skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we believe that the "household-fee" serves the greater good? No, I'd say not really. It was, IMHO, public broadcasts solution to the icreasing number of people preferring streaming and the internet over traditional television. And more importantly the decreasing revenue.

Are these fees generally speaking a good thing? I'd say yes, because you get a non-add dependant news source. Is the implementation, especially in germany, perfect? Of course not. It still has a place, so.

EDIT: If you move, you declare you address change to the authorities anyway. Everything depending on your address, government-wise and some other stuff, is then done automatically. Not relevant here, but that includes ballots.
I think the key benefit of a narrow selection of live programming is the idea that a lot of people listen to the same things. The discussions that follow a program, between people who watched or listened to it (which could be a significant chunk of your friends or coworkers) is to me at least as important as the content itself.

With podcasts and streaming I often find the discussion starts and ends with "yes I listened to an interesting podcast about that...". Perhaps that will make someone else listen to it the next day, but the window of opportunity for discussion is gone.
> The system is failing people /now/ and there are people trying to provide a supplemental solution to that failing.

Frankly, this sounds like typical Silicon Valley attitude applied totally inappropriately.

"Just get a minimum product out, we'll figure out how to make it work later, or pivot to another market."

That's fine if you're releasing the next todo list app. That's not fine if you're providing women rape kits that, for all intents and purposes a rape kit would be used for, are useless. This severely impacts people's lives at their absolute worst moments.

You might give them the benefit of the doubt if there was even a remotely feasible path for this to be useful without a major rework of the justice system in ways that would severely compromise it in several other aspects.

Given the seemingly insurmountable hurdles, it's hard to see this as anything but a way to exploit vulnerable or fearful women to their own detriment. Especially when they'd previously co-opted the MeToo movement for their branding while suggesting women stock up on these "prior to being assaulted".
Most of my emacs hacking I find time to do in my free time amounts to work related org-mode extensions.

I love seeing stuff like this. Emacs is the true bicycle for the mind.
Fair enough, and I see how "private" might mean "inaccessible" and not "secret" as I originally assumed. I hope at least...
Another technique is variation of language (synonyms), orthotypography, variations in the white space of the document... so you can take a blurry B&W picture but they still got you because your version was the one saying "amazing" and not "fantastic" in the third paragraph and using the Oxford comma in the fourth paragraph, etc.
I agree with the Beeb being publicly funded too, though would prefer it being part of normal taxation rather than the license fee which is so controversial.

But I don't think attacking American providers is a strong counter at all, the days when the BBC led the world in quality are long gone, HBO set the standard for modern drama which no British service has come close to matching; Netflix and Prime provide plenty of quality programmes too.

The BBC/C4 still compete on non-fiction, comedy and radio, but not drama.
Your point?

If you're trying to avoid being suspected of having a tv, that sounds as smart as trying to rob a gun store with a fake weapon
Sorry, didn't check my replies. I'm also outside of the US and honestly find your reply quite baffling. That quote about Clinton is not in any way "saying the election was rigged and that the result must be fought and overturned".

I'm sure some individual activists may have, but I certainly didn't see a large number on the losing side in 2016 saying the result should be overturned. Even if they were, they certainly weren't wound up enough to do so by violent means. Comparing the two situations is absurd.
Have you contacted any doctors or hospitals in Europe? We do take healthcare more seriously here, so I'm wondering whether you get the same response.
I think the better hack would be to run it into a speech-to-text transcoder, and then use a vocoder to play it back.

You lose the "voice" in the process, but in some situations it might actually be fine
https://alexbeals.com/projects/colorize/search.php?q=Urine

Is a bit better
> If you are a software guy, drilling a 12mm horizontal hole 30mm deep into the edge of a 20mm x 400mm plate is surprisingly difficult. It won't fit in my drill press that's for sure.

Welcome to the wonderful world of jig-making. "Making" jigs has about the same amount of "making" like "coding" in programming. You have to invent or search for a jig which will make that task doable. I suggest clamping lightly two planks to sides of your plate, make a thick block with your desired hole, then screw that block onto planks so that your hole is centered between them. Now you have a guide for drill.
This is one of the worst open source Go projects that exists, unfortunately.
Doctors are supposed to have a higher entry barrier than software developers. Does not mean that all of them are brilliant, of course.
I'ma Brit, but as far as I can see democracy in the USA is working fine and exactly as it is supposed to. The voters experimented with something unusual for a few years, then switched back to something more familiar, they'll get more chances to choose over the coming years.

In fact it's precisely because democracy worked so well that the MAGA core lost their shit and tried to over-rule it. They failed, democracy won, a few extremists are dead or will end up in prison and it's time to move on. I just feel bad for the cop who lost his life, and his family.
If it was just a news source it would have been fine, but it‘s not. The department that manages this tax alone has 900 employees. Then each of the two big channels has thousands of employees. How is that an efficiently run news source?
In the UK, you must pay if you are capable of receiving live TV, not only if you do receive live TV. Even if it was never switch on, a TV that is plugged into an aerial qualifies as meeting that requirement.
agreed.. separating the signal from the request queue seems like an anti-pattern... Not sure who the author is, and why this has reached front page so we probably missed something
On my own projects I always do it old style, Java/.NET SSR, pure JavaScript using the features all browser I care about support of the box.

No SPA, no babel, no tsconfig with endless configuration options.

On enterprise projects where I am just yet another cog, I let the FE team play with whatever stacks they feel like.
What happens when Augmented Reality meets Artificial Intelligence?
License and licence always throws me off. And I much prefer aging to ageing.
It’s more of an example of privatisation than anything else.
Widespread adoption for small and medium family car duties is looking really good right now - They're almost a no-brainer for any 2-car family already, but somewhat held back by the 'new and unfamiliar' hump. There is still some way to go for any one-car household that wants to be able to make longer trips a few times a year (and is not willing to rent for those occasions, which although possible is an option I doubt many will opt for).

Large family vehicles on the other hand, there are a few hybrids that fit the bill but none of them are stand-out and the additional mechanical complexity is (rightfully) giving folks pause. The early prius for example got it right and was quite reliable, later iterations unfortunately have not lived up to the reputation it built. But then there's also rural car ownership where fewer, longer-range trips are the norm. Not much adoption to be seen there for very good reasons, neither the cars nor the charging infrastructure is suitable.

Depreciation is a kicker, also. Early adopters are finding that with the rapid progress on range/features and manufacturers chasing lower RRPs to get more adoption, when they come to trade up to something newer the value of their early purchases is lower than a similarly-aged ICE.

All of this is still good progress, but I think we're at least a decade if not several away from ICE being pushed into a niche. Plus without some breakthroughs in battery tech, there's only so far into the market things can go. Fortunately some promising stuff seems to be on the horizon i.e. solid state.
Strange coincidence - I just read it for the first time, and I’m pushing 50. I thought it was incredible. So much packed into so few words.
What does that sample size tell you?
This should not be a headline until reproduced.
The thing with Ikea is that they're known for cheap/disposable furniture, but they also carry furniture made from proper wood, rather than cardboard. My dining table is made from solid wood and you wouldn't think twice about standing on it. Obviously it's more utilitarian than pretty, but it feels like it's made to last. However it also cost a lot more than the flimsy cardboard alternatives right next to it, so it's obvious what people end up going home with.

I will also say that their kitchen cabinets are significantly higher quality than their other lines of shelves and cabinets. Better fasteners, hinges and so on. Yet again, they are significantly more expensive than most of the other furniture they carry.

Still, the amount of proper hardwood furniture in second hand stores is baffling to me, when you see people lugging home glorified cardboard disguised as furniture.
You’d just buy the TV from the north of Ireland did it that way. If U.K. did it that way you’d buy it in the south. In Ireland you could also buy from the rest of the EU.
Yeah, locking stale issues is crazy.

"Oh, you didn't respond in time, so this issue can never be discussed by anyone again.".
Make a VPN service, market it in China, put this code into the control/account panel, sell data to Chinese government.

And no, how much it could be monetized certainly shouldn't factor into lowering the bounty. Maybe when raising it, since you need to be competing with the black market, but an exploit should be valued only on how much damage it could cause, and getting people disappeared for watching anti-government videos sounds like pretty big damage.
A good read. I also noticed that skeuomorphistic interfaces always age faster. They rely on realistic graphics and definition of "realistic" changes fast. Those kinds of interfaces tend to look outdated after only few years. More abstract interfaces with strong style seem almost immune to ageing.

The most important problem the article brings up remains unanswered. What's the best way to enter text in VR / AR?
I've seen prototype "cables" designed to handle up to 800 volts at 100 amps for EV DC charging. In fact I had to carry a sample (just the cable and plug on the EV side, other end was open) a few meters and oh boy, I can still feel my shoulder and back just thinking about that. No idea how any regular everyday consumer is supposed to handle that. And that was even without any cooling liquid pumped inside which you'd probably have in the live application.
So if you don't care about American Politics why are you here lecturing us?
Is this using floating point numbers under the hood? There is a lot you can do with floating point, but for some of what I've worked on you really do want fixed precision types.
Seconded here, Java/Scala and maybe a bit of Kotlin are used for client projects but personal and play projects I almost always do in Kotlin.
They do wear out. But some of the things will last and last. The square frame will last forever unless it gets a really big impact. This is important because holding square is the only way you are going to get accuracy. I have no idea how people do this with a self assembled frame.

The main spindle might have issues with bearings but you should get a lot of life out of one. Ours run 16 hours a day and last 10 years plus. As a hobbyist even if you buy one with 95% of its spindle life left you are not likely to wear it out.

Keep the machine greased and it will last. A good machine will come with a service manual and tell you how often to grease each part. Most will have an auto greaser that will do most for you. Just have to keep it topped up.

All parts are easily replaced. Except the electronics and the computer but if you are wanting to build your own you're replacing them anyway so it's not an issue.

Vacuum pumps need regular servicing and replacement Blades every now and again but again hobbyist use they will last a long time just keep the filters clean.
They are almost always 3 phase so that might be an issue.

They have AC servo controllers that you would have to interface with and normally have a can bus for all the peripherals I don't think it would be too much to get all of that going.
Live is something as broadcast by a U.K. licensed broadcaster. YouTube lives wouldn’t count for example, nor do zooms.
FWIW, I tried some other words like American or German and mostly got shaded between pinkish grey and brown. European is a pale blue.
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IMHO most articles about medical conditions should be banned or severely downranked by Google, as they create far more problems than they solve. Over the years I've freaked out several times because I googled some symptoms I had and of course was presented with a slew of SEO-optimized articles that associate them with serious diseases. The thing is, those articles are mostly written by marketing folks that rephrase stuff from Wikipedia or medical literature, but without knowing anything about the conditions they write about. The sole purpose of these articles is to increase the page rank of a website and generate page views that can be monetized. Of course it's like that with almost every topic on the Internet, it's still highly unethical though as it incites unwarranted, existential fears in people.

Presenting medical trials and statistics to an uninitiated reader will probably also cause more harm than benefit, so it's good he canned this idea.
BBC also does fantastic children's content including mobile games app's. Cbeebies is miles better then anything else. Also, you can trust young kids with the BBC. You know there is no targeted advertising, or in game purchases. Most shows are also educational (often secretly). Licence fee worth that alone for me.
Not directly. Of course I always have the best interests of my patients in mind, but, you know, it's not like they'll pay more if I prescribe Lexapro instead of Zoloft. They won't come back more often or refer more friends. So I'd sorta just be, like, donating this money if I paid you for this thing, right?

Coming from a Doctor, this is extremely worrisome and borderline inmoral
Neither of those would stand up in court. You have to actually see the actual program that was live (not a tape recording), or get an admission
Unsuccessful extremists do their recruitment in backyards and echo chambers. If those are the only places they can get new converts, they are not going to be wildly successful.

Successful extremists do it in the light of day, out in the open. When you broadcast an idea that one in a hundred people will latch on to, and you broadcast it to five people at a time, you're not going to get much traction. When you broadcast it to five million people, you're going to get fifty thousand converts.

Notice how we are not having to seriously deal with a domestic ISIS insurgency (Because it has been very effectively driven into the fringe, where it has very limited reach), but we are currently having to seriously deal with... A lot of other ugly stuff, that has been very successfully spreading through mainstream networks.
You're right about the language, but the mechanism is real The evolution of gaseous defense hormones in plants is thought to actually benefit the same plant, but has a side effect of 'warning' the plant's neighbours. Because plants don't have a bloodstream, chemical diffusion of messenger molecules throughout a plant is pretty slow. So some plants just use the air around them as a signalling medium, and when they are damaged, release gases into the air which their other leaves can detect. Of course, the gases also affect their neighbours.
If you study a lot of history, you start to notice that old ideas are bad until they’re suddenly very good. Cannons sucked for a long time, till Napoleon showed they weren’t so bad.

I think posting haughty words is a lot easier than trying to make something work.
https://blogalytics.typepad.com/files/a-technical-look-at-ar...

I bet the system in use looks a lot like Arbitrons system.

It is near impossible to hear. And when someone does, it basically sounds like very minor league codec artifacts.

Someone very familiar with a given voice, or other content, may possibly be able to tell. But an A / B test of this VS. codec artifacts will likely prove inconclusive. It is hard given clean audio to compare against.

Once things have gone through a codec, all bets are essentially off.

This is not to say software detector could not be used. The average phone should do fine.
TypeScript is reaching GHC level of configuration flags, builds using it manage to even be slower than many native toolchains, and the team seems to just keep going with crazy type systems ideas, I already lost track of them.

Really, I hope that in a couple of years browsers would just allow for WebIDL integration and that is it.
Why only censorship comes to mind? In fact, you can make it 0 censorship platform where the words of bad behaviour is actually preserved like a relic of the time, a proof, a historical record. An example for everyone to see who said what.

My way of thinking is that if someone mentions(even implies or dog whistles) someone else on a social network, the person subjected to the words should have an automatic right for a visible reply. A reply that everyone exposed to the original text is also exposed. Expand it to issues too. If there is an issue, let's say global warming or geology, the flat Earthers should be able to post a visible statement under the photo of Earth posted by NASA and climate scientists should be able to post a statement to climate change deniers content.

BTW, the media situation in Turkey is much more complicated than your mental model of censorship. The media is controlled through money, essentially the media owners get lucrative government contracts if they play nice with the government(an audio recording of a few real estate developers with connections to Erdogan discussing creation of a capital pool to buy out all the mainstream media was leaked. They bought all of it anyway and got into TOP10 contract winning firms in the world [0]) and the radicalised ones that only few care about are left alone as long as their reach is limited to the radicals. The police isn't chasing journalist as much as main stream journalism becoming non-existent and simply being a negotiation tool for people who fight for power. There's a new hope with Youtube journalism becoming mainstream but of course just recently Google was forced to create a local office to moderate the Turkish content. The government introduced advertisement ban on media that doesn't have a local office to respond to government requests.

[0] https://ipa.news/2018/12/30/turkeys-pro-government-construct...
Sample size is an important metric in statistics. It defines how many people were tested/asked/whatever. Higher numbers are better because that levels out quirks that might have happened.

Asking 59 people is obviously not a big sample size and therefore the results of this study are "not very reliable". To say it friendly.
So if masking is used, I assume compressing the audio with any modern compression scheme from mp3 up should defeat that shouldn't it (because they drop masked signals to save bandwidth)?
Just kill it and get a new one if it gets sick. Simple.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Biesse-Rover-18-CNC-Router/25435957...

They are on most auction sites but your best deals are going to be liquidation auctions. There will be auction houses that specialise in these in your part of the world.
What should I eat to stay healthy and fit?
Eating healthy food is very important for any person. A good diet containing proper fruits, vegetables, cereals, wheat and rice etc. will do wonders to your body. Avoiding junk food, fried eatables, too much sugar intakes, alcohol, smoking addiction like drugs etc. is necessary. Food including protein, carbohydrates, fibers, minerals etc. in balanced amount along with plenty of water and exercises should be considered.
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I think free speech is a very difficult pill to swallow when it's not convenient for your own agenda. As soon as one side makes an exception then the other side can, all the way to full censorship of each other's opposing sides.

This is fascinating to observe in political chat rooms and message boards where anyone submitting a dissenting opinion is called a spy or troll and will be banned until there are no dissenters left.
Like I said elsewhere, I don't watch much broadcast TV, honestly have better things to do with my time. I've been successful in life so I don't see why you are insisting I need to watch this show.

I get my news and current affairs elsewhere.

Edit: I'd also like to add that no one in my circle has ever asked me "hey did you see that thing on the Today Programme last night?". In fact very little conversation about TV programmes in general. Rather conversation involves "have you watched xyz on Netflix yet". Perhaps this is a generations thing? (I'm 40.)
Coincidentally, this novel was recently discussed on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000r4tq
In Italy the TV fee is automatically added to the electricity bill, and is IIRC non-optional.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_Italy
I don't know about TV Detector vans, but I know about Cat Detector vans...
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If I use Windows, I get a certain familiar desktop. I can change the colors and the wallpaper, but that is about it.

But in the Linux world, if I like a minimalistic appearance and the Gnome shell model, I use Gnome. If I want a powerful desktop that I can configure a lot, I choose KDE/Plasma. If I want something lightweight, there are plenty of choices.

And why are there different distros like Manjaro, KDE Neon, Ubuntu, Fedora? This is somewhat orthognal, but they all have important differences.

I don't think one "Desktop Linux" could give me the breadth of choices that multiple desktop environments can. If they were to merge and make one big enviroment, that would have to be really good because it is competing with Windows and macOS.

I used to use Gnome, but since Linux is moving in the direction you describe and homogenizing under the hood (see systemd for example), I found that current desktop Linux is no longer the radical different OS - it is just an inferior alternative Windows (for me personally, at this point in time!).
Well, I write vanila.js, place the JavaScript files into /scripts folder and the JEE, ASP.NET build does the work for me.

Zero worries about npm, node, babel, whatever is the tool of the day.

Working today, just like 15 years ago.
Such an app would/should never pass the review, just like an iOS app that intentionally crashes on iPadOS.
That's 80 kilowatts. To 'charge' a big gasoline truck, you'd put in say 20 gallons, which if done via electricity in 1 minute would be 57 megawatts, nearly 1000x more.