skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used it in the past but now I use Chromium instead as a Chrome replacement since it is more stable than ungoogled-chromium.
We still have it in South Africa. I prefer it to Coke Zero ect, it tastes more caramelly
Yesss, battle about who gets to mold little pieces of plastic for kids to play with.
Not sure about Macys, it doesn't operate in my country, but smaller furniture makers commonly use off-the-shelf mechanisms. For example, there are a couple popular spring mechanism for folding sofas, so if your sofa breaks, you can easily buy a replacement even if the furniture manufacturer is already out of business. IKEA has all these mechanisms custom.
> and the delivery of the host is just about the worst I've come across too.

I like Lex's style - the guests always deliver on interesting conversations, which is the point of the podcast. Lex is playing a role that I think facilitates this.
Ah..good point. And yes i know it's not a big problem today but that thing needed lots of years to mature.
Thank you very much for your article, I read the hackaday one linked to on another thrread, twice, and could not understand what this stuff is about, while reading just a few lines of your impression I instantly got the essence.
That's true :) Both tabs are pretty much unknown in europe.
I basically don't answer the phone unless I recognise the number at this point.

I am reminded of the 3+ week period i was harassed with up to 10 calls a day from The Economist (https://www.economist.com/) trying to get me to renew my subscription.

Repeatedly told them to stop phoning me to no avail. I had to set up a rule on my phone to reject calls from them (though I could still se notifications that a call was attempted). It was only resolved by tweeting evidence of the harassment to the editor.

Needless to say I did not renew
Out of the over 200 things listed, are there others you take issue with besides angular?
All free software that we make is open source. Paid - closed source (save for AdGuard for iOS, it's open source despite having some premium features).
I highly don't recommend it. I've known several people killed on the A419/A417.
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Why DevOps Initiatives Fail
> I'm amazed that there's often 10s of kinds of peanut butter in an American super market, but only two political parties

Like I can't taste the difference between the 10s of kinds of peanut butter, I'm not sure the half dozen different political parties in my home country (France) offer a real variety of choice.
On my x260 it works perfectly fine. Battery life is the same as with Linux and about ~1hour less as with windows.

But i use just i3 and some tools.
Next Generation Cloud for Europe
The most interesting part about this place is not mentioned: it was the home of François VI de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), moralist and author of the "Maximes".

The historic place of the family was the chateau de la Rochefoucauld, located about 25 miles to the south of Verteuil, and from which the family got her name (la roche à Foucauld: Foucauld's rock).

But nobody actually lived in La Rochefoucauld, they lived in Verteuil most of the time (and in Paris as well).

Some members of my family are from that region and I've been there often. It's a very nice region with lots of nice places, castles, churches, etc. But there isn't much to do.
To add another perspective, I purchased a Maruti car in India about 4 years ago. On paper every variant from the lowest to the top has an 'optional' version with airbags.

In practice, the waiting period for any variant with safety features other than the top speced would be "over 6 months, no gaurentees". ie: as a customer, I was forced to buy the top end variant -- with alloy wheels, chrome trim and all sorts of other crap which I did not care about because I wanted the safety features.

I think that maruti is using safety features as a way to upsell customers who care about safety. The difference isn't a "marginal cost". For some models, the difference is 30% the cost of the car.
> For the code here, which I used on an actual dataset (~500 NYT Headlines 1965--1974), the efficiency gaains of a Go / Python rewrite are ... slight.

500 records isn't a large dataset. Not even close. Large would be orders of millions to billions. And yes, I have had to munge datasets that large on many occasions.

> But a quick translation to straight awk gives cleaner code, more power, easier conversion to a script, and access to a small library of awk-based utilities I've acumulated.

- cleaner: only if you find awk readable. Plenty of people don't. Plenty of people find Go or Python more readable.

- more powerful: again depends. You wouldn't have multithreading builtin like pipelines would. And Python and Go are undoubtedly more powerful than awk. I'm not knocking awk here, just being pragmatic.

- easer conversion to a script: at which point you might as well skip awk entirely and jump straight to Go or Python (or any other programming language)

- and access to a small library of awk-based utilities I've accumulated: that only benefits you. If you're having to sell the benefits of awk to someone then odd are they don't have that small library already to hand ;)

> We've spent far more time discussing this than coding, let alone running, it.

Some of the larger datasets I've had to process have definitely taken longer to munge than my reply here has taken to type :)

Disclaimer: I've honestly not got a problem with awk, I used to use it heavily 20 years ago. But these days its value is diminishing and a lot of the awk evangelists seem to miss the point of why awk isn't well represented in blog posts any more. It's both more verbose than pipelining to coreutils and less powerful than a programming language -- it's that weird middle ground that doesn't provide much value to most people aside those who are already invested into the awk language. Some might see that as a loss but personally I see that as demonstrating the strength of all the other tools we have at our disposal these days.
Military Fitness Coach Tries to HIRT PPL with App
Even better: carbon-cured concrete.

The process binds carbon dioxide, and it is even possible to make the final product carbon negative if ordinary cement is replaced with alternative binders with a low carbon footprint.

Carbon neutrality is achieved using blast-furnace slag and carbon negativity using a mix of slag, green liquor dregs and bark ashes.

https://www.vttresearch.com/en/news-and-ideas/turning-cons-c...
Doesn't matter if you are Working From Castle.
You can see some of their digitized manuscripts here: https://manuscript.ku.dk/about/digitised_manuscripts/ They seem to know how to digitize a book.

Do you have any legitimate reason to believe the University of Copenhagen "wrings their hands" and need a HN-reader with a smartphone to save them?
This is a valid concern, sadly it's only a drop in the bucket.

Talking to people trying to get divorced and preparing to have their partner become an "enemy", a lot of them had their apple and google accounts managed by their partners.

It was either a shared account and their partner accessed the info just logging in, or it was their own, but setup and 2FA'd by their partner who would get notified of external logins etc.
And most of the account services have no protection against "yourself" logging in.

The state of account management can be very dire for people who don't actively manage theirs from beginning to end. Then the complexity of some settings can make it look daunting and they just bail on the whole process.
I also use Youtube on Chromecast, and my phone. It's just easier to pay than to try to hack all different devices.
Eich headed the company for like a week and people pronounce his firing as the sole mistake that took the company down. If Eich is such a god of leadership why aren't we all using Brave? Sure in hindsight maybe it would be nice if there was as much outrage over the CEO driving Mozilla into the ground as there was over Eich's donations.

What I saw was Mozilla getting beat when it comes to marketing, product quality, and ecosystem level for years and deciding to stick with a bad CEO for years.
anecdotal: multiple times (the same item moving 2-3 times), with 100% success.

Almost damaged a joining part once, but that was our own fault for not completely disassembling out of laziness.
I didn't mention a president, you will note. There is plenty of blame to go around.

However, I'm not going to let you get away with lying by omission.

Quoting your article:

> "In response to the backlash, U.S. President Donald Trump (falsely) pinned the blame for the child-separation policy on his predecessor, Barack Obama."

> But then Trump also attempted to deflect outrage over photographs of immigrant children being kept in “cages” by asserting, “Obama built the cages. I didn’t build them. Obama built them” That portion of Trump’s commentary was true.

Obama may have built them, but Trump is the one who imprisoned children in them.
Literally just not having to do that. Or having to have someone request your location case-by-case. Also better resolution.

I’ve shared my location in one form or another with my girlfriend and now wife for a long time.

“Hey can you come pick me up?” “Sure, leaving shortly” — not only do we not need to play some game figuring out exactly where the person needing pickup is (which is a huge boon because she’s awful with directions), but for the person being picked up it’s like Uber—you can see if they’ve left, how far out, etc.

“You just about home?” — if we’re driving, we’re not going to respond to that. Instead it’s easy to answer a question like “when should I start supper”, even in the face of unpredictable traffic, just by checking the other person’s location instead of having to call and have them take a call while driving.

And just from a general safety perspective—wife and baby go for a mid-day walk and a simple “hey you got your phone on you?” gives us both some piece of mind. She knows if she’s not back in some remotely realistic timeframe and doesn’t pick up her phone there’s someone that will come find her, I don’t have to just sit at home and try and decide if it’s been long enough to file a missing person report or if she’s just run into a friend at the park and is too engrossed to notice her phone in the stroller. And none of this requires any planning or communication.

Also had previously shared my location with a good friend and business partner because when we were both travelling separately to meet with clients it made it a lot easier to coordinate, if you arrived early to be able to (accurately) say “oh he’s 5 minutes out” or see they were stuck in traffic and shortcut the awkwardness and just have the person who wasn’t driving be able to call and say you’d both be late instead of walking in and making awkward small talk forever, etc.

I’m not going to share my location generally, but sharing selectively can be extremely convenient.
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Sunmeet Jolly (Founder & Patent holder - GROTU app) in discussion with a panel of VCs and Angel Investors, hosted by LAToken.com
The OS and Met Office (and various other bodies) are established as Trading Funds. That means that they are responsible for their income and expenditure and have to balance their own books - the government pays for services in the same way that the private sector does. If the OS didn't sell its data, the government would have to pay a lot more to have the range and quality of cartographic services that are available.

It's also worth saying that government departments are free to purchase mapping (or weather) services from other agencies in the free market, and I've seen OSM based providers winning contracts before.

Finally, weather data is made freely available by the Met Office, but it is the forecasts are commercial. The same base data is used by eg Meteo Group for their forecasts.
Thank you for saying this! Good to know that I'm not alone.
If carbon emissions become really expensive, other materials than concrete become more viable.

Steel can be quite carbon intensive as well though.

Timber and mud could become great again. Also hydro cut stone.
Every aspect of technology requires time to perfect. This means they are already 1 iteration ahead of Apple.
And Amiga when 16 bit days arrived, and there was no problem getting Amiga 1000s even on my tiny town.

I was the only guy on computer gang that got a PC instead, due to the way my parents saw it as a safer bet for the money being invested. Somehow they were right, regarding how computer market evolved years later.

So I was floating between PC and Amiga demoscene.
IKEA stuff isn't BIFL grade, it's mostly affordable starter furniture.

I bought my first house a few years ago and started to look for more serious furniture. I spent months looking for a good cabinet for my TV + consoles + storage, but could't find anything. I buckled and went for an ikea setup in the end, using their design tool to come up with something really neat and affordable. I mean yeah it's particle board, but it looks good and will be just fine for the next ten years.
It’s kind of schizophrenic for a company to have two, quite similar, OSes. For years there was a project to bring Android apps to Chrome OS. The question is, of course, is why have Chrome OS at all.

The answer is that there was a conflict between two top-level executives: Sundar and Rubin. Thus two OSes from the same company. We all know who won in the end.
And when I tried to run it in Chrome, my laptop (MacBook Air 2015 early) completely froze up after a few seconds. Probably you should not open this in older devices at all.
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Just thinking out loud here:

I generally agree with this take, but lately I’ve actually been considering the opposite: that the two-party system is the only thing truly holding the country together as a union. The two party system has two consequences: one, making the federal government more amenable to bottom-up change; and two, by making fringe movements morph themselves to fit into the federal structure, rather than simply exit and secede.

As an example, imagine that there were a “West Coast” party which had control over California, Oregon and Washington. In a multiparty system, what incentivizes them from not just declaring independence? At least by forcing them into Democrats or Republicans, they become unified with the rest of their party country-wide.
This designer gets surprising brand briefs from GPT-3 and makes them real
You cannot protect yourself from copycats, and if somebody says he can, he is a fraud.

I worked in, and around OEM consumer electronics since 2007.

A much bigger problem why you need a lawyer to run just any physical business in USA, is because of militant litigation from pretty much everybody:

1. Consumers, some time legit, some times BS, and BS litigations hurt the most. You either hire a lawyer to write "Do not try to operate the gas stove with your genitals," or you simply cannot survive with nonsensical body of law covering product liability.

Not saying that genuine screwups on your side can not be equally painful. A recall is usually the end of any non-MNC company in the industry.

2. Suppliers, and not in the way you usually expect. IP supplier-trolls at large. The moment somebody sells a single widget of yours in US, US judges believe they can apply American IP laws wherever you are in the world, and entitle trolls to your international revenue. It does not fly much anywhere in the world, but they have unlimited amount of tricks to lure you into US courtrooms.

3. Government bodies, again, some times legit, some times not. Tons of codes, and some well known vague, and contradictory regulations especially covering radio certification, and electrical safety.

It's not like they are hard to follow, but it is the authorities in charge which themselves don't know what their rules mean, and don't want to tell even if compelled to.

However, the biggest regulatory hurdle in US is much more about simply running the company as such. Militant IRS, labour related litigation, securities (just don't run a corporation in the US under any circumstance.)

4. Your own distributors. In what country a buyers of yours can not only owe you money, be overdue on the payment, and sue you for demanding them back? Yes, you know the answer. From my experience, it is extremely hard to exact payments from debtors in USA, and big co clients routinely exploit it every day.
It should, but it'll cost more, because proper wood and construction costs money (surprise!).

I bought a secondhand oak coffee table, heavy and chunky, and I have no clue how old it is; could be 20, could be 70, we may never know. But buying something like that new would cost hundreds, probably.
"If you are successful, you will be copied and the copies will take your sales. You need a way to prevent this and that is "intellectual property" or "IP". This is a catch all term for an exclusive license from the government to sell something you created."

Generally, you can't grant an exclusive license to rights that you do not own. The author's definition of "intellectual property" would appear to have the government owning exclusive rights to sell anything eligible for intellectual property protection.

Sometimes, as a condition to receiving some form of financial support from the government, you might automatically assign rights to them. Obviously not all "intellectual property" is created with governmental support.

Internet authors frequently try to explain intellectual property incorrectly, but this is one of the more intersting incorrect definitions I have seen.

Patents, trademarks and copyrights do not grant a license to sell anything. They do provide rights to sue others.
I wish Plethora had a solid docker-compose available officially because the current installation method is not great.
I disagree. Sure there are two parties but there is quite a spectrum of ideas throughout.

I actually believe that a larger issue is both sides being unable to have a conversation. I get my news and someone else gets their news and when we try to talk we find that we don't even have the same facts to start from. Imagine not being able to talk to half of your country? Your neighbors?
History of Opposition to Universal Basic Income
"more modern of the ancient oppositions to direct cash relief may come from the intentional misinformation of the Speenhamland System. This misinformation would have repercussions so severe, that even Marx himself would come to oppose direct cash relief."
I'm getting the same issues as all of the other Firefox users. Guess I'll never watch it, because I have a hard policy of never, ever installing Chrome malware on my personal computer.

Maybe the title should be changed to "Chrome demo"?
Asking "dumb" questions is sometimes a good quality in an interviewer. But beyond that, I agree.

2 other things in his favor:

- no one else was interviewing these people before Lex Freidman. AFAIK.

- He does a decent job of not getting stuck too much in the weeds. Though sometimes I wish he was more technically inclined and could.
I had an Amiga 500 in Spain. You could see them in some stores, but I did never met anyone else who owned one.
His content and his guests are so interesting that I don't care what his voice sounds like. His interviews are in my opinion to the point and strips away a lot of the irrelevant noise that more "charismatic" speakers add to interviews.
You aren’t giving me (software nerd, not quant) enough to latch onto to either agree, to disagree, or even to learn something new.

If you have time, I’d suggest reading the following, and — if you feel like it — rephrasing your argument: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Inferential_distance
What's your concept of regional here?

For physical goods, we have ditched self-sufficiency a long time ago. Your government might sustain emergency reserves for grain, food or oil and gas but even that lasts only a few weeks. Here is what Germany has stockpiled for emergencies for example: [0][1][2].

Mutual dependency does not have to be a bad thing either. It keeps both sides from doing stupid things (assuming a balanced level of dependency in both directions).

[0] (german) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesreserve_Getreide
[1] (german) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zivile_Notfallreserve
[2] (german) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategische_%C3%96lreserve
Why should you define your own organizational framework as startup founder?
https://anyforsoft.com/blog/what-digital-experience-platform...
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> I say to them: ‘Come on the journey with us to what’s coming next in the reduced-calorie segment.'

If there was a contest for the least appealing appeal ever, this would be pretty high up there. Anybody up for joining the "reduced-calorie segment"?
In my experience the opposite is true in construction today, at least where I live.

Everyone lives in fear of something with more wrath than a god. Liability.

Because of this they are not willing to do anything even slightly outside of code, and any decision that needs making is a phone call to the engineer rather than making the call on the job.

This slows everyone down as nobody is keen to actually be the one with responsibility. The engineeer who feels the same way also make sure that everything is overspecced to all hell to make extra cirtain that they won’t be liable for anything failing.
Jesus, no one cares what your "policy" is.

Not to mention, it's a Firefox bug, so probably should be changed to "Firefox bug demo".

I fucking hate how snarky sometimes HN can be.
Totally agree. I can't watch the demo run because I'm on Firefox, and I have no desire to watch a video for the reasons you described. And the world keeps spinning, I guess.
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You're right of course, I just mean that it makes it a bit verbose and error-prone to write in full "(i >> (32 - shift)) | (i << shift))". I need to triple check that I'm not off-by-one and that all the operators are in the right direction every time I write this. If you had rotation operators like, say, "<|" you could write "i <| shift" instead and that'd be a lot nicer to read and write IMO.
Buy wood or metal pieces if you want IKEA purchases to last. I appreciate how IKEA iterates and value engineers the hell out of their products. Though ultimately if they care about sustainability, they need to settle on a series of perennial designs and have a viable parts system to support repairs.
This seems to be an example of management paying a lot of money for some expensive third party to come in, and tell them something that all the line employees already know.
That is so weird - same here, sound keeps playing ~1-2 min after tab is closed. Must be bug in Firefox? How does that happen?
For context, imagine if a trove of whatsapp chat messages from inside the Clinton presidential campaign in 2016 revealed they most of the paid employees hated her so much that they were sabotaging her campaign and diverting money to down ballot races. This is effectively what happened in the UK in 2017.
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English Heritage sounds a lot like heritage in Ireland, where a heritage officer can make your home worthless (or worth literally less than nothing!) on a whim.

Worked out handily for me, buying a 200+ year old cottage for less than the cost of the land, but I've been DIY'ing everything but the thatching.

Horrible, awful for the previous owners who saw at _least_ €100,000 knocked off the value of their house.

Edit: to give context, I bought it for far less than €100k, meaning the site lost most of its value.
Just watch the attached video?...
Not being willfully obtuse, but there's a lot more than a KB of code on that YouTube page. To me it feels like the difference between watching a movie on 35mm vs DVD.
I, for one, liked the "firefox version" of the demo. No way to close, mute or go back. And after a minute someone starts talking to you. Pretty cool.