skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Deere is a symptom of a wider problem in regards to right to repair. Legally speaking there is a lot of progress that needs to be made in the realm of consumer electronics. But for vehicles be they road cars or tractors it can all be fixed with one good federal court case. What John Deere, and Tesla and most automakers are trying to do is basically circumvent the Sherman Act through an abuse of copyright law. SCOTUS has been pretty crappy on tying lately and has raised the bar, the opposite of what should be happening. But it seems right to repair is gaining a lot of broad political support so hopefully that will soon be undone.
Yes, and: much of the solar energy reaching earth is used by other life, the diversity of which helps the ecosystem be more resilient, including us. If the choice was binary, I’d opt for plants and animals over a fully-electric house and vehicle. Since the choices are more nuanced, I think we global 1% can adjust to consuming less energy.
This will require at-first-unpopular regulation, but as culture shifts it’ll be easier.
I just went through the tutorial. It's not bad, though there doesn't appear to be much documentation (there's not even a built-in :help command, and :tutor is rather minimal).

What do you like about it compared to Kakoune?
This is trivially refutable by anybody who has voted for a compromise candidate, which is effectively everyone. 60% of Americans think that marijuana should be legal for recreational use [0], yet it remains illegal at the federal level. You cannot claim plausibly claim this situation reflects the will of the voters. Rather, the voters' will is herded into a few bundled choices, who differentiate themselves on hot button topics while safely ignoring consensus on less divisive ones.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/16/americans-o...
The one in Gettysburg is still around, recently restored.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Cyclorama
Yep. I like breaking "guess" into 2 distinct parts, though, because finding the right question is generally understood to be the harder and more critical part of the whole thing.
Nope - you can use this page to see what counts as an address:

https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?byaddress

If you add unit numbers for a single family home it'll just toss them in the resulting address.
so, in that case, which test was the error? negative or positive?
Whenever this question is asked Apple is left out, please remember that all browsers on iOS are effectively Safari.

In my market (mostly in the UK), 54% of transactions happen on a iOS device. Nearly 60% of transactions are using the Apple Webkit engine when you also count Safari on MacOS.

Apple absolutely dominates browser engines, I cannot understand why devs (with Macs) don't all do their initial development with Safari then test in Firefox/Chrome. Seems completely backwards to do your development mostly with Chrome.
I hadn't been following the "Right to Repair" movement too closely until I discovered that NordicTrack recently locked their users out of Privileged Mode[0], which makes it virtually impossible to install 3rd party software like Netflix on my treadmill. I just want to watch a video while I exercise!

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/nordictrack-ifit-treadmill-privi...
I don’t think so. They’ve moved away from owning the platform (at least in mobile) in favor of services. Office is wildly popular in mobile OS app stores.
skylanders hasnt been thing for years lol
"Omicron is gonna get everyone"

This is a very specific claim that gets thrown around a lot with zero evidence.

"There's no way to flatten this curve."

If people were dying now at the same rate they were dying in the first wave, the curve would be flattened because people would once again be cowering in their homes while only ambulances and hearses roamed the streets.
They're also obstructionist and don't implement standards because they could harm the app store, like PWA.
It seems so reasonable, but when you make something easy, people (governments) do it. ID cards are an attractive nuissance for authoritarian personalities, you just don't equip them if you want to live without abuse.

I've worked in privacy, and unless you make an explicit and specific law against something, orgs are going to find a way to abuse it. One can absolute be in favour of identity cards and internal passports, but they should just not couch their authoritarian urges in "convenience," and try to make it seem like it's our own idea for our own good.
This visual imaginations comment reminded me of Dr. Temple Grandin, who who written books about her own visual imagination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_in_Pictures

I think my own mind is visual. I can prototype physical inventions in my head. Ex: Once, given a need for a tool that I didn't have, I considered the parts I had on hand, and recreated the tool using spare parts. The time from realizing the need for the tool, to having a working replacement was a few minutes.

When I code, before I start planing on paper, I can see the various functions that I need to write or algorithms that I'll have to use.
In pictures: Wolf Moon dazzles around the world
Upload them to Google, Flickr and iCloud. Also have two local copies.
Not in a legal sense, but in a practical one, companies had no effective way of locking you out of repairing your own machines, unlike today. No need for a round of pedantry.
Here's the twitter thread without the businessinsider garbage middleman:
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1483087946504933376
> 1) Define “free”

It doesn't seem worth spending much time here, lest the entire argument becomes nothing more than a semantic one. If your definition of "free will" is "this thing that I undeniably feel" then sure, you've made it undeniable by definition.
I love Blurb. We use it to make photobooks every year. It forces us to pick the 200-300 photos from the year that really mean something to us. The rest of the 50,000 photos go into our Google Cloud drive. Not that they don't mean something, but there's no way we can enjoy 50,000photos/year.
Power usage gets passed onto the consumer. People buying $25 tablets probably aren’t evaluating yearly power costs.

Or are you saying less power in manufacturing? Like I said, at some point cheap enough is cheap enough.
Excuse me. You are replying with advice that is fundamentally inappropriate for a batch workload (describing a "hot path query" and suggesting in-memory caches), and it shows that you have not read and comprehended the post I wrote.

Besides which, if you need to re-architect and denormalize by moving records in and out of different tables just so you can run what is essentially a monthly report in a predictable (not fast! just predictable) amount of time -- well then, why bother using Postgres in the first place, you might as well bite the bullet and go with something NoSQL at that point, because at least when you read from a given Cassandra partition you know all the results will be right next to each other, 100%; why leave it to chance? you've been burned by Postgres before
The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification
Yeah and helping us defeat who he shan't be named in the 2020 election.
why even test? if you test positive who are you saving from exposure? everyone is getting exposed to omicron regardless.
Gotta love that headline including the phrase "to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device"… I'ma have to cry "bullshit" on that "every device" part. They mean "every device Microsoft can control" or "every device Microsoft approves of".
I did this for almost six years, traveling in the US, Asia, and Europe. I also stayed at hotels sometimes and rented apartments/condos for short terms. With some effort (and compromise) living like this can turn out cheaper than renting an apartment or house in the US (depending on where you live in the US). You have to travel light and stay flexible. With more countries offering long-stay visas to people with income from somewhere else (not competing with the locals) this digital nomad lifestyle is getting easier.
I think you’re misunderstanding my post.

I’m not saying it come tax is oppressing lower socioeconomic classes or that they disproportionately pay into it.

My point is the opposite. The income tax system helps those classes by funding social programs and we would either need to pare back those programs or find alternative ways of funding them
According to the real time analytics [0], as of 1PM (central time), there are more visitors to COVIDtests.gov (754,000) than to all other federal government websites combined (1.33 million)

[0] https://analytics.usa.gov
You have to be quite gullible to fall for that. If the government were to rely on people honesty, then why do this in the first place? If you were to mark these transactions, then you'd also include them in your tax return.

This is just to get their foot in the door. Once it's there, it's much easier to expand the surveillance activity.
Great insight here. I wonder how changing culture could effect reasoning ability in the future. Perhaps there are critical aspects that might be important to protect or eliminate in order to avoid a return to feral nature.

Could this be one of the great filters that we, as a species, still need to pass?
what's the point of reporting asymptomatic cases, especially when there doesn't seem to be any distinction between symptomatic and asymptomatic cases, just a total "cases" count? what are we missing out on by not knowing that thousands or millions of people would test positive, while not exhibiting any symptoms?
thank you for spotting that typo, corrected.
Depending on what state you live in, voting for a Democratic or Republican candidate may be more of a waste of your vote than voting for third-party presidential candidates. Given that nearly all states (excluding Maine and Nebraska) use a winner-takes-all approach when sending their delegates to the electoral college, marginal votes for Democratic or Republican candidates in states with solid Democratic or Republican majorities are largely wasted (contrary to popular belief about the opposite being true).

After receiving 5% of the national vote, third parties qualify for federal funding. After receiving 15% of the national vote, third parties qualify for participation in national debates.

Out of all the candidates on the ballot in the last election, Joe Biden was my favorite, but I didn't vote for him. I live in Massachusetts, a state which had a near-100% probability of sending all of its delegates to the electoral college in the name of Joe Biden. I voted for Jo Jorgensen, not because I support her or her party, but because she and her party had the greatest chance of hitting that 5% threshold and I personally value a chance of increasing political competition between parties over the empty virtue signalling I would have achieved by voting for Joe Biden instead.

I strongly believe that having more parties will strengthen our democracy, and by strategically voting for Jo Jorgensen, I know that I increased the impact of my vote and my likelihood of making the world a better place. Unless you live in a proportional state (e.g., Maine, Nebraska) or a swing state (e.g., Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin), you are absolutely wasting your vote and your time by voting for a Democratic or Republican presidential candidate instead of a third party.
> when you're dealing with a team of developers because then everyone will know that framework and understand the software

I can't name a framework I've ever worked with that anybody actually understood.
Microsoft’s track record permanently disqualifies them from providing a web browser.
The money paid to foreign countries is economic diplomacy, and is inexpensive compared to actual military diplomacy. A good part of the reason you are able to earn what you do is because of the US' might in both economic and military influence.

I agree that the military budget is problematic, but it's short sighted to spend too much time worrying about foreign aid. It's a very cheap way to wield influence.
Blaming the table architecture doesn't get rid of the fact that the PostgreSQL planner can make decision that will cause a query to take an unknown amount of time.
>In order for workers to call out sick they must be sick

I'm going to assume you're not from the US, because if you are you've got to be pulling my leg.

The US has no mandated time off for workers, so many people will "call out sick" if they need time off for anything. This is especially true of lower wage workers.

Before starting to work in my career I literally never had vacation time. If something came up (good or bad) I'd have to "call out" (colloquially the "sick" is often dropped, which may indicate how normal this is). Usually this only works for a day or two at a time.

So sure, I'd call out if I were sick... but I'd be just as likely to call out for a friend's birthday, a hotly anticipated video game, or some other frivolous thing.
> I cannot understand why devs (with Macs) don't all do their initial development with safari then test in Firefox/Chrome

Probably because Safari's dev tools are notoriously worse than what Chrome and Firefox offers.
"They have scaled from nothing to hundreds of millions of customers and survived hundreds of years."

Okay, this is not particularly novel, and the implied comparison to scaling digital services is flawed.

"If this were a startup or private company we would be in awe of their track record."

Again, if a startup operated like USPS they would fold real quick. The USPS has continuously received public money to remain in operation. They are not innovative. The only area where they are expanding is in parcel delivery, and they often turn it over to other partners to do the last-mile pickup and delivery.

However, startups can aspire to the ubiquity of USPS. In many towns, the Post Office is the only happening place and fosters community, and occupies an important place in the hearts of people who rely on it in a big way. Many private logistics providers such as UPS and FedEx do not serve these areas because it's uneconomical for them, and the Post Office is the only logistics provider. For this reason, the USPS deserves taxpayer support.
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> An at home test is better than nothing.

Is it? If there's a significant false negative rate, that will mislead people who may otherwise isolate/quarantine based on symptoms. If I feel kinda sick but test negative and need milk, I'm probably going to the store. Same with taking flight that I can't afford to reschedule, or a Dr. office visit, etc etc.
This is because RoR projects do not do unit testing, they do integration testing with a real DB.

This approach is terrible and causes the poor performance.

There are whole sets of testing "tools" for RoR projects that promote this mechanism of testing - if you're testing an API you need to use an external tool to properly hit that API.

If you're writing unit tests, write unit tests with mocked dependencies.
> they are willing to go as far as obstructing facts to make you reach that

Vaccine information is collected and verified by thousands of people at hundreds of organizations around the world. It is not conceivable that any actor less than a dictator of a major nation-state could manipulate that information. That essentially leaves Xi and Putin as the only people who could and would do it.

In other countries, we have publicly-verifiable clinical trials, data from millions of people, and thousands of independent researchers in academia and hospitals.

If you think the CDC, WHO, and Biden admin have gotten behind science or made bad decisions, I completely agree. They have made some incredibly stupid choices.

If you think there is a systematic obstruction of facts that has actually succeeded at blinding independent researchers and the public, you are going to have to provide citations.
Every part of your statement is wrong.

1) Selling used goods at a loss is not deductible on your tax return unless you are in the business of selling used goods.

2) Unless you are selling a lot of tangible goods (i.e., you have a business selling things), you aren't even eligible to register for sales tax in most U.S. states.

3) If tax applies to the sale of a used good in this situation, it would be a use tax that is the responsibility of the buyer to report and pay.
> What I want is to "mount" a git repository, [...] Would that even be possible?

Yeah, sure, why not? You could do it with fuse http://libfuse.github.io/doxygen/ There's even a git fuse filesystem already out there. I dunno if it works the way you want though.
I don't see any discount. They're bying at $95 per share.
Look at YTD and 5Y prices.

The 30% prior isn't the price they're bying at.
My family has used Blurb for many years. Once you've created your book, just wait a few weeks and a 50% coupon usually comes around.
USPS can be acting like many things.

If someone is more familiar with a CDN that the traditional retail logistics and distributions infrastructure, then it would probably be more helpful of them to think of the situation using that analogy.

USPS is acting both like a retailer, and as a sort of an analogue to a CDN. Both can be helpful models in understanding how this works.
I just don't visualize it much.

I do visualize dataflow, and tend to encapsulate responsibility boundaries, so as to be able to assert properties of a bunch of code and not have to think about the internals.
But other than big block analysis I just don't break it down that much.

I've been coding for 37 years, 23 of those professionally (it's not bragging, just to establish that I've read and written a lot of code), at this point I just kind of read the code a bit like prose, or more like a "Choose your own adventure" book.

I do like to have the ability to navigate symbols and do typed searches of a code base, I also appreciate typing and mutability properties of things (everything is assumed mutable unless proven otherwise, which complicates concurrency analysis).

It's my experience that most coders think similarly, and you can usually assume quite a bit about how something is structured once you grasp the style of the programmers that built it, this also means that sometimes you can even predict the kinds of bugs they will tend to have. We're not all so unique after all.
It is absolutely possible to get 60 votes on the most popular measures like increased infrastructure funding. This has been done many times. The filibusters come up when bill authors try to bundle in less popular measures and ram those through simultaneously.
The challenge of becoming a programmer is that of learning to flip between all these different mental visualizations and more, unconsciously and without effort, just as the challenge of becoming a musician is that of seeing melody, harmony, intonation, progression, rhythm, phrasing, dynamics, and so on, without effort, as each moment demands.
>They will need to migrate to industry standard tools for foundry customers anyway.

foundry is about trust. lets say AMD want to use Intel foundry, how can you be sure the Intel's design side won't take a peek at AMD's x86 design. your fabless customers spend million on design and their design is their life blood. how they going to trust you if you also sell semis.

example: Samsung used to make chip for iphone. Apple ditched them as soon as Samsung compete with Apple w/its own smartphone.

TSMC have over 50% of the market share because they only do one thing and one thing only.
I've heard these, and they should! It would give them direct competition to GamePass Ultimate, which is a tier of service they don't currently offer (unless you buy PS+ and PS Now as separate subscriptions).
The original study by Woodford and Nakamura (which laid the foundations for what eventually became NAVSTAR/GPS) has a really fascinating slide where they consider the tradeoffs of alternative configurations. What if GPS receivers had transmitters? What if the mathy computation was offloaded to a nearby ground station? What if every GPS receiver had an atomic clock? Or just a cheap quartz clock? How does that impact the quality of the signal and the number of satellites you need to get a fix?

I think we're really fortunate that they made the choices they did. If they hadn't take the route that was the most complicated technically, GPS wouldn't have become as ubiquitous as it is today.
> They think that by surveilling their own people they can protect the politicians.

That idea is so outrageously stupid that no, I don't believe they think that.

Every one of those intelligence agencies are perfectly aware they are collecting dossiers on their public (with emphasis to gov employees) that can be used to compromise the administration and coerce people into doing illegal or immoral acts. You just got the wrong adversary in mind.
What an amazing analogy.
his example is literally just data flow programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjJdaDXN5Vs&t=924s

I've had a project related to this on the back burner for a little bit - data flow programming is really cool and helps with understanding code logic (and can be inherently reactive, which is IMO the future of programming) but it's hard to scale up.
The scope of what a "web browser" is has been steadily inflating at an insane rate. Not only that, but a lot of features are basically "required" to be able to deal with modern websites.

You would need a team the size of Chrome's to be able to just _keep up the pace_ and never actually close the feature gap. That's a ludicrous amount of money for an incredibly risky project, since users are very complacent and get attached to their browser choice.

In fact, the browser is so multi-featured and has space for so many individual behaviours that users will get used to specific things (shortcuts, menu behaviours, even the sorting of address autocomplete results) that they develop the same (understandable) attachment to the exact way a browser works, just like what happens with operating systems. Then it's not even a rational choice anymore, and only another equally irrational event would cause them to reconsider their choice (either a major fuck-up by the browser they use, or some apparently inconsequential thing about the alternative).

You could make a feature-slim browser, but it would never reach wide adoption, because non-technical people would still need to open one of the big ones to do their online banking, or make video calls, or whatever.
> If you are sick, you have Covid.

please explain how this statement could possibly be true—what happened to every other illness? like the cold I had last month for example.
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I think the very beginning the matrix project folks have used language similar to matrix being data synching...etc...But, that, the first use case is chat...but won;t end there...etc. Obviously i'm paraphrasing heavily...but once i read that, i've used similar language when i introduce matrix to friends...basically, chat/instant messenger is the first but not last/not only use case/scenario for this very cool technology.
There's also a fantastic tool by Jay Lee that will do it in an automated fashion

https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back
Quora blocks you after you view X amount of questions, unless you signup/login.

I just block cookies on Quora and it works.
1. Weird that you responded for another person. I'm not sure if they would agree with you or not.

2. I don't know why you think there is widespread "flaming" of unvaccinated people among vaccinated people. There are niche communities of assholes on reddit and Twitter who do it, and they don't represent even a tiny fraction of pro-science, pro-vaccine people.
A Mystery called Wick Rotation or can we understand the “Action” Formalism?
The standards. Google (and the others) have introduced so many that implementing a conforming browser from scratch is basically impossible.