skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> sounds like it's half a meter, so no :-)

Sounds like it would be man-portable. So yes, if it's important enough to your mission. Push a stick into the ground, mount the disk on top and connect to your rugged hardware.
I'm really excited about this too, but I'm afraid it does matter.

Gitter of it's own accord federating with matrix would be a watershed moment of a competitor laying down it's arms for the greater good, a détente in capitalism, and a really good sign for the future of all things Federated.

Element acquiring Gitter is normal M&A, normal business. It's still good for Matrix and good for Gitter users, and we're still cheering you on, but it's not quite that same watershed moment.
They also indicated they'd never ever use Mac's notarization requirement to block legitimate software.

Then they got in a legal fracas with Epic and immediately retaliated against Epic by banning all their software from all Apple hardware!

Apple has shown they are very eager to use their position of power to strong-arm the competition, and these kinds of chips only add to their power.
We must defund and destroy not just ICE but the paramilitary system that it is a part of (FBI/DHS/etc).

If you buy into the IPO, if you work at Palantir, or if you financially gain from this ecosystem you are profiting from the racist deportation of people who just want a better life.

I've never heard of a downside to having a large talent pool - how could there be?
There are three doors. You have picked one, leaving two other doors. It absolutely explicitly says he opens one door. The only options are a goat or a car. If it was a car, you would have lost already and so there is no problem. If it was random, you still get the same information (what is behind one of the unpicked doors).
My experience with "hand raising" interfaces has been that it takes clicks, when it should be a first-class operation as easy as speaking itself. Indicators for speaking, too, are insufficient. I think every video chat app has that, but what they don't have is "I am _about_ to speak", like "I would like to jump in now"; An interface equivalent to that thing people do with their body language to signal they're about to speak (they raise their head, open their mouth, perhaps lean in a bit). Not as extreme as "raising my hand".
Build first locally, and then transition to China is a pretty natural pattern, especially for a smallish design firm... you can get the design and production process tightly controlled in a situation where you can easily visit the manufacturing facility, then move it to somewhere that can handle your scale economically.

There's a dual marketing benefit too, as when the initial reviews are coming out you get into peoples' heads as "made in EU" and then that brainworm never resets when you move production, and you also get to gauge your demand without the time+money input of ramping up production on another continent.
> MKBHD could have picked up something much less refined and it would have been popular

I think MKBHD also has to worry about his reputation, if he promoted something less refined his viewers might get pissed off.
In US dollars, a professional French teacher on iTalki will typically cost $20-$30 per hour.

You can reduce the price by going with "community tutors" instead. The price is lower, but they typically aren't professional teachers, so you're effectively paying for a conversation partner rather than actual lessons.

The region the teacher comes from is also a factor, due to cost of living differences. So the price can vary from language to language and dialect to dialect.
This reminds me of a strange ad I got from Facebook back in the early days( 2009 or so ). I had dated a Korean girl for a brief period of time , and the moment we broke up ( via Facebook) Facebook started spaming me with dating ads. All the dating ads had Asian women in them

I meet this girl in real life, so it's not like they tracked my web activity. I've always felt like they read your messages, the people you interact with , and then build a model of you.
The objective of a conversation is not to change the other’s opinion, it is to understand each other on a deeper level than at the start. If the net result is a shift in opinion on either side (or both) then so be it.

The idea of “right” and “wrong” views is flawed and to set out with the objective of persuading the other to your view is a mistake. Getting them to understand you view, whilst you get to understand theirs, is a better objective. You can’t change the world if you don’t understand it.

It is of course extremely difficult to have this kind of conversation online especially in short form.
Did you seriously just turn a point about slavery into a rant that you have to pay taxes? Lol
That’s the tricky part with interest rates. They have to make sense in gross dollar terms as well as percentages.

That’s why merchant credit card fees are painful for small shops. Ie 3% + 35 cents isn’t so much until your average ticket size is $5 and all of the sudden 10% of your revenue is going to intermediary.

There’s fixed cost associated with moving cash around so that 20% return is likely negative under current infrastructure.
We should fight for and stand on principles. The problem today is we're having two sides of relativists fight where neither side even believes in the concept of principles.
Right, and the person you’re replying to is stating that many questionable political leaders have used that same argument to bully people into submission.
This is true about pre-Uber taxi service. But it has improved largely due to Uber competition.

It would suck to lose Uber and Lyft, but I don’t think it would be long for a competing local service to pop up.
I've worked with people for whom "compiler bug" is their first port of call...
I wouldn't worry about it. The issue will burn itself out. Courting a culture of loud, demanding people with an axe to grind is a much better short-term strategy than long.
I had the pleasure to spend a few years with an incredibly creative family, in all domains (family unit consisted of nobel prize winner, renowned academics, award winning authors, artists), and the one thing which always stood out to me was how they had such a deep culture of rewarding curiosity, thinking, and exploration.

I have no idea how conscious it was on the family's part, but it seemed like everyone in that family ALWAYS had a creative project that they were thinking about, talking about, and was celebrated by all in the family. It could be the dad talking about some data he was cleaning, or the younger kids about some new comic character they were developing, etc. It was clear that there was absolutely NO judgement as to what everyone's endeavor was, but that being a creative person and exploring and thinking was table stakes to being part of that family.

I don't know what the answer is, but I think if you manage to cultivate that kind of culture in your household, everything else will come easier, because above all, it seemed like they all had JOY in doing all of this. I could easily see how it could become a chore and even a burden, but somehow those parents really managed to lose sight of having everyone see thinking and exploring as primarily a fun thing to do, and it seems to have stuck.
Because a hardware vendor telling you what you can and can't do with the stuff you own is immoral.
For French: http://www.litteratureaudio.com
"Experts" are nuts if they think that I'm going to wear a mask for the rest of my life, or forgo visiting the office, going to a concert or traveling abroad.

Willing to accept a temporary inconvenience during an emergency, but emergencies do end. Life is 100% deadly, people need to come to terms with that.
I'm with you. This is a product for rich narcissists.
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>Apple doesn't have a way to view the data outside of an Apple device.
>Apple doesn't have your health data.

I don't believe that any of this is true.

iPhone or no, your data is "out there", and you don't own it.
Do you have a source for iCloud backups being end-to-end encrypted?? As far as I know, everything in iCloud is just encrypted (i.e. Apple has the decryption key). In fact, law enforcement often asks for data from iCloud because unlocking the physical phone is harder.
Can’t is really just a cost question. 8.2 percent of Germany‘a gross-electricity generation comes from PV solar and their southernmost point is 47°17'N. IMO, that was an over investment, but that’s their choice. Most people in Canada live south of that so we are not talking about that many people.

We are really talking about a handful of countries. The Nordic countries have cheap alternatives in hydroelectric, wind and geothermal energy. Nuclear may have a few niche applications for northern islands etc, but that’s not really significant globally.

PS: 4% of the UK’s electricity comes from solar and their southern tip is a actually quite decent for solar.
> In practice what you're doing is disallowing employers from offering employees terms of employment that provide the employee with working conditions of greater non-monetary value than ordinary jobs in exchange for less money. There is no reason to think that this is never advantageous for the employee, and the workers who don't find those terms advantageous remain free to work for any other employer.

That is true, but it's an ecosystem thing. Sure, it might be of benefit of some... but to others it's the only game in town. When people describe fast food jobs as for students saving for their first car so they don't have to provide a living wage... that doesn't help single parents who are using it as their sole income. It's better to inconvenience the students seeking a car, to help the single parents. Those at the bottom have nothing but the flex jobs available to them.
For this to be true - that higher labour costs keeps people out of jobs - one must ignore the last ~70 years of Northern-European labour market.
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There's an SDK that can be used to pull the data from a Garmin to a server you control.
Google beta launches Tables in the U.S.
> If you're a college student and you have two hours and fifteen minutes between classes, you can drive for two hours and fifteen minutes.

Can you though? You wait for 10 minutes to get your first ride which takes
I thoroughly recommend the Cicero trilogy (Imperium, Lustrum, Dictator) by Robert Harris (https://www.amazon.com/Cicero-Trilogy-Robert-Harris-Collecti...) for a fictionalized, but thoroughly researched, story of his life and career.
Symfonisk is based on Eneby 20, Max volume I tested was with a twin pair (As they do stereo pairing via Sonos.) You will probably hear better quality out of a pair like I did but post TruePlay tuning, it sounded very different before and after. In the smaller room of mine, Trueplay seemed to think it was too muddy sounding and tuned out a lot of lower end EQ. The notable Eneby 20 vs Symfonisk sound to me was that the Eneby had bass that seemed...not crisp? I don't know the right word but the highs in a drum line were not there. The vocals could have sharp highs but then you couldn't hit the stick hit the drum, just the sound of the drum. Despite the exact same drivers, Symfonisk had a WAY different profile that was more crisp and had more dynamic feeling bass. I wonder if the speaker's Z-Depth helps that.
a search category would be helpful. just recently i was searching for cake recipes, but if i enter the ingredients list i get all sorts of suggestions and only a few cakes.

possible categories could be eg. breakfast, lunch/dinner, snack, desert, cakes, cookies, sweet, savory, soup, dry/portable (for the road), fingerfood, cold, warm, no cooking (like sandwiches, salads, etc)

the list likely depends on what categories you are able to detect in the recipe data, but you get the idea.
Not 100% sure what aspect of thinking you mean, but in general, Read, read, read. Figure out how best to do for your family, but for ours (4,8,11yo, but we've done this since the first was ~3):

* Every night, read them out loud classic books slightly over recommended reading age. We started with Jungle Book, Riki Tiki Tavi, other Kipling, Bears on Hemlock Mountain, etc. These days we just finished Lord of the Rings and are doing Silmarillion. Jules Verne is another favorite.

* Audio books. We use Audible and always play something when traveling to swim practice, etc. Boxcar Children, Historical fiction, Paddington, etc.

* Encourage imaginative play based on the stories. Ours have an ongoing play containing Hobbits, bears, elves, Harry Potter and Star Wars ;) Encourage them to make up and tell their own stories.

* Go to the library weekly (ours just reopened on a limited basis). We let ours check out 5 books of whatever they want, but say 2 must be history, science, literature, etc. Get them their own card as soon as possible.

While fiction might not seem at first to "teach kids how to think", it really can. It simulates what people are thinking in various situations the kids can relate to. Storytelling can help them reinforce that and extrapolate to new scenarios in fun, safe ways. Mensa has some great reading lists: https://www.mensaforkids.org/achieve/excellence-in-reading/

Not reading, but we also:

* Discuss and research together in depth things that interest us and them. For example, I talk to mine about the latest space news over dinner. They love hearing about various missions, challenges to space travel, etc.

* Play chess and/or other strategy games.

* DuoLingo on a regular basis. We let ours choose what language - I have one doing Dutch and one doing Latin.

* Code.org, youtube DIY and educational channels

Again, I believe in aiming slightly over their heads. Not so much you bore them to death, but enough to get gears turning. Even if they don't retain details, it builds a framework for them to build on. Susan Wise Bauer in The Well Trained Mind talks about how doing this can provide "coat hangers" for them to hang bigger thoughts and more details on in later years.
The pocket operator (don't remember which one) was an impulse purchase for me and one of the very few musical instruments I've ever returned. I couldn't use it productively and honestly I didn't even really like the best youtube videos made with it.
Make more companies Public Benefit Corporations. Make Profit not the only written, legal goal.
pine64. Of course their smart watch currently is a dev kit and doesn't do anything at all unless you write software to do something. Some good progress is being made - expect a first release "soon" where the watch will do something - though probably not something very smart. Still today if you don't want to write all the code yourself you shouldn't bother.
I recall we considered this at various stages a few years back. I think this was around the same time we introduced our chatops integration.

I don't know the exact details and can't speak for others, but I suspect GitLab realised that chat(ops) tools are hard to sell and our time is better spent elsewhere. It's a shame though, having Gitter/chat directly integrated in a project (properly, not using e.g. an iframe) would've been pretty cool.
There are alternative apps for the Mi Band that work purely on-device.

Mi Band Master is one of them. The setup is a bit more involved with newer bands, but a one-time thing. Works really well.
Indeed, the “trick” to learning any language is money and time.
I'm very familiar with the state of the market.

I like Sparkfun, but it's not batteries included. You run into the first major roadblock before you've started:

"Please Note: If you haven't worked with Alchitry boards before, you will need to head over to their website to get set up and running before continuing with this tutorial."

... and you're down a rabbithole.

Next, it splits on Cu versus Au boards.

And by the end, it looks like I have a blinking LED.

And I need to spend over $100 to get started. $100 is okay if I knew there was a good, frictionless pathway to the end. But in this case, I don't. It's gluing a half-dozen pieces together, and my experience is that 75% of the time, the kit ends up with some bug along the way, and lands in a drawer.

The places I listed JUST WORK. That's a big difference.

It's also important it feed into something. Half the time, companies will invent their own programming language, environment, or something, and at the end, we're at a dead end. I've never heard of Lucid. If I were doing an FPGA project, I'd start with VHDL or Verilog and standard tools. And clicking through, many of the tools used in this tutorial are now several layers obsoleted.

That's more-or-less the state of most things.
I'm just an observant amatuer, no professional traffic experience, although, someone linked a manual for LA's traffic management system (it's a commercial system, but the manual is customized for LA), and reading through some of that confirmed the observations of capability I've made over time.

I haven't seen a time until green? (or is time until yellow/red?) sign like that personally, so I'm not sure about usefulness. I'd imagine electricity cost is pretty negligible, assuming LED lighting etc.

I used to drive frequently in areas with countdown timers for pedestrian cycles; if the vehicle cycle was also ending, the vehicle light would turn yellow when the pedestrian signal hit zero. As a driver in the opposing direction, seeing the countdown helped me decide if I wanted to wait for the signal or make a right turn on red (if conditions permitted). As a driver in the direction of the countdown, it let me plan for a yellow, and I think I was able to make better decisions about stopping or going on yellow; I imagine some drivers might take the countdowns as a queue to speedup to make the light, anecdotally I didn't see that, but you'd need real numbers to decide.

Anyway, if the approach to the intersection is a downhill, as a cyclist, it's nice to know earlier if I need to brake or not, or if I could make it through if I pedal a bit. If there's enough bike traffic to support that, it sounds nice. I don't think you could signal to bikes and not cars --- at least where I've riden, bicycles at reasonable speed are vehicles and should travel in vehicular lanes unless a restricted lane is available and appropriate (bike lanes are restricted to bikes, but bikes are not restricted to bike lanes). Given that, I don't know how you'd signal to cyclists and not car drivers.
There's a fantastic piece of free software for Android called Gadgetbridge[0] that allows you to use many of these "smart watches" without the first party app or servers. It supports Pebble, Mi Band, Amazfit Bip and HPlus and more.

[0] https://gadgetbridge.org/
Actually "stop reading the news" is a good advice. Though it doesn't mean that you should stop participating in your community. There are better sources of information, I imagine, for almost any topic.

> “The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/thomas-jefferson-ha...
I think this article is going to interest you: https://gist.github.com/jart/b73868081a5e1a1c5cf0

>Finally, our parasite will employ a strategy of politicization, insisting that everyone in a society be involved in the contest for political power. Since our memetic parasite is already bound to one or more political factions, politicization leaves no one with the option to ignore it, and simply live their lives. Neutrality is not acceptable. All those who are not actively infected, and who do not openly endorse the parasite, are by definition its enemies. And they will be crushed. The safest thing is to play along, and raise your children in the faith - even if you don't really believe, they will.

>At this point we've established, at least to my satisfaction, that

>(a) there is such a thing as Universalism;

>(b) Universalism is an educationally-transmitted tradition that works just like any theistic religion, and is best understood as a descendant of Christianity;

>Universalism, again, is a mystery cult of power. Its supreme being is the State. And all of the Universalist mysteries - humanity, democracy, equality, and so on - cluster around the philosophy of collective action. Christianity has been a state religion since Constantine, of course, but it always also included magical and metaphysical mysteries, which the advance of science has rendered superfluous at best, embarrassing at worst. So Universalism, unlike its ancestors, is not concerned with the Trinity or transubstantiation or predestination.
The amount of unused computing and storage on personal devices is staggering.

Yet HN never misses the opportunity to dogpile on anyone who points this out: data trasfer costs, battery usage, jokes about the Silicon Valley sitcom.

As if most phones weren't connected to wifi and power for 10+ hours a day.
I would be happy with a commercial product that simply stored data in a place of your choosing, like to a PC, in a parseable format. I don't think a product that was completely self-managed (no cloud) could be competitive anymore, so that's pretty much left up to OSS. I really miss software that didn't require internet connectivity being the norm.
I would second Mike Duncan’s podcasts on Rome as being well worth your time.

And that is how I recall that period of time. It’s one of those situations where you let the reality of the situation deviate you from your ideals, I think.

@throwanem - have you ever read anything where he commented in hindsight that he still believed that he made the right choice? I’m newer to Roman history and sounds like you might have experience / background here.
Is it ignorant of me to wonder if the majority of the issues raised in this piece are either portrayed/worded poorly or just not very compelling?

>First, Google has the incentive and ability to favour the adoption of Fitbit over rival wearables on the user side, and to simultaneously undermine the ability of others to offer competing products to insurers and health providers.

I guess the argument is that Google buying Fitbit would mean other non-Apple wearables would be at a disadvantage by nature of there being a first-party alternative, but is that inherently monopolistic or anti-competitive? Isn't that essentially what Google has been attempting to do with Nest or the Pixel phone line?

After multiple reads, I fail to understand what blocking this merger does other than temporarily delay Google from doing what the tech industry is going to continue to do, exploit the ignorance of policy-makers and the general public to harvest and sell our personal information. Does blocking this merger even accomplish anything other than delaying what will be inevitable without legislative action?

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Sure it is. How is this different than refusing to work with ICE because you believe what they are doing is illegal or wrong? Scammer wallets were never given any trial.
I'm convinced the poster above is only surprised because of the combination in this case:
It costs (a lot of) money to buy this set. It requires a lot of manual work to add the custom icons. And - most importantly - it slows down every app start.
While I myself don't really like to change defaults, I can very well see the benefit of customization for other people. But at the expense of performance this becomes very questionable.
Ruby is the only language that says, "nevermind all that other stuff - Developer Happiness." (And, "Matz Is Nice So We Are Nice")

It comes through in so many tiny ways!
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