jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think this is actually an interesting point because the US did lose the war but if the winner writes history, then why do so many think they won?

You have to look beyond the war. VN is doing well now, but overall the US is far richer and more powerful. So they are the "winner" in that sense and can project their view accordingly.
LG WebOS is a pretty good operating system for TVs.
> I don’t see them opening the gates.

Without reviewing the video, again (I watched it several times, but not in the last few minutes), I do recall officers repositioning a fence section in a way that allows the mob through, but on reflection that could be a shrewd psychological tactic: if the crowd can walk past the fence piece without grabbing and moving it, they (or at least the front line in close contact with officers) may be less likely to grab it to move and, having hold of it, decide to use it as battering weapon against the outnumbered officers.

> They are calmly walking because breaking into a jog could incite the mob further.

Right, and while some are turning they back on the main crowd, its mixed, and that is necessary because, again, there are already groups of rioters in their rear.

While it looks bad at first glance, I think it is quite likely the least-bad response by that group of officers to a situation that is well and truly FUBAR.
I truly doubt that's the case: absolutely none of the contractors employed by the global-brand investment bank I work for use e-mail addresses that are any different than those of the FTEs.
The systems I know don't require voters to keep a private key pair.
The question is, how much of this can you actually build?

I had a hell of a time a few months ago trying to compile the Security framework from OS X 10.9.5 (I wanted to update the cipher suites!). It needs to link to a bunch of internal, closed Apple code.

I did eventually get something to compile, so there's that. But I had to pull in a bunch of reverse-engineered headers from the Darling project and similar efforts, and whatever it was that xCode finally spit out didn't seem to actually run.
Also see this answer: https://superuser.com/questions/1381139/why-cant-i-find-a-us...
Free? Why doesn't Apple get to take a cut of Coinbase fees?
And yet you still have to assume they might.
That was the point I tried to make. Arguably not very well...
This is what I really dislike about owning crypto long term as a store of value. It's a cat-and-mouse game with hardware and software development, and there's a lot of faith in maintainers to stay ahead of the threats.
I'm disappointed that PrimeCoin didn't really catch on. It's mathematically sound, relatively quantum safe, and produces useful output. Any improvements to factoring or finding prime chains would be genuine advances in the field, whether algorithm or hardware (ASIC) based.
It’s even worse. There were some articles awhile back about just how scary awful YouTube kids was...
As far as I know, they take cash because local governments are banning cashless stores.
When I temporarily gave up trying to apply myself towards my math coursework during high school, I used Maxima to breeze through an online Algebra 2 class. Not a great story, but I can attest that it works.
Saying “you guys” when talking to individual citizens (especially online) regarding actions of their government (especially when they were 3 decades ago) is unnecessarily antagonistic.
It’s honestly sad to me that this article would be considered “ideological”.

Once politics becomes your ethnic or moral identity, it becomes impossible to compromise, because compromise becomes dishonor. - David Brooks
Whatever you're describing, it's not philosophy. Philosophy is about questions, not answers. Debates about justice are thousands of years old and there are no answers in sight. The account of Thrasymachus is every bit as relevant today as it ever was.
The 8088 had an 8-bit data bus, 16-bit registers, with a segmented scheme that would allow 20-bit memory addressing.

The 8086 had a 16-bit data bus. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088

Usually the "bitness" of the computer is the width of the general registers. Most 8-bit computers had a 16-bit address counter (for 64K of memory), with 8-bit general regisgters.
I'm African-American, US History is dripping with blood from the countless times whit supremacy has reasserted itself over and over again. This isn't anything new or special.
> It was founded as an alternative to the social media companies that are de-platforming right wing voices.

"de-platforming right wing voices" is such a bad faith interpretation of what's happening and I'm getting really frustrated that the right continues to pretend they're being censored.

You can have different opinions on plenty of political issues. Taxes, healthcare, abortion, gun rights, military spending, education spending, etc. Arguing in favor of low taxes, eliminating funding for public healthcare, banning abortion, etc. will not get you de-platformed.

What gets you removed is racism, bigotry, and inciting violence. Of course, nobody thinks they're racist. Even Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer denies being racist.
Richard Burns Rally is often touted as the closest to reality. I know Nikolai Gryazin (WRC2) plays fairly often - he actually used it to practice the Czech stage Semetin before going on to win it in real life: https://m.rally-base.com/2019/barum-czech-rally-zlin-2019/?s...
Not only in the free version.

I have a licensed Windows 10 at home installed from scratch, ISO downloaded from Microsoft. Before configuring it, yes, it had ads in it.
I will accept this advice of "embrace being a loser" as good advice only if you can claim to have done it successfully yourself. Paradoxically I suspect it's really hard to do without losing all hope.
Also not taking into account in many parts of the world there is no such thing as Flu Season.

And no one knows why.
The GFile API in GTK+'s underlying glib family of libraries kind of has this, at least for your example of filenames. It separates the "actual" name of a file from it's display name, and has APIs to support that division.

From the documentation [1]:

All GFiles have a basename (get with g_file_get_basename()). These names are byte strings that are used to identify the file on the filesystem (relative to its parent directory) and there is no guarantees that they have any particular charset encoding or even make any sense at all. If you want to use filenames in a user interface you should use the display name that you can get by requesting the G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_STANDARD_DISPLAY_NAME attribute with g_file_query_info(). This is guaranteed to be in UTF-8 and can be used in a user interface. But always store the real basename or the GFile to use to actually access the file, because there is no way to go from a display name to the actual name.

This makes implementing things that deal with filenames a lot (like, cough, a file manager) quite interesting.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GFile.html
The EU provided 50 tons worth of medical equipment to China in January.

The exchange was mutual.

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What is fake is the way this story is portrayed, i.e. the EU does nothing, provides no aid, whereas look at China and Russia, our would be saviors.

Never mind that Chinese authorities lacked transparency, censored whistle blowers, were late to admit the problems of human to human transmissions and allowed millions of people to fly out of Wuhan to all corners of the world, thousands of them being infected, ultimately this early inaction being in part responsible for the pandemic.

I see China's efforts of late and I appreciate them, in the end we're all human, we all make mistakes and this is a time for all of us to work together. But that's NOT the tone set by such posts, or the intent.

My Facebook feed is filled with fake news that is clearly targeted at destabilizing the EU, a crisis like this being the perfect opportunity and my tolerance for it is really low.
As far as conspiracy theories go, lab-made coronavirus is one of the more interesting and plausible ones.

I still have to reject it. Reasons:

1. If the Chinese national leadership had designed it as a bioweapon, they would also have foreknowledge of its characteristics. Once it was clear it was a new coronavirus in late December/early January, they would have just shut things down instead of waiting three more weeks.

2. No nation has attempted to weaponize a coronavirus before, because it makes a terribly non-specific bioweapon. It will almost inevitably come and cripple your economy if you ever did use it on someone else. And it is also very dangerous if one of your labs releases it accidentally.
Key points

"As of approximately 4 pm CDT this afternoon, Italy has the highest confirmed per capita infection rate of any substantial country. There are 978 Italians confirmed with COVID-19 for every million people. Switzerland is not far behind, at 864 per million."

"New York State has a whopping 810 cases per million residents, closing in on both Italy and Switzerland fast. And the vast majority of those cases are concentrated in the City and nearby commuter counties. Franklin County, in the Adirondacks (and where your Editor has been known to spend some time) has not yet had a single confirmed case."

"By contrast, the other 49 states combined, including such hot zones as Washington and California, are at 54 cases per million residents. That puts the per million infection rate in the “other 49” just between Australia and North Macedeonia."

"The vast difference in the apparent rate of infection between downstate New York and the rest of the country (and the considerable differences among the remaining 49 states) suggests that we need not apply precisely the same policies in every jurisdiction. Even in New York State, we do not understand the logic, beyond mere political calculus, for imposing the same burdens on the already poor towns of the Adirondacks as are the bare minimum, if that, in the boroughs."

"We are doing enough damage to the economy as it is without doing more than is necessary by treating everywhere, even everywhere in New York State, as if it were the Times Square subway station. Poverty kills as surely as Covid-19, and it may be the one thing we are producing as fast as virus particles."

"Fearless state and local leaders, please use a scalpel, not a hacksaw, even if the Manhattan-headquartered national media demands a universal, maximum response everywhere."
> academic rivalries are vicious because they focus on hierarchies over knowledge

Focusing over knowledge leads to determining who is more knowledgeable, and answering creates hierarchies.
Would you say that learning Finance directly would be better?
Just barely 2 weeks ago, he declared on air [0] that he was finally writing another book.

0: https://microconfpodcast.com/episodes/let39s-answer-some-sal...
I've read that starting with 21.xx they won't even produce ISO media with the normal installer on it, we'll get the Live version and nothing else. Time will tell.
this article about how gumroad works was at the top of the front page yesterday.

https://sahillavingia.com/work

discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275
> Using this kind of bounce-buffering offers some benefit on its own. Your editor, who has written device drivers in the past, would never have committed such an error, but it is not unheard of for driver bugs to result in a device performing DMA when the rest of the system thinks it should be idle. Having memory buffers seemingly randomly overwritten in unreproducible ways can (again, your editor relies on the word of others for this) result in corrupt data, painful debugging sessions, and excessive alcohol use. By separating the buffer used by the device from the buffer used by the kernel, restricted DMA can mitigate many of the more unpleasant effects of this sort of bug.

lol
heat pump are highly inefficient if outside temp gets below ~5 degC and that's what happening right now on most of Europe ( incl. southern europe, I saw spain mentionned here ... )
Nobody proposed growth at all costs, but I don't think we have the same understanding of what growth means. To wit: how does your standard of living "reach a certain point" without growth? How does your SoL get higher without growing your manufacturing capabilities; without growing your power generation capacity?

We're neither a virus nor a cancer. We're the only thing that matters. The earth doesn't care if it dies. It doesn't have feelings. The last [insert endangered species here] doesn't know that it is the last of its kind, it doesn't care either. The only reason these things matter is because people care. The solution is therefore never going to be "make people's lives worse".
Is there any proof or data on Tether issuance preceding rallies? Because I have seen this claim often made on Twitter, but never with any sources.

I personally dislike Tether and avoid it, but strong claims require strong evidence.
Yes, I think that was their point: To suggest that the NYAG got the financial info and has waited more than 3 years to shut down an unbacked ponzi scheme is just tinfoil-hattery.
There definitely isn't an App Store rule against making your content backup-able: almost all other apps--and notably WhatsApp--have support for this in some way (if not the standard way). (If anything, I am surprised that Apple doesn't make "backup and restore via at least an iTunes encrypted backup correctly replicates your data" a requirement, given how it hurts their ability to sell new phones and undermines their own work making this seamless.)
It’s digital gold you can use to magically transport any drug to your doorstep. That’s an amazing killer app.
That was a very dick move from Sony. They promoted it like crazy and got a lot of us investing time on this architecture just to back-stab us in the end.

On the other hand, a large institution can invest in a PS3 development kit and develop their crunching software to run within Sony's OS.

Anyway, Cell is dead and both Intel and AMD have similar architectures coming out next year for x86. I wouldn't bet on PS3/Cell right now.
Physics of also a branch of mathematics. But experimentation is key to proving correctness.
Really? So, we go from, say, 450M agriculture waged workers today, to 2 billion. Or 3 billion. Or 5. Slaving away with hoes on their tiny biodynamic farmsteads . Problem solved, 10 billion fed (although living in abject circumstances, ignoring pollution etc. here). Let's take it to 15 billion people. What does the planet earth look like then?

Also, I think your premise that "natural polyculture" can scale up to feeding the high 10 digits of people in anything resembling the kind of society we expect to live in is unrealistic, to say the least.
we use it with Maven. no issues
I said 99%. :P
Isn't think sort of zero sum thinking a bit uncreative? I'm not sure there is any law of nature that says you must pursue one to the exclusion of the other.
I like this book a lot, but the writers use an external package to handle errors.

Why don’t you just return a Result<T, Box<dyn Error>> instead?
Snapping in Windows lets you drag a window against an edge of the screen to make it tile left/right/top (and bottom I think). I’m not sure how well it works on the “inside” edges of a multi-monitor desktop though.

The click-and-hold of OSX is relatively new, and there’s several apps that add the functionality anyway so no big deal.

What I don’t like of tiled windows on OSX is how the active one raises on the z-axis, and click-and-hold tends to be annoying when you’re in a hurry... on the other hand on Windows I often accidentally activate the tile shortcut and that’s also a hassle. But I’m just a fussy lad
They are not talking about Chinese people. They are talking about the Chinese government which engages in slave labor and forced organ harvesting.
There might be a huge gap between finding out "how to live to be 120" and "how to live forever". So far, we can only learn about human aging from people who are at most like 117 years old, because there is no one alive now who would be older than that.

So, there is a chance of doing the first steps and finding out that there are other aging-related problems beyond the age of 110-120. Some of them may prove to be unsurmountable.

That would probably mean "just" a much longer generation span. People used to have their first kids at 17, in fact they still do in places like Niger or Chad. But in the rich part of the world, length of a generation is now around 30. I can see it being 60 if people live to be 120.
That was exactly my first thought too. We're using Azure Pipelines rather than Actions, but I think a lot of the infrastructure is the same, and it's one of the least reliable parts of our stack.
And there was me thinking it was about the alien version of Peaky Blinders.
Having access to a few of my passwords online has effects that range from my current to future employment, relationships with friends, partners, s.o's, future employers, all of my bank accounts, etc.

And I have better password practices than most. Credit cards might be an immediate thought, but how many other physical and intangible assets does your password give a hacker access to?
Password reset link?
I absolutely do not trust them at this point. Why would I?
I've been building something to scratch that itch for bit. http://impromptudo.com. It's still an early project and not very polished, but I use it probably every weekend to find something to do. I plan on adding filters for family friendly, etc stuff, but nothing like that for now. I'd love some feedback.

I hope this wasn't poor taste, I feel like my project and OPs project are aiming to solve different needs.
I don't think it has much to do with "cabal init". I've used Haskell and noticed that most libraries are BSD3, so I make my libraries BSD3 also. I did not know that there was such a thing as "cabal init" until just now :)

Over in the Perl world, most libraries are GPL2/Artistic, so I follow that convention. In the end, I would probably prefer the MIT license for libraries... but following convention seems better than setting my own.

(For applications, I go with the GPL3 because it's not going to inconvenience anyone and it provides the best protection of free software. But people are just going to skip your library if they have to relicense their project, so I find that the GPL is not particularly appropriate in that case.)
It could be encrypted, but maybe the attackers got the key/salt as well.
There's something really messed up if you don't care about the person from whom you're reading several hundred pages.
Even if you do give a damn, it's realistically impossible to shift your entire immediate network to something outside of WhatsApp to a dual communications stack. This is why IPv6 adoption has been so slow - IPv4 "works already".
Work on what, though? Work how? What gets prioritized? How are things released? How are issues handled?

Without process, more employees just increase entropy. The process brings everything together.

What’s described in the OP is a process. I run a very similar process myself - contractors, minimal friction, weak deadlines, no stand ups and all. Supremely effective.
As a user, I hate twitter embeds. If I select text inside them, they redirect my user agent location. That's never what I want.
> We had an election that was stolen from us.

That's a lie, regardless of what you want it to be.
They're all contractors, not employees, so it's just a different rate depending on the number of hours you bill. Your advice is sound in general of course, I just doubt that any jurisdiction that accepts them as contractors will have a problem with that detail.
It absolutely was a settlement call (starting at 54:49):

https://youtu.be/bnevIjvohvQ?t=3276
I wish it was more common to have conduit runs for cables rather than just having them strung randomly through walls and crawl spaces. That would make upgrading from one technology to the next much easier.
John Oliver? are you kidding me? he purposely takes things out of context, cartoonizes and dehumanizes the opposition, uses comedy as a shield to make substantial counter points, etc etc. His goal is less about engagement (like a news media) and more abut driving a deeper wedge between people.

John Oliver is a curse upon humanity, he makes this world worse.
Thank you, author. I actually like the style - it is entertaining.

And in fact, the guys back story was almost the highlight really. Laying himself off to collect unemployment ... what a piece of work.
As the other comments said, Azure is an option, but if you're not eligible for BizSpark, it can be expensive.

I've read good things about AppHarbor, haven't tried it myself though.

https://appharbor.com/

They have a free tier but you have to use their domain.

I'd also look at Amazon AWS, but it can also get pricy :( .

I found this blog post, it has a few more options:

http://seroter.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/where-the-heck-do-i-...
I skipped the Nvidia option and use the onboard Intel graphics, because I don't play games on laptops. All laptops get hot when used for gaming. I have a separate desktop for gaming.
A missile in communist Cuba, potentially.

The presence of anti-short range ICBMs would discourage Cuba as a base for Communists.

Yeah, the Berlin Wall fell a long time ago. But bureaucracy takes time.
Hinduism is a covert mask for Casteism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/opinion/sunday/caste-is-no...
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/IMG_84...
This is ameliorated by having more than one beacon that publish simultaneously, and xoring them all together, but a Bad beacon could just delay until it has seen all the Good results and then spin its RNG until the full XOR gives what it wants...

If you have very precise synchronization you could conceivably use the lightspeed limit to guarantee any Bad Beacon(s) can't know the output of the Good beacons before it publishes its own value.
The original comment seems to have misquoted this part:

"I don’t blame them for this, they were placed in a nearly impossible situation by their customer, the (dutch, not associated with the company that built the whole thing) project manager was dictating what hardware they were going to have to run their project on (I have a suspicion why but that’s another story)"

Sounds like the project manager was also outsourced to a 3rd entity and may have had some vested interest in the hardware part of the project. This just goes to show that the financial interests of those steering the "ship" better be aligned with those of the "ship" itself, or hilarity/misery ensues.
That isn't an interesting debate to have or to watch.

Particularly not when as big of a chunk of our population believes the rapture is coming in their lifetimes.
How is Turkey a member then? How was fascist Spain a member? And it's all lead by a country that respects sovereignity the least of all on the entire planet, lmao.
Exactly in that order.
The MAFIAAFire Firefox plugin will redirect seized domain names to alternate domains. It's already working with all of the domains listed in the article. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mafiaafire-re... Of course, it depends on how much you trust the maintainers of the plugin not to do something nefarious :)
Even "it's 20 dollars in silver" is iffy. To most, dollar means USD, and there's no constant dollars-silver ratio any more.

This is the video that I was misremembering (works in newest VLC):
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20050206004912/http://www.l...

via:
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20050206004912/http://www.l...
The balloon could possibly be a good way to get people to scroll down, but it'd be better if it moved even before you scrolled to attract attention to it. I'd measure carefully to see if it was worthwhile to put the sign up form at the bottom (requiring scrolling) to make it work, though. Maybe if it just floated sideways it would still be cool while allowing you to put everything above the fold?