skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profit motive, the ability for newcomers in your market-space to challenge your position in your market, and the form of your organization.

Two people in their house,

a large, transparent non-profit advocacy organization,

a dark money lobbying org, and

a hundred-billion-dollar for-profit incumbent that acts as a pillar of human interaction for news, education and entertainment across the globe

are very different situations. It isn't as simple as scaling up numbers.
Accused of being involved.

I haven’t found any talk of evidence against this rapper. He’s a dark skinned man who was picked up by police in the vicinity of a crime.

9 times out of 10, people in that position had nothing to do with the crime. So I personally wouldn’t presume that person to be “involved” at this time.
Hopefully it takes interlaced video[1] with it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video
I thought about this a lot while considering my hardware purchases as I update to 4k displays. I think 16:9 is actually about the ideal ratio... for very high resolution and large displays. Based on my usage, I think something like a 43" 8k display would be just about ideal for me.

It's just about the right amount of space to have 3 windows open, one in the center and on each side. That's about how much content I want to have on screen at once, anyway; more quickly hits diminishing returns. You could go for a slightly larger monitor (this is personal preference), but too much larger will out the side windows at an uncomfortable angle relative to your keyboard and mouse, which can lead to neck issues.

You can approximate it with three vertically-orientated monitors, but the gaps between screens reduce layout flexibility and are not good for multimedia. So you'll end up pulling the center monitor forward and changing to landscape when you want to watch videos or play games. Also a triple monitor setup is just a lot more to set up and deal with -- cables, stands, desk space, etc.
Why not fork it and do just that?

https://github.com/lmanul/welltemperedtraveler
> I would be happy with this implication, because despite possessing female biology and calling myself a woman, I do not consider myself a two-dimensional gender stereotype. I am not an ideal manifestation of the essence of womanhood, and so I am non-binary. Just like everybody else. However, those who describe themselves as non-binary are unlikely to be satisfied with this conclusion, as their identity as ‘non-binary person’ depends upon the existence of a much larger group of so-called binary ‘cisgender’ people, people who are incapable of being outside the arbitrary masculine/feminine genders dictated by society.

I believe this is a generational phenomenon. Each generation of social activists needs to fight for something new, otherwise they wouldn't be progressive. Logically, the author is right: we're all non-binary, so the self-identification as non binary seems to make no sense. However, emotionally it is valid: it is the very recognition that one has various characteristics ascribed to both genders that makes one feel as non-binary. It's quite different from ordinary "cis" people who are non-binary without realizing that. I believe the older generation of feminists understands that, but is not willing to emotionally accept it as valid.
Quality control, time, etc. Just because you are a bricklayer doesn't mean you have to build your own fireplace.
> By 2050, the EU says, “nearly all cars and vans on the roads will need to be zero-emission vehicles.” Stricter CO2 emissions standards that came into force at the start of 2020 will be made even tougher. Newly registered cars must reduce emissions by 55-percent, compared to 2021, by 2030, and then by 100-percent by 2035. For new vans, those targets are 50-percent by 20230, and 100-percent by 2035.

Way too little and way too late. :/ In almost every opinion poll in almost every country, the public is overwhelmingly in favor of climate change mitigation measures. It's sad that this is the best our politicians can do.
Even in California you have to worry about that, should your project

Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer

Some fat cats are so big and dabble in so many things that you can never be sure
It’s almost as if, given information and a choice, people prefer not to have their eyeballs monetized.

Of course, if this catches on (and I hope it does), we ultimately run up against “people prefer not to pay for things.” Will be fun to watch.
It reads more like:

You show someone that a telephone can save them time.

They interview you about telephones.

They then decide not to pay you about applying your telephone idea tot heir system and create their own.

The value here is really in either a)the consulting or b) your telephone product being so great they can’t copy it.

His app idea if he spent 100k and only that nominal amount likely wasn’t that unique or special
They definitely come with alternate keycaps [0] or you can get replacements for your language.

My current keyboard has entirely blank keycaps, so it's not like the symbols are even necessary.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/6zvu1g...
I have seen every cover letter accompanying a job application in every company I have worked for but I have never worked for a company with more than 200 employees or so.
How in the world can this be considered reasonable for them to track you across other apps and sites? This like if the local grocery store owner would install hidden cameras to spy on me at home and at work and in the car and one day somebody forced them to ask if I'm sure that's what I want them to do.

This all makes me start feeling like I might finally want an iPhone...
Been a professional developer since 1999. Never really published anything of substance. Never had a problem finding work. That said, some of my writings have been read by hiring managers. (Even pre-blog days, like forum posts from back in the day) Writing on technical matters says more about your work and thought processes than a random git repo (most of which is likely to be framework boilerplate anyways)
Every time I travel through Germany by car and mention Netherlands as the origin or destination to the German road or Zoll police, they're turning hysterical with their "illegal substances?" questions.
Horrible argument. You make it sound like you stopping is going to cause more people to start eating, when in fact you know that's not the case.

Perhaps you're trying to articulate that it's futile - since "there are many people who do not care", but that's like stabbing a baby saying "well, in our culture many people do this already".

Individual choices matter: buying less meat reduces supply (it's what economists call elastic) - your supermarket will buy less meat when you stop consuming it, and that propagates up the chain. If not 1-to-1, it may be 1/1000 chance of reducing the next 1000 lb order - which is basically equivalent to 1-to-1 response (especially in the long run).

And finally, with all the alternatives of substitute meats (on the market now) and cultured meats (coming to market soon), you have numerous options to reduce your meat consumption. So don't hide behind panic to do something bad - that's like seeing looting in the store and saying "well, I want some of that free stuff I haven't earned - at someone else's expense, and others are doing it".
If people think immigration is a problem now they are in for a shock when Africa and South America start to feel the full effects of climate change.
You usually don't replace the battery of an EV. It's like replacing the engine of an ICE car, it can be done but it's usually not worth it.

An old leaf with a bad battery should simply be sold for cheap to someone who needs less range.
http://www.byrdsight.com/apple-macintosh/ describes his work at Apple.

Nothing on Apple 1, mostly on Mac
Whereas what I was kind of hoping for was something that works like svn externals.

(No, git submodules are not it.)
I don't know why you got down voted, because the point you're making is correct. Even having come from the USSR into the US as a kid, I can appreciate the contrast.

The problem we have in the west is that we we talk about problems and tradeoffs in abstract. For example, many people who argue that it would be good to defund the police have never lived in a situation where daily life was dangerous due to crime. Similarly, people who argue against pipelines rarely have an understanding of what it's like when there's no fuel or heat in the winter.

These issues are complex and there are two sides, but it does seem to me that the "hardship" side of the things is being under-valued and under-feared because it's outside of people's realm of experience.
lol you're on a roll dude, whatever.
They are very aggressive especially for some countries in at the end of the tail in Europe where people struggle financially and this will just put more strain on them.

All the benefits we've seen so far for EVs are aimed at the people with a lot of available income, and with financial mechanisms to avoid paying taxes/tax benefits/deductions, like something as simple as owning a company and buy the EV through there - why are Teslas considered business expenses in Portugal?

So again, who is this targeted at?

Don't take me wrong - this is long overdue, but so it is bringing people up to allow them to comply with these reforms. Else this is just another tax to strip people of more of their income. Not only the housing market is being pressured by people with more available income with all the "new-normal" and remote trend, now we will get even more pressure from yet another tax.

EU must start to realize they are walking a fine line, a lot of people are starting to be tired of being the "low cost resort/factory" of Europe.
Amazon should just buy the Amazon.
I would appreciate if you formulated precise : you are disqualifying me.

What is the point of your comment? Why comment at all?
Yeah I’m interested in what they knocked off vs what’s unique.

Verbal agreements are as good as the paper they’re signed on though - Big Business 101
Ah yes, the famous walled garden of Android.

What?
> the codebase was a patchwork of Bootstrap, PHP, Wordpress, and jQuery UI plugins

So like most enterprisey software. You'd be amazed how much enterprise software has a customer of 1 and any bugs the end users have a workaround simply because they are a captive audience that had this steaming pile foisted on them.
> And yes, obviously people read it that way. He was fired because he wouldn't stop arguing about it, remember?

Various people keep claiming that but there doesn't appear to be any proof of it.

> People acting like sharing a "study" that [minorities] are intellectually inferior is just normal behavior for an engineer.

Quote the part where he says this.
best off luck
Same here. My side projects have literally taught me things that have enabled me to save a company. I was out of the corporate world for ten years churning through side projects and doing research on advanced topics. Hired back into the working world and immediately noticed a deficiency across the board in all the people who had been deploying code for real customers all those years. Passed them all and literally saved the company from a major system crash caused by their ineptitude (a crash that made it onto the Associated Press).

It was all due to not reading documentation, false assumptions, and a fundamental misunderstanding of several libraries, platforms, and technologies. They didn't know how they worked and didn't bother to check on their assumptions. A whole development team of architects and senior devs ruined (still in business but sold/acquired on low eval) a company through pure ignorance.
I wish I could compel my team to write more open source code at work. Giving back to the community while shrinking our code base and growing their architecture skills - how good is that!?

Sadly it seems like most people want to talk about open source but not many are actually keen to put up a pull request in public. I suspect there’s an idea of open source being fun, experimental, not-useful code that exists in isolation. That’s not really the kind of open source I want to fund, but I’d love to see bug fixes and performance improvements upstreamed to the frameworks and tools we rely on.

Anyone figured this out?
If I recommend connections on LinkedIn will my name be mentioned in outreach?
If people opt out of what you're doing to them as soon as they're made aware you're doing it, then perhaps that's a sign that you shouldn't have been doing it in the first place.

I don't even believe that 25% of users actually wanted tracking. I think a lot of people just blindly tap buttons to make annoyances go away, and these guys just hit the wrong button.
It wasn't so much the terrorist act that had long consequences, but the governments' reactions to the act. The USA PATRIOT Act is probably the largest. The 20 year war machine is another. A full 20-25% of the US population under 20 has never lived in a time before our current involvement in Afghanistan. There are families where both parents and children have fought in that war. Note that both parties support this with their constant renewal. It was supposed to expire in 2005.

Then there was the torture and Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp, which is still open and housing prisoners. "We tortured some folks." War in Iraq (totally unrelated BTW), Abu Ghraib, countless civilian casualties, mass surveillance, militarization of police, it's really some horrific shit that came out of 9/11. News media lost a lot (all?) of their credibility during all this as well. For people coming of age after, all this is normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...
Yup, the programs pay farmers to rehabilitate the land
> Companies (many/most of the medium and big ones) are desperately monitoring Twitter (Reddit is gaining) because it’s the only window they have into what people say about them.

This just makes Twitter even worse. Only a tiny percentage of the US population are active posters on Twitter. If governments are using Twitter to decide public policy, then they are going to design policy that tailors to only a narrow subset of the population.

If companies/politicians want to know what people think of them, they should be sending out surveys to their customers/constituents. Twitter is not a statistically sound replacement for actual research.
Your "big" difference is useless and changes nothing to the topic at hand. Nkrisc claimed that no skill was required at all, only luck, which is clearly false. I was just pointing out this obvious fact. Nice strawman attempt though.
Plenty of people find value in things like better ads or more connectivity across sites. Tracking can imrpove some services (I let maps keep my location history) and while I always use adblocks on PC, I admit to have found interesting relevant to me stores on instagram presumably because they keep data about me.
Apple’s IDFA change has triggered 15-20% revenue drops for iOS developers
I don't know if that's true in the UK (and I doubt that coming up with "US/UK" crime statistics makes sense, considering the huge differences between the two countries) but in the USA according to the latest FBI statistics only 10% of homicide victims were killed by unknown assailants, and only 4% were killed in the course of a robbery. Being killed by a stranger in the US is relatively rare. A more significant source of murders is disputes among relatives and acquaintances. The biggest risk factor for becoming a homicide victim in the US is having social connections to known criminals.
> In almost every opinion poll in almost every country, the public is overwhelmingly in favor of climate change mitigation measures

Do you have sources?
In my experience is more like fifty-fifty, some prefer faster cars and don't care about emission, others prefer cheaper cars (e.g. used ones, which don't pass newer strict guidlines).

In my country most people buy used cars, because they are cheaper and one can afford it.

Same with energy production, would you prefer to pay higher or lower bills?
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From the article:

"The main drawback is that you’ll need to run a preview version of Windows to make this all work. Microsoft only currently licenses the Arm version of Windows 10 to PC makers, so there’s no official way to buy a copy yet."
Those cars will actually be carbon free in Europe in the following countries: France, Sweden, Finland and Island. For most of the others it's actually a lie.

Your car is "carbon free" if the electricity you put in is carbon, or close to carbon free. That's it.
Time is expensive. So, you can find parts elsewhere for much less, but it can take a while to find an equivalent option setup for prototyping. It's not as much of an issue if you've got a stack of blank SMD breakout boards. If you're doing some DIY work and you can find out someone's already designed a module that fits your needs, then why not.

Consider the DC motor/stepper feather for example. Perhaps it's $8 worth of components if you're sourcing things piece by piece. Paying a ~$10 premium when you're making a one-off design seems entirely reasonable compared to trying to design a board yourself, waiting for the PCB fab, etc.

I'm an EE and I source plenty from digikey/mouser/etc for personal projects. There's a gap for the occasional prebuilt board, break out board, or oddball electromechanical part (which can be a pain to find at other suppliers). Higher cost distributors like adafruit/sparkfun do have their place even when you have the background.
A lot of people agreed with that Steve Jobs letter about Flash in 2010. Some of that feeling may still linger.

In retrospect, that darn letter and the usual Jobs media fawning was probably the first domino that led to the web being completely marginalized on iOS in favour of Apple-approved apps.
language developers consistently underestimate the importance of "Algol-like syntax" in allowing mainstream adoption.
> You live in a society where young people become addicts and rob and harm the people they love and then die prematurely.

Let's not make grand sweeping statements about societies which you clearly don't have a huge practical experience with (or if you do, of which you are grandly exaggerating certain problem spots in order to make your point seem more emotionally critical).
Are you asking why mob intelligence is not intelligent?
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Apple probably also did not want to compete with Michelin w.r.t tires either.

Partitioning the market is when you, well, partition the MARKET, meaning divide up potential BUYERS of your product with some other company selling a similar product, so that your company is effectively a monopoly within the subset of buyers that you were allocated.
Casio also made some full spec samplers in the 80s that were well regarded and used on many classic records.

Bay Area producer domino used the rack version of this on the souls of mischief album. http://www.vintagesynth.com/casio/fz1.php
Like I said in other comment: who do they think will buy these zero-emission vehicles? Who can afford them?

Are they planning on giving them away?

Edit: just to give you an example.
In the US the standard Model 3 costs 35k$, in Portugal costs 51€k (around 60k USD), in Germany 30k€ (around 35k USD).
>Way too little and way too late. :/

yeah, fuck poor people who can't afford a new EV car. Am I right?
> PWAs are dangerous.

I've never seen that one from Google, and both iOS, Android and Chrome have pretty good support for PWAs. Source: we discontinued our mobile apps for a PWA. It's been great.
Yep, unfortunate

I usually rank Google higher than Apple in terms of developer friendliness but funny enough something similar happened on my iOS version and Apple did give me the chance to fix it before they took any further action

Back when I moved websites I forgot to change the priv. policy's link on their iOS App Store. They pointed this out to me and I immediately fixed it.

Fingers crossed that this will be resolved soon
Interesting, thank you. It still seems weird to me, though. I feel Smalltalk is mostly mentioned with positive connotations (as opposed to, say Cobol) and would guess more people have heard of Smalltalk than Pharo and it would help orientation. So I was assuming something nefarious :)

Is there an overview of the differences somewhere?
I believe git provides that functionality through sparse-checkout. You can clone a repository without checking it out, then use sparse-checkout to only pull the paths you want.
Assume $100/kWh, and a 50kWh battery, that's $5000 to replace it, after, let's say 100,000 miles. You've saved, let's say, 10 cents per mile on fuel, so that's $10,000 saved.

Battery should last about a million miles though, with proper temperature and charge management.

Once your battery has degraded to, say, 75%, now you have a free 35kWh battery to store power in your house, that's worth $3500
The "Big Lie" has entered the chat.
...and then, when finally prevented from doing so, they issued a quavery-voiced lament about how not being able to secretly film people without their consent will "hurt my ability to run my camsite efficiently and effectively."
>Hiring companies never confirm past jobs.

Depends on the company. Many companies use the Equifax Work Number database. Example article about it: https://www.fastcompany.com/40485634/equifax-salary-data-and...

A google search query if you want to dig around some more:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Equifax+%22Work+Number%22+%2...
Zoom is pretty close, they require lots of training data (captcha) to join each meeting.
But just as many academics do.
Dirtbag Medievalism
I still use an over-the-air antenna on a daily basis (and record from it using MythTV with ATSC tuners in a computer). The changeover from analog has been a bit of a give and take.

With analog broadcast, if you were a bit too far away you would still get a fuzzy image and sounds that had some interference with it. Now if you're a bit too far away the picture breaks up and the audio sounds like auto-tune. It doesn't take much of that to make it unwatchable.

On the other hand, when you get a solid signal the picture is amazing versus the standard-def of analog broadcasts. Add to this the benefit of multiple sub-channels on each broadcast channel and you get a lot more watching options.

I've installed an attic antenna and a pre-amplifier that supplies great signal to all coax (CATV) outlets in the house. That hardware cost what 1-2 months of cable TV subscription would have and that was years and years ago.

On balance the digital changeover has been much better in my experience.
best useing benford's law
Updating Python Apps
Yup, Tesla is shitty when it comes to things like repairs.
They are like Apple, they want you to get a new car vs repair your old.

I suggest you avoid Tesla if you are the type of person to drive a car until the wheels fall off.

More of a right to repair issue than an EV issue.
Sorry, but I don't understand why fuel price should rise if the demand takes a dip
>exercise illegitimate power through violence and corruption.

sounds like the description of a government