skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a strawman, unmoored from evidence or reality.

Here's my read, based on your supporting the blog post and your two comments:

You've constructed this fantasy as a defence mechanism. You use the classification of those with earnest beliefs that you find threatening as worse at 'actual code' and obsessed with 'work groups', and on that basis you reject those beliefs without having to introspect.

As collaboration, design, and people skills become more valued as ways to produce better software alongside sheer lines-of-code output, you fear that the power you derive from skills is being diluted.

As the corporate world realises that people who aren't men or who aren't white might matter, need to be taken into account, and might have something to contribute, you fear that maybe some of what you got you didn't deserve quite as much as you thought, and the fear of being seen as privileged makes you want to cling onto your existing power all the more.

This is an opportunity for growth. You can choose whether to create resentful posts on HN, writing off anyone who cares as a leech, or you can engage with those underlying feelings and become a better human, and better at your job.
The MIT flea was a formative thing for me - I went and bought and/or sold weird things at maybe 40+ fleas. I first saw L0pht heavy industries there. It was one of my favorite ways to meet interesting people. In fact, it was also perhaps my second favorite museum. Enigma machines, Robots, lasers…
I think there was some sort of rocket/missile guidance system there once. I didn’t realize Steve had founded it. I didn’t know him well at all aside from he seemed genuinely nice and to love what he was doing. Thank you, Steve.
I don't even have a pre-wash compartment on my (not cheap) EU dishwasher. There is just a place for the tablet and then rinse aid (which I never used). And always get good results with quality tablets.
Who cares if its marketshare is above some arbitrary number so long as there's enough interest to keep development going? It doesn't matter to me what other people are using, I find Linux desktops to be the most comfortable thing for me, so I use them!

If other people are satisfied with Windows and everything that goes along with it (forced auto-updates, ads, etc) - fine! You do you. I'm happy with what I have though.
Modern UI on the phones makes discovering features really hard. One often ends up with searching obscure forums just to know very useful feature like IPhone trick with holding the space bar to move cursor.

I can understand that on 4” inch phones there were no space for extra buttons, but with 6” screens this became ridiculous. So much for “good” design.
The equivalence classes modulo some n form a partition of the integers so you can use that to create a very efficient solution with very little code.

Here is a neat explanation:

https://preshing.com/20121224/how-to-generate-a-sequence-of-...

If you need even better properties (eg cryptographically secure) you can also look at PCG with k-dimensional equidistribution:

http://www.pcg-random.org/index.html
Smart people in America have known about this for decades, the problem is that politicians benefit financially by doing nothing about this.

I don’t see a solution in sight.
That kinda makes sense from what ive seen. Thanks for the warning :)
>What's the point? Make Americans afraid to work in Russia and Cuba?

Wouldn't you want to deter spies from a fairly terrifying hostile power?

It's unclear if they did it (evidence seems thin) but the motive is definitely there, just as the motive for the Latin American "cancer gun" was definitely there:

https://english.pravda.ru/world/120158-south_america/
Dude it shows total 0... What to do about it?
> But the problem with this sort of attitudes is that governments constantly lie.

Governments do lie and there have been many real conspiracies. I don't exactly see how that is a problem with what I wrote. Sure sometimes you have to more research than just look up snopes but the real conspiracies mostly have some realistic motivations and reasons behind them to explain them. Critical thinking can get you far.

> While you need uranium to find the correct values, uranium + an old tv can tell you exactly what's being lied about and what the correct values are. Any experimental physicist leans how to do this).

Exactly, applying the scientific method to find out the truth works.

> But we are now in the situation that media in Europe are lying every day about the constant violence used by the police in Paris (and Brussels, and Madrid, and ...) against COVID-protestors. For example, just from today:

Any measures fighting a pandemic are by nature authoritarian. That can not be helped and doesn't invalidate the measures.

Covid-19 is just the beginning. The more our world is globalized the more often will we have to deal with new viruses and the like. If we don't find a way to effectively contain these challenges we are looking at a world that I don't find particular worth living in. So you are barking up the wrong tree here.

> 1) people who were here were hurt.

Even this is not proven. The symptoms are very unspecific and might not be related to their work.

> 2) the state department is not helping them.

Maybe because of my answer to 1.

> 3) the purpose of these denial messages is, at least in part, to justify 2).

Again the whole arguments fails apart of as the 1st point is not proven.
It’s only the cold water entering the hot water tank that provides pressure for the hot water to flow, so if you turn off the cold water inlet, you still can’t use the hot water already in the tank, by the laws of Newton and Bernoulli.
AltDrag has been one of the first pieces of software I install on a Windows machine for years now. Such a time saver.

As we're a little OT here, I might as well recommend you check out GridMove which moves windows to predefined positions on any of the screens with a press of a hotkey.
If Apple can have 78% margin, why workers cannot?
John Baez: “Mathematics in the 21st century”
The cleanest wash I have even gotten in a dishwashing machine is using a small dab of liquid dish soap (like you would use to wash by hand) instead of "real" dishwasher soap. I don't use it regularly because others either think it is nuts or would use too much on the few nights I don't load the machine. I have up trying to justify it and just use tabs for political reasons but the fact is I got a great wash for way less product. Something to note: commercial dishwasher machines (food service) use liquid soap (automatically dispensed, of course).
I think I’ve been fairly forthcoming as to how I feel about this issue. I’m not trying to coat it in neutrality — I just think trying to be evenhanded here engenders better discussion than coming at it aggressively. You made it a point to stress that you were asking sincerely, so I responded accordingly.

The point about Judeo-Christian (or just Christian, if you’d like) norms is actually the root of the matter here, if you’ll bear with me for a moment. It seems like we can agree that there is a significant Christian influence in the laws and culture of the US, so let’s go from there.

That influence is the lens through which we have to view your notions of “language neutral” and “language altering”. Language naturally evolves to accommodate human necessity, including culture and norms. The state you’re referring to as neutral is a norm that was created by Christians specifically to accommodate Christian beliefs. So asking to respect the norm in cases of conflict isn’t really “neutral”, at all — you’re actually asking to revert to a state that was created to privilege your belief system.

You’re right about an influence being present in any country, and we can probably find similar examples elsewhere. For example, some Muslim-majority countries harbor negative views about women in the workplace. Imagine a man saying that working with women is an affront to his religious beliefs, and why should the historical norm give in to new trends?

Ultimately, though, no one is being forced to change their beliefs — just to be accommodating of those who don’t share them. This brings us back to figuring out who must acquiesce to whom. But here’s another place where we seem to be on the same page: the pronoun issue and the marriage example are equivalent if we ignore the status quo.

Should the status quo matter? Here (and in most cases) I think the answer is no — definitely not without considering who created it and whom it benefits.
Gnome 3 is by far one of the most modern approaches to desktops and personally i dig the look.

Imo these days where foss ment ugly gui are slowly over
Incredible read.
Whatever dude, enjoy your rooted device.
Same. I just opened my wash machine to check - no separate compartment for prewash.
Bob looks really cool. I'd 100% buy one and use the "DRM" detergent capsules until they went out of business, just to support them. $2K over 12 years is not enough to bother.
xarray has some wonderful docs for that. http://xarray.pydata.org/en/stable/

Well, mostly about time series in general, not anomaly detection specifically. For more general advice about best practices for this type of ML, you might like “rules of ML”: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/guides/rules-...
As a product design lead, your comment and the comment you’re replying to reflect my experiences both with open source and with commercial development. For me, part of the solution has been learning how to communicate with developers. I’ve also found it helpful to broaden the scope of UX I consider to include the developer experience, data processing workflows, and the design of CLI and API interfaces.
Not sure if apple really can be considered modern in a space developing as fast as that. From my pov apples ui is still the dated sister everyone is trying to copy from
You know, I would support a law that requires everything on Amazon basic to be entirely vertically integrated in the country that it is being sold in. For example, consumer batteries, where everything is mined and manufactured in the specific country.

Because, if it is on Amazon basic, there is no new intellectual property protecting it, so it should be a commodity that is completely optimized. Companies need to move on and make better things, protect them with IP, and then Amazon can’t just copy it and make it a basic object.
People asked for the feature. The company gave a reasonable explanation of why they didn’t want to do it—-that it would increase the burden on them. As a very reasonable compromise they coded up the feature and are offering it to actual customers. That way they can offset the extra burden with money, again from actual customers. Nothing about this is unreasonable except the massively entitled whining.

This should be cross posted to r/BeggingChoosers.
> Don't develop with nonfree software and tools.

Don't try to dictate to others how they should work, as though you're some kind of oracle on the topic.

I'll decide (together with my employer, when appropriate) what software and tools to use, based on a range of factors. Free-ness may be one of those factors, but it doesn't get to unconditionally veto everything else.
It makes sense that customers can sue Amazon directly. Otherwise any party in the supply chain will point to their suppliers until you end up at the sweatshop worker in Asia.
This only applies to new items, an antiques consignment store has completely different liability rules.
end of this year release? I will buy parallel
Keyboard interface software [video]
Obligatory reference to Hy / Hylang, a Lisp that compiles to the Python AST.
Good idea, I'll make the logo
I agree with you, but I think discoverability for me is a lot more critical for software I use infrequently versus something I'm glued to several hours a day.
I spent years working on the Ubuntu phone. It was a fully convergent device: by default it would present a phone UI, but plugin an a keyboard and screen and it presents a full desktop UI. The UI was designed by a team of brilliant professional designers and it was a technical success.

Why isn't it around any more?

(1) The carriers. Many people get a free or heavily subsidized phone from their carrier, who makes money from the data charges. Carriers were just not interested in phones from smaller manufacturers, and it's not entirely clear that there is no backflow of cash involved at higher levels. There is also the issue of controlling access to user metadata, always a profitable exercise.

(2) The manufacturers: why would they put a third-party OS on their phone when they control the entire stack from the silicon to the end-user's metadata through their in-house Android fork? They can sell hardware at a negative margin if they can profit from selling access to metadata, or possibly data.

(3) The apps. Developers want to target the biggest, most lucrative markets so they target Android and iPhone which already have a critical mass. You could provide a container to run Android apps on Ubuntu, but then you end up with no differentiating factor except your Android apps look like crap in desktop mode. Running in a container can also restrict the kind of data collection many apps rely on for monetization.

Another problem with apps is that many web services check to see whether the device is iPhone or Android and respond accordingly. Like the browser checks of yore ("you need at least IE 6 to use this site, try updating to a newer browser!") this gives a less satisfactory experience to end users.
Oh - just like punk did?
> What's more, the 5L detergent can last well over 3 years of daily wash, while the rinse aid can last almost 12 years! Over those time you would have spent £2088 on Bob cassettes, and who knows if they will even be around then.

They certainly will be if even a small percent of their customers buy into their ridiculous subscription model. Look at those sweet, sweet margins!
I’m sorry but this is just appeal to emotion that does not match the current reality of Bitcoin. In what way is Bitcoin “sound”? It’s volatile, opaque, and at the peak of the frenzy (i.e. when usage was high) transactions were both expensive, and slow.

I don’t see how the existence of BTC prevents the US Treasury from printing money. In some theoretical scenario maybe, but not in actuality. And I don’t buy that BTC is going to empower “the little guy”. Coinbase, the most accessible way to trade cryptocurrencies is now beholden to Wall Street and there are concerns about the amount of control China has over BTC [0]. The same people in control now will try to retain if the rules of the game change.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoin-wont-win-worldwide...
The whole story of Polymeropoulos' visit to Russia is pretty odd even aside from his strange symptoms and the apparent attack. https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro... It sounds more than a bit like the farcical UK police visit to Moscow to investigate Alexander Litvinenko's poisoning https://news.sky.com/story/skripal-poisoning-police-must-be-... , which also saw the investigators becoming mysteriously unwell https://www.itv.com/news/2017-04-12/british-detective-i-was-... . Of course Cameron's UK government was reportedly not really that keen on having to do much about Russian espionage in the UK. You'd have to wonder if the Trump administration was likewise not really all that firmly behind the people they send to Moscow, or if the CIA's Russia experts saw trouble coming and managed to duck out of the asssignment, or perhaps both.
Lifestyle business is where you want to be to have band of brothers or fellowship ideology and rhetoric. DHH has always been a proponent of lifestyle business.

In the corporate world fellowship is rarely discussed and for good reason. I don’t believe most people are blinded by corporate rhetoric; some genuinely want to participate in missions and want to find others who think similarly.
Mobilizon: Open-source Federated alternative for event hosting
Those aren't new products.
Let's be clear, the 'activism' in question (at basecamp) is anti-racism. And if anti-racism is a competing cult, then you might want to switch sides.
It sounds like the Japanese 2000 yen note (although that's worth about $20). I was given lots of them when I changed money before a trip to Japan, but had some trouble using them because no one seemed to believe it was real money. A bus driver actually had to ring through to someone to verify it.

Reading the wikipedia article about them it seems I might have been better off selling them on ebay :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_yen_note
Wasting massive amounts of mostly carbon-producing electricity as the planet dies to do absolutely nothing productive is a pretty cyberpunk evil megacorp thing to do, agreed.
yea when it comes to diet, I think longevity studies can usually provide the most useful insights (although usually pretty generalized). You can do a diet for 5-10 years and not see the ill effects until that far in. Anyone who tries to sell you on a way of eating that has only been done en masse (relatively speaking) for a few years is a bit suspect.
No, not rinse aid. The video discusses the way dishwashers work; most of them have two distinct cycles, one spraying off most of the loose food, draining the tub, and then another, which has its water recycled.

Most dishwashers are designed to have a little detergent in the first cycle and then most in the second cycle. The detergent from the first cycle becomes available to the water immediately, the detergent for the second cycle is the part that you put in the compartment.

If you want to know the details, watch the rest of the video. Or, if you don't want to do that, read your dish washer's manual. Maybe yours was designed without to forego detergent in the first cycle, because people have switched to pods anyway. Maybe it wasn't, and you can get a hygiene boost by using powder instead of pods.

If you use detergent pods, one of your cycles won't run with anything but water. If you put the detergent in the tub, the longer, second cycle runs without detergent. If you put the pod in the little compartment, the first cycle is much less effective than it can be.

Many machines are still designed for powder or gel detergents that you put into both compartments. You can get the same dishwasher performance by using two dishwasher tablets per run (one in the tub and one in the compartment) but that'll use up way more detergent than you actually need.

Rinse aid is for maintaining your dishwasher, that's something different entirely.
Are microwave attacks something that is proven to exist? Can we replicate the effects on mice from some distance? Given the fact they pass through walls, this kind of bounds the frequency range the attacks could exist in... I would expect to see radio interference on nearby devices, etc (even if operating on a different frequency).

I wouldn't be entirely surprised if these could be self-manifesting symptoms from people experiencing burnout, etc. I think there is an example where some town put up a cell tower and everybody started complaining about headaches, despite it being turned off. I think all possibilities should be considered.

Honestly, if I were to attack diplomatic officials, it would be far easier to get them to ingest something. A slow acting toxin for example that you wouldn't normally be searching for on a postmortem - especially if all you're trying to achieve is to impair their mental agility to better your position in talks.

I know people working in foreign Countries who purposely pay more money for Western-import food to avoid accidentally doing this to themselves. In poorer locations you cannot be sure where or how the food was grown. For all you know it comes from an old lady's garden who lives next to the chemical processing facility. Locating the source of food in an completely un-tracked market will be near impossible.
Yeah I'm in the UK and the tablets are all I've seen too. But it seems that e.g. a tablet plus a small amount of pre-wash power or similar may perform much better.

I suspect we're just much further along in this cycle compared to the US - where manufacturers have accepted that people like the tablets and that's that. There's still the opportunity to get better cleaning with this knowledge though.

It's worth noting there's no need for a pre-wash compartment. They do the exact same thing as if you just put the detergent into the "tub"
This is pretty lame for a government to do. People pay huge taxes there for policies that 5 yo could come up with. What all those advisors get paid for? If I was Australian I would demand my taxes back.
> I just... do not understand how smart, even _brilliant_ people, the sort of people who know enough to make something like this, (...)

You can say the same about people in adtech.
Popups, weird confirmation dialogs nobody reads, configurations hidden in X different uis without console interface, the amount of screen space wasted for whatever reasons and the possibility that the wasted space contains text and icons that suddenly start to blink and move (attention seeking apps), ....

I feel distracted working on Windows or Mac. As if someone is putting stones everywhere and i have to mangle inbetween
This didn't read like gambling, just a lot of work.
I wanted to post an alternative approach to 'rules lawyering' in Judaism in contrast to the 'loophole' approach taken by some comments in the thread:

God does not have a vendetta against elevators. God decreed specific sets of rules that make actions on the Sabbath forbidden, as interpreted by rabbis over the generations. When new situations arise the rules are applied to the new situation to see whether it is permitted or forbidden. Sometimes, like with elevators, the consensus is that the new situation is forbidden. In such a case, if there is good reason, the question becomes: "is there a way that we can tweak the situation so that it doesn't fall into the forbidden category?". For elevators, the answer is yes.

This still follows the spirit and letter of the law, because the spirit of the law really only applied to the reasons that made the elevator problematic in the first place and not to the whole concept of elevators.
great work. I love projects like these. Having fun, saving money and thwarting what are effectively rent-seekers.
It's how the Great Game is played. It's never been a secret.
Yes, I guess it is fine if that is the flow. I just didn't expect it upfront (my bad).
Good UI design usually comes from one person knowing what they are doing and the programmers willing to follow. In OSS people are often motivated by full control.
Just root your device. root is needed anyways e.g. for proper backups.
The Linux kernel has surpassed one million git commits
His page links to a YouTube review of the Bob where the reviewer claims that it gets things cleaner than it's possible to do by hand, especially irregularly shaped items like electric grill parts. And yes, the dishwasher uses at most 3L, while he estimated sink washing used 10L, not including the 1 min. of running water wasted waiting for the hot water to arrive.
An Analytical Study of Non Farm Payroll Releases and the Effect on GBP/USD
Just want to point out that this argument is not universally accepted by modern halachic (Jewish law) authorities.

Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, a very prominent orthodox Jewish halachist held that closing/opening an electrical circuit does not constitute the biblical prohibition of building and destroying.

Instead, he held that that electricity was prohibited "Rabbinically" for an unrelated reason (which is of a lower degree of severity, which has practical implications).

Notwithstanding this, if one say, turns on an incondescent lightbulb I believe that is biblically prohibited according to all because of the heat it generates.