skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if that military has other plans, well, learn to live under the new regime. I always think how fortunate western Europe was to have the US force them into democracy and freedom for the individual. Many don't agree with that, but if left to either the Nazis or the Soviets, we'd all be living under some sort of authoritarian regimes to this day.
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervisor_Mode_Access_Prevent...
> a new ethnic stalemate between a racially mixed working class and a white elite

*sigh*

It's really hard to take seriously anyone with the opinion that there are no working class whites.
I mean yes, they aren't cheap, I've been there a couple of times before, but lodging costs in Japan are sky high as well, which is more my intention.
There are multiple Proof-of-Stake networks already running successful DeFi projects.

Harmony One, Polygon, Fantom to name a few (Polkadot/Substrate is growing quickly, too). ETH2 is obviously going to be the big one, though.
I smoked for many years, then one day just quit smoking, without any reason.

Did not smoke for more than 10 years, until a major disaster hit my life and I started to heavily smoke again.

So yes, it seems that there is a switch.
Jumping is not always necessary. You can get an idea of possible designs for fish ladders from the photographs in the section "Types" in the article.
I smoked for 10 years and quitting was difficult (but not THAT difficult - don't even get me started on the "it's harder than quitting heroin" nonsense). But now, 9 years since quitting, I don't even think about it anymore. It doesn't follow me around, I don't constantly fight the urge to smoke. I'm not "always" an addict. It's gone. It's in my past.
> I didn't knew for example that using Bluetooth while the app is shut down was possible.

On modern Android versions, there's some serious limitations on apps running in the background at all. In most cases, if you want your app to run in the background, you gotta put up a notification that is displayed the whole time that background service is running.

Oh and also. Scanning for bluetooth devices is a fairly battery-consuming activity as far as I can tell.
> If you start a new B2C business the only way to do inbound sales is advertisement, as by definition no one knows about your company/brand/products/services.

This is not strictly true. Inbound sales is one tactic, there is also inbound marketing (aka SEO). The tactic or set of tactics available to a new B2C business largely depends on what trade offs they are willing to make between time and money. A cash-strapped B2C could invest time in SEO, while a decently-funded competitor could invest money in paid search ads. A well-funded rival could do both while also investing in social media ads. The tactics that will prove effective will largely depend on how clear the messaging is relative to more established competitors.

> Outbound sales is (usually) impossible in B2C for cost reasons. Almost every successful B2C company is evidence that advertisement works.

Again, not totally correct because you are using terms in a non-standard way. For instance, you refer to ‘advertisement’ when you really mean ‘marketing’.

Sales and marketing as human activities, have existed from the beginning.

Advertisements, the thing so derided on HN, only became feasible (and widespread) with the help technology. In other words, all ad forms depend on a enabling technology for their existence.

The spread of printing presses eventually made one of the first ad formats—handbills—economically feasible when compared to the traditional practice of shouting to draw attention from patrons to the market square. The telephone made telesales/robocalls economically feasible at a scale that far surpasses doing cold calls on foot (i.e. door-to-door sales). Same with radio, television and ad formats enabled by the modern Web.
Unfortunately, NASA was really bad at estimating the probability of failure. Feynman famously dissed their lack of mathematical rigour in this regard.

I'm guessing most engineers' grasp of proper statistics math is worse than their understanding of factors of safety.
I hope there is a resurgence in procedural geometry. Much better to have a nice 1kb rock than an awesome 1GB rock.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear, my point is exactly the opposite: since we know commercial VR for quite some time and there's no killer app yet, maybe there won't be a killer app at all unless technology improves so much it'll look like magic (like Ready Player One).
Healthcare in the US.

I went to the ER with my partner over a bit of a scare with some intense abdominal pain late at at night a few months ago. We were mostly ignored for about two hours in an empty ER room, and she received a chest x-ray and blood work. She had to go to the bathroom and one point, and they let her take off the pulse monitor on her finger. She didn't put it back on later and it was left flatlining for the remainder of our time sitting there.

They couldn't diagnose anything, and they ended up sending a bill (after insurance) for 3k+ of "level 5" (apparently the highest) emergency room care.

I don't claim to know much about how medical billing/expenses work, but it's just really sad and frustrating.
America largely forgot about 5/18 because they never got the chance to know it: on the very same day, Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 57. I can only imagine the media frenzy after that.

Of course, in South Korea, it was never forgotten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Hel...
Some websites like Quora would go so far as to just lock me completely out with a blank page that simply says "Please enable Javascript and refresh the page to continue"

I have trouble believing that they absolutely /need/ JavaScript to load answers to random questions on what seems like a relatively static page.
SerenityOS Update (May 2021)
This story is a lot less impressive when you start learning the details.

Such as the fact that the motorcycle messengers traveled at the speed of light to instantaneously transmit orders. The fact that the salvo of cruise missiles came from boats which could not carry them, and the fact that simulator's fleet defenses were turned off to prevent them from targeting commercial air and commercial shipping.
Stoicism Isn’t and Never Was (Merely) a Rich White Man’s Philosophy
If I were looking for work-life balance, climate would be a big factor on the life side of the scale. Many of the cities in the top 10 have very long winters which might appeal to some but more warmth would be a bonus for me.
That’s an opinion.
I took it as meaning there are white, black, others, and mixed people who are working class, but elites are always white.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un bans skinny jeans
Publishers must respect researcher rights thru transparency on Open Access [pdf]
>You just object to data processing

The problem with objecting is that they claim to need to store your info for the future to exclude you from data gathering. And presumably give that blacklist to everybody else to "exlude" you.
I don't think that's what those words mean. It's saying the elites are white. That does not exclude whites from the racially mixed elite.
For analog pedals, I'd expect better results from circuit modeling.

Given the wide (and very non-linear) range of settings of a typical pedal, as well as interaction (impedance, etc.) with a real guitar and amplifier, it seems like it would be a pain to get all of the training data.

For a digital pedal, running the actual (e.g. Eventide) DSP code is just going to be better than some ML approximation.

On the other hand, I've been a bit dissatisfied with amplifier and cabinet models based on traditional DSP and physical modeling approaches, so maybe neural networks could fill in some of the gaps.
The whole problem we should avoid is that people have to pay for advertising. The best product should win, not the one with the biggest advertising budget. Advertising undermines the principles of the free market.
A Lot of Effort to Be Thrown Away: Sega's Dottori-Kun
Cool premise, catchy headline, doesn’t fit the known facts.
That's not what he means. Whites are included in the mixed mixed class.
Crashes after a few steps in creating a new character :-( (on firefox 78.10). Too bad it looked good :-)
The Apple Newton was shipping in 1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
Completely exposed to who? The US? Germany? Lithuania? Who exactly is going to take advantage of this terrain and drive an army into Russia?

Nobody, that's who.

I'll tell you what Putin's really afraid of. He's afraid of Russians figuring out that the people in the USSR who wound up aligned with the west are better off than the people who are under Putin. He's afraid of that reality creeping too close to his borders.

(Now, in fairness, it was absolutely absurd that France would invade Russia... until it happened. But if Putin wants buffers big enough to prevent that from happening, then he's going to need to control both Germany and France. There are no buffers big enough to disarm Russia's fears, unless you give them at least all of Europe. And maybe you'd have to give them the whole planet.)
Google certainly won't copy Apple here because being able to track the hell out of you is very important for their own business model. Apple can afford that because they sell hardware and services but not data.
I used to write short stories that didn't contain the letter 'e', inspired by George Perec's book La Disparition (cracking novel, highly recommended -- all the translations from French keep it up as well).

It's challenging, obviously, but also forces you to employ very unusual and unique language.
That includes foreign keys?
I guess project manager
The reason that there's no race condition is that you're not "repointing ~/.nix-profile/bin/npm", instead, .nix-profile itself is a symlink, so the entire PATH is changed atomically.
When you start a family you can move to a different part of Berlin - quieter, safer, greener, family-friendly. This is what I did, so did some families I know.

We moved from Prenzlauer Berg to Biesdorf. Our friends moved to Zehlendorf. No more loud neighbours running all-night parties, much less people under drugs. You get a sense of community, your neighbours own their houses, do not change every year, and take care of the place.
Estimated Time of Arrival Panic
Post about managing entropy when estimating software development projects
Electreon wireless' electric roads in Tel Aviv to charge cars on the go
Yes, these sites could be manipulated but that is then a second-order effect.
And Vulcan are space elves, Klingon are space orcs and Borg are space undead.

All of this stuff has inspiration from classical fantasy. That doesn't change whether or not something is SciFi or not.

There is an intersection of SciFi and Fantasy for sure, and the line gets blurred. Artificial human stories can be cyborgs, androids, clones, golems, or chimera, or even explicit fantasy races like minotaurs.

If it's an android, then it's SciFi. But if it was a clay golem made with magic (but otherwise the same story) it's fantasy.

See golem stories for instance. They explore a lot of sci Fi themes but are basically a fantasy theme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
Thanks for the feedback! We're trying our best to hunt down bugs in the port. Curious what hardware are you running on btw?

Also, try running the demo again in Chrome or Safari.
Ineffective leadership for tribes would usually lead to its destruction.
I disagree. I do apologize since the language I used may have been a little too much of a mental shortcut, but it was not intended as such.

I am not arguing fairness. I am arguing that process and laws should apply and be applied the same way for all participants. I do not think that is such a radical idea. Frankly, we would all benefit, if justice was truly blind ( long term ).
The Reality of the Old and New
Oof. I’m in the same boat as your younger self, but two years in. I simply slept bad one night, thinking to myself that I love life way too much to actively work on a sooner death than necessary. Next day I quit, never looking back. I can drink without even thinking about it.

I just hope disaster won’t strike me, or hit me as heavy, as it did you.

I hope things have turned to the better for you!
Making a Guitar
It’s kind of mentioned in the article, but to be more explicit: reducing safety factors has asymmetric risk vs reward. Reducing the factors “just” lowers cost or improves performance. But if your field is padding by 50%, then you need to tradeoff an “up to 50%” cost reduction (or similar) versus “had a catastrophic failure”.

So, reducing the padding from 5x to 1.5x was already most of the benefit. If you were at 1.2, there are probably better ways to shave costs than reducing your unexpected force multipliers. It’s definitely attractive to lower cost / increase speed / whatever if you truly think it’s “free”, but the benefits are diminishing.
How do NixOS users typically manage software that is not a Nix package, like a source code tarball where you would traditionally run configure && make && make install?
What happened to the original book?
I’m pretty sure OP is referring to Photos for macOS Preferences > iCloud > “Download Originals to this Mac” - you can move your .photoslibrary file to an external or network drive if you need for space reasons.

Then all your files can be accessed with the .photoslibrary file context menu, “Show Package Contents”, “originals” folder.
I can appreciate this. I've written thousands of articles in Sublime Text. Sublime is not my favorite editor for coding, I prefer IntelliJ there, but sublime is beautifully simple for writing and basic editing. Being able to refactor the story, by moving sentences and paragraphs the way we refactor code, is wonderful.

After I'm happy with the first draft, I'll drop the text into google docs for a second set of eyes on spelling and grammar (I find the google docs grammar check superior to any other word processor).
Came across this a while ago, and it's become something I can put on in the background just to relax a bit while working.
No distracting music, no over-the-top narrators, just fantastic craftsmen building guitars.
In one picture: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/29/sao-paulo-inj...
Indeed, and General Magic was working on similar concepts. Psion was doing well. The first Palm PDA came out the same year, 1996. The DynaBook concept had been around for decades. It’s all about execution.
It seems that Heathkit may have been revived somewhat:

https://heathkit.com

Now I want to buy their surface-mount soldering ruler! ;-)
It feels like VR is 5 years away forever.

Realistically, I feel like there are two near-intractible problems for widescale consumer adoption.

1. The space problem. For some experiences, yeah, you can sit in a chair and wear a helmet, but I'd expect many of the more compelling immersive experiences would involve flailing your arms and moving around. That's a recipe for disaster inside a small apartment without dedicated space-- you're gonna trip on something or break something. I seem to recall some designs for an "omnidirectional treadmill" to keep someone contained while giving them more room to roam, but that's a whole different thing to design and perfect.

2. The motion-sickness problem. I'm not sure if tracking will improve to the point where this isn't the factor it is now, but I'd expect some people are going to always have issues because of an conflicting sensory experiences-- the helmet says you're being blasted into hyperspace, but your stomach and legs say you're standing still.
Is there anyone out there discussing things like Ecash in the cryptocurrency space, or has blockchain essentially eaten all those brains in the short term?

Just seems like Ecash got so much right in terms of the properties one would want for digital cash...
Please don't call people "Russian and Belarusian propagandists" just for pointing out political hypocrisy.

As for the differences they seem like technical legal details that do not really change the situation.

But if you want other similar cases then here is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Lauro_hijacking#Interc...
It is only a problem for single planet species. Advanced multi planet or multi system civilizations may worry less about that than we do.

Also if the bio diversity dropped, and people are used to living in closed ecosystems to limit damages from such harmful chemicals, over long enough period everyone will forget what was there before , further making bad things will not impact their quality of life anyway.
“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch”
> It seems like the timing of things is such that by the end of your 25 year mortgage the house is worth $0. Ok.

> So what happens if after this point you want to borrow against your house?

You… don't? You never did? What do you fail to understand in "the land is worth money, the house is not"?

> In NA nbd since the bank knows it can sell the house. In Japan is the bank squeamish about whether they can sell the house because the house is "worth $0."

Japanese banks are squeamish either way, but they can sell the land. The land is not worth $0.

> Similarly I wonder if you wanted to buy a house that is "worth $0" is the bank only going to give you a mortgage if you are going to knock it down and build a new house?

You're not buying a house, you're buying land, which has a house on top of it, which you may want to replace.

When you buy a car you buy a car, you don't buy the seat upholstery, and you can replace that. Well the land's the car, it's the actual thing.
While the first sounds fine, I don't see how you could reasonably consider the second one anything but a complete waste of everyone's time.
Assuming you can find a buyer for enough of those individual cuts yes. If most of them have no buyers you're better off selling burgers which I think was the point.
I still believe that the anti-trust case against Microsoft completely changed the course of history.

Microsoft was left a shell of its former self, a wolf without fangs, tired and exhausted from a battle of attrition, with the biggest casualty being Gates himself who lost the inner drive to lead such a huge company.

I do hope he plans to write a detailed biography one day, so that we can see what his thought process back then was.

Apple wouldn't even exist honestly today if the anti-trust case wasn't launched against Microsoft.

That is the very reason I cannot wait for Apple to get launched with its own anti-trust, who knows what company will come to take it's mantle.
Re-useable stuff: we have these silicon containers as a substitute for sandwich bags, they are ridiculously expensive. Cloth diapers vs disposable. Places where there is kind of an inversion, and the re-useable version, which at some point would have been used by those too poor to get something disposable (like diapers) is now a luxury item.
> A simple no would have sufficed.

Actually, I think it is pretty important that they explained that they are an expert in the field, and that you, a not expert, don't really know anything about the space, and thus your opinion is quite literally, not as informed as theirs.
Well that was a wikipedia link that felt ill to read. Assuming accuracy my apologies for the doubt.
Interesting. I use commercial softmaker on Linux. They offer a scaled down free version: https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

If you look for an odd program try this:
https://www.papyrusauthor.com/

Made for professional writes. Last time I tried it, I must say, it was fast as f..
(Installed with WIne under Linux)
And don’t assume the democracy will stay here. It is in constant threats and can be lost if you don’t fight hard always. Just a few years ago in Korea, the very daughter of the dictator became the president and people had to fight again to expel her. I’m observing similar things happening in the US now…
It's a bizarre business model, but the aspect that is most baffling about this article is that he knew it before he signed up.

There was no bait and switch. They never said he'd be paid. He knew users of the service paid for it. They never said they'd donate his "take" to charities. These were things he knew before he signed up.

But he signed up thinking it would bring credibility/"exposure". Apparently it didn't bring enough of that, so instead he's using the feigned outrage to try to achieve the same. The charity bit is particularly weak.

Eh. There's a reason there is a lot of eye rolling. Many of the other "mentors" probably have a stake and duped guys like this into "volunteering" their time to sniff at their aura.
How to Speak Cicada
sr.ht supports Mercurial as well. And fits well with the old-school vibe.

But feel free to use SourceForge - fine by me. I just wish SF would hide unused stuff from the project page. The new UI is a ton better, but as an example, this project still has 'wiki' and 'git' links, even though they're both empty.
This started happening to me a few weeks ago; my assumption was they'd changed their paywall promo thing and my Pihole was blocking it.
I kind of get tehe argument, but at the same time my thinfoil hat says, that newly elected officials during talk with FE get the message "we will leak and/or fabricate your xyz, if you make a move against us".
The Dunce
>The root of the question is: what determines compensation at companies?

So let's say I start a company selling cars. I decide to sell my cars for $1. It's a terrible business model, and I don't make much money. So according to you, because my company makes no money, I should be allowed to pay my staff way under market. This doesn't make sense to me, despite being obviously illegal.

The amount of money you paid for labor is decided by a market. Just because I have a horrible business model of giving away cars for free does not entitle to me to underpay for labor. And conversely, if I am a good engineer working for Wikipedia, and FB offers me a much better paying job, I will probably jump ship to FB. Employee retention is a problem for any company.

Now I'm not saying Wikipedia is completely justified in paying the exact same pay grade as FAANG, but it's ridiculous to me that there are so many tears about an executive member of Wikipedia making the same amount of money as a middle manager at Facebook. We are not even comparing directors, we are comparing rank & file to the CEO of another company and people still have a problem with it.

>It's disingenuous at best to connect a nonprofit's executive staff making large salaries with raising the minimum wage

I don't see how the argument is different. I don't think engineers working at Wikipedia should make 300k because they work at Wikipedia. I don't think cashiers working at McDonalds should make $15/hr because they work at McDonalds. You are removing the value of their work simply based on where you think their social status should be,
I think both meanings are plausible in this context. "Racially mixed" could reasonably suggest "mixed race", and "mixed race" always means multi-racial in English. Mestizo is a similar term.

The author could have chosen a clearer phrasing to avoid this problem.
If you can go to another site, fill up the same cart and end up spending less money, doesn’t that sort of disprove the point the article is trying to make?
> there is little hope to save the Baltic and Taiwan if Russia and China

With a proper counterattack, they can be liberated. The war isn't over just because the attacker says so.
> it's still a requirement that you obey and openly communicate with anyone identifying themselves as law enforcement.

There is no requirement that you communicate openly with police. See: the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution.
fear of not enjoying the holiday weekend? the outside is an okay time.