skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe those to whom the debt is owned won't get paid or won't get paid completely -- these debts aren't valid. Taking debt in someone elses name is immoral - especially when most of it public sector unions voting in those across the negotiating table.
Netflix works fine on my Kodi on Rpi 4. It has a plugin for widevine DRM and gets the required parts (keys?) from a chrome os image it downloads.
What kind of stat problems?

Also I used to love Python... Until I got a full time job and learned why static typing exists.
> Small government fetishists insist that left unfettered the flourishing market and voluntary charity would more than make up the resulting gap

I'm not making this claim. I'm making the claim that the government does not actually provide all the benefits you are assuming it does, so the "gap" you speak of, if it exists at all, is much smaller than you think it is.

I think most people simply aren't aware of how much inefficiency there is in government services or how much of their tax money does not actually go to benefit the people they think the government is helping.

If all we expected the government to do was to provide basic national defense (not aggressive foreign wars, just keep the US itself from being attacked), enforce basic common sense regulations (laws against obvious crimes like murder and regulations against obvious bad things like dumping toxic waste in rivers), and maintain basic public infrastructure (roads, bridges, public buildings, basic utilities, national parks), we would not have nearly as much inefficiency. The problem is that we expect the government to do much, much, much more than that, and the government does all those other things so inefficiently that, on net, it would be better if we left them to private entities.
There are wooden walkways imside but we had to pay a little to enter.
Start with what you do.

What am I bad at and needs to be done better? Fire yourself.

Hire someone who is good at it.

What are they bad at and needs to be done better?
Tactics retailers use to make us spend more – and how they harm the vulnerable
Slack is a lot better than Teams IMO, but it's hard to justify putting company stuff (like documentation and wikis) into a proprietary platform that could raise prices or disappear at any moment.

With Teams, if you're already under the MS umbrella, it's an easy sell.
I'd think most of IoT interfaces have some form of user-definable configuration. So most of the time it should be possible to make DNS user-configurable (hidden in some "advanced settings" area). Of course, it might lead to some more support calls eventually and requires a little more money (as in paid work) to implement, but you'd be playing nice and have a balanced compromise of default-hardcoded-DNS with an option to appease power users and/or orgs+corps, and you'd also avoid angry-me calling your support hotline and ranting at your people :P
How exactly would it be a cs breakthrough? Are you sure you understand what this does?
Also https://old.reddit.com/r/kitchenconfidential
I love philosophize this. Stephen West, the host, has a really interesting story too. Man was just bagging groceries and sick of his life, and that's how he got into philosophy.
"My credentials. I was a philosophy major at the University of Chicago, which is an Analytic program, where I tried to pursue Continental philosophy, and I have a master's from The New School, which is a Continental program, where I tried to pursue Analytic philosophy."

Why did you try to learn Continental philosophy in an Analytic program, and Analytic philosophy at a Continental program?

That sounds like a sure fire way to get the worst of both worlds.
> I'd say they "redefined" more than "defined"

Pretty much, and they did a pretty good job too.

It's kind of the difference between invention and innovation.

Apple certainly does invent things, but they are a superlative innovator.
Paul Graham must not be aware of how AirBnb causes greater homelessness https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/05/airbnb-ho...
A raspberry pi media centre obviously is not the simplest solution. But for someone who feels they just want a "dumb" tv and a box they can control, it's perfect. It's a good choice for those who can set it up and that get peace of mind and satisfaction from having a box that is on their side.
PARC was also bound to Xerox which had trouble seeing beyond its photocopier business.
Do any of you have any advice on staying healthy and avoiding any long-term harm from short periods of very low mobility? My wife and I face 6 months of jail time if we step out of our 8 sq. m / 86 sq. ft hotel room even once in 13 days' quarantine. (All travellers are quarantined. We've both had negative PCR tests before flying and negative IgM tests upon arrival, with another IgM test scheduled for this Wednesday. The 1st night of 14 was spent in another hotel, provided by the government.) We're in our early 40s and pretty healthy, walking at least 5 km every day in November, often more than 10 km.

The first 8 days of our 14 day travel quarantine have gone mostly fine, but I've noticed my muscle mass dropping rapidly, despite some isometric exercises and bodyweight squats in the shower.

There's about 2 feet between the foot of the bed and the wall, and 2 feet between the left side of the bed and the wall. Some of that space is taken by our luggage from spending all of November abroad. We've put as much as we can under the bed. We have no chairs in here. There's a writing surface attached to the wall at the foot of the bed that my wife uses for her laptop while working remotely. I work remotely while lying down on the bed, since my wife gets back problems much more easily than I do.

I'm aware of cardiovascular and gallstone risk from immobility and rapid fat loss. We thankfully brought 90 days' worth of multivitamins with us on our 30-day trip. (The government changed quarantine policy while we were away. We planned for this possibility, or the possibility of being stranded abroad for a few months, but were hoping to be able to spend our 14 days of quarantine at home. We're glad we planned ahead.)
Brown also has their students cellular telephone numbers. It's feasible that the University acquired/purchased their students geolocation history via their mobile providers.
You seem to be assuming that student loans are the only way to pay for that. In the past most of the money was given as grants rather than loans.
> UBI

I'm skeptical of UBI. The idea doesn't include any kind of automatic stabilization system to set the UBI at a sustainable level. Because UBI is not market-based, there's little information that flows into the process that sets of level of UBI and other redistribution systems. In a market system, a distributed consensus algorithm governs both wages and prices and adjusts both continuously to account for changes in scarcity and utility.

Who decides how much UBI is enough? What procedure will that person or body use? What is the algorithm that prevents UBI increasing without bound? After all, the public voting itself unsustainable transfers from the state is one of the classic failure modes of democracy.

No matter the initial level of UBI, there will be someone who's able to gain political advantage by claiming that the UBI is insufficient for a dignified existence and that human rights demand an increase. Proposing a decrease in UBI will be political suicide. What prevents UBI increasing to the point that it captures all excess value production from all of society and redistributes it evenly? Wouldn't that system be tantamount to the planned economies of the 20th century?
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana is about a way of life long gone, but it is well worth reading. As for the more recent merchant marine, Christopher Buckley's Steaming to Bamboola is very funny, and I suppose fairly accurate. For forest rangers, Norman Maclean's novella "USFS 1919", collected in A River Runs Through It, gives a picture of how it was then.

August Fruge, longtime director of the University of California Press, wrote an excellent memoir, A Skeptic Among Scholars. There are many academic novels and memoirs, but I think very well of Alvin Kernan's In Plato's Cave. Also there is Herbert Simon's Models of My Life, which touches on academia and computing.
If you mean solution architect in the sense of sales engineer or technical pre-sales, it could be worth checking out the PreSales Collective [0].
I'm a solutions engineer myself, they are on my radar to look into, but I haven't done it yet. They were recommended to my by a colleague.

[0] https://www.presalescollective.com/
You're right. The person saying this would be a breakthrough doesn't understand what this is doing.

There are already similarly declarative tools which can accomplish this. Haskell has binary parsing libraries which work similarly and give you both reading and writing capabilities.
And I'll add Atul Gawande's “Better” and “Complications” on general surgery in particular and medicine in general.
I recommend Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder for a whirlwind tour of philosophy. It's a great read!
It sure would've been ideal to encourage those open standards, but one thing I've learned is that people bookmark for different reasons. Some just want to use it as short-term memory, while others use it more as a research index/tool. If you're more in the latter camp, the browser isn't necessarily the best designed tool to maintain your 80,000 bookmarks accrued over 10 years, even if they did have more open standards. So, sometimes you just want a system that more targeted to your use case and that "does one thing well". The nice thing about links is that there isn't any inherent reason why they need to be stored in the browser anyway.

But i take your point that it would've been nice to have your basic profile information be more easily shared/synced across applications; that would've been pretty cool.
Are you saying Teddit is still proxying requests to Reddit even when I'm running it locally?

Can you show me where that happens because I've looked at the source code and the API calls I can find all go directly to Reddit.
> Not that it should be much of a concern in practice, as far as I can tell intmax_t seems mostly about writing "generic" integer code without having to specialize for any int type, but that wouldn't make for a very clean or idiomatic public C API IMO. At least I don't think I've ever encountered it in the wild.

I think you're exactly right. That's what I was trying to suggest and address with: "Integer size-generic routines are best served with wrapper macros and use of the C11 _Generic() construction, or some of the typeof() magic used by, e.g., Linux." It predates the C11 _Generic() stuff, and the standards ignore the GCC extensions like typeof().
“Data Violence”
Go beat your ISP first.
I recommend trying to familiarize yourself with the main fields in philosophy first (aesthetics, ethics, postmodernism, whatever) and major contributors. I did this mostly through podcasts. Pick a few philosophers from you favorite field and try to read some of their smallest essays. There's usually an online copy floating around and then flesh out your understanding against secondary sources (reviews, response, wikis or podcasts discussing the piece, etc). Eventually you can work your way up to bigger game, but that's how I do it as an amateur with a passing interest
How badly has the FDA been lagging?
Appreciate it, will give it a read - thanks!
Helicopter parents rule the world.
Yes someone else linked to a story where TVs were hopping onto open Wifi, but honestly if a TV I owned ever did that, I would probably toss it and boycott that manufacturer forever.
Why did the HN mods arbitrarily change the title of this article?

It's not the correct title and it's harder for the uninformed user to understand. If you told me about hard-coded DNS settings I would say "Ok, what does that mean and why does it matter?". If you said "Smart TVs ignore piholes" (the original title) I would know exactly why that's important.
> Even as a non-lawyer, I know that you can literally just ignore it and go to the contempt hearing (where the judge will most likely side with the news outlet).

> Even as a non-lawyer

> non-lawyer

Hey @dvt, this is a pretty bad look. I'm not an attorney; I've learned well enough through absurd-on-face comments of my own not to give legal advice when I'm out of my depth... or at all.

This is the position you're in.
You can get a zero-down loan or a lease the panels with payments lower than your power bill. This has nothing to do with liquidity.
As someone who is now bouncing back & forth between Python and R on a weekly basis, I've been surprised (after making fun of R sometimes) how much I miss the piping when I leave R for Python. Pandas seems so inflexible by comparison, so nitpicky for little gain. I've been surprised again and again how much dplyr supports near-effortless fluency and productivity.

Never really thought I'd be writing that in a public forum.
This is really cool, it definitely makes the game harder
They could build high density apartments far away from San Francisco and run multiple shuttles for those working in the city.

Homeless crisis and affordable home crisis will never be solved without robust transport networks.

Yes, we can house a lot of people who need help. No, we can’t house them in San Francisco. Or in other expensive metros.

As an aside, when prefab house builder from mare island offered to build units for the homeless, the unions protested and SF mayor, London Breed had to acquiesce to build them in the city and use Union labour only.

So it was decided in 2014..maybe 2016..that after they find lots to build in SF, funds would go to build homeless units(not pre fab because Union labour was a condition).

After that, the whole thing is hanging in limbo. Because..as if..there will be land in SF to build homes for the homeless. Daft..laughable if it weren’t so tragic.
I made a career change into sales and trading for a while, then went back into full-time medicine - finance is a really interesting subject, but the proportion of assholes in sales and trading is much higher than in software, medicine, or most corporate jobs (all of which of course have some proportion of assholes).

That's not to say that people in that industry can't be charming - they totally can be, but they will also do whatever it takes to boost up their reputation (and therefore their annual bonus) at your expense. "Liar's poker" is a pretty accurate description of the culture, but it's much worse when you have to deal with it every day.

My experience was on the sell-side, things may be different on the buy-side. Feel free to message me if you want to chat.
You can still run your own Firefox sync server! See: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
Well it's not really a big deal since only your UX gets a smaller range... when you're presumably watching the content?

But it seems like Apple might be gradually moving from 8-bit to 10-bit displays. They don't really advertise it clearly, but if the technical specifications say "millions of colors" it means 8-bit, if they say "billions of colors" it means 10-bit. (256^3 vs 1024^3.)

So if you've got the iMac model with the 4K screen, it's 10-bit and therefore capable of 1,024 levels of color. So remapping the UX to e.g. 512 will still be fine, assuming (safely, I think?) the compositing is all done using 10-bit color.
I think the obvious limitations of Python is a big reason, but probably not the main reason why Pandas isn't orthogonal. The reason why Pandas is such an ungodly mess is because it must be, in order to be even halfway efficient. When you do try to compose things, or even have the audacity to use a python lambda or an if statement or whatever, you suddenly suffer a 100x slowdown in performance.

Julia doesn't have these problems, and I've found it so much nicer to use for data analysis. You can even call Python libs, if you really have to.
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I think there may be some grey area but a moderator vs a censor are very different.
The new title seems more descriptive to me. How many people know what a pihole is, but not DNS? I understand DNS a lot better than pihole, which I've barely heard of.
Who are the unsung heroes of tech?
I can think of a lot of obvious names in history, but they're all often white men. Are there any technology greats who aren't from this demographic? Also, are there any books that you'd recommend on these people?
Kauai north shore after Musk gets Starlink going. Fast internet wherever. If not big surf, then Kauai south or west shore near Waimea canyon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea,_Kauai_County,_Hawaii

An annoying problem but not a deal breaker is the lack of free shipping from eCommerce to the islands.
I'm an industrial engineer. The book that got me started on that path was Cheaper By the Dozen, which we listened to on cassette tape on most road trips >2 hours growing up. I was fascinated by the thought of taking a process or procedure and eliminating as much non-value add time as possible, which they did throughout their lives on things like tonsillectomies for their kids.

Some impactful books on the whole field include Factory Physics (focusing on material flow through a factory) and The Toyota Way (focusing on lean manufacturing).
The problem with this op-ed is that it's based on an entirely false premise, it completely ignores how much revenues governments need.

Clinton was able to run a federal government spending less than 20% of GDP, since George Walker Bush federal spending has exploded to the 25 to 30% range. The reality is that 20% is plenty, and can solve all the problems government has the ability to solve.

Need to start by NOT

1) serving as the worlds policeman

2) building double the aircraft carrier tonnage of the rest of the world combined.

3) spending a trillion dollars on newest latest fighters not ready for service when we aren't at war

4) staging US troops and ships in the Middle East or Europe when both are immensely wealthy and able to defend themselves.

5) pouring $40B into a launch system design based on obsolete technologies and an overweight deep space capsule that needs a year to replace a single bad power unit.

6) subsidizing professional sports leagues paying millions a year per employee. etc, etc.

A good start would be requiring senators and congresspeople to recuse themselves from any legislation that specifically allocates funds for any projects in their states/districts. Get away from the thousand page earmarked pork funding bills and focus their responsibilities on legitimate national interests.
My choice in buying the home was made for twofold reasons firstly to no longer be subject to the whims of a landlord, secondly to lock in my costs of housing against inflation. This would rob me of both those advantages. I don't see how you would get any homeowners to vote for a proposal like that.
Yes, quite! I meant to say, Hegel and Kant or Heidegger and Nietzsche. Agree about Hegel too, theres a lot of philosophers works I would recommend to give a miss and just read a synopsis. Hegel is in that list, Kant is not.
I'm not an R user, but you should try Julia for data analysis. It seems as flexibility (maybe more) than R, while also having blazing performance.

I do like Pandas concept of row indices, which I know Julia (and I believe, R) lack.
Quite possible. Though, playing devil's advocate, I wonder if requiring propriety still manages to filter out the majority of bad actors.

I certainly see a decent number of commenters who are clearly rude and not making an effort to cover it, whose comments wouldn't pass muster even if they weren't rude, and getting modded away. (There's also some amount of rudeness that looks reasonable to the political tribe being rude, which generally remains in place; it's hard to establish objective-seeming norms around this so I'll set that aside.) Lastly, I can think of only one recognizable commenter who I'm pretty sure was acting like a deliberate troll on a few occasions: starting out with what I'm pretty sure he knew was a straw man argument, and then using his rhetorical skill to just mess with the people arguing back, rather than making a coherent point.
I don't know where you are reading about his work, but his Aristote au mont Saint-Michel isn't about his ideas or beliefs, it's about providing historical evidence of significant intellectual developments in the early middle ages as well as translations of key ancient texts in French monasteries half a century before they were alledgedly imported from the Arab world, which completely changes the narrative of knowledge transmission. That's his main thesis as far as I can recall.
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People are often jerks because it "works". It gets them what they want.

Your job as the jerk supervisor is let them know that being a jerk will not get them way they want. It will tarnish their reputation, diminish their credibility and eventually get them isolated, demoted or fired.

Promoting a jerk is equivalent to detonating a nuclear bomb in your company. It tells everyone that the way to get promoted is being toxic, therefore everyone will become toxic. It will also make ethical people give up on your company and leave.
Internet will probably be fine. The backbone is fiber, the better part of the last-mile is shielded coax, and the switches are usually nice well-grounded metal boxes. No expert on the power grid though.

The importance of this is much higher than the DR angle. Moving digital life back into our own equipment, and away from the valley's all-seeing eye, is vital to the future of mankind.
How to Create a AWS Lambda Layer of Your Gemfile / Ruby Gem Dependencies
Most people guess wrong about what technologies end up winning, so me as an internet rando could definitely be wrong about gravity batteries! Certainly the idea that lithium ion batteries would be cheap/high-specific-energy enough for cars would have seemed crazy 20 years ago. And even more so that lithium ion would make it to the grid!

My thought about them are mostly about learning curves, however. We have a long ways to go while we make lithium ion batteries cheaper, probably decades, and we improve a lot each year. Gravel, rock, stone, etc. and however we contain and move that around? That seems to be something that humans have been optimizing since our first days, and there doesn't seem to be much room for improvement at the moment.

My other assumption, which could be false, is that gravity batteries are not currently economical on our current grid with current electricity prices and price swings, an assumption I make because there are no installs I know of, and none planned. Instead of being uneconomic, they could just be untried, because the electricity industry is fairly innovative. If gravity batteries are economical today then I think there could be future for them.
Nope, I'm completely serious. What about Microsoft Planner? Supposedly it integrates with Teams and Azure.