they should be protected.
Interesting. But don't you have to attach a credit card to buy and play the game? They can use that to identify repeat offenders and probably other things as well. Other platforms solved the issue without accessing my entire social graph.
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>Personally, when I see wrongdoing, I like to expose it.

If you have irrefutable proof, you should be going to the appropriate LEA. If you don't have that proof, you should not be posting someones home address to the masses to do with as they please and masquerading it as irrefutable proof.

We have all heard horror stories of innocent people being mistaken for criminals (sharing a common name, case of mistaken identity, malice or negligence of the person doing the doxxing, etc.) and having their lives threatened or ruined due to overzealous internet-warriors playing vigilante. Recall the 'Boston Bomber' + Reddit/4chan debacle? Innocent people being doxxed left and right to a vengeance hungry crowd. Not to mention that other innocent people who happen to live at the same address are subject to the punishment you unilaterally decided to hand out.

If you think that is an acceptable risk in the name of your personal sense of justice, I doubt we'll ever see eye to eye on the matter.

>This is not at all the same as an anonymous person doxxing someone

If Krebs doxxed you or I doxxed you, the result for you is the same. I fail to see your point here.
I grew up in a small town of less than 6,000 people, and we had a full time police that was very visible and then county sheriff that operated outside the city limits. There was one police officer per thousand people in the town.

They were very visible and everyone ended up having interactions with them at some point in their lives.

The one time I needed them in my life they were supremely unhelpful and unsympathetic. Basically said to me and my family “not our problem.” Ended up using social services instead, who got the sheriff involved, who immediately took action and was helpful, sympathetic, and checked in after their time assisting was over.

In hindsight, my town would have been better off allocating the police funding to drug rehab and social services, and just asking the sheriff to handle policing in the town.
Interesting. I'm kinda sympathetic to PG&E on this though. These big lines don't have much under them, inspection is by helicopter, and the lines cannot be shut down. I would not be surprised if "fix it when it breaks" is a nationwide phenomenon for high tension lines.

What makes it bad is how fire-prone California is. I'm of the opinion that humans should not be living in areas that burn regularly. And in PG&E's defense I doubt anyone was living near the lines when they were built 100 years ago.

If forest fire was an acceptable outcome of line failure 100 years ago when the lines were built, is it PG&E's fault that tons of people moved into this fire prone area? In my mind the cities nearby should have paid them to make the lines safer. To me this is like the people that move near a concert hall then complain that it's loud. Or move to a floodplain and complain when it floods...

It seems like it's been known that these lines were a fire risk for a very long time, and cities should have paid to make them safer before zoning so much land for residential. I assume, but cannot prove, that PG&E probably enumerated the risks when the land was sold or rezoned but their concerns were ignored. Having done a study on the wear of the hooks themselves, it seems unlikely they would not have notified communities nearby of the risk. My prediction is that they start to point fingers at the government, but people continue to sue the power company because sueing the government is hard.
As helm charts become used by more people and more complicated, exposing more of the underlying config, they just turn into a set of yaml files with as much or more complexity as the thing they are trying to replace. Configuration with intelligence that allows arbitrary overrides of any of the underlying configuration is important in order to meet all use cases. Without that, helm will only be useful for a strict subset of use cases and eventually you will outgrow the chart, or the chart will grow in complexity until its worthless.
But the parent post specifically said in the living room.
> but his narrations of Asimov have the spirit of 50s' over-the-top actors and TV announcers

This sounds magnificent, and definitely the way I want to listen to Asimov.
I have recently started using Fsnotes [1]. Its based on nvAlt [2]. If we are focusing on networked notes, fsnotes supports it out of the box and best part, it is offline; stores files as markdown on my local machine, which I really want. Not sure if Roam or Athens are offline apps, didn't dig too much into them.

[1] https://fsnot.es/
[2] https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
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So no one set any buildings on fire? [1] It's all a conspiracy? These are deep fakes and propaganda news? [2]

1. https://nypost.com/2020/08/24/blm-protesters-set-portland-po...

2. https://youtu.be/4XSlXVgHYok
> Terrorists and Nuts would love nothing more than use a surface-to-air missile against a launch.

And yet never in history has that been attempted, despite the presence of suicide bombers.
NASA has some serious security concerns, but they're largely taken care of by the air force, coast guard, and friends. I'm sort of surprised to find out they have their own swat team when we're always hearing about "the coast guard helicopter finding a stray boat in the keep out zone" and so on.
Sketch has been like that for a while.

The app now has a special licensing setup that restricts your installs to two machines.

Sketch made a thing about leaving the App Store.

But the App Store licensing and update process was way better than what it has evolved to.
Sure, but I’m still sure microwaves don’t work that way through glass and especially not at the power these “less than lethal” weapons work at.
Yeah I highly recommend giving VSCode another try if you ever end up writing typescript. Typescript in vscode is so great that its weird to me that Nova is targetting web development. VSCode sets a really high bar for this community.

In comparison, programming Swift in XCode lags so much sometimes that it starts missing keystrokes, and I end up with variable names that are missing half their letters. (This happens particularly when filling in a function's arguments). Its terrible, and it leaves me second guessing the idea that native editors are superior by default. This seems to me like a much more useful target for a new IDE.
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Don’t bet on Valve. They don’t have a killer business instinct. They take their sweet time to get anything done. Plus their Steam machine “console” idea was crap, anyone could see that from day one.
Even if NSView-backed, custom views that replace basic functionality aren’t really native to me. Here, the entire window frame, all widgets, etc. are not native. It looks, to me, like an Electron or RN “app”.
It looks like a 4800U can run the game at 30fps low settings, and that's a 15 watt part.

And the issue applies to other games and intermittent play too.
Ok nobody asked but what about the guy at Blogger team who's role is to make up bullshit OKRs and get promotions?
I was a CS student at York University shortly after Wirth had a residency there in the 1970s. Pascal of that time, was informative of Modula, but Modula was more informing of ADA because it was still a candidate language model going forward before Ichbiah's pick won out. The whole steelman process was the backdrop to my comparative computer language courses
Biometric data can and will be used to analyze and predict people's behavior in unprecedented ways.
At the same price point in the professional space, of course. Lenovo X series and System76 have solid touchpads- and have for years.
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For one, I appreciate this perspective, I was not aware of that.

On the other hand this feels unconvincing to me. The language of science and physics is already obtuse and overly wordy, that's what seperates it from the noise of everyone else talking, because it trades precision for brevity and so it feels reliable . So there are infinite places to draw that line in the sand. Why do we stop right there? Why don't we just say what we mean instead of piling up a bunch of words into a statement which is objectively false without all the context.
Michael Kramer, Kate Redding, Ray Porter, and John Lee are narrators I've grown to love. I've followed them to other books they've done, discovering new authors. The mere fact that an author has them doing the narration is a big bonus for me.
I think this normalisation also applies to the other factors of this disaster. I dont think it is enough to focus on the immediate cause of the fire (it could have started through other causes, if the tower werent faulty), but how can people build so close to a forest which is mantained in a way which allows for such big fires?
There should be more use of body cameras in these inspection situations where it's hard to get at the inspected item, and it's all too easy to say "she'll be right" (a colloquial expression in my country that roughly translates to "it will be OK").

A decent regime would involve spot checks, pick a tower at random, then review the footage and make sure we have a clear image of the C hook and the bracket it hangs from, AND they are both in good condition.

A similar situation is rebar in concrete pours. Who's to know if the inspection actually took place once it's buried beneath concrete? Again, a good regime would allow going back and looking at the footage.
>hard to give specific examples about innovation that hasn’t happened

It's hard, but not because of prohibited innovation. It's because we have android, and it doesn't have neither ios rules nor a fantastic potential innovation that breaks the deal with apple. There is simply no example that could be used as a good enough argument. Apple users do not live in a vacuum as well, many of them have seen or used other platforms and still stick with ios as it is.

>iOS rules would not have allowed for the invention of the web browser. Let that sink in.

Web browser is a highly secure piece of software, protected on par or even harder than the os itself. If any ios app could freely download, compile and execute an arbitrary code from the internet, that would be a world-wide security and privacy disaster every few weeks. Let that sink in instead.
Hey, I had exactly the same frustration. I like some features of Obsidian (like backlinks), and I like some features of Typora (like math), but no single editor has all the features I want. It annoyed me to no end that I couldn't simply download the source and make the changes I needed. (or write a plugin)

During quarantine I've been working on an open-source alternative called Noteworthy (https://noteworthy.ink/). It's not quite ready for release yet, but keep an eye out the next few months! The source is here, you can technically build it if you try hard enough: (https://github.com/benrbray/noteworthy)

The goal is to be as modular and extensible as possible. People shouldn't have to keep re-inventing file trees, Markdown parsing, etc.. This is my first large TypeScript/Electron project so code feedback is always welcome, especially in the early stages.

In the meantime, you might be interested in Zettlr, an open-source editor with similar features which is a bit more stable.

If you don't mind me asking, what features in particular are you looking for in an editor?
Try this: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306359385656946688.html
Emily Ratajkowski on Reclaiming Her Own Image
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