skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: smart TVs are great. My LG has replaced almost every other thing that used to be in my media room. It is my streaming music box (I can target it for casting from my favorite iOS app, and I can use the interface on it for browsing my home network storage if I want). It has Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Hulu, Disney, Vudu, Google TV, and every other damn thing on it. It has voice search, so I just say the name of the show I want to watch and it finds and displays which apps have that in their catalog. It also has a web browser so I can just watch anything I want. I can start a video on YouTube on my phone and later transfer it to the TV (I can do this from either device). I can cast any tab from Chrome to my TV.

I say these TVs are just the right amount of smart. Maybe there are worse ones (I imagine, having once owned a Sony Playstation, that the software on a Sony TV is atrocious) but LG WebOS is brilliant.
What’s user-hostile is every consumer device insisting on pushing its defaults and ignoring any network policies I’ve configured.
I bought the device to stream content not to display ads. So you'd be happy if every laptop manufacturer installed crypto-miners on a new laptop you purchased without telling you before purchasing the device with no way to remove it.
It's no different than ads, they are using your resources without your explicit permission after the sale of the device to generate income for their company.

It's madness to me that people find this acceptable. These companies are profiting off the ignorance of people and misleading customers on what they're actually selling them.
Forced to do things, HUGE difference. They made it a political issue by enforcing it with government, I didn’t want this fight at all. In the absence of coercion, I would have no problem with measures that have even a slight chance of helping.
No I didn't. "Every organism alive now evolved over millions of years" but they are still very distinct.

> you can't just handwave "evolution"

If you believe the brain is part of the body, and that the body evolved, you believe _some_ part of evolutionary psychology. It's not handwaving.

That part of the article suggests that societal unrest creates say, fascist leaders, and not the other way around.
I'm pretty sure that the main way to consistently make money in the crypto industry is to sell snake-oil to people who ask questions like that.
Student Loan Horror Stories: Borrowed $79,000. Paid $190k. Now Owes $236,000
... and mercifully well written.
That video shows Phosh on a larger display, which is fine, but it's still just the phone UI blown up onto a larger display with floating windows. I've used it, it's okay, but in its current form it's not something I'd want to use long-term on a laptop or tablet.

The UI shown in that concept art is still just a concept. The notification center and calendar that slide in from the sides, the combined tray/clock/launcher bar at the bottom, the touch-friendly tiling - none of that exists yet.
I know most Linux die-hards probably think it's sacrilege but the best Linux experience on a tablet is ChromeOS.

You can enable Linux apps in settings, and it gives you a Debian terminal. If you install apps there (ex: GIMP or VS Code) app icons show up in the ChromeOS launcher, and it uses Wayland forwarding to integrate their windows into the ChromeOS Window manager so they feel native.

And as far as tablet interface goes, the UI is a bit less polished than Android but similar and (IMO) very competent. Way better than Gnome and friends. Oh, and you can install any Android app you want!

I use my Lenovo Duet a ton now. Only thing holding back this particular device is ARM compat with some dev tools.
Facebook was first a reputable web application.
Linux Foundation annual report was apparently produced on a Mac using Adobe Creative Cloud [1].

Linux is essential part of my workflow too, but I completely understand why that poor Linux Foundation person had to use Adobe CC on a Mac.

[1] https://twitter.com/grifferz/status/1334671602156507143
I would love to find a censorship free version of this website hacker news.

Good tech content and discussion without the censorship.
The problem is two fold. Your imperialistic ego is an evolutionary advantageous quality. You are paying some kind of price for "stymieing" it as your ancestors who did not have this "ego" died through natural selection.

The second problem is that everyone is unaware of their own ego. How can you stymie something when you're unaware of it? When you think that the other party is being unreasonable and that you are being calm and logical the other party sees the reverse.

This lack of self awareness is the real problem here. Your brain will reroute all your misguided attempts to confound it's bias and you unknowingly will only recite "I think" or "maybe" for just inconsequential things.

If you have been doing something wrong or holding an incorrect belief system for a good portion of your life, your biased brain will kick into gear and shield your awareness from the harsh reality of being wrong your entire life.

Religion is a good example of this, but the thing that causes a person to stay religious is an infectious thing that not only influences religion, but all of human behavior and all aspects of life.

Personally I think fighting your own biases is a losing battle thus my philosophy is to just not fight it.
I invested in 4 industrial real estate projects over the last 1 year. They currently net me ~2500 a month.

Total investment: ~250K
Property values: 3-10M

I don't own these properties myself. I own a part. This is similar to Fundrise, except it's with a local investment group.
That backslash syntax is pretty funky, but then again all of R is a little funky. Very nice addition to the language though!
Is that the archive.is you referring to?
If travel imposes externalities on society by increasing covid cases, a temporary tax on tickets could be levied. I don't necessarily favor this, but it would more economically efficient than the government deciding what travel should be allowed.
Aren't prison nazis "degenerate" white trash, to the extent that real nazis would despise them?
Thats sad, it was great when I started years ago but I quickly moved elsewhere.
>What we are seeing now is more people engaging in conversations and debates that were previously relegated to the elites—academics, politicians, aristocrats. Are their opinions impacted by their lack of deep literacy?

As if our politicians are some highly educated bunch anyway.
Forgive me if I am misunderstanding your statement - "Even if you cite the church of the flying spaghetti monster, well it has exactly 0 followers."

Our faith has many followers. Also, among religious communities, we are shown to put our money where our mouth is. We back our beliefs, as do other faiths, with charity/cash.

https://www.kiva.org/team/fsm

I am happy to be part of a religious congregation that, in the context of microfinance/lending to strangers (not for profit, by the way), performs admirably when compared with more popular, mainstream religions:

https://www.kiva.org/teams?category=Religious+Congregations

Pesto be upon him. Ramen

Edit to add: our demonstrated/measurable impact in the world refutes the notion that we have 0 followers.
i’m saying it’s ok to be pragmatic and fully accept that you are Microsoft’s target demographic. they’re solving the annoying bits so you can focus on what’s important to you.

but, that’s not the end of the story. there may likely be gains found with new innovations.

companies like github are not incentivized to revolutionize “what works”. they’re incentivized to get you to rely increasingly on their services. and as long as that works for you, great!

i’m just saying, don’t discount efforts made to make github obsolete.
I guess that depends on what the software that reads the sensors should say. If you like automatic transmission, perhaps you’d like the sensory to report inflate/just fine. While if you prefer to shift gears yourself you might prefer a more direct reading so you can decide for yourself.
The pejorative name is "corporate memphis".

See this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22890877
Show HN: Tutorial Match
Hello, I created tutorial match to help organize technical/educational content. Built with svelte and node.js in the backend.

Still rough around the edges, it is very much a minimum viable product, but I would appreciate if an initial few users can post your favorite tutorials, connect them to relevant topics, and give me feedback on where to go from here.
you can already use fetch, not with async/await, though.
Should be covered by fair use as it is for education and couldn't be considered a substitute for the original.
I thought the key proposal was changing to an agency business model where Apple would charge a commission and publishers would set prices, as opposed to Amazon’s status quo at the time where Amazon would both set prices and their own fees.
What is even the point of DRM protected manuals? I can understand it on book, but manuals? Piracy of a manual isn’t going to affect sales of the product; I (almost all the time) have no need for the manual if I don’t own the product.
> Is there any evidence for people becoming homeless because of skyrocketing rents?

Plenty of it, it is one of the primary causes. But just to put it in concrete terms that should scare anyone, the average rent in San Francisco in 1994 was about $1000. By 2001 the average rent was $2300. [1]

Consider that other living costs go up along with rent.

> Are there no renter protections in the USA, anyway?

Sometimes. But what happens when you lose your job, and then lose your apartment as a result? How are you going to afford the much higher rents now at a new apartment even if you can find a new job? At minimum wage?

If you ever decide to work with homeless people (you should) you'll hear two types of stories over and over: 1. Diseases such as mental illness and addiction. 2. People who are pretty much just like you and me. And then something unexpected happened. These stories are humbling, because after hearing enough of them you realize that a lot of what's keeping a roof over your own head is luck. Add medical bankruptcy to the mix and you've got the USA.

> The theory is simple that where the area is rich, there are more jobs - catering to the rich people.

So your theory is that rich people hire homeless people off the street to cater to them? NYC has loads of rich people - the most in the world [2]. NYC also has a huge homelessness problem. Maybe that will get solved when and if NYC gets just a few more billionaires?

NY state itself has the highest per capita homelessness rate in the USA [3]. Trickle down doesn't work.

> but also the jobs that make the rich people rich.

This is along the lines of saying "stop being poor, just get one of those jobs that the rich people have".

I would encourage you just read up on the subject instead of inventing theories that sound good to you. Homelessness is a well researched topic, and there is no lack of studies and data around it.

[1] https://johnmacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rents_Avg-S...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2020/04/07/world...

[3] https://psydprograms.org/the-places-with-the-most-and-least-...
> Apple is able to set entire new standards of expectation for customers that are _very_ hard for competitors to follow.

The cheaper version of this display has a price tag of $5k, the more expensive one $6k.

I never spent even remotely as much money on a display, so I cannot speak from first-hand experience. But a quick search for graphics-design displays yields several competitor products that have similar or better specs, at generally even lower price tags.

Apple does many things, but certainly not bleeding-edge innovation. Of course it likes to sell its products as such, but I guess that's just how marketing works.
Why can't it be next to nothing? How is freely discussing things with other people without someone policing that unnatural? You're making a lot of declarative suppositions that are self supportive, and you have to explain and justify them. A cursory look at least from my point of view shows that at least the two I mentioned are entirely unfounded.
> This isn't difficult: TVs should not be "smart".

As it turns out other people have different priorities than you do. The world not conforming to your personal preferences does not make it wrong.
you either have freedom of speech or you don't. it's not a policy of degrees.
A few of the tech oriented publishers have ebook sales on their websites from time to time. Like Apress has $6 per ebook during black friday. Informit was 55% off per ebook book.
I can't believe I've never heard of this
Better late than never, but dplyr solved the pipe problem long time ago.
Be yourself is terrible advice! Be yourself unless you’re a dick, in which case seriously consider being someone else.
Sounds like we agree.
The main feature I can think of that helps languages with larger codebases is static typing (Python, Typescript). Prior to Python type annotation, at a previous job, someone commented that Python didn't scale not because of performance, but because as you add more and more developers to a complex codebase, the lack of type safety ad growing codebase made safe changes hard.

Over in Java, a lot of the language changes are just syntactic sugar to make Java less verbose. Granted, Jigsaw is an exception, and JVM enhancements are good for everyone.
> Chris’s pay was garnished at 15% from 2004-2011, and at 25% from 2011 on. He paid, but didn’t gain ground, thanks to another painful quirk of the system, involving the order of obligation.

This sounds like an unbelievable living hell, and frankly if I were in this position I would probably just leave the country and abandon the loan entirely. What a machiavellian system.
AFAIK the same as in Julia.
"QDirStat"

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
Likely somewhere in the lists. IIRC, we can use pihole lists with DNSBL. That should add full pihole blocking to DNSBL.
I hope you realize that you so into getting into a shouting match that you are not making any sense whatsoever.

I don't know where you are from, but as someone who grew up in Brazil, lived in the US for ~5 years and now has 7 years in both Northern and Southern Europe and close relationships in the Middle East: globalization is real. Someone autistic like you may not notice due to subtle differences to adapt to local cultures and local flavors, but the message everywhere is to get people to measure themselves by what they consume and to stimulate consumption by creating needs where there are none.
But the media box device can be replaced more readily.
I love Rust for systems dev, and I truly can't wait to read the article, because I can't imagine ever wanting to use it for exploratory data analysis, one-off stuff, or notebooks.

Why deal with the borrow checker and compilation just to plot something in a notebook? Python is kind of ugly IMO, but it seems much quicker for prototyping.
Exactly - right now I write program in C#. Not because C# is cool or because I like its syntax but because it is what Unity supports.

It could be C++, if I would go with Unreal Engine.

I used Squirrel in past, solely because for some reason it was modding language of OpenTTD.

I am not fan of any of them, I am not an expert in any of them. But it was more effective that writing from scratch 3D engine or AI backend to use something else.
> you can look at magnitude and direction of various coefficients and conclude certain obvious things.

Sometimes, but if you have correlated predictors, the 'explainability' can be distributed across coefficients of those predictors in unpredictable ways. Training a linear model twice with two different subsets of training data can give you very different coefficient weights.
I’d love to see something like this for game mechanics, although that might be harder to achieve.

For example being able to find games that have certain movement mechanics and compare them would be amazing. Like “jump”, “double jump”, “sliding”, “ice surfaces”, etc
Exactly. If you build institutions to centralized and control power, guess where the "bad guys" will concentrate their efforts to take control?

Nature itself is all about decentralization and development in a organic way and its the most resilient system we are aware of.

The only way to stop the nazists (or stalinists) of the future is by not letting all the eggs in one basket.
You can't have consistent good content without curation and moderation, both of which are considered forms of censorship. The closest thing to what you're describing in the /g/ board on 4chan, except of course even they have a line.
Exactly. My first wrestling partner in college was 26. I was 19. I felt like a child.
Forgot the most important: issuing tokens, launching ICOs and new cryptocurrencies.
I think that symbol is used as an approximation of "lambda" character (λ) on a standard US keyboard.
To me, it mainly comes down to the extensibility model.

In Home Assistant, the primary way to do anything is to use Integrations that plug into your monolithic Home Assistant application.

In WebThings, there is a robust model for putting your devices online that other services & applications can script. It's also built around very nice sets of standards[1], which means you don't need to use the WebThings Gateway or the WebThings Thing UI. For example there's a web based 3D ui using AFrame[2]. to demo it's use, there is a fake/demo standalone webserver pretending to be a solar roof[3]. Not high production, but being able to hack out a WebThings standard ui or device at a lightning pace is extremely impressive.

A lot of folk are well served by the monolith, but long term, having everything bound up in a single technology stack, having to live with every choice Home Assistant has made, is extremely unappealing to me personally.

I've started moving my ZWave stuff over to WebThings. I'd like to add my LiFX equipment too. Previously I had just been using some Node.js scripts I'd authored myself to control these devices & to record energy consumption. It was a fun project, and I had been doing some kind of similar but not as good decoupling work like WebThings does, but I'm looking forward to having an API-first means of doing this work, and especially excited to see semantic web / jsonld baked in from the start.

[1] https://iot.mozilla.org/wot/

[2] https://github.com/rzr/aframe-webthing

[2] https://github.com/rzr/aframe-smart-home
Technically yes, but directives are inserted so GDB reports the line number, source code, and parameters of the Nim file.

However GDB shows the name mangling suffix in generated code, and types are their native types. There's a script called nim-gdb to add pretty printers for types to the GDB output to show the Nim source types.

Perhaps surprisingly though, the C and C++ generated output itself is fairly straightforward, even with name mangling suffixes. The inserted directives tell you the Nim source line so you can navigate it fairly well if you want to, and the suffix means the variable is unique referenced in the code. As far as I know you can use any debugger that supports the target language, though I've not tried anything but GDB myself.

It's very rare for me to dig into the generated code but sometimes I'm curious about the data structure analog in the target language. In the case of Nim's object variants, last time I looked when compiling to C they were ultimately reduced to simple checked union types.
If the Deep State exists in the sense this conspiracy theorist believes it does, I guess it doesn't matter where we live, does it? The CIA bogeyman will get you anyway ;)

Some fun tips from this video:

* He completely misunderstands the information that came from the "Pennsylvania legislature." It came from the Republican caucus. And specifically, it was spearheaded by a member of the caucus that essentially has no political cachet in the state. He can do what he wants, it's a free country, but everyone knows he's a nutter and his belief in a conspiracy theory is about a surprising as somebody reporting the sky is blue on a clear day. He also completely misunderstands what's going to happen in Pennsylvania, because that Republican caucus doesn't have the political power to block either certification or the slate of electors in the electoral college. And it's all irrelevant because deadlock in the electoral college would result in a president Pelosi, as per the House nuclear option mentioned in the last video I cited.

* The "pigtail lady" is the scandal du jour. It hasn't been presented in a court of law, and the simplest explanation for what the video shows is that nobody attempted to hide it (she didn't change her hair or top) because it was business as usual. I've worked elections, and I haven't seen anything in that video that looked out of sorts. When conspiracy theorists go looking for irregularities, they always find them. But that's more a psychological function of people finding what they're looking for than any particular changes in reality.

* The law is a little unclear, but what Michael Flynn has done is probably actually sedition. It also ought not to be illegal. I don't think it's illegal. But Flynn is by no means the good guy in this story; he is openly calling for an illegal overthrow of the Constitutionally-mandated electoral process via the military. Right or wrong, that's fundamentally the end of American democracy were it to occur. If he wants to put himself on the side with people who have tried to overthrow America with military might, from Aaron Burr through Robert E. Lee onwards, that's his choice, and if he ever makes good on his threats, the US military is more than willing to remind him what happens to traitors.

Anyway, this whole video is classic conspiracy theory claptrap, from the need to imagine a conspiracy so vast that it encompasses all possible counterindications to the need to invent an enemy the conspiracy is happening on behalf of (looks like he's dragged the old communist fear out of the woodwork and repurposed it for China; that's a fun one that Americans are fond of). Nothing in here is convincing unless you already believe the conspiracy theory, and then it's just reinforcing delusion.

I plan to live in the US for the next 25 years, for what it's worth. ;)
I'm sure some of us who are out of the loop might be wondering: what about the magrittr pipe operator (%>%) that we all know and love?

Luke Tierney explains the move from %>% to a native pipe |> here [1]. The native pipe aims to be more efficient as well as addresses issues with the magrittr pipe like complex stack traces.

Turns out the |> syntax is also used in Julia, Javascript and F#.

The lambda syntax (\(x) -> x + 1) is similar to Haskell's (\x -> x + 1).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_eDHNVceCU&feature=youtu.be...
Optimizing for political serenity consisting of the views of which party?
This needs 59 followers to be live, so it would be beneficial if you create account on https://area51.stackexchange.com
One way that I made money was lending cryptocurrency through DeFi platforms.

Basically:

- Buy DAI (which is ~1DAI to 1USD) through any platform (e.g.Coinbase)

- Transfer to your local wallet (e.g. Metamask).

- Then lend it on one of these exchanges [0].

One exchange that's not on the list https://app.fulcrum.trade/lend has a higher interest rate (probably because they're trying to get users as they were hacked earlier this year).

Last 2 months I held DAI in Fulcrum and I made about 2.5% on my money.
Also holding ETH for the last 6 months, which has paid off by sheer luck.

[0] https://defipulse.com/income
Ah, fair. Though to a certain degree I still think that's helpful when I recently listened to something but forgot to download it.
I agree though that that shouldn't take up all of your storage and should definitely be toggleable.