skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have your car at the mall or are in a big city parking garge, sure it doesn't do much.

If you live in the rest of the United States, which is spread out and some quite rural, a car alarm can quickly notify you someone is messing with your car.

My town has a population a little over 300 people, we have one resident that is... not well... that rides his bicycle around even int he dead of winter and pounds on peoples doors screaming that the government is coming (he did this Saturday to a woman who finally called the county sheriff), a few weeks ago he pulled a battery out of a forklift at a local business's dock and proceeded to smash it on security camera, rides up to people that are out and about screaming nonsense at them, etc. Then factor in "kids being kids", the people that were spotlight poaching deer from the highway - shooting in the direction of houses - a month or so ago, etc and car alarms are just one of those handful of things that actually do come in handy in some places.

Even in high school in the early 2000s I had someone break into my car in the driveway at night in a cookie-cutter edition and go through my car. With an alarm we'd have known they were doing it.

Several years later I had someone crawl under my truck, cut the fuel line, and after taking all the gas they could get using a piece of tape to try and hold it back in place (I actually had this in my Facebook memories yesterday), a car alarm may have alerted me to that.

Then my mother's boyfriend passed away around the same time. Someone flat out stole his decades old beater out of the driveway at night, again an alarm would have alerted them to it. Unfortunately for the thief the brakes barely worked and they didn't get very far before plowing into another car and taking off on foot.

Car alarms definitely serve a purpose, and I don't need Popular Mechanics to justify them or not.
I really like the idea of running an OS like PureOS or other open source, Linux OSes on my phone. In practice though, there are always apps that I need in modern life that only exist for iOS or Android. The carsharing app I use, a few of my banks, and some apps I need for work, etc, all only exist on Android. Is there any solution for running an Android VM inside a Linux phone in order to use these apps that I need that aren't available for Linux?
Culture in general is the elephant in the room--it's not really about money. Middle-America sees a bunch of obnoxious elites who openly ridicule and hate their values, lecture them about voting against their interests, and hand-wring about how to "educate" them into submission. Resources aren't going to buy happiness in this environment.
Ebook formats are mostly HTML and (a strictly limited subset of) CSS. So, given that a book will eventually be rendered down to HTML, markdown isn't really that bad of a choice.

Especially since things like tables can actually be useful, depending on what you're writing.
"Apps get removed from these app stores all the time, but more than almost any past move by these companies, this one has brought the power Big Tech companies wield over everyone’s lives to the minds of every day people."

Everyday Nazis, more like.
They're not losing money fast enough on x86?
For Turkey, the limit is 1M daily users from Turkey.

If you are beyond this limit, you are required to have a representative or the bandwidth limitations are applied and fines start to accumulate. If you don’t intend to do business in Turkey, you just go on with your business and loose that market.

Oh, btw, it’s likely that they will request global content removal. If I recall correctly Youtube or Wikipedia was blocked for years because of this.
Aliases don't have short forms for their arguments, so for any serious command you'd still be typing (tabbing) a lot.
The peak endurance runner looks akin to a skeleton. The peak sprinter, bursting with life. Humans were made for spurts of activity followed by long periods of rest. Same is true for the work world.
Trying to unseat Scrivener is like competing with IntelliJ.
Not the author, nor am I affiliated with them. Have just been following on Twitter and they released this great looking course recently, just wanted to share!
In my opinion, the only thing Wickard v Filburn should be used for an example of is government overreach and misguided inclusion of n-order impacts. Growing food for your family should not be a crime. What a racket. We might as well find people guilty of conspiricy to commit murder simply because they didn't report a murderer when they saw them speeding prior to the crime. It could have stopped it!

The reason it's supposed to go that other way is because you are to be assumed innocent until proven guilty. Any benefit of doubt or uncertainty is supposed to go to the defense.
I still wouldn't push this beyond a limited number of cases where the average human can identify patterns and explain them without much doubt. For example if you want to apply this to radiology images, where the intention behind using a DL technique is to discover patterns we may not be able to notice and exploit them, the approach would probably be as labour intensive as labeling datasets.

Otherwise I overall agree with you that we should consider this where we can .. as evidenced by my snorkel link.
I really like Elasticsearch. I run it myself hosted in a Kubernetes cluster using the Kubernetes Operator developed by Elastic, so I'm one of the people who uses Elasticsearch extensively without being a paying customer, but to be fair that is part of the reason why I opted for it. I think Elastic has become victim of its own success if I may say so. Running Elasticsearch self hosted is fairly easy, either on actual hardware or VMs or in a container cluster. Their documentation is exceptionally good and the wide adoption means that a lot of issues people might run into have already been solved or answered on StackOverflow and other online forums. If Elasticsearch wasn't such a great product then Amazon would also struggle more with providing a managed version in their cloud.

I think trademark violations are pretty bad and a real punch below the belt, but I'm not a lawyer so I don't know if that is actually happening. Amazon also offers Redis as a service, so does Azure. They both have Redis in the name. They also offer MS SQL as a service, however that has a proprietary license which the end customer pays for so it's an unfair comparison. I wonder if the monetisation strategy, which is basically Elastic Cloud, is the best option for Elastic. They are essentially providing a mini managed Elasticsearch cluster which is away from the rest of the infrastructure which development teams are already maintaining. Of course they will be competing with Amazon then and likely going to lose, since Amazon has so much more. Other OSS products have found more lucrative and less costly monetisation models than operating your own cloud hosting provider. I hope Elastic will find a way to sustain themselves in a way which makes the owners happy, because their product is really good.
This is a common misapprehension. Yes, fixed precision is great for accounting (like your bank statement) but when you're making a predictive model of asset prices (or higher moments of price distributions) being off by 1 in 10^14 is not important (because your model isn't that precise anyway!) and the performance you get from dedicated floating part hardware is well worth the "loss" of precision.

This wholesale dismissal of floating point for "financial" systems ignores the real business needs which might point you toward fixed or floating point numbers. Always ask yourself - do you need to know this number to better than 1 in 10^14? Are you going to find its square root at some point? Also remember that storing fixed point numbers usually takes more bytes than double-precision floats.
> Android lets you choose which contacts app to use

How many people actually go trough the trouble of getting a third party contacts app?

> does not require you to log into any accounts at all to use the phone

That still doesn't stop Google from processing the data that people enter. Just like the fact that even without logging into an Google account there's a ton of unique identifies to track just baked into phone hardware alone.

> You seem to be transferring what you know about iOS to Android when that does not transfer at all.

I'm not "transferring" anything, nor did anything similar happen in the 10+ years I've been using iOS phones.

None of my iPhones contact apps ever pulled account details from other Apple services to populate the phone contact with. Yet on my friends Android phone all he had to do was enter my phone number and the same e-mail address I used to register a YouTube account, and Google matched and linked those two together to populate the contact with my YouTube profile picture.

Which means that somewhere in the massive Google database these two identifiers will now be linked, even tho I specifically went out of my way not to give Google my mobile number.
That's certainly what it looks like Elastic is trying to imply, but their revenue was over $400 million last year.
> This fellow seemed to not realise he was living in a democracy and had been doing so his whole life.

Just because a law is passed in a democracy, doesn't mean it is moral. A law that requires all members of an ethnic or political minority to be arrested should be resisted no matter how "democratic" it is. (I'm not saying a voluntary boycott of Parler is equivalent to that, just that "living in a democracy" isn't, by itself, a complete justification).

> the trouble we're going through now is a direct result of allowing hate-filled people to form bubbles

If the problem is online bubbles forming, then maybe you should be objecting to Parler blocking criticism of right-wing views on its platform (in other words, suppression of speech is the cause of the problem, not the solution). However, to be against Parler banning left-wing hate-filled accounts but not Twitter banning right-wing hate-filled accounts raises the original concern that the person deciding which speech to ban might have political biases.

> Conservatives seem to just not get democracy, and as a result see the Government as something distinct from themselves.

To be fair, in many countries (particularly the US) the electoral system (not to mention lobbying) causes quite deliberate divergence between what the majority of the people want and what the majority of politicians want. Also, to steelman the view which you assign to "Conservatives", it's worth considering that societies should care not just about democracy but about liberty as well, since "we can pass this law" doesn't always mean "we should pass this law".

> If you live in a democracy, you don't fear your government

What a wonderful world that would be. As explained, not every democracy is as representative as you might hope, and not every person even in a perfectly representative democracy can feel safe from their government.

> if not immediately, then in four years time at most.

The Nazi party actually lost seats in the November 1932 German federal election, which was considered free and fair, but just two months later the party had seized power. Also, if we're making international comparisons, UK general elections only occur every five years.

Finally, to give a recent example of how "silence" is used in political discourse, let me give this example:

> High-profile barrister says 10th arrest warrant for Duterte critic showed the Philippines was trying to silence Ressa

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/19/amal-clooney-d...
There are plenty of apps that don't have a web version. Like the carsharing app I use, for example. Only exists for Android and iOS.
(As has been said many times already...)

FB tries to moderate the violent comments, Parler did not.
Looks like I had the same idea, although I admit yours looks a bit better :)

https://paint.wtf/ranking/IdF9/XTLr1H02fW1vegFtR7rb
Parler is back up (as a website) and could even host a APK for Android. In addition, there are multiple Android stores as alternatives to the Play Store.

For years people have griped over this "fragmentation".

Google, Apple, and others are much too powerful. I cannot deny that. Something really needs done. However, they made the right move. It's not "censorship", and yes you do have options if you're the type that wants garbage like Parler.
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Lots of hosts offer "Wordpress Hosting" - is that fundamentally different from offering Elasticsearch?

I don't think merely using the name of an open source product is such a huge ethical issue? It's the same all those Wordpress hosts do.

The other things (claiming a cooperation exists, stealing from commercial code) seem more questionable, but also unrelated to the actual open source license.
I get burned out from going in, not staying home, and from working on useless, bait and switch tech like GastbyJS, etl al.
You can apply for exemption [0] - needs to be reconfirmed every 2 years and sometimes more often if TVL/Capita thinks there 'might' have been changes you did not report (e.g. you subscribed to a service that participates in their reporting scheme - NowTV is one of the providers that reports their customers). You pay nothing if you qualify for one of the four exemption bases.

Note: if the exemption lapses without a new one in place (or a license purchase), they will actually send goons to 'investigate' after a short period.

[0] https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/t...
Like you said something like 5G causing cancer 30 years down the line would be very difficult to pinpoint as a cause of 5G, due to hundreds of other factors.

Either way, if you're worried about 5G, you should be worried about terrestrial TV airwaves as well.
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>It was written by one guy and it was based on previous open source code in Lucene.

That "one guy" is the CEO and founder of the company. You are making it seem like some guy developed an open source database, and a company later came around and built a business out of it, when that wasn't the case.
When your DNS provider removes your record...

When your cellular connection becomes an app...

When your contact list is removed or hidden...

When your text app is locked...

When your ISP kills your account...

When your webhost provider deletes your site and/or content...

When they selectively track your location and post it to political groups they support...

When your car GPS stops navigating.

When your car won't start to support a suggested lockdown they support...

When your cable channel drops all "opposing" news media...

How much of Orwell's 1984 do you want?
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The actual essay[0] is more tempered than the linked news release would suggest, and sounds like Professor Frank is hedging more than anything. The precise technology used is a complicated by 5G using different frequency bands between countries[1], even between providers [2]

[0]: https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/04/jech-2019-2135...
[1]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/upgrade-now-or-wait-canadas-5g-se...
[2]: https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-vs-at-t-vs-t-mobile-vs-spr... (Although this article is old enough things may have changed)
Refusing to host Nazis isn't "oppressive".
> Ironically, Britain’s relations with the EU unraveled when its self-iden­tity was under stress, with Northern Ireland and Scotland increasingly like­ly opting to secede from the UK, a fracture along ancient cultural lines that’s the norm for modern societies.

This isn't a symptom, it's the cause (imho). Brexit was only popular with nationalist English people. Because England has been submerged into Britain the longest (to the point that being English is almost synonymous with being British), and actually having any kind of English nationalism is actually pretty new.

The UK was always a reluctant, annoying member of the EU, because we basically thought of ourselves as The British Empire and the EU as a trade treaty and nothing more. Germany and France make no secret of their desire for political union, and that's not really compatible with the British. We have to get rid of the British Empire before we can properly join the European one.

So I believe that the UK will break up in the next 10 years or so. Scotland will be the first to go, and rejoin the EU immediately. That will trigger Northern Ireland (re)joining Ireland as it becomes clear the UK isn't actually a thing any more. The Welsh will take a good long look at themselves and decide to stay with England after all.

Then England-and-Wales (just "Britain" again I guess - the old Roman territory) will rejoin the EU. Now that the English are free of the dreams of Empire and are no longer submerged into Great Britain, we'll be able to contribute to the European Adventure and stop being such awkward holdouts.

That's my take on Brexit, anyway. I'll be fascinated to see how it all goes. Especially since I'm living in Berlin and it's starting to matter ;)
You can craft the implication with clever rhetoric. You can imply that holding the lambasted beliefs would only be done by someone mentally-ill or mislead, maybe even the ideas are so ridiculous that it is likely those purporting to hold such beliefs are disingenuous and have more sinister motives.
related blog post: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2021/01/remedia...
Women of Color, Long Shut Out, Are Transforming Congress
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This is a pretty interesting approach, but what is the point of it being open at all if it is prohibitively difficult to develop on without tests?

To me it seems like a happy medium of being accessible while still protecting your livelihood.
Non-tech people only notice these things when they blow up in their own faces
You're not wrong, not feeding a child is neglect and we've had cases like that.

However, once we say, as a society, that someone is not allowed to have a child because they don't make <threshold> amount of money, that will lead us down a slope I don't think we want to be on.
I applaud the author for keeping everything text file based.

In general, I think we should strive for non-proprietary, standard file formats.

Isn't docx far too one-sided and controlled in that regard? I wonder if anyone has some info on the "state of affairs" for the "document format race".
Seems a better goal to work towards than the warring alternative that is the entirety of human history.
No, open a browser and you can go to http://thedonald.win and you'll be free to say anything there, so long as it fits their narrative - otherwise they will ban/block you; I hope the irony isn't lost on people that they want to be able to "censor"/block people, but don't want others to be able to block them.
There are some really good corporate pilot gigs flying business jets (or event just turbo props) and back country flying in the pacific northwest of the US. Bush flying in remote areas... firefighting flying as someone else mentioned. Ag pilot is also pretty awesome on video but the exposure to chemicals is concerning. There are a lot interesting piloting jobs other than commercial. But even with "just" commercial at the majors the travel and salary is amazing (after a lot of crappy pay at regional outfits).
Oops, sorry. I didn't even notice that it can be read that way too.
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> Ideally, it should be a few emails spread across a longer period, such as one month before, two weeks before and five days before.

That's a great suggestion, I'll try to make that happen.

> key features will be disabled unless renewed

It just disables advanced "curators" which happen during import.
Your library is still browseable, and all prior tags exist, it's just that new assets aren't tagged with the "plus" taggers. As soon as the subscription is renewed, it'll automatically reapply the "plus" taggers.
If Parler violates the ToS then Twitter surely does as well. But, since [0]Twitter pays Amazon an obscene amount of money they are immune. Facebook is in a similar position where they've been [1]enjoying the rewards of 'selective non-enforcement' for a very long time now.

I probably disagree with just about everything ever said on Parler but it's difficult not to point out this absolutely reeks.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-15/twitter-w...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/capitol-riot-a-rocket-ship-f...

EDIT - I can't tell if the downvotes are people mistakenly believing I'm defending Parler or because they believe that $Big_Tech is free of blame.
Right... only most of the world's population...
> Prohibiting your users from participating in a discussion, because you don't like their political views should at least be recognized as a shitty thing to do.

Framing this as purely based on political views is disingenuous at best. No one is getting banned because they don't like the tax rate, or because of their view on universal healthcare.
I love powershell because I have a basic working knowledge of Linux commands. In bash this means I have to google a bit for even slightly complex things like 'change the extension of all .swp files under this directory'.

In powershell the short syntax tends to be noisy but I usually can start with the linux commands and muddle through with tab completion:

ls -r *.swp | % { mv $_ ($_.FullName -replace ".swp$", ".swap") }
> In some ways.

In pretty much all ways, and unquestionably so in aggregate.

> Some worries both my great^70 grandparents and I share:

Sure, but the degree to which those are immediate worries to you is (on average) significantly less intense than it would have been at pretty much any other point in history.

My father's family skipped meals.
My grandfather dropped out of school. Elementary school. I don't see how this is even a contentious point.

> The first worry is an economic problem that could be solved this year if all governments agreed to guarantee it.

If you're arguing that welfare is mostly broken for no good reason, I agree wholeheartedly, but by and large, in most of the Western world, it's overwhelmingly likely that you won't starve nor lose access to shelter or medical care, even if you're out of a job for an extended period of time.
FB is the reason why this event happened. People went there to talk with friends & family but were instead fed an endless stream of divisive, outrageous and false garbage to generate "engagement" for years. No surprise some of them went nuts.
I also switched to Fastmail and love it. Is their iOS app really native? It's my only real gripe with the service - I find it has a web/hybrid app feel to it. The components don't feel native, and I find their table row swiping gesture to be a bit flaky.
Did you read the blog post? They are mad about trademark violation and an allegation that their commercial code has been ripped off by Amazon through a third party. They have Elasticsearch trademarked and you can't use their name with your name on it. In their mind, it is a violation.
Yes. Working from home has really hurt my business and social life. There are some tasks and interactions that are just better in person.
Can I suggest AABS? Anything Agile But Scrum
That's a nice fantasy you're having. What magical power is supposed to ensure that whole "equally reach weighted" part? Because I'll lay 10:1 odds that guaranteeing that would be much more oppressive than a one-time temporary ban on a Nazi app.
What kind of pointers were you expecting?

I found it to have quite a lot of useful pointers. Specifically –https://static.docs.arm.com/swog309707/a/Arm_Neoverse_N1_Sof...

https://static.docs.arm.com/ddi0487/ea/DDI0487E_a_armv8_arm....

- these two docs gives lot of useful information.

And the repo itself contain a number of examples (like ffmpeg) that have been optimized based on these manuals.
I really wish there was a way to disable the panic button on my key fob. It has a hair trigger and only requires one click to activate. I regularly trigger it by bending over with my keys in my pocket.