skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both.

There’s “inflight entertainment” where all the movies/shows are indeed stored locally on the plane, with either seatback or custom/white label streaming app for BYOD.

But in addition they were advertising streaming Netflix and YouTube over the satellite WiFi.
There are, with many more examples historically.

Konkani in the Devanagari script is an official language of India & the state language of Goa - while Christian Konkanis (a sizable proportion of the population) prefer to write it in the Latin script.

Kashmiri Pundits used the Sharda script, while Muslim Kashmiris wrote it in the Persian script.

Historically, the picture is more complicated. People were familiar with multiple scripts, and shifted across them based on context and jargon. For example, when the British took Sindh from the Nawab, they found the natives writing the same language in multiple scripts. The administration of the erswhile Nawab worked in Persian, while merchants used Khudabadi, a landa script related to Gurmukhi. They found that women in the home preferred the Devanagari script, as did the priestly class. Since the British were most concerned with the needs of the Persianate clerks, they mandated that Sindhi only in the Persian script would be taught in schools. You will find similar situations across India, with people adopting scripts geared towards the audience they were writing to, rather than an exclusive formalized script unique to a language. Literate Medieval Indian would be fluent in multiple languages and scripts, and combined them in interesting ways.

On a tangent, I recall an argument by Bhagat Singh that the different languages of India should adopt a common script to foster unity - Devanagari in his opinion.
Hi! I'm interested in Robotics SWE (controls, trajectory/motion planning, etc) roles at Boston Dynamics. I don't see any particularly good matches on the careers site but maybe you have additional insight. I'm coming from the controls/software team at Makani (former Google X project).
Discovery aside (not a big deal for me personally, most recent recommendations have come from HN & channels I already watched) you can just 'subscribe' with some other tool, and download or watch on youtubenocookie, or just use the site not logged in?

I suppose it just depends what you're trying to achieve by 'degoogling'.
The point isn't for people to read these things once and then take drastic measures. It's to slowly build up awareness of alternative services and the number of people who choose them. It's a lot easier to ignore one lonely person calling for something than it is to ignore a thousand.
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>It’s definitely unlikely but as someone who’s often guilty of only reading the headlines I’m uncomfortable with it presenting something as fact like this.

If only actual serious political newssites "facts" were as solid as this "mere" prediction that the event will be about Apple Silicon.
My memory from some introductory classes in African Studies from the mid-aughts has any relevancy here. The standard narrative at the time was that the Colonial investments in Africa, as a rule, involved building infrastructure to connect the interiors to the cost in the colony. The consequence of this is that post-colonial economies do not get to leverage this investment for inter-country trade. Imagine trade from Chicago to New York _requiring_ routing through the Mississippi up the coast to the port of New York. From a cursory look over the waterways of Africa, I am seeing similar features (interior > coast without much cross country coverage). At the end of the day we're all outsiders to this field, but I do wonder whether focusing on the presence / length without the connectivity overlay is missing a key component.
As another commenter noted, the key is to have your own domain. Get that set up, then forward all of Gmail to your new domain and mail provider. If you are deeply dependent on Gmail, this transition can take years to finally pull the plug on it.

The best time to do this was yesterday, but the second best is right now!

It's not gonna get better otherwise.
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The 16inch MBP has replaced pretty much every laptop at work this year. I know we were holding off because nobody wanted the old keyboard. These will last 3+ years, so Apple have some time to screw around and get software updated while companies stick with old hardware. I hope they announce when they will stop making intel MBPs, as that is the real date when Apple silicon becomes real for most people.
Except that lots of forests have terrible soil with low pH , low carbon, very low nutrient levels and are actually quite difficult for things to grow in.
I think you've misunderstood my question.

> The type of muscles in your heart are quite different from the types of muscle in your hands.

Yes, but cardio doesn't solely use cardiac muscle.

What I was trying to get at was that when doing cardio, you are using the muscles in your legs and/or upper body, albeit at a lower intensity than when strength training. GP seemed to be implying that because writing is a continuous, repetitive strain, that it is a purely degradative action. But my point was that cardio can be described in the same way and has clear benefits for muscle health.

Therefore, my question was really whether the problem is the fact that writing is done for long periods with little recovery or more to do with people holding their pens in a weird way, or something. Put more generally, an issue of form.
I think this article brings up an important problem wrt how people interpretation what “liberal” means.

Liberal != Left

> It's confusing because we tend to use them interchangeably in the US. But as far as the true meaning of the terms:

Classical Liberalism: the early form of liberalism popularized in the 1700s. strongly rooted in individual liberty in both social and economic matters. Opposes the idea of a strong activist government and believes in the free market economy and and believes strongly in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc. U.S. Libertarians are often a good example of a "classical liberal".

social liberalism: A more modern form of liberalism. They generally believe in many of the same values: (market capitalism, individual liberty) but differ in the fact that they believe the government has more of a role in ensuring the market allocates resources fairly and making market corrections were the free market fails (social welfare, environmental regulation, etc.) they also tend to see more of a role for government in protecting people's liberty (lgbt protections etc.) Many mainstream Democrats are social liberals.

Leftist: Generally have adopted the term Progressive in the US. They mainly differ from social liberals in that they believe the free market system is inherently flawed to favor the rich and powerful and believe that the government should either work within the framework of the market system but heavily regulate it and pay for more social services and welfare through higher taxation on the rich and corporations (social democracy) or abandon the free market all together in favor of socialism. There are not really in mainstream figures in the US that are true socialist, but "progressive" figures in the US such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders (even though he calls himself a democratic socialist) tend to favor some form of social democracy.[1]

[1] Taken from Reddit, but you can confirm it on wiki. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ask_Politics/comments/6xlxpa/commen...
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The VPN term repurposing is so weird. There's no PN about this kind of setup.
Personal anecdote, software engineer/techie for 25+yrs:

I never react immediately. Unless directly affected by an event, I accumulate information over time and it will influence my decision making. Reacting is too disruptive to my own life, and those of the people I support (e.g. family.) Would an article like this make my family change? No. Many don't care; most don't understand the impact on themselves.

My De-Googling has started with my browser. Moved all my open tabs and bookmarks to Firefox, took some time to settle in, now I avoid Chrome except to debug frontend code. Email? I have a Gmail account that I use for all my personal things, so I need to find something else and migrate my usage (and maybe archive my Gmail account so I can search it.) I haven't been creative enough to find a domain name for personal (and family) use. I've been paying for G Suite (for email only) on a business domain, so I need to find something else (and maybe archive the inboxes ...)

There's friction. I'm busy. I'm lazy. I know there's a chance I could suddenly lose access for no reason on the free account.
Its a slow crawl for me.

I practically removed everything Chrome in my life. I never was much of a desktop user, but I used their Android app out of convenience and have gone 100% Firefox.

I stopped using Google Search and instead use Bing for most things... yeah yeah I know, one demon for another, but Microsoft Rewards have saved me some measurable cash so far and I have pretty much isolated my Microsoft life from any other online personas.

I'm starting to eyeball moving away from Gmail more and more as these stories show up. I've had my own domain for years now and have my incoming mail forwarded to gmail. It won't be hard to migrate that end of things.

I don't see myself ever dropping Android, but I'm not going to be replacing my Pixel with another one. I'll probably go towards something less "high end" and just root it for my next phone.

I think my experience is the same as many. Its not an all or nothing thing, its about gradual, manageable changes that happen over time.
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I use it because it blocks ads and it isn't Google Chrome, meaning no forced logins, not much BS except for the rewards which I disabled and hidden. I can also block scripts with two taps. Didn't know it had a VPN. On the desktop I use FF, on mobile the UI is quite underwhelming.
A startup I was with in 1999 was owned by a guy who build a super scrappy local isp who sold out to a big co which then sold out to cable.

However the startup was all built on oracle and sun boxes because "this is what investors want to see" and we'll get .80 on the dollar if we have to liquidate. We had some nimrod spend 8 months trying to get oracle to run on bare drives for our 100 tps (max) website.

They refused to let us use mysql or linux even tho the owner was very familliar with them from the ISP.

I think we spent 3x headcount on the hardware and software, eg we could have run for another 2 years had we been more scrappy. Not that the business idea was all that good.

We also got .3 on the dollar iirc.
> - Racial and gender equality in recruitment, compensation, and promotion.

You're going to have to show that it's a problem, because it doesn't seem to be.
I had a laptop with a really bad trackpad and I was usually too lazy to throw a mouse in my bag, and wound up with a wild X-Monad and Vimperator setup to do almost everything from keyboard. Every now and then I think about returning to something like that setup, though so far I rarely have quite the same ergonomic needs as that cheap laptop and its terribly bad trackpad.
>At the end of the day, any form of score voting would be a MASSIVE improvement over the status quo

Yeah, I think we're both of one mind. I just find the math (or logic) behind these voting methods interesting. And it is somewhat important.

>Yes, there are cases when STAR does not elect the condorcet winner. Of course, you could always add condorcet on top, and use STAR as the fallback. But you can do that for any system — basically all of which fail to elect the condorcet winner in some edge case — so it's not a particularly interesting insight

I think the interesting part of my work in these threads is that the non-condorcet winner example for RCV is much easier to produce than the non-condorcet winner example for STAR. The RCV version only takes 3 candidates, while the STAR version takes ~25 candidates. While this could be a failure of our ability to find scenarios where the non-condorcet winner is elected, I believe it says more about how resistant these systems are to the spoiler effect, which, in essence, is where a non-condorcet winner is elected.

I really like the idea of overlaying STAR and approval voting to show that STAR's expressiveness makes a big difference and I think your example is pretty realistic overall. But I have some issue with it as well. I made an assumption about voters in my example that you didn't make, which is that voters will try to impart their own will as much as possible. This means always using the 5 star vote in the STAR method. I thought this was a sane assumption to make about voters and that only using the 4 slot (never bubbling in 5 star) would be irrational. I think I could make a much less complicated example if I dropped this assumption. Also, I kinda feel uneasy about the cut off, but I'm not sure how to improve it. I just imagine that if a voter had any slight preference of one candidate over another, they would indicate that in the approval method.

>Approval is leaving information about those preferences on the table (edit: as is condorcet!).

How would a condorcet election leave out expressiveness? I think expressiveness is subjective and hard to define. I might've simplified analysis of these schemes by assuming that a condorcet winner system had the ultimate expressiveness (assuming there is a condorcet winner).

>A condorcet winner doesn't exist, if there is a circular relationship:

I meant a condorcet winner will be elected if it exists.

I think the biggest problem with STAR voting is that these stars are kinda hard to reason with. What exactly does it mean if I give a candidate 4 or 5 stars? What affect will that have on the election? RCV might be more complicated, I'm not sure, but it's a lot easier to understand as it's easier to rank your favorite candidates. This really comes down to preference though and it's where I kinda checkout because it can lead to some really tedious arguments. They're all good. It would be great to see STAR in action in Eugene!
How does one bid on these data lots?
I know there are browser fans who have a preference of UI or companies etc etc, but the answer to the question of why so many people choose to fork Chromium to make their browser distro is solely based on the fact that it's technically the best browser engine out there and to fork anything else would be putting you at an immediate disadvantage compared to forking Chromium, so you'd start with the best and then extend it from there.
Or rather who went all-in on Google only to de-Google now. I would struggle to de-Google myself since I have been trying to stay away from Google for a long time already.
I don’t get any crypto banners when I go to nytimes.com in Brave.
Except that's not quite true, many forest soils are actually quite poor and the trees that grow there would grow much better in other, different soils. e.g many forest soils are much more acidic than ideal for tree growth.
Perhaps they can cut personal sponsorship deals, as they'll be getting so much more airtime in future

/jk
Anyone know of a decent alternative to Google Photos? That is my last hold out
And yet the site has Clearbit according to UBlock Origin.

Talk about hypocritical.

https://help.clearbit.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015659148-Wha...
It’s a resolution problem if you want to measure something within 1s, which is fairly tame and reasonable.

Like, let's say you’re measuring the time between two events, and you’re logging a stream of them. If you use Unix timestamp, the timer will jump during a leap second.

This is because a day in Unix time is always exactly 86,400 “seconds”, but an actual civil day may be from 86,399 to 86,401 seconds. (It has never been 86,399 seconds, but it “could” be.)

So you should probably be using TAI. UTC is theoretically good enough but it is inconvenient to use because of the leap seconds. Unix time is a bit broken.

It is actually very easy to use TAI. You just need a GPS receiver. TAI is a fixed offset from GPS time (TAI = GPS + 19 seconds).
On the one hand, the rampant cheating really is destroying the value of getting a degree. On the other hand, though, students are often forced to take classes which provide little or no value to their academic enrichment or future life / career. I've known students who had great aptitude for their main set of courses, but have been held up because of these mandatory courses. For exammple, nursing students who were expected to pass fairly advanced math classes, but were unable to. This is a loss for all of us, as they would likely make good nurses. Can you blame them if they cheat on classes like this so that they can focus on the classes that really matter to them?
Either train more with bald players, or do better at choosing the 'thing that is being converged upon'. Humans would be able to follow a game regardless of the shape or color of the ball's appearance.
Is PinePhone a valid replacement yet?

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
I don't know, I work in tech and I think FB,G,etc are pretty nasty. While they may have started out as a net-positve, I think the results are now a net-negative from advertising and/or social media centric companies. Apple maybe making us pay premiums for everything it sells, but I still think that's at least one or two tiers below the levels of evil from the others.
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What's the difference? Let me quote them directly:

"Oh, you're one of THOSE people." (What people?)

"Trump is not being impeached." (Simple to verify, not up for debate.)

"Biden is not Trump's opponent." (Didn't need to be questioned, but apparently it's also up for debate?)

"There is no truth." (Then what are we talking about?)

"You can't trust CNN." (But anyone with a YouTube account and a webcam is trustworthy.)

"Vindman is from Ukraine, so we don't know what his loyalties are." (You can't tell how trustworthy a person is based on where they were born. Textbook racism.)

"Watch the DOJ." (My spy van is in the shop and I lack a desire to confirm your biases.)

"I love you." (You can't cross a bridge after you've just burned it to the ground.)

The fact is, a person can only form correct beliefs if they test those beliefs in the crucible of reality. Sitting on the couch in some shit-smelling hoarder's hovel living off of your retirement is not a recipe for finding the truth.

Beliefs must have consequences, and as a consequence of their beliefs, they won't be seeing me alive again. It's really the least I can do. I'm not interested in playing a stooge for them to gleefully fling their ignorance at.
> What does a software developer make in California?

Yeah, not the best example to go with. If the numbers on HN are at all accurate, it's not uncommon for a FAANG employee to make more than a DOCTOR in North Carolina.
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