skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a VW (2007 model, bought 2013, sold 2019), and man, owning that thing was frustrating and expensive. Off the top of my head:

- ABS sensor on one wheel broken.

- Long running problem with the fault indicator light suggesting some problem with the intake. Opened and cleaned the intake valve. Didn't help. Then found out a plastic cogwheel worth maybe 10c for controlling a valve in the intake manifold was broken. But you can't buy that, have to buy the entire intake manifold for EUR 700. Thanks VW. Then the shop doing the work managed to forget a bolt in the combustion chamber when changing the intake manifold. So new engine block needed, since in order to save cost the fricking engine doesn't have separate cylinder liners. Luckily the new engine block was on the shop's insurance. On a positive note, the new engine was a slightly newer model which had the fixed camshaft chain that had been a common failure with that engine model.

- Alternator failed.

- Turbo charge air pipe fell off.

- Rear brake pads jammed and had to be prematurely replaced. Again, a common problem with VW disc brakes if you drive carefully and not that much.

Currently I have a Toyota, which I also had before the VW. So far so good.
COVID-19 is a national emergency, open source is not.

Vaccines easily survive on their own merit in the marketplace. Government funding is being used to speed up the process and insure redundancy in case of failure.

ARPANET is another questionable comparison.

A world wide, failure proof network had never been done at the time so the military subsidized the basic research and development. Once the basic R&D was done, the funding ended.

I would be inclined to support new, innovative R&D but I am not willing to pay taxes simply to clone existing commercial software.
Sure, to me the ridiculous part is:

- it's weird to be mistreated by your employer's own product (just the irony bend to it)

- if you want to appeal after a dead end, your choice is to make a huge public PR nightmare, or try to make an internal post/plea that gains traction. you'd be doing your own employer a service if you could have this issue resolved without a PR nightmare
For sure, when creating core technology it's better to have 2 people do it than to have 20 people. But when you have stable core and need to polish the edges, additional headcount with proper incentives should be able to make a difference. Part of the problem is (possibly biggest) lack of incentives all over the chain and focusing too much (solely) on a small set of business metrics.
Nice to see you too! And thanks for the answer.
Comptche Broadband's Petition to California PUC [pdf]
Google Is Pushing Zoom Out of Gmail by Default
I don't even think star-based reviews are a problem--they're useful for sorting out the people that aren't happy. You can then look at why they weren't happy and see if it's a real issue or not, and if it's an issue relevant to you. (For example, a doesn't-play-nice-with-X downvote doesn't matter if you don't plan to play with X.)

What is a problem is just presenting an average of the ratings, though.
Hi I'm Apple and I'd really like daringfireball to not render in any iOS browsers as it's irrelevant.
Let us ignore the question of whether or the story is true. Twitter and Facebook clearly think it is false.
Yes and no. How do you ensure you don't hit a bad stream? I don't think there is any guarantee. For a very long stream, crypto is going to be good. For a not so long one, I am not so sure
Not an accountant but I think "reimburse" is the key word there. If it's a spend how you will stipend, that's just like salary I believe.
S.3571-Banking for All Act: Non crypto consumer bank accts with the Fed
Yes, I understand that over the lifetime, electrics beat ice. But does that calculation include the fuel efficiency credits. Or probably more directly, do the fuel efficiency credits take into account the co2 emitted for building the battery in your electric? It's probably just looking at fuel efficiency.
Filing an SAR usually comes (99.99%) along with suspending the account. Suspension of account usually comes before filing the SAR as to stop any further illegal actions.
Er, not really?

I use Outlook to access it on my work PC, the Android app on my phone, and the web interface elsewhere. Seems quite usable and painless, to me; even search.

But then, I fastidiously organize my email and so I don't need to rely on "smart" , privacy violating, deeply intrusive search.
Would the outputs of these algorithms be considered pseudo-random?
The open source software community is doing just fine. Having the government step in will likely change its nature, and not for the better.
Work on Otto ceased many years ago
I get support from apple when I walk into their store, or I open up a chat window on their website. I received it in April when my phone died and they helped me try to revive it.

I get support from Fastmail, and Migadu and Target and banks and plenty of other companies. I also provide support for my businesses.

Support usually sucks with monopolies, such as ISPs who know you have no alternative. But even then, I’ve always been able to get someone on the line to fix my issue.
What they are called?
That's is my take as well, the PLA print is of poor quality.
Pay few $ a year for your own domain and then you can switch email providers. I love Fastmail.
While I think that it would be great for people to use decentralized alternatives to FB and Twitter, I think that at least as of today they are very, very far from having the same kind of reach, despite the ecosystem being healthy and vibrant.

So again, even though I think that we as a society would gain a lot from using these technologies, in the year 2020 they really don't have the same "public square" effect that FB and Twitter have, simply because most "regular" people (as in "not in tech") have probably never even heard of them, whereas everybody and their grandma is on Facebook.

Also, the fact that FB and Twitter aggressively attempt to bring people to their platforms likely blurs the line between them being a private venue or a public square.
I agree that such benefits could exist, but what I've mostly observed is just nerds 'playing' with their toys. That's a netto negative.

Plastics is certainly not the only material, but most people do use them. They are the cheapest.

I would like to see actual numbers (easy for me to ask, I know) to become less sceptical.

It's awesome tech, but I feel that at no point is the environmental friendliness really, genuinely part of the equation.
This is a project I started working on but never finished. The problem is that people didn't care enough to pay for backups because they (are conditioned to) believe that Google is already safe and won't go away. The cloud is this magical thing that saves everything and unfortunately they don't realize otherwise until it stops working.
Gov bonds yield below inflation levels. In such conditions anything that can give you any return is worth extra. Stock market valuations are extreme because the monetary conditions are extreme.
It's still extortion.
I'll play the devils advocate: moderating any platform is a challenging endeavor, mostly because of malicious users. Having all the rules broken down in detail allows bad actors to either get close to the line but not cross it, or abuse the system while technically not breaking any rules. As such, having very broad rules (read TOS) helps. Additionally, not having to explain exactly what was violated means that people can't probe the system to figure out the rules in detail as well as the limits of acceptable behavior.

The problem with such opaque systems is that it can go terribly wrong, but the answer is to not centralize anything important; always keep a backup. After all, the cloud is someone else's computer.
If only it worked... https://i.imgur.com/FKFa2l7.png

I probably could try to bisect if there is a specific type of data that prevents Takeout on my account, but I haven't bothered as I think I have all the important data otherwise backed up.
U.S. Supreme Court warns of limitations to Section 230 platform indemnity [pdf]
Glassdoor explicitly denies that they allow employers to pay to remove negative reviews. See this FAQ on their website: https://help.glassdoor.com/article/Can-employers-pay-Glassdo...

I am not offering an opinion on this. I am just noting what Glassdoor itself has to say about this.
The idea of flying to work is fun, and I have seen it pop up in a lot of these WFH discussions. But even if you have your GA license, you'll need to rent or own the plane, pay directly or indirectly for hangar space and fuel, and deal with the air traffic congestion that would arise from more than just a handful of people trying this trick. In my opinion these barriers make private flying too dissimilar to driving a car to make it a feasible commute comparison.
At this point we've all got these 10 year old gmail accounts that we've used as the recovery email on 1,000 websites, and while... I guess it isn't really a big deal to lose a reddit or ycombinator account, it'd be nice if there was some other option to use as the recovery email for online banking that had the stability of google.

I'd happily pay for some sort of assurance -- "if you violate our TOS, we'll just put your email in receive-only mode" or something like that.
For a competing service maybe, but they're talking about backups. I find the bigger issue is that not enough people believe they need a backup for the "cloud".
Reminds me of when broadband was rolled out in Romania in the early millennium, and the local ISP would give you details for a server where you could share films and music with people from the same city.
Same, been in semi-forced WFH since late March, and don't like it. It'd probably be fine if I could go to a cafe or had a proper office. As it stands I barely leave the house except to occasionally grab food, and that's not nearly enough. Honestly the last time I felt this bad was my summers in high school where I didn't have a way to go anywhere, or money to do anything with.
That only cost you $18K/yr??? Not so sure.
Reminds me of Wizard of Oz.

“Don’t mention the man behind the curtain”

Retailers went through this with Credit cards. It used to be trouble to charge more for CC usage (in essence, blaming the CC companies for higher charges).
This is a fair concern, and it is a tricky issue because if true Twitter might not be able to disclose this fact.

But if it were true, wouldn't Joe Biden have come out already and said "These emails are fake and I never met with that person"? Instead, all we get is the campaign saying that those meetings do not appear on his calendar.
> Are you saying the software to perform the syncing costs more than a few dollars per month?

The operational costs could be more than that per user if you want regular updates. That's disregarding engineering time.
I think whether or not takeout is disabled depends on what happened with the account. If the account has content with legal problems, it could be really really bad if someone used Takeout as a free image host with Dropbox/Onedrive integration
There's a ratio of "how much energy can be stored by a device" vs "how much energy did it take to create" graph halfway down this page:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/05/ditch-the-batteries-...

TL;DR: Lithium ion batteries have a ratio of around 10:1, whereas compressed air or pumped water are 200:1 or better.

This is just storage - I'd be interested in the ratio on solar photovoltaic, wind, or similar power generation tech.
Does Raindrop save the content in a way that is accessible? For example can it create a local backup of all the webpages I bookmark organized neatly? Is there an option for it to take my existing bookmarks, and import them all, and archive all of them?
Baloney. There is absolutely no need to reflexively avoid switch statements. Just don't do this kind of garbage with them.
>Luckily, it's pretty easy to spot fake reviews on Glassdoor

Care to automate your insight and create a meta Glassdoor?
The quality isn't changing (and it's not that great to begin with). The free users don't get any support at all.
I'll switch to them in a heartbeat once they have custom domains.

(Apparently that's coming this year! https://hey.com/custom-domains/)
Maybe it's better not have platforms that everyone on the planet have to use in order to access content/software.
Have you tried the beta web app [1] recently? I have seen steady, albeit slow, progress and welcomed improvements in recent months.

[1] https://beta.protonmail.com
Knowledge as a Service
The service is a tool. I would not "never" use a battery powered drill upon it's first power loss. It has it's use case. It is important to understand the limitations of any tool. This author helps us all understand the limitations of google.
It's so incredibly frustrating that no one at Google seems to care about this. They don't even acknowledge this as an issue to be addressed. It amazes me that their callousness still hasn't backfired further.

I was on the receiving end of a similar issue with Google Pay Support for Android and it took weeks for Google to unblock in-app-purchase transactions, even via internal escalations from friends who work there. I guess I should count my blessings that it got cleared up at all.

The casual cruelty and opacity is just ridiculous. Surreal and bizarre that this extends even to their own employees. I really do hope this finally serves as a wakeup call for Google, but I'm not holding my breath.
As someone who once printed things as a business and still has 4 printers on a shelf, I want to offer a counterpoint. The vast majority of people do not need a 3d printer for more than the occasional part/bit that they can't get easily at a store. And by "occasional" I mean "a few times a year". It's simply not worth the cost, learning curve, hassle, etc. for an inferior part at the end of the day in comparison to an injection molded piece off Amazon/eBay or paying someone else a nominal fee to print it for you. I'd be willing to bet that probably 90% of people who are initially enthusiastic about printing and buy a printer only use it once a month or less a year later. In other words, you're in the minority here.

It's also worth noting that none of the things you mentioned actually require a 3d printer. Your router mounting bracket could have been made the same way I made mine - a piece of acrylic (or wood), 2 minutes of sawing, and 5 minutes of drilling & tapping for a smoother surface and better strength than what you printed. Your bike bracket could have been made with some aluminum, a band saw, and some files (or just "good enough" formed with some epoxy putty or hot water moldable plastic).
Etc.

What I'm trying to say is that 3d printing enthusiasts tend to be overly positive about the technology and fall into the "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" trap. It's a great technology, but it's not for everyone (or even most people) and it's got a lot of limitations. I always urge people who are considering buying a printer to strongly consider their actual use cases and needs beyond the cool factor.
I’m guessing here, but if one were to write that one is unaware of which transgression against the hallowed TOS one has committed it’s possible that a dialogue may ensue... though considering everything I’ve read so far in this thread and others like it, I seriously doubt that.
A handy rule of thumb I employ is that any hot take that includes the phrase "kids today" can be immediately ignored. Any generalization of that scope is laughable.
As somebody who generally disables JavaScript, I don't really understand why some people here find the little corner chat buttons that obnoxious; I actually use them to get things done on a fairly regular basis and some of them at least tend to work very well (Crisp being among the best).

Probably the worst I could say about them is that when people don't design their websites properly, and the button is overtop of something important, there's often nothing you can do.

For various business reasons we'll probably end up implementing our own, and I don't see why the loader can't be a couple hundred bytes in one script tag, including its icon, but Crisp at least appears to be the least bad “modern webapp”-style implementation of this.

P.S. you can cut down the size of some of your inline SVGs by urlencoding them instead of using base64. So in the CSS for the button, in addition to getting rid of the redundant "result" and "in" parameters (i.e. the default "in" of filter elements is the previous "result", even if it has no name), and just doing your compositing in the filter rather than with use elements, you can use

data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='30' width='35'><defs><filter id='a' height='140%' width='140%' x='-15%' y='-15%'><feMorphology in='SourceAlpha' operator='dilate' radius='1'/><feOffset dy='1'/><feGaussianBlur stdDeviation='1'/><feColorMatrix values='0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.07 0'/><feComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/></filter></defs><path fill='white' filter='url(%23a)' d='M14.23 20.46l-9.65 1.1L3 5.12 30.07 2l1.58 16.46-9.37 1.07-3.5 5.72-4.55-4.8z'/></svg>

instead of

data:image/svg+xml;base64,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
imo the need for 'centralization' comes from the fact that in order for different people to understand each other, they must use the same dictionary (so to say). So the 'dictionary' is a centralized construction. It must be the same for everybody.

If our dictionaries vary to much in their definitions then our communication becomes more and more difficult.

Maybe dictionary is not the best analogy (this is just an analogy) but I hope I'm getting my point across with this example.
I used to think that a narcissist was just a person who enjoyed being in the spotlight until I encountered one at my last job. Being terrorized by a narcissist for six months because you inadvertently made them look bad is a terrifying thing to go through.

I feel like we would have heard stories about Barack Obama tormenting his subordinates by now if he was truly narcissistic.
I don't know about "practically harmless for youth and young adults" - but as they say, I believe in your right to express your opinion.

Seeing the downvotes, I suppose the majority here disagree with the statement. But at least the comment is still readable/visible. I think it's healthier for public discourse to have differing sides and points of view expressed, to argue in a good sense of the term, by logic and evidence, to hopefully arrive at some common understanding.

"Fact checking" and judgements of "misinformation" are necessary, I can see, but a question remains - who checks the fact-checkers, and judges the censors?

I don't trust Google to be a neutral party in such decisions - maybe in this particular case they're right, but we shouldn't depend on a for-profit corporation to be a trustworthy judge of anything in general.

Do they have the right to ban whatever they see unfit on their platforms? Yes, I think so.
Use a password manager like 1Password instead. Don't tie your accounts together.
I can not tell much about the model architecture. We have some proprietary technology to reduce the amount of images needed for training and to increase accuracy.
Debugging Misadventures: Down the Rabbit Hole
There's also a skill gap here.

Most US employees at FAANG could easily relocate to Canada, if they wanted to, but the opposite is far from true!
Well, presumably not straggling cattle.
That's the point. Nothing good comes from ambiguity in these matters, in fact it could be quite damaging to the careers of those involved if they reported anything that sounded vaguely UFO-ish. Best to have a catch-all like jetpack, drones, etc so there won't be any unpleasant questions later.
Compile times can be even faster (like 200 milliseconds) with the TinyCC/tcc backend. (Of course, optimization of the generated machine code suffers some.)
This is great work... not specifically for 28S, but exactly what 3D printing should enable, more reuse and repair of otherwise working systems.
Discover books recommended by billionaires, leaders. Does anyone tried?
Piyama-Radu
My first month of work, I inadvertently got pulled into a playing soccer with a few coworkers. I didn't know many of them but by the end of the day I felt close enough to a lot of them that I was a lot more confident talking to them whether it's for help with a product, general programming questions, or in some cases personal stuff.

I'm sure I could have cultivated those relationships over the course of working there much longer but I don't think there would be any virtual substitute for that one soccer game.
OSes may be technical clusterfucks. However, the most important thing imho is that all this shit is running on a stack that's robust against vendor lock-in. That's easier with a smaller stack since you have less vendors to worry about. LFSFS (local-first software from scratch), if you will.
White supremacists don't necessarily believe that whiteness is inherently superior to blackness (the existence of black scholars and white numbskulls proves this).
They also believe that their culture is superior to black culture.

* Editing the comment for clarity
To anyone credulous enough to believe any part of this story, I have a bridge to sell you. You should probably stop watching Fox or reading Facebook and the NY Post for your “news”. These same characters have been selling various similar stories for the last 4+ years, and every one has turned out to be complete bullshit when given the tiniest bit of scrutiny.

What this story demonstrates more than anything is that Giuliani and Trump are getting pathetically desperate, because it is looking likely they will lose and both are facing significant criminal liability once they aren’t shielded by the Barr DOJ’s position that a GOP president enjoys absolute impunity and by the pardon power (which has already been corruptly used to let other Trump henchmen off the hook for crimes committed in his name).
It does not. It was planned to remove the use of them. And now that you asked the question, I went ahead and removed them :) Thank you for the reminder! ️
I have my own domain, and run exim+dovecot on a Linux machine for E-mail. This setup has run solidly for years. I serve E-mail for family and friends. No reliance on some cloud account for what is essentially the gateway to all of your password reset functions. When I first set it up, I had some deliverability problems, but once I had DKIM and SPF set up, it's been rock solid.