skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the distant past (2009 or so), podcast://… would open in iTunes or similar, being equivalent to http://xn--rvg. So you’d have something like podcast://example.com/podcast.xml. I haven’t the foggiest idea whether this still works, or how HTTPS might have been integrated or not.
Well, there is still the point of crossing the million and having a more expensive next year as a consequence, my bad!
Favorite Antarctica story:

October 2018 – On 9 October 2018, a stabbing occurred at the Bellingshausen Station (станция Беллинсгаузен), a Russian research station on King George Island.[18] The perpetrator was Sergey Savitsky (Сергей Савицкий), a 54-year-old electrical engineer.[19] He stabbed Oleg Beloguzov (Олег Белогузов), a 52-year old welder, in the chest[19] multiple times.[20] According to some sources, the attack occurred because Beloguzov was giving away the endings of books that Savitsky checked out at the station's library.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Antarctica
No... you dont understand the analogy. Once its too hot, you don't jump out, you are already cooked. Thats the whole point.
Happy owner of Librem 15v3 here. Their quality was not perfect from the beginning, which negatively influenced their reputation. However AFAIK they solved practically all problems with the hardware. Also Librem 14 looks amazing!
As an engineer, I'm hard pressed to think of better than Ubuntu on Thinkpads for the engineering staff. Are there any startups doing this?

Shuttleworth needs to invest in MDM. He'd make a killing.

In the distant future, I think we'll all be using thin clients, editing code in the cloud. Microsoft clearly wants that pie if you look at what they're doing with VS Code and Github. If that's where we wind up, then the base OS and machine specs don't really matter much.
Also, how much of the Intel performance was kneecapped by Apple's insufficient cooling? On a laptop with the same Intel chip, but with a proper cooling system that doesn't peg the CPU to 100C instantly, I bet a lot of the performance gap would vanish.

Of course that doesn't take away the M1's superiority, just that the performance measurement is meaningless when the Intel CPU is constantly throttling at 100C.
Hard to argue with any of his points, I've felt the same way about the state of Mac hardware and software for even longer. The software quality has been on a slow but sure slide for well over a decade at this point. The quality of Catalina is not good. Recently I've been using it more and have regular system crashes. There are serious bugs in the kernel. Big Sur looks like another step down in polish and quality. "More iOS" is simply bad strategy for a desktop operating system. I want a tool for professional work, not a locked down and dumbed down entertainment appliance.

10-15 years back, paying the premium for an Apple system got you a premium product. And back then, the premium was not excessive for the gain in hardware build quality and the software. Today, that is no longer the case. The value proposition is just not there. You're paying very inflated amounts of money for mediocre performance, nice looking but sorely limited hardware, and bad quality software.
All this outcry obviously without mentioning Starlink is only visible for 1-2 hours after sunset...
In US, I find that OSM maps are the best when it comes to backcountry. Google maps have the major hiking trails, for example - but when you see the same area in OSM, there's a lot more connecting trails etc, and it also marks swamps and other terrain features.

(Apple and Bing maps are even worse than Google in that regard.)
The problem is a battery engineer can't seem to explain this to people here who are ostensibly smart people, though that does somewhat go out of the window when apple is the subject it seems. How on earth could they be expected to explain this to everyone?
This is flat-out false. It's true that many games on Steam use DRM of some kind (either through Steam itself or a third party) but there are many others that don't, and can be used with no restrictions once you download them with the Steam client.

This page is just a quick Google away: https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
What I miss in modern games is the unique textures that old games have. Just lookup "Sacrifice" game on steam. There's so much post-processing crap in modern games that it sucks out all the life from a game.
Jupyter for .NET. “Like Python”
Do you have a source for Steam's rates? From what I can find by searching, it seems to be 30%, going down to 25 or 20% for more popular games.
I'd say that tailwinds only works if the designer is on board or if you are not working on pixel perfect specs.
>>The books (and maybe exercises) slightly differ to the US prints to keep control of the market.

No.

They are mostly a little low quality books in terms of paper quality, photo graph color etc. Every thing else is the same.

I buy a lot of books as I stay in India. US publishers partner with local publishers and get it printed and sold for cheap.
Keep remembering and reminding people, please. Also the political backers, including the new president-elect and many of the talking heads currently employed by the "left" side of the media spectrum. I know they're considered good guys now, but they did much worse than the current crop of bad guys ever managed.

David Frum, Bill Kristol, Nicole Wallace, and General Michael Hayden are now MSNBC and #resist heroes. James Clapper and John Brennan are on CNN payroll as talking heads. At least the orange guy and his particular complicit press never passed a Patriot Act, didn't start any warrantless kidnapping/detainment/torture/execution programs, or mass surveillance programs against their own people, and didn't start any wars. More than I can say for NYT, CNN, et al.

The "official" outlets are populated by former CIA/NSA/FBI, and similar people with a documented history of lying (even to Congress) to protect abuses of constitutional and even human rights. In that context it's very hard to trust ANY information source, especially algorithmically. I don't know how to write a program that recognizes these people who were liars yesterday are now the good guys.

So yes, please keep remembering and remind people. Large parts of the current problem rest on a bed of forgetfulness.
Warm water port + not wanting a NATO country within driving distance of Moscow. Same reason why Russia is heavily invested in maintaining its hegemony over Belarus.
what is the golden rule?
I really agree with your point that you need to have a way to know what to believe and that there are serious blind spots.

But I think a small, un-elite media is exactly where the problem is right now. All these blogs and YouTube channels that wants to spread the truth, then discover you can make money pushing conspiracy, have actually been crowding out actual journalistic organizations that have actual reporters.

To me, they are the spiritual successors of the small journals which would have great original reporting on local labor or environmental issues and would also casually report on medical myths and other pet causes of the authors.

I'm not sure what the answer is though and I think you're making some great points here.
CDK for Terraform - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
> What this means is having everything which lends itself to monopoly to democratic control, not private control, and to work together to make democratic control as efficient, localized and legitimate as possible.

How do you feel about the perspective that democracies allow the majority (or plurality) to force their values on the rest of us?

How do you feel about the notion that the rich and powerful are well acquainted with the techniques used to manipulate democratic systems (such as the double bind)?

> Technology and interconnection is kinda neutral here, it has helped to raise awareness of the problems but has also helped to spread misinformation and lies by the likes of Prager U And their ilk

I agree that technology is value-neutral. my perspective is that just as its easier to spread misinformation, its also easier to compare different accounts of the truth and attempt to check them for consistency. If there had been social media in the 20s its likely that the Illinois Radium Girls may have heard about the legal proceedings in New Jersey, or possible that they would have heard about the dangers of radium (which were known in medical and scientific circles at the time).
I just wish somebody made a desktop port of OsmAnd. I'd pay for that.
Data does stay on iOS devices after deletion via keychain, and if the developer so chooses, they can sync your data at all times on their server to make sure it never, ever, goes away.

There is a rich tradition of extracting private information off of mobile devices. It's one reason why free apps are pushed more than equivalent websites all the time (ex: reddit, imgur) , because the dataset for adtech is far more richer. Some databases and system APIs are under a user alerted permission, but that isn't unique to an app store or review, it's an OS implementation detail. Same with sandboxing apps.

You have little access over running a network filter on iOS devices, and apple has had a history of rejecting VPNs that act as so.

You can still have all that you put on your list, but without an app store.
Well, reality is not static, what's laughable today may be very reasonable tomorrow.
EU generally would like to play ball with the US as long as the relationship is palatable predictable stable and generally cooperative.
But a strong EU and an unpredictable, bullish and erratic behaviour by certain US presidents, might change this.
Google explains Kubernetes with a comic
I've been working on something like this on and off for the past 4 years or so, although with something more like generators than streams.

I think it's a very, very promising idea (I admit to heavily being biased towards anything APL-influenced) although surprisingly difficult to get right. Gilad Bracha is obviously way smarter than me so I'm definitely curious where he goes with this.

One additional idea that I keep trying to make work is integrating variations of (constraint) logic programming and treating solutions to a predicate as a generator or stream that operations can be lifted to rank-polymorphically. As a simple example a range function could be defined and used like (imaginary illustrative syntax)

range(n,m,x) :- n <= x, x <= m

primesUpto(n) = range(2,n,r), # create a generator containing all solutions wrt r
mask(not(contains(outerProduct(*, r, r), r)), r) # as in the video

I've never really gotten this to work nicely and it always feels like there's a sort of separation between the logic world and the array world. However this feels incredibly powerful, especially as part of some sort of database, so I keep returning to it even though I'm not really sure it goes anywhere super useful in the end.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/received-my-librem-5-evergreen/1087...

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque... (see also other questions there)
Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent
The mainstream media is a trustworthy source regarding election fraud and Antifa's terrorist activities? And "Breitbart are a disgusting organization whose aim is misinformation"?

It's not so much that the main stream media outlets lie about facts. They misrepresent them because they have a bias and a specific opinion on matters that it's so obvious to anyone that isn't on the left. Which is why people flock to other sources such as Breitbart, which at the very least, spins and interprets the events/info with a right-leaning worldview.

The overarching problem is that journalism has become a forum of opinion rather than facts + helping readers understand complex topics by digesting it for them. And it's no wonder we're becoming polarized, because we pick the "opinion" we like, rather than being given the facts and going with it, regardless from which source we get it.
I would love to know more about PyTorch, and also about external GPUs (Radeon, on Intel Macs).

I seem to remember PyTorch being mentioned somewhere,
cannot find it now, but remain hopeful.

EGPUs are out of the picture for M1, but is there a chance one would soon work for ML on an Intel Mac? I'm guessing not, but would be a nice bonus.
I am heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem: MBP, iPhone, iPad, tons of apps. But I’ve decided I’m out. Ryzen-based machines have caught up; Windows has caught up; and I’m willing to give the Linux desktop the benefit of the doubt again. Every new macOS release I feel more and more boiled to death, more locked in, more exploited than before. Even the eyecandy, which was what I loved OSX from the very first release, is now utterly terrible and getting worse release after release.

I was happy to pay a premium for a premium platform, but this is not what I’ve been getting in the last 5 years - what I’ve been getting is a support role to the iPhone ecosystem that is the alpha and the omega of Apple’s strategy, and more and more restrictions to satisfy this role. Obviously this is good for them, but it just isn’t for me, so I’m out.
Well, but if you need to define the gradient, curl and divergence and every term in the equations, the typical representation would be more than 20 lines. So I think that it's a fair comparison.
This entire story reminded me on "Flash of Genius" true story about Robert William Kearns engineer, educator and inventor who invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Biy-okZ0l8
Well yeah, but the thread so far was referring to military threats.
But the word master has multiple meanings, only one of them is related to slavery. The fact that all the homonyms are tainted by just one possible meaning is strange and reductive.

Master has cognates in romance languages to mean school professor or music lead. Removing a entire cognate root from discourse because of one of its realization makes the language poorer inmho.
GANs and computers are mirrors of the engineer's mind. You can only get out some combination of the trained data set and user input.

Huamns can produce novel artworks that a computer cannot, usually with more control over the intagibles like creativity and the fundamentals like drawing and perceiving the world.
Also worth mentioning that the most common kind of window over here is hinged, not double-hung. Meaning you can actually open them to create a gap of 100% of their area, not <= 50%.
It is not whether you need a database or not. It is "how configurable/dynamic things should be". More configurability usually means more power to your users and more pain to maintain the software. So I usually go to the least amount of configurability and then add things when required.
The same goes for abstractions (you often need more of them when things becomes more configurable)
> I've recently started designing a really cheap atomic force microscope, which I plan to open-source, so I think that may be a valuable addition to the bio and nanotech diy community.

I hope you do
Of course Feynman had something to say about this:

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

I knew this intuitively at a very young age, which made me a poor public school student. Unfortunately, there are some subjects that are easy to learn on your own, and some that are only easy with a good teacher. Biology is one of the latter. However, that may be different these days.
No, it does not. It pays better than a lot of scientists in the wet lab, however.

I have to do contract work as a data engineer (which pays about 60% more hourly than my bioinfo job) so I can live a decent life.

Biotech pays people like dumb-fuck children when you account for the amount of education required. Damn, it is interesting, though, which is what keeps me here.

End goal is to have my own company in biotech, which is why I contract to build up a nest egg for eventual entrepreneurial pursuits.

Many people with PhD’s in computational bio/bioinformatics in HCOL areas are bringing in <130k/year. It’s really bad.
From other threads, Steam lets developers generate steam codes for free, and sell them elsewhere; it only gets its cut if the sale happens on Steam.

They also don't have a history of making inconsistent review decisions that seem to be business oriented rather than customer oriented. I'm sure there's some examples, but most of the publicized removals have been for things like totally broken in unfun ways games, and games where a totally different game was published in the same slot. Often, customers get refunded for purchases when things like that happen.

I think Steam has also earned a fair amount of goodwill by not being as terrible as most other game download services, but maybe that's just my perspective.
I don't see how: awk is almost completely, but not entirely, unlike sql. The thing I would foremost like is an easier way to handle multiple file input; then you could join the result any way you want.
[...] Or if the great photos you have of your friends got sent to them automatically.

I know that's just an example but I'd literally never want this to happen and the fact that this is a cherry-picked feature used as promotion is worrying to me.
That is definitely changing in credit risk and underwriting as well. There are several companies like [1] applying deep neural nets to the credit risk problem. This on top of a lot of in house work in the big banks to “supplement” what is available on the open market

[1] https://zest.ai/
I'll vote to increase our defense spending to 2% once the US decreases its to 2%.
We all know that Cisco equipment has already been compromised by the NSA.

Given where it is manufactured it’s reasonable to assume Cisco kit is compromised by both US and China. Whereas Huawei is only compromised by China.
the 'clear' button doesn't work on firefox :(
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A practical guide on validating project ideas using Reddit
My team validates startup ideas using Reddit. It has 1.5B visits a month, so it can be fast and accurate.

With this approach, we launched 5 projects, including a "cash cow" Email Verification Add-on and a recently launched micro-saas Silent Inbox.

Here is how I research subreddits and evaluate them for ideas validation.

- When I have an idea to validate I write down at least 5 keywords related to it. Example terms I used last week: “meditation”, “breathwork”, “breathing technique”, “anxiety”, “stress”. Enter one keyword at a time into the search bar and it will give you a list of subreddits where your keyword is mentioned.

- Find at least 5 subreddits with people who discussed your topic. Make a copy of my spreadsheet [1]. And collect information about the number of readers. Pro tip: don't waste your time on subreddits with less than 10K readers.

- Go to Related Subreddits by User Overlap [2]. You need to check every subreddit you found by searching your terms to get more ideas on when your potential audience is hanging out.

- Read posts within each subreddit to see if people might be interested in your project. Add subjective relevance to the spreadsheet, where 10 is for super relevant subreddit.

- Once all numbers are added to the spreadsheet, sort your list of subreddits based on the Score it calculates for you.
Congrats, now you are ready to pick the most relevant subreddits, plan content, write a title, research the best time to post, etc.

If you're keen to learn more about the topic, check out our guide https://guide.opryshok.com on validating project ideas using Reddit.

Resources

[1] Reddit Evaluation Spreadsheet by Ryan Luedecke https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IjgpzGBgZF9L9dVKkUrC7tE_AkPErApK_fJazsTNIP4/edit#gid=0

[2] Related Subreddits by User Overlap https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps
Because the only people who use Steam are those who are happy with it. People that don't like Steam can use the Microsoft Store, Epic Store, Origin, GOG, the Ubisoft Store, buy physical copies, etc. so they probably just do that instead of complaining about Steam. And the same goes to publishers, in fact many of those stores were created by publishers that weren't happy with Steam's cut.
The A-10 (or equivalent) is highly effective against tanks so it would probably come down to air superiority which the Russians would probably win easily against anyone not (china or US)
It's succinct and relevant. What do you suggest is better?
I wonder why no one tries to colonize Antarctica as a stepping stone for future space colonization. We can test and develop our greenhouse and energy tech there. E.g. create a colony that gets all its energy from solar and uses it to grow greenhouse plants supplying most if not all of its food.
It’s just a catchy phrase to help evoke the right emotion and make you remember the framework, which I think it does a good job at. It made sense to me at least in the context of reading about the framework, and besides no single hyphenated term is going to accurately describe a technical system.
Add the word "review" to your search queries. Often, single author articles just review history and current state of the art.
Surely I can't be the only one that tried to paint a penis to see how it went.
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> For decades, developers were able to create and distribute their software, whether free or for a fee, to anyone with a PC or laptop.

But if you wanted to get paid, whether by going through a distributor or building your own payment- and billing system, it would cost you way more than just 15% (especially if you factor in the lost time dealing with all that).

Global distribution, sales support and payment, for just 15%, that’s possibly the best deal that’s ever been available to developers.
I really hate to sound negative but all a former VP (or was it SVP?) at Google and an ex-CEO of Yahoo could come up for a startup idea is a new and improved contacts app.
He's right, but it's also hard. He wants to be amazed, but being amazed also depends on your interest and level of knowledge at the time. And also the approach and skill of the teacher. In my age I've learned that I'm a pretty bad teacher, and I can tell most people are really bad at it also. Even if you're a good teacher, in a class of 20, your approach will not be optimal for all: some will not understand, for some it will be too easy and boring, and for some it will be just right.

His complaint about calculating the surface of a triangle is fair, but actually I do remember that in 5th/6th grade we had to derive things like the height of an even sided triangle give the length of the side, and subsequently the surface. But the Pythagorean theorem was kind of just given. Is there a way to provide a proof that children will understand and thus understand better in general? I think that's really non trivial (and I hope people are working on it).
They’d still have a long ways to go to even get back what they had as the USSR. Russia isn’t the soviet union but in time they could be or they could be a US Ally someday. Imagine a world where the US and Russia were on great terms... China would be very unhappy with that.
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Friendship rhetorics between EU and US is not rare, it's the norm.
Nations can be friendly.