skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a hell of a lot of ex office PCs that can run python for much cheaper, if not for free

There are plenty of places that would donate to a cause like this. Or to anyone willing to cart the stupid hardware away, regardless of the cause. It is only "free" if one considers their time - and somehow, the gasoline they buy - to be worthless. The hours spent soliciting offers, picking up hardware, performing admin and tech tasks on old hardware, recycling the hardware that doesn't work, rinse and repeat would better be spent preparing a curriculum for the children.

Seriously, how does the above process not sound like hell to you?
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Why does it just feel like Microsoft is copying Apple? When Microsoft launched Windows 10 it seemed like MacOS was going to stay at 10 forever.

Now that macOS has moved on to 11, but is commonly only known by named releases, Microsoft is going to do the same...

I'm looking forward to the next Windows being named after natural features of Washington state
It's not clear where the reporter got the "redesigned start menu" idea from. Reads like it's just their personal guess.

I'm also not clear on why the Win10 start menu got so much hate. I delete all the tiles and it then seems not much different than prior start menus.
Well if the current nostalgia trend is anything to go by, maybe they'll Remaster Windows 2000
This brings me back to the late 90's when folks were writing Tcl/Tk (or whatever/Tk) wrappers for seemingly every CLI.

That was silly, but this makes sense for 1-offs. You write an internal CLI, realize the userbase isn't technical enough for it, and strap a GUI to it.

I've hit that plenty with things I made for an ops team that eventually got shifted to more BA/PM-types. I've usually turned them into a web-app, but it's a lot of lifting and a "thick client" approach would be nice.

I am spoiled, though, with Click, and don't ever want to go back to argparse, though. I'll keep an eye on it, though.
I'd like to have an E-Ink tablet, but the black flash when you zoom in/out is really annoying(8:00 in the video). Is this flash inevitable with E-Ink?
The Canadian carbon tax returns 90% of its revenue as a rebate. It works great -- my family gets $500 a year, more than what we pay.

As far as the middle class paying for most of UBI, that's exactly what's supposed to happen. If you're an average taxpayer and UBI is $1000/month then your taxes should increase $1000/month.
An invisible soldier might have a hard time. I’m trying to imagine aiming a rifle when you can’t see the crosshairs. You’d almost have to run up to someone and shank them with a bayonet.
This is an implementation detail. The fact is that indexedDB API is lower level than SQL.
Why would they throw away all driver compatibility and force themselves to rewrite all the userland libraries?
I understand that. I gotta say I was blown away with how well the RM2 handles complex PDFs.

Edit: As a stress test, I just opened the most complex PDF I had on my computer – http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/pgfmanual.pdf . I think it works really well on the RM2. The gradients in some of the fancier features look ugly, but other than that everything is quite readable, and flipping pages is quite spiffy (I know some ordinary computer PDF readers sometimes have noticable loading times for certain pages in this document).
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My bad, I should have said "Copyleft" rather than "Free". Thanks for the correction.
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irssi is more or less eternal. weechat (not wechat) is more or less a less shitty irssi.
Microsoft really needs to consider building a completely new OS that doesn’t have the legacy issues that plague Windows 10. It feels like the paint cracks off as you root around each generation of interface.

By all means keep a LTS version of Windows, but draw a line.
Microsoft would never make the base of their system open source. It is fundamentally opposite to how Microsoft does business.
I think it's really hard to come up with a good metric for freedom of speech with the amount of effort you usually put into online comments. But I bet there are NGOs with various opinions on the topic that rate countries. For example Germany is #13/180 in the Reporters Without Borders ranking of freedom of press https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table, which probably correlates well with garden variety definitions of freedom of speech.
Calling it bureaucracy, whatever the implications, is perfectly fair... assuming we're talking about the subject of this article.

This is about 27 separate national governments to apply separate regulatory procedures, rather than just having Ireland's current gdpr enforcement. That's not necessarily bad, but it is more bureaucracy.
i have been wondering why blood tests have to be so expensive? See [1]

Once the human person has interacted in drawing the blood, then a few drops might be needed to do some additional tests, like check for adequate Vitamin D, etc that the doctor did not prescribe, but is still useful to know, and can be an upsell, there should be just a marginal cost to automated machines/processes doing that test.

A further improvisation is to be able to track a person's details like past history, current complaints, and make a recommendation to add a few additional tests for a few dollars each?

[1] https://www.letsgetchecked.com/us/en/home-micronutrient-test
It's terrible, isn't it? Have these people ever used SQL? Doubtful, it they had then they might know the difference between joins and cursors!
might be a joke, but the thought of being the Wise Old Men setting rules for the rest of the world plays perfectly well to our historical strengths, so to speak. Euro man burden, anyone?
What is it in tech with this obsession with consolidation? Alternatives and competition is healthy and as much as I love Linux the NT kernel is a fantastic piece of engineering as well.
I would not know, I live in Europe ;-)
Extrema do exist here though.
>> Windows 10 was released in July 2015 and dubbed "Windows as a service"

Can we please have 7 back, with its complete lack of built in ads, dark patterns ramming the Microsoft browser down your throat, telemetry everywhere (the calculator, really?), changes for the sake of showing that some manager did something rather than functionality (Rename this PC -> Rename this PC (Advanced))? Windows 10 still regularly shows clients as offline even though their internet connection is functioning normally, has trouble putting my laptop to sleep when I shut the lid (with ALL programs closed), and the recent 21H1 update caused a number of blue screens across our fleet.

Just fix your damn mess before you "hail a new era in personal computing", Micosoft.
> I went to my therapist to handle a lingering family issue and now we've come up to the ADHD talk

Ditch your therapist.
There could be consequences, btw. Like being barred from getting a pilots license in US if you'd ever acquire a taste for flying for example.
I've especially not enjoyed Windows occasionally hijacking the post-login screen to try to convince me to enable Cortana or whatever. The most frustrating thing is the only options when presented with the window were "Continue" or "Remind in 3 Days", rather than "Fuck Off". This abuse of user agency & consent is disgusting and ubiquitous in big tech.

Video games are the only thing keeping me on windows, plus last time I tried to set up a dual-boot with Ubuntu I somehow trashed the boot process of both OSs.
What's the cost of it being too easy do you think? What are you potentially missing out on?
Very optimized projects are out-competed by well-factored but less optimized projects, because the latter ones can add features faster. Thats why we are where we are today.
Congrats on the launch! Can't wait to see how online fashion retail will evolve in the near future. I was just wondering how you guys are dealing with image copyrights, did you simply scrape public images and train your model on those? And which shop owns the copyright of the product photos used for your demo? Again, congrats! Impressive product!
Doing that would take years of effort, I don't think they would be capable of keeping such a secret for so long.
This will go nowhere and everyone involved will be working for Apple and Google in a few years' time.
I'm by no means an experienced teacher, but I think the hands-on approach is the way to go for programming...
Their newest tablet already ships with Android and not windows (which uses Linux in all its GPL goodness.) I wouldn't be surprised if they just started shipping Android with some wine-like backwards compatibility environment. It sounds crappy but have you used Windows lately? You can tell that they know it's a dead end.
Sure, but what kind of disaster ux that?
I understand what you mean but one of the powers of Microsoft is, in fact, their extreme backwards compatibility and it would be very damaging if they chose to throw that out of the window.
Well, we all know the every-other-version-of-Windows-rule:

Windows 2000 - Good

Windows ME - Bad

Windows XP - Good

Windows Vista - Bad

Windows 7 - Good

Windows 8 - Bad

Windows 10 - Good

Windows 11 - ????
>This is especially true for students, which are paying money

And before anyone says "stipend" I'd like to point out that someone who could work in industry but is instead spending an additional couple years doing research is incurring a heck of an opportunity cost.
What I mean with bloated is that Golang has great limitations in how flexible the syntax is. This is not inherently bad, but it causes bloat. Scala on the other side is very flexible on the syntax side, but that causes a steeper learning curve to some degree, both in general for the language but also each time this flexibility is used.

A simple example would be datetimes. Let's say you have a Datetime library and you have to write "currentTime.plusMinutes(1).plusSeconds(5)". In Scala you can adapt it to be able to write "currentTime + 1.minute + 1.second" without even changing the original library, for better or worse. In Golang you cannot, for better or worse.

> But it's readable and maintainable, and will be that for the next decade

Well, you could say the same about Scala.
The thing is: each line of Golang-code might be easy to understand and readable. But in the end what matters is the understand the whole system or at least the part where you need to make a change. And while in Scala you pay the price of a much steeper learning curve, you also have the benefit of more concise code (see example above) which makes understanding the whole picture easy, even if every single line is harder.

But as I said, not only does it not come for free because of the learning curve. The freedom and power also can cause problems when it used correctly, so it also requires greater discipline than, say, Java or Golang.

> With Scala, and I've worked with the language and some Scala oriented developers, I get the feeling that each individual developer styles themselves an artisan, and their code is not for the likes of mortals to comprehend.

Unfortunately it is hard to tell if that is because you were not experienced enough in Scala at that time, or if someone really just messed up and abused the language (it definitely happend, even more so in the past).

> I mean the one project failed and they went back to C# / .NET after a few years because they couldn't find developers and the other one probably muddles on because of sunk cost, but still.

Yeah, you can't scala a Scala project to the next Google. That's not gonna work. But then again, I think that it makes perfect sense to have multiple languages, even in the same company. People who start out might want to use go because it's easy to learn it and get started (and still has some strong points for certain concurrency problems etc.). Eventually you want to move on and go for Rust or Scala or others. And even then, some people just prefer dynamic typing, some prefer static typing, just like some prefer pizza and some prefer pasta.
Medication helped a lot in the beginning, but what really helped in the long term was talk therapy, and setting up helpful systems and habits such as exercising, diet, journalling. But this would not have been possible without taking Ritalin in the first place. I'm mostly off-meds now.
You know, I wouldn't even mind about telemetry in the calculator if that would have told them that I activate Programmer Mode a whole lot through the Alt+3 shortcut, and that my muscle memory of 20 years was completely ruined by them moving the Programmer Mode to Alt+4 for GUI consistency (after they added a new Graphing Mode that they wanted to stick right next to the Scientific Mode).
I really wish I could get the rotating nature image on the Lock Screen without the ads. I think Google hangouts used to do this and I really enjoyed that aspect. I think Google hangouts possibly linked to Google+ photos, but they were more tasteful about it.

I don’t even know what the Windows Lock Screen ads are for, but they feel in my face. Certain attempts to log in to Windows will also open Edge.
United States' platforms on Chinese hardware sounds like everybody's problem. Except for China which has both.

To be honest, it would be nice for Europe to handle the platforms and for the United States to go back to radical innovation. The times of emacs, vi, Bell labs, Xerox and pushing the computing medium to the edge.
Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule
I don't use those features but currently you can sync it using Ratta's own cloud (which is optional by the way, no obligation to create an account), dropbox or email.
Otherwise you can copy files via USB.
There's no APIs that i know off and currently the device is not hackable so there's no alternative software.
No data on salaries aside from "do you charge per hour or per project?".
Sometimes I still use WordPerfect 6 for DOS for writing text. It's insanely fast and, as other have said, the «reveal codes» feature is awesome.

Unfortunately, its equation editor is far more cumbersome than plain LaTeX for writing equations; I would love to use it for writing course notes and textbooks, but LaTeX is so convenient… In this regard, nothing beats Emacs+pandoc.
I bought this last year during pandemic. My reading time has grown exponentially, i couldn't update sure . I like that i can use play store apps so i use kindle, libby, pocket and oreilly.
I don't see any dissatisfied tone apart from the part with "Testing your open source projects will always be free!", which turned out to be false.

> If you are being paid to make a free product, it's actually quite reasonable for the developers of tools you use to be paid too. I see absolutely no issues, ethical or otherwise, with this.

I don't think Travis was called unreasonable anywhere. The post even ends with "Thank you Travis CI for all those years of excellent service!", which I would describe as thankful, not dissatisfied. Also the "Services come and go. There’s no need to get hung up on that fact but instead keep moving forward with our eyes fixed on the horizon.".
I now have PopOS and steam is running most games no problem. I’m very pleasantly surprised how well it works
Is it #techrights?
Depending on what you consider decisive you can use 1949, 1958, or 1973 as the decisive turning point. The double recession of 1958-1960 was certainly decisive if we're looking at labor's political power. It was after that, for the first time in 70 years, that the USA began to develop a trade deficit. Please look at first chart on this page:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/employment-and-gr...

You can see that labor begins to weaken after 1960.
That's interesting, because I read PDFs (and annotate) every single day. Pinch-to-zoom works great, and it's the best PDF reader I've experienced. Can't recommend highly enough.
Pass. Windows 10 is just so much better than 7. I still don’t get why people don’t move on. I’m happier having window 10 which has never crashed on me vs 7 which did it weekly.
The German National Football team employed a bunch of computerised statistical analysis for the 2014 World Cup to play their matches. They literally enhanced their tactical and strategical plays through AI.
Calling them tech associates them with inventors and people who want to improve life.

The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma is a more accurate association. They purport to help and in some situation they do. We all love cat videos and notes from mom and dad. But they make money from addicting people. Whatever technologies they create serve that mission. They're not opposed to improving the quality of users' lives, but that's a side effect. Mostly they relieve craving in ways that recreate it.
That first line suggests it’s another layer of veneer over 25 years of turds. Gee the settings app looks nice but there’s still five different control panel implementations linked to it and some settings aren’t even available yet.

Microsoft: please just finish your shit before changing it again.
I got a diagnosis after two failed marriages, a stalled career, issues around emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity.

The diagnosis, and resulting treatment, changed my life.

Not sure it will help you given you don't seem to be suffering from it.
At Coop in Sweden, I can buy a fruit box or a veg box that is a somewhat random assortment of produce, though there tend to be some constants. This is what we have done. I have rarely bought specific fruits or veg for pick-up orders, though not never.
Nope, it looks like you're getting a hot tea and a warm meal. And the guy that's got only a smoky woodchip burner gonna have a cold water and the dry noodles :D
Young people and/or "up&coming" neighborhoods in NYC in small apartments (ie - Greenpoint, Bushwick, E Village, etc).
Go to UWS/UES/Greenwich Village and you will find very nice, very expensive, very overcrowded groceries.

So misery either way.
>By the way, does the hardware allow connecting an external keyboard?

I know for sure that RM1 hardware does allow you to connect external keyboard becase I have done it.

I can't tell about RM2 as I do not have it.
That’s interesting, do you have any other cities like that in mind?
If all you have is a ban hammer, everything looks like a flame?

I'm not sure that criticism is entirely valid, as it looks at European institutions exclusively. Surely lobby groups and their perpetual pressure on legislators play a role, too, like they would for the US House and Senate. Even with that pressure, I suppose they could "leave well alone", but then they'd be seen as uncooperative and ignoring their constituents.

I'd like to live in a world where legislators have competent cabinets and can be assumed to be reasonably well-informed, but for instance the Facebook hearings have shown there's a long way to go.

Even non-technical issues show this to be true. Case in point: the UK and Dutch governments thinking they would solve the housing crisis by giving mortgage grants to starters. Expectation: case closed. Reality: housing prices surged even more due to the cash injection.
Do you have a time stamp to the interesting bit? That video is 3 hours long.
"Hospitals were more likely to make their charge data available and to offer a shoppable services tool than to post negotiated rates or cash prices.

The bottom line: "Compliance could be limited because the penalties for noncompliance are minimal (maximum $300 per day) and the costs of disclosure potentially great," the study's authors write."

The penalty for not complying needs to be waaaay higher than $300/day for hospitals to start complying.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, that is actually a fair and surprisingly thoughtful question.

My answer would be that the landscape of the web, advertising and software ecosystems are drastically different today.
DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations
The OPEC crisis and expensive oil is not a small factor, probably.
No real help in many countries because Adderal and Desoxyn are completely illegal in the most. In fact the only thing that really helped me were small amounts of meth which is legally available (in the USA only) as Desoxyn. 1/4 Xanax + 1200mg piracetam combo also did nice job but every time I tried it Xanax felt having notably less effect. So, for some time, I settled with nicotine-heavy vape which made me at least slightly productive.
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It's difficult to believe something when the evidence opposes it and keeps growing. You can't change where you were born, but if you could it would lead to a better life more than hard work.
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to most non-brits, Britain is effectively divided between "London" and "anything else". This "anything else" can be referenced to, more or less interchangeably, as "the countryside", "Scotland" or (after Game of Thrones) "the North". Manchester is basically a London suburb, Sheffield is just a factory that closed in the '80s, and Birmingham doesn't exist.
> You realise, right, that Firefox is also not keen on implementing this api? [1] And many others [2]

Yeah, Mozilla used to be the beacon of Web standards, what happened to them? They always find some silly justification to refuse implementing a spec, like WebSQL, half of the Web Component spec, and many many other things, what gives?

Chrome might be "bad" cause Monopoly, but Google is much much more pro-active in implementing useful standard proposals.
Fannie Mae was created in 1938 so there were other factors at play in the 2008 financial crisis. Mostly sub-prime mortgages. and lenders being able to "shop" for appraisals.
contrary to what most people think, Weimar Germany did have hate-speech laws, and they were applied quite frequently. [..] Leading Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch, and Julius Streicher were all prosecuted for anti-Semitic speech. Streicher served two prison sentences. Rather than deterring the Nazis and countering anti-Semitism, the many court cases served as effective public-relations machinery, affording Streicher the kind of attention he would never have found in a climate of a free and open debate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27417789
Completely agree. Surveyors seems oblivious to the fact that people daydream on order to support reality.
Amazon is (by far) the largest single source of capital investment
Moralis – building dApps made simple
or Linux + Official Windows API? :D you never know